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Well, let's talk about COVID relief. Millions of Americans, as you well know, are desperate for that, and the lame duck Congress is gonna take that up. At this point, they are deadlocked. Will the president-elect, as his new position, unofficial, and as the head of the Democratic Party, will he work with Congress to try to broker a deal, or is he gonna wait ten weeks until January 20th? Well, I think we all want to see something happen. And you know, he will have to make the decisions based on what he believes is right not only for the presidency that he will be building in January, but recognizing that he is now the president-elect and already a very important leadership position for the country. I think we all hope that the logjam in Washington comes to an end, and we will be eager to see what progress can be made before and going into the administration. It looks likely -- not certain -- but likely that Republicans are gonna hold onto the Senate. It's gonna come down to two special elections in Georgia and Republicans will be favored in both. If Republicans hold the Senate, if the majority leader is Mitch McConnell, isn't that really gonna hurt some of the boldest parts of the Biden agenda? Things like a public option for health care or raising taxes by $4 trillion?
Well, again, first of all, Georgia has proven itself to be extraordinarily competitive, and so with the two fantastic candidates, Reverend Warnock and Jon Ossoff that we have running, I have every expectation that it will be a competitive race that we can very well take the majority in the Senate. If that doesn't happen, at the end of the day, again, the thing we have going for us is that the American people are with us. We are not just talking to the House of Representatives and the White House, we're also talking about the strong majority of the American people and even stronger majority than the one that brought Joe Biden to office, when we talk about some of the things you just mentioned -- making sure the corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share, making sure that we expand access to health care. And so, the McConnell caucus, the Republican caucus in the Senate will have to decide whether it wants to continue facing down the American people and standing in a way of what America wants, which I think would be a decision strategically to make the Republican Party a party of minority rule, or is their a willingness to reach across the island get something done? Now, if we know one thing about President-elect Biden is that he is somebody who has that instinct, of getting things done, reaching across the aisle, especially in a place like the Senate, and I think that's going to be exactly the Senate attributes that will be so important to getting anything done at all.
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