as the midterms approach. i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. s get started. all right, some republicans aren t playing by the same senate rules that democrats are. we establish that already, you know when it comes to judicial nominations, not when it comes to gun control legislation, and definitely not when it comes to our elections. this week the new york times reported that at least 357 sitting republican legislators and closely contested battleground states have used the power of their office to discredit or try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. that tally, accounts for 44% in the nine states where the presidential race was mostly narrowly decided. we are afraid on election denying republicans being elected to office, there s no doubt about it. but some of these officials already have a sway in their legislators. just think that, what could happen in the next election, if it is too close to call in one of these states. i m not trying to fearmo
amen. if they lost a senate seat in the state of president biden had won by that margin. would that would point to for democrats would be a note of the support in the middle ground. people who aren t particularly well maybe people who aren t necessarily engaged with political news from day-to-day, but who turned to president biden after the trauma and tumult of president trump, hoping that there would be some return to normalcy. now democrats are running into the big headwind with inflation. there s just no question about that. whether they re culpable for it is a much more difficult question, but the historical trend is that the presidents party struggles in the first midterm elections. going into those midterm elections with an inflation of a percent, that is a very tough climb, regardless of ideology. toug climb, i may come back, danielle, to republicans for a moment