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Staff to the obama white house and ceo of macina group. also with us, rich lowry, editor in chief at the national review and nbc news political analysts. i want to thank you both for joining us. jim, let me start with you because i mentioned, i don't mean to bring up bad memories for the past for democrats here, but i mentioned the 2014 midterm and that obama's second midterm, the numbers on paper, when you look at the generic ballot right now, look somewhat like they did in 2014. are we looking at 2014. do you think we're looking at 2014 playing out again here, or is this something that democ...

And ceo of macina group. also with us, rich lowry, editor in chief at the national review and nbc news political analysts. i want to thank you both for joining us. jim, let me start with you because i mentioned, i don't mean to bring up bad memories for the past for democrats here, but i mentioned the 2014 midterm and that obama's second midterm, the numbers on paper, when you look at the generic ballot right now, look somewhat like they did in 2014. are we looking at 2014. do you think we're looking at 2014 playing out again here, or is this something that democrats can do for that could happ...

Republicans are that big wave in obama's term. lower in 2006 when democrats and george w. bush's second midterm year. but it is notably here, higher than it was at this point in 2014. this was barack obama's second midterm. this was a wave that was kind of a late building wave. it kind of a lot of folks by surprise, in 2014, ended up flipping the senate the republicans did, they got to their highest level in the house, since 1928, and that really didn't materialize in the polls until late. it may be significant or notable at least that the number is ahead where it was in 2014. it hasn't been t...

That's the biggest i have seen the republican lead. if you look in context, recent midterm waves. these are all wave elections in the midterms. this is where the generic ballot was at this point. you can see it's not on par with what democrats had in the two big wave years, not on par with what republicans had in 2010, when they took 63 seats and won the house. now it's the first time we have seen this in a long time. the republican lead and the generic ballot is larger than it was at this point in 2014. the significance of that is if you remember the 2014 midterm, barack obama's second midter...

That would have been '98 with bill clinton. he was in the 60s. biden is at a 42% approval rating. 55% disapprove. the last time our poll, the nbc poll was in the field, it's been a while, but back in may, it basically looked exactly the same. start of the summer, end of the summer here, biden's approval rating in our poll basically flat. you mentioned also that question of the generic ballot. in our polling, again, comparing late spring, start of the summer, really hasn't budged that much now. republicans ahead by two. had been a tie in may. this is interesting, when you look at this one histo...