it comes but once a year for politics junkies, it is the christmas and new year s and arbor day and obscure state specific holiday you can t really remember the reason for rolled into one. it is state of the union night, and we are so happy that you re here with us for it. here s a live look at the u.s. capital tonight. members of both chambers of congress, guess, supreme court justices, cabot secretaries, admirals, ambassadors, they re all gathering to hear this big heavy on the pomp and circumstance annual address the president of the united states. on the other end of pennsylvania avenue of the white house, we are watching for president biden to part from the white house for the capital. the is expected shortly. i am rachel maddow here at msnbc headquarters. joined by my colleagues of chris hayes, joy reid, nicole wallace, alex wagner and ari melber. i also do mean it when i say thank you for being home with us. we know you had every choice in the world were to watch thi
These are the other three presidents in the last two to generations, like joe biden, saw their party lose the house in the first midterm. jump in 18, obama intent, clinton back in 94. this is where they were in their approval rating basically at the same point as they delivered their state of the union addresses. biden is right smack in the middle of the territory, but look at this, this is how the midterms went for those three other presidents, trump, obama, clinton, they got slaughtered. biden and the democrats lost nine seats. that s historically a pretty good performance for a white house party and you could see a scenario if you look and interstate, where democrats could have held the house with a couple of bricks going their way, so biden has all the negative numbers that have historically added up to a bad midterm. he s not coming off a bad midterm at all. what it does a set of a political climate and you can see by the way the reason for this is that biden s own