This is Eileen Vinsett, and I'm getting ready to do a Peloton workout to celebrate my 42nd birthday

over here in Switzerland.

This podcast was recorded at 12, 16 pm Eastern Time on Wednesday, November 17th.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but hopefully I'll be covered in sweat

eating birthday cake. That is not the visual you wanted. Okay, enjoy the show!

I will say I'm always in awe of our listeners who are so physically fit that they will do

exercise routine workouts on their birthdays. Kudos to you! I have followed questions here which

are who is her Peloton instructor and what type of class is she doing because these are

important details. I need to know about the playlist that's all I care about in happy birthday

and joy that cake. Yes. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm a smakali that I cover

the White House. I'm Wana Somers, I cover politics. And I'm Kelsey Smell, I cover Congress.

And today on the show how Democrats are trying to counter the terrible headwinds they're facing.

President Biden's approval ratings have been sinking. Voters are worried about rising prices,

and Republicans are trying to argue that the economy is sputtering because Democrats are in charge.

But now Democrats are going on a nationwide public relations bananza to convince voters otherwise.

The president launched this PR Blitz yesterday with a visit to a rickety old bridge in New Hampshire.

Today he's in Michigan selling his agenda at an electric vehicle plant.

Kelsey, I get that Democrats are trying to sell this $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan to the public.

But what exactly are they doing? How are they trying to frame this?

Well, so part of what they're doing is in addition to all of these stops from the White House.

And they're doing about a little over a dozen right over the next couple of weeks. Democrats

in the House say they're going to do a thousand events between now and the end of the year.

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