With President Donald Trump's six month mark in office quickly approaching, it is all the more apparent that his accomplishments are few and far between. One of the largest tenets of Trump's platform was repealing and replacing Obamacare, aka the Affordable Care Act, which Monday night suffered yet another legislative blow. Trump, who touts himself as a master dealmaker and negotiator, hasn't been able to show legislative prowess in his first six months in office.

While Trump's key advisers and staff are focusing on messaging to his core base of supporters, they are forgetting just how angry that base will be when repeal and replace doesn't happen. Many of his supporters expected repeal and replace to occur immediately and instead it is dead in the water. While Trump's base may enjoy his flippant and fiery tweets and war on the mainstream media, he has nothing to show when it comes to legislative accomplishments – the very thing he was elected to do.

So how will this impact Republicans going forward? Well, it seems as though the 2018 midterms will prove to be quite difficult if Republican lawmakers can't go back to their districts and tout any deliverables they ran on. In fact, Trump's approval numbers are slipping to an all-time historic low. His approval rating as of last Thursday was 39 percent, according to FiveThirtyEight, with a disapproval rating of 55 percent – making him the most unpopular president at the six month mark.

The only good news, and potentially saving grace for the Trump administration, is that according to a Washington Post-ABC poll only 37 percent of Americans believe the Democratic Party stands for something. Despite the fractures within the Republican Party, the scandals plaguing the Trump administration and the unpopularity of the president, the Democrats have been unable to hone in core messaging and a platform after the devastating losses they experienced in the 2016 election.

Just recently, the Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez appeared on MSNBC and was unable to answer who the leader of the Democratic Party is, signaling a significant leadership issue within the core of the party.

With both parties facing such internal struggles and turmoil, the midterm elections will prove to be quite interesting. Will Republicans be able to hold onto their strongholds in the states and nationally when the base of the party will be frustrated with their legislative inaction and broken promises? It was desire for change and a rebuke of the status quo that got Trump and therefore other Republicans elected, so will his inability to "drain the swamp" impact down ticket races? Will the Democrats be able to consistently message and put up candidates who appeal to very different spectrums of the party?