I'm John Bachelor and Elizabeth Peek is here at springtime. That means we get to worry about the midterms and baseball simultaneously. I'll check baseball to the side for the moment that Dodgers are a great team

just the way they were last year. The Yankees will chase them. Good. When it comes to the midterms,

the rule is, and this is a rule to be broken, of course, the rule is after a presidential election, the party out of power,

that is, not in the White House, gains seats, often gains enough seats to take a majority,

or gains even more seats to regard themselves as successful, and we'll get them next time.

Now, that is the prospect of history. Here we are with a presidency

with serial crises, apparent crises, first the tariffs and then the Iran war, adding on to the

Eurasian war in Ukraine, adding on to the competition with China, all of that.

And we come to the midterms.

Liz, there's nothing out of step here.

I'm getting from the Democrats, best case scenario in the 230s.

Okay, that puts the Republicans about 200.

That's not a catastrophe.

That's normal history. Is the Republican Party bearing up under what history says is

inevitable? Well, I think Republicans are very anxious because, again, Trump ran on closing the

border, which he did. And, you know, I think the history of Donald Trump a little bit is he fixes

something and then everybody's attention moves elsewhere.

You know, in his first term, he fixed the economy, which had been sort of, if you remember, sort of staggering along under Obama.

And all of a sudden it began to do very well and brought because he brought taxes down, lightened regulation, blah, blah, blah.

And then everyone,

you know, voted for some other thing or their attention moved. Right now, immigration is like in the rear view mirror. And, of course, now got tarnished because of the perceived

overachievement or overaggressive activities of ice. So you have the everyone's focused on the cost of living.

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