members, whatever there are, seven or eight that have raised objections to this. if they undercut joe biden and joe biden s numbers drop, it makes it hard on every democrat, especially the moderates. the first people to lose in line in an election when joe biden s numbers fall and he doesn t fulfill his promises isn t the progressives. it s the first people to fall are those people in swing states or swing districts and those are the people objecting to this when in reality they re the most vulnerable. why don t they know that? every single election when you look at that, every time somebody says i can t compromise, i live in a moderate district, i m ging to go against what the president says, every time they do that, they ve lost and every time those people realize that as the president goes so goes the federal office, they ve won. look at almost every single election. the ability to distinguish yourself by saying i m against the president and that s why i m doing this and the pre
level federal level at how well joe biden does, what he delivers to the american public and where he stands. and the best way to do that is deliver the package that he s presented, that the majority of the american people in every poll want. okay. so are you speaking directly there to the sinemas and the manchins of the of the world? because they are going to say well, that doesn t play in my district. i m speaking to the sinemas and the manchins of the world and i am speaking to those house members, whatever there are, seven or eight who have raised objections to this because if you really look at it. joe biden if they undercut joe biden and joe biden s numbers drops, it makes it hard on every democrat, especially the moderates. the first people to lose in line in an election when joe biden s numbers fall when he doesn t fulfill his promises isn t the progressives. it s the first people to fall are those people in swing states or swing districts. and those are the people w
uh-huh. and now, look. i know, people on the left will say, oh stop. stop saying the democrats are fighting with each other. no, they re not. it s just joe manchin. that s just not true. okay? boo biden met with a whole bunch of house members today. you just had a house member say half the progressives won t vote with the bill on monday. they have real problems. they have got to get it straight or they are going to lose. i agree with you on a larger part, again, as we said. but also, when you dig deeper into it with the progressives agenda, not all of tit is bad. i am just saying they re not going to get both bills. you get to a certain point where i think what progressives are saying and again i m not a politician here but i think what they are saying is enough is enough. we have been asking for these things. we have been asking for to get the voting laws to to fix the voting laws. to get those on the books of the we have been asking to help kids and to help families
and all those things and you are we keep compromising and we keep compromising. well, the whole idea of politics is about a compromise. 50% of something is better than? than zero. but i think at this point they have got to put up a strong fight and a strong resistance and say, hey, look. this is what we want. i think at the end of the day, i think there will be some relenting. a lot of relenting from all parties involved but i think at this point, even the progressives have to hold firm to get as much of what they want as possible. and it s the same thing with those who are more conservative in the democratic party. they have to do it. and with the wirepublicans. everyone has to say at this point this is what i want and i am not going to back down and then, you know, when it gets to that point, to the finish line, the closer they get, i think that a lot of people will be compromising. that s how i think wharks what i think. first of all, we should want that period. yes.