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Midterm Election Results Livestream: Dems Win Congress, Ballot Measures, State Races and More · Luke Thomas Gets Political (LTGP)

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  All right.
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  We're live. We are live. I'll wait for
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  this to fill up here a little bit.
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  Going to have a sip of my
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  We have a lot to get to today, don't we?
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  Don't we?
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  This is going to be
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  This is going to be fun. Welcome
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  everyone on this fourth day
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  of November 2026.
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  The midterms are behind us.
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  By the way, Alaska's just now being
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  called for Jonathan Christ Tomkins. I
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  didn't even see I haven't had a even a
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  chance to keep up with what's happening
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  in Alaska. I think Peltola is going to
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  pull it out though. It's a little bit
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  close up there in Alaska, but I think
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  she's going to pull it out.
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  Welcome everyone. Welcome, welcome,
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  welcome on this fourth day of November
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  right.
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  Where do we even start?
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  Let's start with some big picture
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  takeaways from last night. So, as it
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  stands, I believe we're currently
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  sitting
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  at the present moment at I think we have
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  54 Democrats in the Senate. There's
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  still two to be called. I believe that's
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  Peltola out of Alaska and I believe
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  that's Collum out of Mississippi.
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  They've got 99%
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  Let's see.
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  No, I think 90 Yes, 99% of the vote in
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  in Mississippi and Collum is up.
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  Understand something about Mississippi
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  that I think went a little bit
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  unnoticed, which is actually one of the
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  bigger takeaways that I have here.
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  Namely,
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  um Mississippi has about I think it's a
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  little shade under this, but they've got
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  about 40% of their electorate is black.
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  And one of the stories that came out, I
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  think we've seen particularly in the Sun
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  Belt here in the United States, was the
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  was the surge of what black voters did.
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  They did it certainly in Mississippi.
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  They might propel Collum to the Senate,
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  which is unbelievable. Cindy Hyde Smith
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  was not a particularly strong candidate,
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  but she was she had already won she had
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  already defended um sitting in that seat
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  prior.
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  So, this was if they if she if he ends
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  up getting that one, that's a pretty big
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  one, but even look at like Keisha Lance
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  Bottoms, the governor
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  out of Georgia and we'll talk about the
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  governor races as well. Here's a case
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  where like you look at some of the exit
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  polling around her. A ton of black women
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  and black people generally voting for
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  her, which of course to a degree makes
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  sense. It's Atlanta. It's you know,
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  she's a black candidate. But really she
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  was speaking to a lot of their issues.
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  There've been mass unemployment for for
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  black men and women particularly women
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  hit hard. It's a lot of especially with
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  a lot of these cuts in the federal
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  government, but of course other issues
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  as well. I mean all of this rollback
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  that they've been doing with DEI
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  efforts, which is not really rolling
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  back just DEI. It's frankly an attack on
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  the civil rights movement and they saw
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  it for what it is. That's a huge part of
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  the story here. Um we're going to talk
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  about Latinos as well. I I just don't
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  think you can talk about this result
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  anywhere from Texas to Arizona to
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  They're going to conquer the the Dems
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  have flipped the entire state government
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  in Nevada and that is in no small part
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  and in Texas some of these huge margins
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  with like you know Jose winning the
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  governorship there. Dude, Latinos were
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  pissed.
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  Latinos were pissed. I cannot wait to
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  talk more about this, but I really just
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  want to open up with a bit of a
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  different message
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  if I may here.
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  Can you believe Can you believe how
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  stupid
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  MAGA was?
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  Out of 2024, you look at where Trump had
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  made some incremental but real gains.
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  Black men in particular, Latinos in all
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  different kinds of ways and of course
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  you know that Latinos were example like
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  the Cuban diaspora in Miami. They are
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  going to vote very reliably right wing.
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  So Latinos there are very different than
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  Latinos in South Texas, which are very
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  different than Latinos even in South
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  Southern California. They're all there
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  is no one kind of way to look at them in
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  that particular regard.
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  But But I just want to say like point
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  this out. Like I want you to think about
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  what they had.
