President Joe Biden ended America’s longest war by withdrawing the last of American troops this week from Afghanistan. That decision, and what is widely perceived as a disastrous execution of the withdrawal strategy, will likely haunt Biden for some time to come, including in the 2022 mid-term elections. On Friday, Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia once again laid claim to the title of most consequential person on Capitol Hill, as he promoted what he called a “strategic pause” in the Democratic push for a big, expensive tax bill. And in California, voters are already sending in ballots for the gubernatorial recall election scheduled for September 14. Tom Bevan, RealClearPolitics Co-founder and President, Carl Cannon, Washington Bureau Chief, and Phil Wegmann, White House Correspondent join Andrew Walworth on today’s RealClearPolitics Takeaway podcast.