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He has to confront some challenges like high inflation like the highly criticized afghanistan withdraw governor kasich, what do you see as his biggest challenge running for a second term? >> first of all, his approval rating is 41 presid%. donald trump had a higher approval rating. i endorsed biden biden won. i'm not taking credit. but it's interesting when you compare the two. the biggest issue is age there's no way to dismiss that vice presidents don't elect presidents presidents have to be out there and have to be vigorous. he can't change his age but his ideas can matter are people excited...

Much for that. joining us now is democratic congressman don beyer of virginia, a member of the congressional delegation that just returned from taiwan on friday. i want to get that that in a moment, congressman, but first there is a new "washington post" survey that found that more than 60 candidates in the most competitive races across the united states some of the ones that harry was just talking about are either not asking president biden to come to their areas, their districts, or avoiding them when he does come. what kind of role do you want to see president biden play in the midterm el...

Is this gonna change his position? >> most of the senate democrats have come to live with the idea that joe manchin is the only person, the only democrats, that can be elected to the senate from west virginia. so he has this unique power in the senate because of that unique ability, unique position. and i think of what he saw from many of his colleagues, his renewed appreciation for joe manchin. after he and chuck schumer announced this deal. because what they did was, if you look back for the last several months, it looked like mitch mcconnell was given the up upper hand in these negotiations...

Return to normalcy, somebody who was not chaotic and someone who was a centrist. i think that's what people thought they were getting when they voted for joe biden, including a lot of people who are, you know, suburban nights. people in loudoun county, for example, who are sophisticated, probably work in washington, d.c., but they moved to loudoun county for a reason, right? they wanted to get away from some of the chaos. so i think what happened is they were in a sense radicalized, basically by two things. you ha the failure to, you know, pass not just a social agenda but the infrastructure s...

Republicans are absent. and the media doesn't spend must have time saying why aren't there any republicans in that room? they were there to get the infrastructure stuff for their own client. they probably have people who give them money, maybe they think they'll get something there. it struck me today, current, i'll give you the final word on this, the difference fundamentally is democrats look at their base and try to figure out how to please all of these different kinds of people. because the democratic base is varied. it's multicultural, multiracial, multireligious. they have to figure out ...