poised for a big wave? high inflation, gas prices, the continuing covid pandemic, president biden s party is facing voters in a very bad mood this year. all republicans need to do to win the senate is to pick up one seat. it sounds easy enough, but are they actually in the process of shooting themselves in the foot? how about former president donald trump, is he helping or hurting the gop effort? and if he does end up hurting it, will he end up hurting himself, when it comes to 2024? what about the end of roe v. wade? is it mobilizing democrats? and then, there is that major shift that we saw in 2020. hispanic voters abandoning democrats and voting republican. it is accelerating even more this year. 99 days to go. let s get to it. let s start at the place where at least, for me it s all gonna end in 99 days from now, or i should say, it will start to end 99 days from now, because elections no longer take place in one night. it will be election week this year. i think that is
to get results. and we said, big picture here, the country, the mood does not seem to be great, and the country s attitude towards the president right now is one of disapproval. here, you see, tonight, joe biden s average approval rating, the 1st of august, 38. 6%. that is his average of all the polls that are out there right now, put this in some perspective, here s every other president this century at this same point, the 1st of august in the mid term year. what did their average approval rating look like? you can see here. we got a lot of low scores, actually. we have only got one high score. this was george w. bush in 2002, a year after 9/11, still, a wave of patriotism was really fueling him back then. everyone else, though, had a low score. notable here, biden score is the lowest at this point, lower than trump s was in 2018. in fact, even lower than george w. bush in 2006. and those low scores, you can see what they translated into here. these are big losses in the house. at le