Try and find someone, let's say almost anyone, to take over the top job at the White House.

Spare us the embarrassment that we're suffering globally with the person that's there now.

He's not on the ballot this year.

That's the very definition of a midterm election.

But as that voter and others told us before a recent live taping of The NPR Politics Podcast hosted by Cascade PBS in Seattle, voting against President Trump is a major motivation, and the podcast hosts say that's a major factor nationwide.

Well, it's unusual, but Trump is a different kind of president.

I mean, historically, midterm elections are referendums on the incumbent president and his party if it happens to hold a majority in Congress, which the Republicans do.

And Donald Trump believes that if he was on the ballot, Republicans would do better.

And that's why he's telling his supporters to pretend that he's on the ballot.

The problem is, he is at historically low approval ratings, and he's a motivator for his base, but also for Democrats.

And one of the most powerful forces in politics today is something called negative partisanship.

People go into the voting booth and they cast their vote, not because they love the guy they're voting for, but to stop that other guy because the whole world will collapse if the other team wins, because we're so polarized and hyper-partisan.

But the big question is, can Democrats capitalize on this?

Donald Trump is historically unpopular, but the Democratic brand is historically unpopular, and that's what they've got to fix.

Next time, we dive into the issue voters say is the most important to them this election season, the affordability crisis.

I'm Paris Jackson.

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