democrats see opportunity. but the other reason democrats see opportunity here and elsewhere nationally, it is donald trump and what happened while he s been president. we talk about his approval rating, republicans, they go into the midterms, come into this election today with an advantage here in the house, they control the house. we know that. donald trump s approval rating is 38%. what does history tell us about what an approval rating like this could mean for a party in the dterm election. let s take a closerook at the relationship between a president approval rating and how that president s party does in midterm elections. on the one end of it, you have this, these are the presidents who defied history, george w. bush, year after 9/11, 2002, he was at 63% on election day. his party actually gains seats, very, very rare for the president s party to gain seats in a midterm. bill clinton pulled it off, when the million mill monica lewinsk playing out. voters sided with clinton and
been since the great recession. manufacturing jobs on the rise, the job opening rate highest it s been in nine years since 2007 levels. you ve got the president approval rating at 60%, record-setting ebb enrollment in obama care and the incoming president s rating the lowest of any of the last three presidents. is there any pressure not to screw this up? well, i think there s a lot of pressure to change and there s been a total rejection of the obama agenda. we re going after health care, we re going to go after some of these excessive job-killing epa laws, we re going to try to get the economy moving. there was an absolute mandate on that and that s what s going to happen. you mean the mandate of getting 3 million less votes? let me say this, it won t surprise you that i do disagree with the things the good senator has said. i think the cabinet is a group of all-stars. they come with a great perspective. they re very, very accomplished
so he s filling the swamp, handle over the keys to wall street and betraying workers. i don t think it s going to go over well. thank you. joining me now jack kingston, eric buller. mr. kingston, let me start with you as something that the senator was talking about. third quarter gdp 3.5% annual growth rate, the unemployment rate is down the lowest it s been since the great recession. manufacturing jobs on the rise, the job opening rate highest it s been in nine years since 2007 levels. you ve got the president approval rating at 60%, record-setting ebb enrollment in obama care and the incoming president s rating the lowest of any of the last three presidents. is there any pressure not to screw this up? well, i think there s a lot of pressure to change and there s been a total rejection of the obama agenda.
as the instant, overwhelming front runner. let s talk about the president very quickly, paul. we also have a new polling on the president approval rating. it s ticked up slightly, but that s not the whole story. it has ticked up slightly. 45%. he was 41% back in november and december. he was at or near all-time lows in all polling. look at the next number. troubling. we asked, do you think the president s policies will likely fail or succeed. for the first time, a majority say they think his policies will fail. polls are a snapshot of how people feel right now. people change their minds. also interesting, we ll get into it later, how fewer people now that are hopeful that the president s policies succeed. we ll talk more about that.
19% agree with the republicans, they are getting killed in the public debate with the president. the president approval rating has never been higher in the polls that come out this week, they re losing and the point to conclude, megyn, i think that the republicans would be smart to find common ground with the president before march 1st and find a better way to make sure that the cuts are implemented in a fashion than they re being discussed now. megyn: go ahead, marc. for the president common ground means giving in on tax increases. look, we already did the tax increases, 600,000 billion of tax increases with no spending cut. where is the balanced approach obama talks about? it s simple, here is the balance we re going to cut 85 billion dollars out of a 3.5 trillion dollar budget. that s a minuscule amount and we will spend more this year than last year, it s just a question of where and how to do it and to do it in a responsible way and look, the president hasn t put forward a pla