Analysis
Several polling outlets are predicting that Republicans will take control of both the House and possibly the Senate in the 2022 primaries. While some individuals are attributing the GOPs pending 2022 primary success to the power gained by candidates backed by Donald Trump, others say the former president’s endorsements will have little effect.
As noted by FiveThirtyEight, “One of the most ironclad rules in American politics is that the party of the president in office always loses ground in midterm elections.”
In the meantime, a series of polls between July 5-25 show the job approval rating for President Joe Biden is consistently flailing between 33 percent and 45 percent. More drastic are the polls between June 12 and July 25 showing that anywhere between 70 percent to 87 percent believe the country is headed in the wrong direction….