… The outcome of the 2018 midterm elections does not predict results in the 2020 presidential election, but it does signal geographic strengths and vulnerabilities going forward.
After Democrats lost control of the House and Senate in 1994, President Bill Clinton adjusted his governing strategy by moving to the center and, to give one example, enacting welfare reform. He famously declared in his 1996 State of the Union address that “the era of big government is over,” which he would not have said in 1994 or 1992.
In contrast, after suffering the loss of Republican control of the House, Trump has shown little inclination to alter the direction of his administration. CONT.
Thomas B. Edsall, New York Times