Hi, I'm Jen Saki, and this is the last episode of Season 2 of The Blueprint, and what a week to go out on.

On the heels of a blue wave, which last week was in an off-year election, including a 34-year-old winning the New York City mayoral race, Democrats, some Democrats, struck a deal over the weekend to end the shutdown and got not much of a lot.

But the question is where you go from here?

We've talked a lot this season about the gerontocracy and about intergenerational tension

in the Democratic Party.

So we thought, why not have the youngest member of Congress on to kind of close us out?

His name is Maxwell Alejandro Frost.

He's a congressman from Florida.

I'm really excited to share what he had to say about all of this.

But first, my conversation with Democratic Strategists and my dear friend Liz Smith and the

emotional roller coaster we are all on right now.

Liz Smith, I'm so glad to see. We are back for episode six of The Blueprint. Now, I will start by saying last week when we talked with our friend David Pluff, we were all over caffeinated, undercaffeinated, we were on the high of the election. It just all felt great. Our whole goal was to make sure people understood there was a long way to go.

And then, bam, just five days later, the Democrats, well, not all the Democrats, I should

just say, eight members who caucused with the Democrats folded.

And here we are.

So I just wanted to start there, because I think there's a lot about this that is important to understand or discuss as it relates to politics and the party and the future of the party and what the heck is happening.

I would also note that happened on Sunday and there was no Bengals game because I think the universe knew that you could not handle both of those things at once.

That's what my gut instinct is.

Yeah, I came in slightly less agitated than usual because I did not get to watch the Bengals blow what should be an intermountable lead again.

But that's the only silver lining I can find.

Instead, you got to watch eight people, members of the Senate, just blow what was a massive victory last week.

Okay.

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