Biden rating suggests GOP wave election

 Daily Caller:

MSNBC data reporter Steve Kornacki said Tuesday morning that Republicans could make big gains in the 2022 midterm elections, citing President Joe Biden’s approval rating and historical “wave” elections that yielded major victories for the opposition party.

“The president’s job approval rating typically has been most closely associated with the results here, and you see Biden where he’s at right now this morning, an average of a 42.9% approval rating,” Kornacki told “Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. “Let’s take every recent president at this point, 28 days out from their first midterm, what were their average approval ratings? You can see where the 42.9 fits in. It’s right there. Less than Trump, a couple points under Obama. Basically identical to Bill Clinton back in 1994.” (RELATED: ‘Brutal’: MSNBC Elections Analyst Delivers Dire Data For Dem Midterm Hopes)

Kornacki noted that the generic ballot was close, with Republicans holding a slight lead in the RealClearPolitics average, but not as large as past generic ballots in so-called “wave” elections like 1994, 2006, 2010 and 2018. Kornacki noted Republicans had a two-point lead in the RCP average generic ballot in the 2014 midterm election, when they took control of the Senate.

A Rasmussen poll of likely voters showed Republicans had a four-point lead in the generic ballot, while an Insider Advantage poll reported Republicans had a two-point lead. Polls of registered voters by NewsNation and Politico/Morning Consult gave Democrats one-point and three-point advantages, respectively.

Republican candidates have discussed the economy, gas prices, inflation and crime, where polls have shown they have double-digit leads among voters.
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Democrats deserve to lose in 2022.  They had a small majority in 2020 and acted like they had a mandate to push an unpopular agenda and turned a robust economy into a shamble.  They should pay a political price for that. 

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