really happy to have you here. we are less than 30 days out now from the elections. we are going to be joined in just a moment by the man who was in charge of the democratic party s efforts to hold the united states senate. and that is quite a job this year. the polling averages right now show that the prospects for both parties in the senate are equal as of today. literally, if the polling says today ends up matching the vote on election day, it will be 50/50 in the senate. so in terms of control of the senate, control of the direction of the country, every race really matters. every seat really matters. every candidate really matters. it is just on a knife s edge. and i mean, just on a personal level, if you didn t know whether you would volunteer for a candidate yet this year. if you would volunteer to door knock or do some get out the vote work. if you haven t committed to voting for sure yourself this year, this year your vote will really matter. this is not one to skip
so in terms of control of the senate, control of the direction of the country, every race really matters. every seat really matters. every candidate really matters. it is just on a knife s edge. and i mean, just on a personal level, if you didn t know whether you would volunteer for a candidate yet this year. if you would volunteer to door knock or do some get out the vote work. if you haven t committed to voting for sure yourself this year, this year your vote will really matter. this is not one to skip out on. this election will be very tight and very, very interesting. and very consequential. again, if the polling bears out. and election day looks anything like the polls say it will lookh today. we ll be talking with the man in charge of the democratic party s efforts in the senate in just a moment. obviously, a super high stakes job. a super difficult job. still though, who would you rather be? would you rather be the senate guy for the democrats right now? or would you r
Of us agree on? there is this. by overwhelming margins, americans support legislation to lower the price of prescription drugs. by a huge margin, americans in favor of allowing medicare, the health insurance program for seniors, allowing medicare to negotiation ever negotiate with drug companies to make drugs cheaper. poll after poll, americans who support that. it is like 70 to 80%. it is puppies and ice cream support. but lo and behold, representative democracy has broken out. democrats included a provision along those lines when they passed the big inflation reduction act. democrats kept it in there. they accomplished the goal they ve been pursuing for a generation when president biden signed it into law in august. something americans have wanted by huge margins for decades. medicare negotiating for lower drug prices. it becomes the very, very popular law of the land.
It is puppies and ice cream support. but lo and behold, representative democracy has broken out. democrats included a provision along those lines when they passed the big inflation reduction act. democrats kept it in there. they accomplished the goal they ve been pursuing for a generation when president biden signed it into law in august. something americans have wanted by huge margins for decades. medicare negotiating for lower drug prices. it becomes the very, very popular law of the land. congratulations. plus, same bill, put a cap on how much seniors have to pay for drugs overall including insulin. also, hugely popular and the democrats got it done. they got it passed. and that is how things stand right now under the law. under the law that president biden signed, american seniors will be paying less for prescription drugs. no one will ever have to pay more than $2,000 a area. the price in general will go down.