d.c. conventional wisdom. the summer beginning with democrats almost fatalistic about losing the house. here are today s headlines. a shift in trends showing democrats daring to dream, the times reported on the rebound. the post reporting democrats showing momentum in these recent special elections, which is hard data. the d.c. website axios reports on the democrats now stunning turnaround. now, first, this is classic washington a narrative zigs and zags. everything gets exaggerated. there s a lot of self-interested reasons that people need to make things so histrionic. i can also tell you tonight, the reason this is the top story here where we try not to be histrionic is because there is hard data showing democrats improving. and at this point they might start asking themselves, well, how did we get here? they may ask themselves, where does that midterm highway go? same as it ever was. that s of course how the talking heads and david byrne memorably put it. the numbers
movement there. and then you have what some are call i don t know if you ve heard this. there are people out there calling it biden s hot policy summer. have you heard that? that s going around. no, i have not heard of the hot biden summer. i appreciate your honesty. some are calling it a hot policy summer, which is a playful nod to mega thee stallion about a true thing, which is early summer it was nothing works, joe manchin won t let anything happen. you re coming out towards labor day and people are hearing about inflation program, climate spending at a time when it s hot, and they say, oh, biden s doing things. now this week, student loan breakthrough. 10 to 20k for people of varying ages who are dealing with this broken system. you have a lot of people cheering that. there are fair debates. i asked some of those questions to susan rice last night. it s complicated. but then there s some really