from WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Wednesday,

November 12th. So here we are a week and a day after the Democrats did really, really well across

most of the country in the elections.

But which party is having a big public fight with itself?

Yeah, the Democrats.

Let's see where things stand.

Seven centrist Democrats in the Senate decided that now that the election was over,

it was time to end the government shutdown with the best deal they thought that

Democrats would get, no matter how long they held out. Virginia Senator Tim Kaine was one of the seven.

We got a fighting chance of winning this health care vote. Dems have got the high ground on it now.

People know we're fighting for them. We're going to continue to do it.

Kane on NPR, but as you know, many other Democrats are furious. Maybe you're one of them.

The governor-elect of New Jersey, Mikey Sherrill, calls it political malpractice.

Bronx Congressman Richie Torres on why he opposes the deal.

Because it's not a deal. It's an unconditional surrender that abandons 24 million Americans who are about to see their premiums more than double.

Congressman Richie Torres, who remember is often a more centrist Democrat himself, but not on this. Remember, to remind you of

some of the basics, seven Democrats were all the Republicans needed to pass the compromise bill.

It extends SNAP benefits and veterans benefits for a year, rehires all the federal workers

who President Trump said he was permanently laying off.

And here's the biggest thing.

It guarantees that a bill written by Democrats to extend the current Obamacare subsidies

will get a vote on the Senate floor next month before those subsidy bills come due for premium

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