Sean Trende Previews the Midterm Elections, The Supreme Court on Covid Mandates, and Biden's Voting Bill Stalls in The Senate

It was a tough week for the Biden administration. On Thursday the Supreme Court blocked the president’s vaccine and testing mandate for large private companies, dealing a big blow to his plans to use federal power to fight the pandemic. And just two days after the president delivered a blistering speech in Atlanta calling for passage of voting rights legislation, the White house received more bad news: Arizona Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema reiterated in a speech on the chamber floor that she would not vote to change Senate rules on the filibuster, a move that essentially stalls Biden’s two voting rights bills. All this is happening in the shadow of the upcoming midterm elections, which loom large over everything that will (or will not) happen in Washington in 2022. Tom Bevan, co-founder and president of RealClearPolitics, Washington Bureau Chief Carl Cannon, and Senior Elections Analyst Sean Trende join Andrew Walworth on today’s RealClearPolitics Takeaway podcast.