History will be against President Donald Trump when he tries to hold on to his control of Congress after this year’s midterm elections.

From pressuring state Republicans to redraw their congressional districts to create more GOP-leaning seats in the House to underscoring his policy and political wins on the campaign trail and in prime-time TV addresses, Trump has been trying to defy history. The late Jimmy Carter was the most recent president to keep control of Congress after his first and only midterm elections in 1978.