progressive caucus that kind of details exactly where we are on this, and hopefully that will be helpful to make sure that everybody is very clear on what the majority of our caucus is. do you worry that the protracted back and forth between the progressives and the moderates about these spending bills for the past two months is hurting other democrats in their state races? and i mean terry mcauliffe, who is running for governor in virginia, and governor phil murphy in new jersey. it sounded like terry mcauliffe thinks it is. so let me just play for you what he said this weekend. we ve got frustration with washington. you know, why haven t we passed this infrastructure bill? it passed the u.s. senate with 69 votes two months ago. i have been very straight on television. we re tired of the chitty chat up in washington. get in a room and get this figured out. congresswoman, do you worry that it s hurting other democrats? look, i think democrats who are running right now should
into the economy, that spending gets out into the country, that they think these troubles will start taking care of themselves, especially with what we see as the receiving of the delta variant which is issue number one above all others. well, of course, there s a trick trickle down effect to all these and terry mcauliffe, running for governor in virginia, talked about how this is affecting other states. listen to him from sunday. we ve got frustration with washington. you know, why haven t we passed this infrastructure bill? it passed the u.s. senate with 69 votes two months ago. i have been very straight on television. we re tired of the chitty chat up in washington. get in a room and get this figured out. and by the way, he s a democrat, david. yeah. he sure is. you know, in ryan was talking to you guys and saying, there s no definitive timeline on this stuff now, and this is more of a long-term thing, as he was saying that, i was like, envisioning terry mcauliffe s
remember who served as governor of virginia and ran the dnc, he s running as a candidate now and he s striking a little bit of a different note as a democratic candidate in a kind of a swing state of virginia. take a look. we have got frustration with washington. why haven t we passed this infrastructure bill. it passed the u.s. senate with 69 votes two months ago. we re tired of the chitty chat up in washington. get in a room and get this figured out. get it done this week. do your job. the idea there s work left undone at this moment is not just coming from, as mentioned , the headline writers. it s become a bit of a punch line which always tells you when a certain narrative is starting to be absorbed around the country. this is how snl referred to the idea that maybe the democrats have a lot on their to do list in their send up of the facebook hearing. what facebook has done is disgraceful and you better
them about what could happen in the midterms for democrats next year. mcauliffe is asking the question whether the stalled agenda up on capitol hill for joe biden is one of the drivers for his terrible numbers. listen. we ve got frustration with washington. you know, why haven t we passed this infrastructure bill? it passed the u.s. senate with 69 votes two months ago. i have been very straight on television. we re tired of the chitty chat up in washington. get in a room and get this figured out. reporter: so what do the numbers actually say? well, biden s net approval ratings have gone negative now for more than a month. but if you look at some of the individual polls, particularly the quinnipiac poll recently, they re just terrible numbers, and it really points to the fact that the people in the white house need to be worried not just about the virginia governor