Joe Biden's most potent weapon for next year's mid-election is that he is doing the job well. John Matisonn writes that means he'll have to defeat both the pandemic and the economic slowdown.
Joe Biden may be the US president now, but this week Republican leaders in Congress were much more afraid of the previous president as they looked ahead to next November's mid-term elections.
Both Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and House of Representatives' Republican leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy were determined to block a bipartisan commission to investigate the 6 January insurrection.