President Donald Trump might be holding off on his participation in the transition process, but Congress is not. New members report to Capitol Hill this week for orientation, and in this special episode of the Political Theater podcast, we talk to CQ Roll Call’s Katherine Tully-McManus and Mark Satter about some of the demographic shifts in the next freshman class.

Plus, CQ Roll Call’s Jim Saksa reports on how the incoming Biden administration might have to wait until next year to find out with whom to even negotiate its economic proposals.

Show Notes:

• The Transition: The fallout from the election a week ago
• The Transition: The Biden team wastes no time
• The Transition: The tipping point
• The Transition: Release the Trump campaign lawsuits!
• The 2020 election is a postmodern novel: no ending, unreliable narrators