It's Saturday, April 18th, I'm Ali Velshi.

We're 199 days out from the midterm elections, and the president is facing a nation

which is souring on him and his party.

His job approval rating sits at 38 percent, according to a U-Gov economist poll taken last week.

In that same poll, 57% say that the economy is getting worse, not better. And 45% of registered

voters say that they would vote for the Democrat in their congressional district if the elections

were held today. That's a five-point advantage over Republicans. The situation has Republicans

in Congress, as in the people who are actually on the ballot in November, seeking a reorientation

from the White House. Good luck with that. A Republican operative told Politico about the midterms,

quote, everything is made more difficult by the nonsense coming out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,

end quote.

That was before Donald Trump gave a press conference on psychedelic drugs this morning.

The president's party always has a hard time hanging on to control.

This is whoever the president is, holding onto control of Congress in the first midterm election

after a presidential election, but Republicans have a particularly steep uphill battle right now. After a special

election on Thursday, which kept a New Jersey House seat in Democratic hands, the Republican majority

in the House will be just three votes. The Cook Political Report, a closely followed index,

which rates congressional races on a scale from solid Democrat to solid Republican projects 213 house seats for

the Democrats and 205 for Republicans. 17 are true toss-ups. If Democrats can win most of those,

that's a solid majority. The Senate, however, was not generally considered flippable, at least until

recently. Right now, Republicans enjoy a 53 to 45 majority

over Democrats and the two independent senators who caucus with the Democrats. Because Senate terms are

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