Matthew Yergin: It feels like this mansion ind cinema thing is more sort of illustrative of just this, you know, decades long, experienced senator, just fundamentally misunderstanding the things that he should fully understand. I mean, he spent nearly forty years as a senator, but he's so spectacularly unsuccessful at convincing two of his colleagues to support his legislation. How do he explain that? Byden is a very experienced us. But t us, like you're talk about things that are somewhat out of his control. And, oh, it's an administration and crisis. Most people just don't pay that much attention to politics or to the news," says Yergin.
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