The Welcome to another special episode of Pod Save America. I'm Dan Feifer. This is the second of four bonus pods I'll be hosting on Sundays in the lead up to the election.

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subscriptions right now. In today's episode I'll be talking to Amy Walter, one of

the smartest people I know in politics, the publisher and editor- chief of the Cook Political Report, and

hosted our own podcast The Odd Years, about the state of the House and Senate races and

Democrats chances of winning a trifecta in this election.

Amy Walter, welcome to Pod Save America. How are you?

Thank you. I'm pretty good. I'm still here. So really that's the goal. That is the goal that I am

upright and you know just trying to to pace myself.

While we have you all and I want to talk about the presidential race but also the

Senate and the House something you're in both of all three of which you're an expert in.

Let's start with the presidential.

Three weeks ago or so, Democrats

were feeling ecstatic.

They were feeling confident.

Over the last week or so so the Democrats have gotten anxious.

We've had, this is the phase we get in every year.

Have you seen anything in what you've seen in the race in the polling,

the people you're talking to that would justify the vibe shift among Democrats.

Yeah, Dan, it's a really good question and I dug into this myself because I always wonder how much of this is real and how much of this is just sort of a mood that's not backed up by actual data.

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