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Spoke to lindsey graham who encourage democrats to keep it up if they want to continue losing touch with voters. >> the wind is at our back, it is in their face so keep it up. if you think you need, be my guest. >> house progressives are pushing for a vote on both bills, infrastructure and reconciliation as early as today. todd: senator john kennedy's take on the election turnout. >> this election last night was a stunning, stinging rebuke of president biden and his racist woke agenda. voters are angry about afghanistan, the border, crime, defund the police and critical race theory, voters are...

Back better plan and the hard infrastructure bill. about $3 trillion in total. and she wants it as soon as today, although that is considered unlikely by other members of her party. cnn's daniela diaz joins us live from capitol hill. daniela, good morning. we have the possibility of a vote today and paid leave is now back in the bill. what's the back story there? >> reporter: laura, democrats are feeling the effects of this loss in virginia where terry mcauliffe lost the race to glenn youngkin and this narrow victory we just announced by democrats in new jersey. and as a result, as you said, t...

Very conservative folks who turned out in the red district to were trump voters, but maybe. >> it is important to note it was more than trump voters who turned out for glenn youngcan, he won right-leaning and center leaning voters in the suburbs as well as districts that voted. in 2020, to to bounce back biden faces pressure to get things done. the problem is senator joe manchin sees tuesday's election as a referendum on democrats progressive proposals while house speaker nancy pelosi sees it as a reason to double down. >> we have a divided country. i hope it is a wake-up call for all of us. w...

Youngkin last night. and today, both virginia's democratic senators declaring their party has only itself to blame, pointing the finger at house progressives for refusing to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill until there's a deal on a sweeping series of social programs. >> only in washington could people think that it is a smart strategy to take a once in a generation investment in infrastructure and prevent your president from signing that bill into law. >> reporter: president biden asked today what democrats should do differently to avoid massive defeat in the midterms. >> i think we shou...

Big legislative win, but the progressive caucus in the house refused to do that. the progressive caucus in the house wanted proof. all 50 democrats in the senate would support the reconciliation bill before the house progressives would be willing to vote for the infrastructure bill that the senate already passed. this afternoon senator joe manchin called that legislative hostage taking. >> i've worked in good faith for three months. for the past three months with president biden, leader schumer, speaker pelosi and my colleagues on the reconciliation bill, and i will continue to do so. for the ...