comp mromise and where can bide find agreement among both wings of the party. certainly i think he has shown that progressives are indeed influential, and the challenge, though, is that because the margins are so narrow in the senate, we re talking 50/50, you cannot lose a single democratic senator because they re going through the reconciliation process and doing this on a party line basis, and so that is why joe manchin and kyrsten sinema have so much influence. had it not been for those georgia is that the races we wouldn t even be talking sabrina made a point in the beginning that i think we should make again at the end. joe biden ran expressly on his ability to make deals in congress as president that other people can t, couldn t do. there s quote after quote in which he says i m a pretty good senate vote counter. i may be the best senate vote counter out there. it s about compromise. it s about bringing people together. this is rubber meets road time. exactly. he didn t c