Hey, it's Michael. Today, the run-up are show about the midterm elections and how we got

to this front moment in American politics. Last week, we talked about the decades-long

history of both parties missing the complexities of their voters.

Today, in episode three, we pick up with a president who, in 2020, asked voters to put those

complexities aside and unite around removing Donald Trump from office. Heading into the midterms,

we look at how that message has evolved. Take a listen.

My fellow Americans, please, if you have a seat, tell you. I speak to you tonight from

Sacred Ground in America. Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This is where

America made a declaration of independence to the world more than two centuries ago with

an idea unique among nations. That in America, we're all created equal.

In early September, Joe Biden kicked off the midterms with a message for the country.

The quality and democracy are the rock upon which this nation is built. He told a familiar

story about American democracy that it's a shared value in trying in the country's founding.

But as I stand here tonight, a quality and democracy are under assault. And while it can

be tested, that's why tonight I'm asking our nation to come together, unite behind the

single purpose of defending our democracy regardless of your ideology.

It's resilient. As long as we participate in it, for all its imperfections, America is

still the beacon to the world, an ideal to be realized, a promise to be kept. There's

nothing more important, nothing more sacred, nothing more American. But I don't think

the story is that simple. That's who we truly are. That's who we must always be.

I think if we really want to understand the message Joe Biden has for the country and

the test democracy is facing right now, we need to start with the voters who were most

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