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Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Scott Detro. I cover the Biden transition.

I'm Kelsey Snally, cover congress. And I'm Deer Djer Walsh, congressional editor.

Hello guys, it is nice talking to both of you. I've missed you both.

Hi Scott. So I'm glad you're here because we had a conversation last week about what Republicans were making of this election.

Now we're going to do the flip side. We're going to talk about Democrats.

They lost seats in this election despite Joe Biden's victory. They have one of the slimmest house majorities in decades.

And progressives and moderates are at odds over what exactly went wrong because Kelsey, let's remember Democrats and Republicans expected big Democratic gains this year. And that just did not happen.

Yeah, it was really interesting because going into the election, we were hearing from both parties. Like he said, that they were expecting that Democrats were going to gain seats.

I had a Republican say to me that they thought a really good night on election night would be if Republicans were able to hold Democrats to single digit gains.

That is the opposite of what happened. They they've had some significant losses and a lot of the losses happened in these majority maker districts, which is what we call those districts of Democrats 1 in 2018 by defeating Republicans.

And the argument now is why why were they losing in these districts in the first place.

And some people say that it's about progressive policies. Some people are saying, well, it was because we were pulling incorrectly and didn't spend our money right.

There's a lot of finger pointing and it's mostly Democrats pointing their fingers at one another.

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