democrats take control of the house in 2018. the poll numbers are absolutely staggering. the congressional ballot test. the minus 16 that republicans are, and again, that was before all of this blew up and the white house was caught in 24 hours worth of lies. this is going to be another 24 to 48 hours of turmoil that the president has caused himself and his staff. and it just continues. joe scarborough from morning joe, all of us watching the lester interview with president trump and some of the stunning headlining coming out of it. including ari melber, our chief legal correspondent, ari, the impropriety of this question and answer that the president is accounting, recounting, we don t know jim comey s side of it but for jim comey to give him a status report three times, when he s in the process of talking about keeping his job, if it is
it was minus 16. it had been minus 11. going in the wrong direction. a couple of interesting notes of republicans overall with him. 85% approve of him. where they are trending away is management style and appointments. do you have confidence in the trump appointments? now only 59% of republicans say that. take a look at this notion of the management style. effectively managing the government. we see a shift among republicans. 93% in november thought he would manage the government effectively. now 85%. his own party drifting away. you note there had are a couple of bright spots. are things going well in the united states today? 54% say they are. look at this. going back to october. it is a high water mark. same on the economy. how do you feel about economic conditions in the country today? 59% feel good about economic conditions today. going back to september, this is a high watermark.
is a steady historic low. take a look where it falls in context. donald trump all the way at the bottom at this point in his presidency compared to predecessors going back in modern day polling. you mention twod ied two issues. health care and immigration. not good news for president trump. 61% disapprove of the handling of that issue. this is minus 1us 25 gap. and immigration. minus 16-point gap. 41% approval. that is sliding from negative 11-point gap he had last month. we want to take a look, alisyn, where republicans are drifting away. 85% of them still approve of donald trump. he has his base. look here. confidence in appointments in the administration. in november, republicans, 72%
way, but again, some of the coldest air will be pushing in behind this system. how cold? let s talk about it real quick. forecast precipitation in some cases 6 to 10 inches. maybe isolated amounts of upwards of a foot of snow heading into tuesday. and then look at the current temperatures, especially across the upper midwest. minus 9 in minneapolis, 18 in chicago, current temperatures, minus 16 in duluth, minus 21 at international falls. you factor in the windchill, feels like minus 34. we could have one of the coldest football games this afternoon. minnesota and seattle we re going to talk about that where it s going to be, i think, minus 5 with the windchill of minus 28. oh. you need special underwear to beat the cold. special underwear? they re getting special underwear. what? what are you talking about. they re all wearing special heated underwear. really? could use them. it s a four-hour show. we re going to get to the bottom of this. i cannot wait.
that makes it a little bit easier for the firefighters to battle the blaze. again, they are looking forward to that wind shift. it should be taking place in the next 48 hours. moving on to the u.s., we are talking about a huge vat of cold arctic air coming down into parts of the midwest. look at some of these numbers. again, fargo, average is minus eight. they will be minus 21 degrees celsius on saturday. minneapolis, going from minus 12 to minus 16 tomorrow. folks, these are just the temperatures. this does not include the windchill. all of these areas are expected to have about a 20-kilometer-per-hour wind. one thing to note, the vikings playoff game, they are playing the seahawks, may go down as the coldest vikings game in history on sunday. temperature expected to be zero degrees fahrenheit at the start of the game with a windchill of minus 18. i don t even know how many layers you could put on to make that feel okay. that is chilly.