Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily podcast today is Wednesday June 23, 2021.

I'm John Pajor, it's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always

Senior writer Christine Rose and high Christine. Hi John executive editor Abe Greenwald Hyde

Hyde John and associate editor nor Rothman Hyde Noah

Hi John

So you know, we had a New York City mayoral primary

Last night we'll talk about that a little later

But I don't know if you guys know this but democracy apparently came to an end yesterday when in the words of Alexandria

Ocasio Cortez a

Minority of 50 votes in the Senate. I don't know if you are aware that there are 100 senators and the Republicans have 50

or 50 represent 50 of them and

Democrats are 50 of them and according to Alexandria

Ocasio Cortez Republicans therefore constitute a minority of the senators who voted

against

This voting rights bill or whatever you want to call it voting access voting voting Schmoding Bill and therefore the minority

has control of

Descented and this is you know anti-democratic

Of course the only reason Democrats control the levers of power in the Senate is

That there is a tie and the vice president

serving in the vice presidents constitutional capacity as president of the Senate can break a tie therefore

Under these conditions of total parity

Democrats control

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