amy: john nichol-- juan: i just want to ask him a john, you mentioned gerrymandering.often forget many of these lines were redrawn and repuicans clearly had an advantage of the numberf states that they control in terms of redistricting. how do you get a sense of how redistricting has played in terms of the potential for the possibility or the likelihood that republicans will end up controlling the house? >> it is huge. i think this is something people need to understand. we have a system in the u.s. where politians pick their vote and the voters do not -- are not given the opportunity to have their district lines where they can have realompetition. this benefited the republicans in a number of states. in fact, had we had fair ms across the country come the 2022 midterm election cycle would have been a very, very different competition will stop it would not have had throughout much of that cycle the assumption of republican wins, especially house races, because you have had much more competitive contests. j mentoring is a big factor. i can tell you this is something tha

are in the spring and not john nichols is a political writer at the nation that joins us live from madison in wisconsin. john good to abbey, back with a. so nevada is a race, as mike was saying that it went right down to the wire. president biden, and the democrats would be extremely happy with this result. absolutely, this is incredibly good news for president. what it means is that on a number of levels, he will now have the power to continue to govern something that he would have lost in many senses. if the republicans had taken the senate, for instance, with democratic control of the u. s. senate president biden's appointments to the high courts are supreme court, as well as to the federal courts and to cabinet positions in bassinger ships. other jobs can now be approved in a way that they might not have been approved by a republican senate. so right off the bat, that is a big deal. also, whether the republicans take the house of representatives or not. because the democrats have control the senate, they will be any negotiating position where they'll be able to advance much of the pres

john nichols, they political writer at the nation. he says the wind will make a huge difference to the 2nd half of president biden's term. this is incredibly good news for president. what it means is that on a number of levels, he will now have the power to continue to govern something that he would have lost in many senses. if the republicans had taken the senate, for instance, with democratic control of the us senate president biden's appointments to the high court, our supreme court, as well as to the federal courts and to cabinet positions ambassador ships, other jobs can now be approved in a way that they might not have been approved by a republican senate. so right off the bat, that is a big deal. also, whether the republicans take the house of representatives or not. because the democrats have control of the senate, they will be negotiating position, where they'll be able to advance much of the president's agenda. so this is a huge victory for president by for the democrat, and i think it was a complicated election. i think the

thought that that was part of, you know, there are nichols as well as the great affairs of state that can trigger a final decision to throw off those traces. john in washington, as we know, was late to declare himself ready to go to war for his principles but when he when martha went wish him. as i say, she became this battle acts of their republic and, lady washington they would cry when she came into you. and that actually does have in at least one of the original imprints. i think it is the one in yale. it is a contemporary print and detail as lady washington undernea. and so there was neral and then there was lady washington. and she came to the first major adquarters tocambridge massachusetts. d of course it wasn'tjust, that was one of the few places where martha came to cheer shington's life. where she was actually within hearing of a battlefield, if you like. with the siege of boston. and she writes. rather like washington himself wrote, saying it was wonderful to hear the blitz singing around my head. in an earlier war. . well she had corresponded with her sister nancy who married and lived down on the poor monkey. and nancy, martha's c

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