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This is, without a doubt, the oddest midterm elections year of the many I’ve covered.

President Trump has been acting throughout his term as if he were trying to turn voters against his party — and thus sacrifice Republican control of Congress — even as he’s been taking steps, especially lately with mail ballots, to rig the election for the party’s benefit.

Just one thing is certain: chaos on some level. That’s Trump’s trademark and yet another reason that voters increasingly give for turning on him. Poll after poll shows about 60% of Americans disapprove of his job performance and just 38% or less approve — a historical low for presidents, and an albatross for his party. Trump calls the polls fake news, yet keeps working to cheat the election rebuke they portend for Republicans on the ballots.

Lord knows he’s earned his miserable polls.

Trump has given Americans higher prices instead of the rollbacks he promised, thanks to his tariffs, threats of tariffs and the Middle East war he vowed never to start. He’s made $2.2 billion since taking office, yet repeatedly dismissed Americans’ pain at the pump and the checkout lane, telling reporters he doesn’t think about it, “not even a little bit,” as he prosecutes his war. On Fox News he swatted away Bret Baier’s offer to let him clean up the quote: “That’s a perfect statement; I’d make it again.” And he has. Democrats’ ads also have kept Trump’s heartless quotes alive.

He gets tangled in his own lies: Trump constantly tells Americans that they’re not paying........

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