historical patterns bear that out. joe biden, the president, has taken on water in the last couple of months. his approval rating is now below 50%. we ve always known because of normal off year election dynamics it s going to be a difficult election for mccall l mcauliffe to win. 10 out of the last 11 elections have been won by the party who lost last time. the only exception was 2011 after barack obama won mcauliffe won again. terry mcauliffe has a fight. it will demoralize democrats if they lose that race but we ve always known that that s going to be a tough race. john, you have a piece here talking about inflation, what a problem it is for the white