A Special Episode With "The Senate Whisperer" Lawrence O'Donnell

The Cycle- On Substack · Feb 5, 2021 · 1h 9m

Like many of you, the realization that Democrats would have majority control of the Senate after the improbable victories of Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in Georgia’s runoff elections on January 5th was electrifying! I imagine that for one of my personal heroes, Stacey Abrams, it also came with a deeply satisfying “see! we told you this electoral strategy would work!” as we saw how modernized electioneering can pay dividends even in some of the harshest electoral environments.

My joy was tempered only by the fact that Democrats would have a 50 seat majority-where Vice President…