thing. i think something that is remarkable about the next election is it is a perfect experiment in how much economic circumstances and the natural tendency of political backlash against the president s party, historical factors in midterms, can be affected by one person s extreme unpopularity. that is donald trump. he is really doing his best to make this kind of an epic political science experiment. thank you. that is all in for this thursday night. rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. thank you, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy to have you here on this fine friday eve by which i mean it is the eve of friday. tonight we ll be joined by the person most likely to be the first female governor of the state of georgia, the first black female governor of any state in the country. stacey abrams. she is already a national political figure, somebody who for example the democratic party
biden presidency turns out whether or not he s going to get done what he wants to do as president. it s really worth watching because the dynamics at play on capitol hill are new and different than they have been before if you are a if you are someone who has been a long time watcher of democratic party politics in washington, then you are accustomed to things working themselves out or not working themselves out things falling apart in certain predictable ways this is not that this is a departure from that well trod path this is a new and different situation. as i said, this small bipartisan roads and bridges bill is a bit of a political science experiment, it came from a weird place. republicans who initially supported it won t support it now because they never wanted it in the first place it s just a sliver of president biden s economic agenda. the bulk of president biden s economic agenda is contained in
well trod path. this is a new and different situation. as i said, the small bipartisan roads and bridges spill, it has been a little bit of a political science experiment. it came from where. place republicans who initially supported don t want to support it because they don t want it in the first place. but it s just a sliver of biden s economic agenda. the bulk of the agenda is contained in a different, much larger. bill the build back better bill. it includes things like making the child tax credit a permanent thing, which will have a huge impact on child poverty and working house families in this country, almost hard to overstate. it will make pre-k and community college universally free. it will create a family and medical leave benefits for all americans. it s a whole host of climate initiatives to transition the country to renewable fuels and electric vehicles, more on that later. and not only do the vast majority of elected democrats
it s really worth watching because the dynamics at play on capitol hill are new and different than they have been before. if you are a if you are someone who has been a long time watcher of democratic party politics in washington, then you are accustomed to things working themselves out or not working themselves out. things falling apart in certain predictable ways. this is not that. this is a departure from that well trod path. this is a new and different situation. as i said, this small bipartisan roads and bridges bill is a bit of a political science experiment. it came from a weird place. republicans who initially supported it won t support it now because they never wanted it in the first place. it s just a sliver of president biden s economic agenda. the bulk of president biden s economic agenda is contained in a different much larger bill, the build back better bill. that includes things like making the child tax credit a permanent thing, which will have a huge impact on child
0 us this hour, the speaker of the house of representatives is of course nancy pelosi. she has been speaker this time around since january of 2019. but this is not her first rodeo. this is her but this is not her first rodeo. this is her second turn in the speaker s job. the first time nancy pelosi became speaker of the house was in 2007. you might remember, george w. bush was still president. democrats did great in the midterms in 2006. pelosi got elevated to speaker. i mean, first it was just this huge historic moment, right, the first female speaker of the house in american history. next in line to the presidency after the vice president. just a huge history-making deal. so she s always been a big deal simply because of her breaking that glass ceiling but the other thing that very quickly became clear about nancy pelosi as speaker, nancy pelosi as the leader of the that branch of government was that she s just technically quite good at it. she is specifically unquestionably good at