welcome back to the program, r. cook. which was the lowest of any elected president in their first year. in the second year he was at 40%, the lowest of any president in the elected president in his second year in office, in the third year he was at 42% which was the lowest except for jimmy carter. we know what happened to him. so you've got a president who has never seen a majority approval rating, and that's important, because approval ratings are are the best way to determine whether a president is likely to get re-elected or not. it's not like a choice election ike you had in 2016 or even in 2008. but he was only four or five, six points ahead in most polling. joe biden had a lead in every one of the 20 states hillary clinton carried plus d.c. with more than the margin of area everywhere except possibly minnesota. you had michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania that effectively settled the last presidential election, all three were in the margin of error. and florida, south carolina he was running to even, the president sli