your idea is to keep the whole coalition together. how do you do it? it s a broad tent. you get these robust debates. they re all healthy debates. but you have 96% consensus among house senates, democrats in the house and senate, about the measures in this bill and have you democrats far reaching, bernie sanders and manchin agreeing on the rolling back of the trump tax cuts and censoring climate and medicare expansion. so it s going to be easy i think to keep the party together. you just described the sausage making, that s democracy. things are hard, but at the end of the day, progressives, moderates, sensetures in the party will be able to go back and talk about meeting the benefits of the lives of average americans who don t care about the challenges, and this personality and the other or the ongoing debates. they want to know, what are you delivering for us now to make sure we don t have the
hours to tep up their public involvement, having key advisers like susan rice meeting with senate and house senates. also keep in mind that there is resentment that two democratic senators not in the house body is holding so much sway over these negotiations. progressives i have talked to made clear they are holding their own line. statements from bernie sanders and others have said they can continue holding the line and they have support in the senate but in terms of negotiations the only people involved from the senate side who are really making an impact are manchin and sinema. what we have seen from moderate progressives in the house is sort of a waiting game while trying to figure out where their priorities can land in this. the president coming here and speaking to this as the white house steps up their
his party and staying even in the senate. president bush got hammered. republicans lost 30 seats in the house, six in the senate and control of both houses were gone from the republicans. the 1998 election was the only time a two-term president saw gains. in addition two-term presidents typically have one really bad midterm and one not so bad. truman was much worse in 46 than in 50. reagan, split decision after losing big in the house and gaining a senate seat in 1982, republicans lost seven seats in 86 and control, but did better in the house. so, let s take a look at our next one. the two most recent examples of midterms, bill clinton s democrats lost 54 house senates and 8 senate seats in 94 before turning the tables in 98.