we will have another nbc news poll coming out by the end of this week, we will update this this, but those are the three numbers and right now two of the three that we track are sitting there in shellacking territory. so it will be a lot of fun as we track throughout the year. let me bring in our panel right now that we have here. i ve got joining me nbc cheese white house correspondent kristen welker, david plouffe and sara fakin, an nbc and meet the press contributor. kristen, let me start with you, we hear the words reset being thrown around this white house. what does that mean? a lot of times you actually don t hear the word reset until after a midterm election result, but they want to do it before. what does it look like? reporter: well, they re still trying to work through the details, chuck, and that is one of the striking features of this reset, but based on my conversations with a number of
president obama s first term in the white house. basically three poll numbers cufollow initially that tell you likely stage of the midterm elections and right now two of the three we track are sitting there in shellacking territory. griff: two more house democrats announcing their retirement, james langdon and james mcinerney will not seek reelection, bringing the list of democrats leaving the house to 28. carley. carley: shellacking is not a good territory to be i indiana congressman jim banks says this is why americans are losing faith in president biden. continues to get worse as this president biden and the democratic party refuse to acknowledge the pain the american people are going through, ignoring inflation and the other issues that are
wrong track, presidential approval at 46, it ticked up for trump a little bit, maybe the reason why republicans survived in that midterm in places like georgia and florida, congressional preference d plus 7 and it led to those house seats. i give you all that background so that you can see where things stand now, our most recent nbc wall street journal excuse me, the nbc news poll at the end of last year, i will show you where things were. so on direction of the country 70% wrong track, that s big time shellacking territory. you look at the presidential job rating as of our last poll here, his approval sitting at 42, again, that would put democrats in shellacking territory. let s take you to the generic ballot, here the democrats plus two, that puts you somewhere in no man s land, a lot of strategists will tell you democrats have a anything 3 points or less for democrats probably means republicans pick up seats so they need to be in that 5, 6, 7 point advantage for them to be in th