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hedge fund manager dave mccormick still up 31.3% of the vote for him. he s roughly 22 vote,200 votes of mehmet oz. kathy barnette is at 24.5% of the vote. there is still about 15% of the vote to be counted. a nail biter, really. i want to show you two interesting house democratic primaries going on. in pennsylvania in the 12th congressional district, the pittsburgh area, summer lee, the progressive candidate is up with 41.7% of the vote, about 534 votes ahead of the more establishment and that s a very interesting race and in this at least the results we have as of
red going back decades, going back generations. that s the history that biden and democrats and the white house are up against heading into this year s midterm election. let s zoom back in on more kreent history. let s put biden s numbers heading into this midterm year in perspective. you look at his average approval rating right now, he clocks in at 41.7%, average all the polls together, that s the average approval rating for biden one year in his presidency. how does that measure up against his recent predecessors. going back through clinton biden s numbers a little bit better than trump but who are than all of the others on here. w., this was just after 9/11 to put a big asterisk on that. you mentioned this, too, going back to 94 with bill clinton, here is the modern trend in our politics, the president comes in and two years later loses the house. bill clinton lost the house in the 94 midterms, obama lost it in 2010, trump lost it in 2018,
and we spent a lot of money on american families. that doesn t mean economies without its problems. it s just the sort of menu of options that you had a year ago, two years ago. this is far beyond anything that i thought was even remotely on the table. yeah, and i mean we ve reentered universe in which we are thinking about trade-offs between unemployment and inflation, right? tightly remark it s. higher inflation. lower inflation and higher unemployment. that s an old trade-off that used to be very embedded in our thinking about this and it s sort of when way a little bit because it seemed like we ve wrinkled out from that trade-off. but when you look at the politics of this economy, the president s approval rating is 41.7%, 52.9% the latest nbc news pulling on the economy, it s 60% disapproval, 38% approved. i think one theory here that someone said to me is look, even when unemployment is high most people are employed who want to be employed. even in high unemployment. every sin
divided. it s 50 for democrat, 50 for republicans. of course, kamala harris as the vice president who right now breaks those ties in favor of the democrats. but, again, republicans just given history we re talking about bullish on chances of getting majority back in the senate. could be a little more complicated on that front, though. one of the things we ll dig into here in the next hour. so let s look at joe biden, his political standing, as he steps before congress to deliver the state of the union address on tuesday. right now if you average all the polls out there together, the president s approval rating sits at 41.7%. that s the average from all different polls out there. compare that to where his recent predecessors were at this same point in their presidencies. here s that list here. one thing jumps out right away. that biden number is basically identical to what the trump number was at this same point. start of donald trump s midterm year, that was his average