Today we’re talking to two of our in-house experts: Joan McCarter will join us to give us an update on Democratic efforts to … get anything out of the Senate, where Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia remain intractable, insufferable a-holes. The delays and chaos have helped drive President Joe Biden’s numbers below 40%, making a difficult 2022 election cycle even more challenging.

And speaking of 2022, we’ll talk to Daily Kos Elections’ Stephen Wolf about the status of the redistricting process. With Republicans in greater control of the drawing of new districts following the 2020 Census reapportionment, are the early results as dire as we feared they might be?