Welcome to Beg to Bue to Differ.

The Bullworks Weekly roundtable discussion featuring civil

conversation across the political spectrum. We range from center left to

center right. I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bullwork, and I'm joined by our regulars,

Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution in the Wall Street Journal and Linda Chavez of the Niskanen

Center.

The Bullworks Will Salitan is sitting in this week for

Damon Linker and our special guest is Chris Saliza formerly of the

Washington Post and CNN who now writes the sub-stack newsletter,

So what?

Welcome, one and all.

Well, we had an election this week

that went extremely well for Democrats and a lot of people are busily turning out hot takes.

But one of my favorites was from our very own Chris Saliza.

So, Chris, you wrote earlier this week about the troubling poll numbers for Biden and then the election results.

But let's talk first about the whole business

of how abortion is playing in 2023,

and whether that means that going forward Democrats have a, what's the magical sword,

the one that cuts the Gordian knot, that it's like the secret thing that will be the

secret weapon for the Democrats in in 2024 so all right well that was a very

awkward question but you get my point I yeah I absolutely get it to go back I remember when the Dobbs decision happened in

2022, there was a lot of speculation, but you know, what would this do to the

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