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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...

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...

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'...

Congressional ballot voters chose republicans 44.1% over democrats 41.7%. what do you make of the dems' disarray ahead of 2022. >> i wouldn't say it was disarray. we are resetting the party and preparing for the elections. in 2017 there was 38 republican sitting house members who decided not to run for office and/or step down from their elected office seats. so what we'll see next year is many of these democrats either defending their terms or moving on to run for higher seats. so the party will resurface new candidates and refine its messaging so we can win in 2022. >> julie: okay. we'll see....