And welcome to politicsnation from atlanta, georgia. Tonights lead, a split down the center. The midterm elections are just 16 days away, 17 states have already started voting in advance of november 8th. 12 states will join that list this week. And a brand new National Poll from nbc news suggests that americans have their minds made up about several things ahead of next month. President bidens Approval Rating is holding at 45 . The highest number he has enjoyed in over a year, yet still lower than democrats would like with their senate and House Majorities hanging in the balance. Voters remaining evenly split on congressional preference. 47 preferring democrats in control of congress, 46 preferring republicans. The Passion Driving Voters this Election Cycle is unprecedented. With seven in ten americans expressing high interest in this midterm election, a likely indicator that we can expect record turnout next month, but with that, our country remains deeply polarized. Eight of ten amer
and welcome to politicsnation from atlanta, georgia. tonight s lead, a split down the center. the midterm elections are just 16 days away, 17 states have already started voting in advance of november 8th. 12 states will join that list this week. and a brand new national poll from nbc news suggests that americans have their minds made up about several things ahead of next month. president biden s approval rating is holding at 45%. the highest number he has enjoyed in over a year, yet still lower than democrats would like with their senate and house majorities hanging in the balance. voters remaining evenly split on congressional preference. 47% preferring democrats in control of congress, 46% preferring republicans. the passion driving voters this election cycle is unprecedented. with seven in ten americans expressing high interest in this midterm election, a likely indicator that we can expect record turnout next month, but with that, our country remains deeply polarized. eig
democrats are doing good things to rebuild the economy. we ve already passed the bipartisan infrastructure bill. we ve already passed the bipartisanship bill. creating jobs and we did a lot to help the cost of things, getting the cost of medicines down, energy those are things that are really vital to american families. we are just doing a good job of moving this legislation to help people forward and i think we are just getting started. senator, former president donald trump has been campaigning for republicans and there are rumblings he may also insert himself into the midterms, even after the votes are cast. rolling stone reports today that trump wants to aggressively challenge close races that are not declared on election night. he is particularly fixated on the pennsylvania senate race, where he and other republicans
if we shut the government down in the middle of a pandemic, it s shame on all of us. it would be irresponsible and it cannot happen. we have to vote on figuring out how we re going to keep the government operating and republicans will go not my problem. it is their problem. it s every one of our problems and we all better blankedy blank come together and figure it out. we have people on both sides that are giving these deadlines. we do need both bills. we have to get both bills. the bipartisanship bill, it s great when we can come together, and there are things in there that we need the people that are supporting that can t afford to have that bill fail, but we need more on everything that s even in that bipartisan bill. today there s a report from the pediatric drama about half the children tested in this country have lead in their blood we have to get the lead out of all the water pipe lines in the pipeline that s in the build back better
the fact you hear so many progressives act as if democrats have 70 senators and not 50, tells you the tug that the white house is dealing with. i don t think there s a bipartisanship bill progressives aren t going to kill it. sanders didn t sound like he was going to kill it. he talked about what he liked. that s politics. you say i want this, want this, hold out until you get it. i don t think the progressives are going to kill this bill. i think at the same time it s going to be hard to run in the next fall midterm election without us trying to block everything he tried to do. ipartisanship is incredibly important. as you said democrats don t want to do everything, go it alone. if you talk to some of the biden people, results are equally as important. you hear them often say they learned the lessons of the obama years. they pointed to the 2009 bailout package and says who remembers the three republicans? you maybe remember, chuck. nobody else does. they look at the covid reli