Dan Pfeiffer: “During midterm elections, the incumbent president is almost always a drag on their party. Voters quickly grow impatient with the lack of progress and tend to want to check the recently elected President.”“However, the President usually has something to offer his party—a popular accomplishment or at least some progress on solving a problem. In 2010, the Democrats lost more than 60 seats in the House, but Obama was still pretty popular and could at least argue that the worst of the financial crisis was behind us. In 2018, Trump was unpopular, but voters still liked his economy and gave him credit for managing it well.”“The NBC poll shows that Trump really offers Republicans nothing. His political problems are historic, and voters are rejecting not just him, but every element of his agenda.”NBC News: 43% of voters want midterm vote to “signal opposition to Trump.”