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Candidates. and amy stoddard, veteran washington journalist. associate editor and columnist for real clear politics. good evening, welcome to you both. amy, i will serve you a kind of question salad to see which one makes you bite. how are the democrats doing it handling mcconnell in the minority leader role? do the democrats have the right majority leader for these times? and what happens if the republicans win the majority back? >> well, brian, it really doesn't matter who majority and minority leaders are. we do not control a majority of the senate, and we preside over it and control it. th...

Through. and the house, they have a four seat majority. democrats are going to have a very difficult time looking passed the covid relief bill, and passing any of the things that they have promised to progressives. and to the voters who turned out, but don't usually turned out in those elections, and who are not likely to print out next year, to help them hold on to power. if the republicans get the house, and i think that they probably will, and possibly the senate. we're gonna see mitch mcconnell stick to his threats and warnings that he controls the supreme court, and he will lock down the ...

For flat blocking voting rights? and i'll say this my last point on this brian is democrats have to make this not a minority issue. i think too often the talking points around this are about minorities being blocked from the ballot box. democrats have to take a page from republicans and middle america has to be scared as hell about with the consequences are gonna be for them and their children. if we lose on these fights. if voting access is blocked and we have elections overturned and we know are legitimate. the day that middle america is scared is how that's the day that democrats will preva...

In the trump administration. that personal drive can certainly get in the way of the legislative progress that they're hoping to make in advancing president biden's agenda. but senator mcconnell said that they're having the back of these longtime friend and ally, bill barr. the former attorney general, and it's interesting lee using that witch hunt, which is the way that we heard again and again, against president trump, in reference to virtually any investigation into trump or his administration. he called it a witch hunt, we're now seeing the republicans in the senate applying the same langu...

For the voting rights bill and this new legislation to protect the sanctity of our democracy but can democrats flip that return republicans obstruction of it into a win going into the midterms? the greatest trick that mitch mcconnell has done is in fact, and we saw it under obama two and many democrats are saying that this smells like 2010 coming all over again which was a catastrophe. it's simply to block everything the democrats try to do into earlier point. you know, have the base of the democratic party deenergized and frustrated and not turn out the question is can democrats finally turn ...