recent weeks, over the debt limit and the stalled infrastructure bills. biden's numbers with independents have dropped by 19 points since he was elected, a big drop of that happening over the summer. that's why i think you see so many democrats actually this silent majority really, at least on the house side, who are very keen to get the bipartisan infrastructure bill done asap and so that at least at the end of the year biden and the vulnerable democrats can go into 2022 to speak to that. .chris: harold, when the president's support drops, that flows down the line and hurts all democrats. the president's asking a lot of democrats to take tough votes on his domestic agenda. both if you're progressive, maybe you don't like the fact that it's going to be too little, if you're moderate, that it's going to be too much. he doesn't provide as much political cover. virginia, you've got a really competitive race for governor and terry mcauliffe, the democratic candidate and former