and as d w is michela cook, now reports many democrats fear this puts the future of us democracy at risk. this is the home of democracy in the us, the capital building, where men and women represent what the constitution referred to as we the people democracy in the united states is under attack. both democrats and republicans see it and both say that they are the ones defending the de, your, to democracy, comes from the radical left, not from the right. not i will not stand by and watch the most fundamental free him in this country, the freedom to vote and have your vote counted be taken from you post. 3rd of americans no longer feel confident that that vote is being counted properly . that in itself, the success of donald trump is still claim that he and not to bide one the 2020 election in these midterm elections, trump only through his political weight behind candidates to echo his big steel narrative carry. we'll start with you, your call joe biden. an illegitimate present was, i mean, he lost the election initial be in the white house. we had a corrupt election lake has already mad

message to supporters on his own social platform, while also hailing a very big victory an air i ass michela cook. now, our correspondence in washington dc, whether this was as good a day for the democrats as president biden was suggesting. well, overall, it wasn't, but it wasn't as bad as expected. i guess success always is what you get against the initial expectation. and there was lots of talk about a red wave. well, that simply didn't materialize. and the republicans fancied themselves of expecting a red tsunami. so in due vines, democrats held up much better than all the pollsters predicted, and then that many of themselves actually believed. and this is against the backdrop of an almost political tradition that the party of whoever is president usually doesn't do particularly well in mid term elections. there was a very high turn out that you favors the democrats. so this is a highly politicized country, certainly. and by mid term terms and do biden his party, i would like to stress pulled this off against a backdrop of a fairly low approval ratings of their president and 3 quarters of the