Okay, clearly Rachel's off tonight. I promise you she will be back with lots of brilliant thoughts all saved up for all of you next Monday. I promise she will be back.

But in the meantime, as I would just mention, it is shaping up to be quite a night on Capitol Hill just around the corner from here.

What you're looking at right here is a live shot of the Senate floor where they are holding a marathon voting session.

It's been going on for hours.

It's a nerderly called a voterrama.

It's all for the purposes of trying to jam through Donald Trump's big, ugly bill.

And we're watching very closely.

We have reporters on the ground.

We have reporters on the hill. We have sources everywhere. And we will bring you any updates as it develops in any way at

all. But while we wait for that, I want to start with some important context for what we are

watching play out in Congress tonight. And that is this. Donald Trump's big ugly bill is absolutely screwing over

Donald Trump's own voters. It is also screwing over every elected Republican who represents them.

They all know this. I mean, just look at the latest Vox News polling on this bill.

Americans as a whole disapprove of the big ugly bill by a

21 point margin. No surprise. It's a terrible, terrible bill. Donald Trump doesn't really care

about that. He probably somehow doesn't care about that number, which is crazy, but think about

who we're dealing with. But he does care about his base. And his base also

hates this bill. White men without college degrees. I mean, a key part of Trump's coalition

that he won by 40 points just last November. How much did we talk about white men without college

degrees? That group opposes this bill by a 10-point margin.

Rural white voters opposed this bill by an 11-point margin. Those are not the kinds of numbers

you want to see around your signature piece of legislation with your hardcore base that we're

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