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President Joe Biden was back in battleground states this week to tout the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal, hoping to stem his party’s political hemorrhaging before the 2022 midterm elections.

Republicans have the advantage heading into 2022, according to political commentator Costas Panagopoulos. Democrats govern the House with an eight-seat margin and only control the Senate because of Vice President Kamala Harris’s tiebreaking vote.

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