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2021. 45% decided lower cost of living, 43% with a better culture, 49% political reasons, 38% climate change, 37% lower taxes and 32% better rates. i want to throw this out, if you were advising the democratic party and i hope you dont because i need you to hire me but if you were advising the democratic party would you tell them they are prioritizing the wrong issues right now? >> yes and if they havent heard that message loud and clear than they are simply not paying attention as they -- we ar...

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, tha...

Both in 2022, which is going to be tough for democrats in all likelihood and beyond 2022, primarily is a question of current conditions in the country. certainly there are lots of democratic activists and people who voted for him who are deeply disappointed about the legislative failures, and that frustration is going to skyrocket understandably if, in fact, manchin and sinema continue to block action on voting rights. but for the mass of the country, the real issue is covid and the price of gas...

The republicans were clocked in the midterm. the whole morning in america story doesnt come for a few years later, and i think so much of the politics in the nation depends on what happens next year, which is a really wide variety of possibilities. >> yeah. chris, you are right. look, inflation is a key behavioral indicator, if you will, for voters because all they know is things cost more. were not very rational when as consumers when it comes to recognizing we have more spending power, more co...

Problems to the prime minister, albeit they come from a different place. if we look at the polling now today forjoe biden, you will see that 61% of republicans are enthused about the midterms and only 47% of democrats and that is directly inverted for we were at the last midterm. if you are talking about turnout and how important it is to a midterm election, thats a problem. it is a problem and is very natural that a sitting president has a really— that a sitting president has a really tough m...

Ive been watching the program, hes basically been constructively forced to resign. but i think you are going to have him complete his term, i think there will be a nominee already in waiting, and once this term ends i guarantee you will see a very swift process of getting this anticipated nominee confirmed by the senate. and they will use the midterm elections to basically schedule this, to give it the most oxygen for the democratic candidates that are running and facing that in midterm. >> emil...

Administration out of this hole and avoid a midterm disaster for his party? the panel is next. the panel is next.

>> by the way, its a quarter of. so im going to do this just -- if you ask me easy questions, ill give you quick answers. >> theres an increasing concern among some democrats that even if schools do continue to open and i get that most of them are now open, republicans will weaponize this narrative of you and other leading democrats allowing them to stay closed in the midterms next year. and you know, obviously that issue has a lot of traction with suburban parents. as i think -- >> what do you ...

>> ainsley: exactly. >> steve: that somehow the administration has gotten us to this crazy point where they could have done more early. >> ainsley: why all theseics could you says about sanctions why not just slap them with substantials so prevent them from going. in its going to be too late. >> steve: it is indeed. stay tuned to fox for the very latest. 6:12 on the east coast. still ahead, senator bernie sanders is sending a midterm warning to the left as democrats agenda stalled. >> laughing a...

So no matter what happens today, that needs to be -- that needs to be fixed. that needs to be reformed. >> a.b., another drag on the presidents approval ratings has, of course, been covid. what more can he do? theres also rising inflation which is a global problem but any president will be hurt by inflation in a reelection or midterm. what more can he do about those two big issues? >> well, again, once they dispense with the issue of voting rights and they can get at this reform of the electoral...