What Happened This Week In Washington — And Georgia

Portman, who is up for reelection in 2022 in increasingly-red Ohio, is one of the more interesting swing votes in the new Senate, in terms of which Republicans might occasionally support Biden. Although he’s sometimes billed as a moderate, he voted with Trump around 90 of the time, suggesting a fairly high degree of partisanship.

Some further Senate flippers 🐬:

I was just thinking that it seems weird that Democrats, at least, are just using their time here as they would in any normal hearing. But I guess it does go back to what you said earlier, Nate, about politicians loving the sound of their own voice.