president. how he actually can be helpful. that is by playing bad cop, attacking republicans, and calling out a lot of policies that they ve been able to implement at the state level that biden hasn t been successful in actually implementing from a federal level. he has not, and the democratic congress has not been able to get a lot of the priorities he campaigned on done. from voting rights to police reform to gun control. so instead, they would like to see and what i m hearing from members and lawmakers, democratic lawmakers on the hill, him sort of ramp up that rhetoric, which is anathema to the joe biden we saw run on the campaign trial in 2020. this is someone who s credited himself on being able to work with republicans, but we are seeing in realtime the limits of that strategy. especially as we re coming up against the new year.
their credibility is on the line. democracy has been talked about. i am glad to see there s movement. i don t know if this happened in a way that will affect the midterms, but i can say it would be an important talking point for the president, for members of congress going out there, that we were the ones that were standing up for our democracy. for our institutions. the hope is that it doesn t translate. not sure that it will, but it s important that we have the ability to think. well, jackie, talking about the midterms, about that messaging, there s the action, that s what we ve been talking about, but there s the messaging around this political reporting that outside of the white house, democrats are arguing that biden s willingness to make aggressive attacks against republicans will be key to their
young, new mayors across the country. the democrats can say, we did this. we put them there. those are the people we should elevate. let joe biden come in at the end, if you will, but then elevate all these other folks because they re people we would love to see as new standard bearers of the party. we have a new mayor in the city of new york who wants to be the new face of the democratic party. i think the message can be unifying. joe biden doesn t have to lead it, but he certainly has to be there at the end to say this is the party that, this is our party, this is our party. jackie, there s both 2022 then the future of democracy writ large and making sure there s accountability for what happens so that it never happens again and all of this is playing out as a d.c. appeals court hears arguments over the former president s appeals to block records. the three judges seem to suggest