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  They had made gains in ways that was
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  impossible to consider previously and
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  what did they do with it?
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  What policies did they go after? They
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  treated Latinos like prey on a big game
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  on a on a game hunting preserve.
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  And they thought that like nothing bad
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  would happen. They thought you could rip
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  out key portions of the workforce not
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  merely in Texas, but frankly across the
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  country. Some communities certainly hit
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  harder than others in Texas was hit very
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  very hard by a lot of this stuff. But,
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  you know, you recall
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  you know, Alex Peretti gets shot in the
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  back in you know,
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  tried to cover what was happening during
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  an ICE raid, and Minnesota had a great
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  conflict. You didn't hear a lot about
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  that in Texas, in part because Texas law
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  enforcement was just cooperating
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  with ICE, cooperating with DHS. So, you
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  didn't hear a lot of it. You didn't see
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  the same kinds of stories, but people
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  were reporting on family members, a lot
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  of these people who had asylum claims
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  that the government just never even
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  wanted to get after.
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  And they they said enough.
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  They said like I I just want to ask
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  Maga, what did you think was going to
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  happen hunting down Latinos like this?
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  Did you think that like now they're just
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  part of your coalition and you can rip
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  up their lives this way?
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  Even even the Maga Cubans, if you look
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  at some of their uh like the the polling
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  enthusiasm and who actually went out
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  there, there's a decline in the
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  enthusiasm. They didn't necessarily go
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  to the left. Obviously, Florida was able
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  to maintain a lot relative to the rest
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  of the national wave, but like their
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  enthusiasm was down there, too. And it
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  was a
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  We'll look at some of the numbers. A
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  massive
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  shift.
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  Particularly in places like Texas. Texas
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  is kind of emblematic about it, but
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  there's obviously a lot more. Didn't get
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  all the way to Louisiana, but you know,
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  Louisiana, what are you going to do with
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  them?
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  They just thought that nothing would
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  happen. They thought that they could
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  unilaterally just impose tariffs
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  and find ways around Supreme Court
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  decisions to just immiserate farming
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  communities in Iowa, farming communities
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  in Nebraska, or Ohio, or other places.
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  Maine in particular. And nothing would
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  happen?
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  This this was not You were just going to
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  immiserate these industries, many of
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  these key industries, fairly rock-rib
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  supporters of the president at the time,
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  and nothing would happen?
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  There would be no consequence to this?
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  That you could start a war with the Iran
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  to serve the interests of the government
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  of Israel,
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  cause
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  worldwide conflict, worldwide energy
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  shortages,
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  blowing up, by the way, killing
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  American servicemen and women, maiming
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  American servicemen, mistreating them
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  like on the USS Abraham Lincoln because
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  they have to stay in rotation due to
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  supply chains being disrupted
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  by the bombing of some of the bases in
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  that area, Bahrain and other ones.
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  Did you think nothing was going to
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  happen?
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  Why would you think that? Why would you
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  think you could blow up the world?
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  That you could set the country on fire,
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  that you could decimate industries, that
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  you could terrorize populations,
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  and you would hold this coalition
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  together?
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  What were you thinking?
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  What were any This is, in many ways,
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  we're going to talk about like how much
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  of this was a pro-Dem victory
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  as much as an anti-MAGA rejection. And
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  frankly,
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  whether there is a MAGA future at all.
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  Like what like we might talk about that
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  in a second, actually. Like what happens
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  to MAGA from all of this. I have some
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  ideas.
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  But I just want everyone to remember
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  like, dude, they didn't have to do any
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  of these things.
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  They could have just held serve. Trump
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  could have focused on, you know, yes, I
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  I To me, him seizing East Potomac is a
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  really, really big deal, but I recognize
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  for the rest of the country it's
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  probably
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  not. And even the Kennedy Center, I
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  think it's a big deal here locally, but
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  I don't imagine that like this would
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  have been a thing that you got these
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  kinds of results where
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  17 17 Texas races
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  all won by the Dems. No, it wouldn't
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  have done that.
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  But it would have kept prices down.
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  You didn't have to go on this kind of
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  ICE terror campaign.
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  You could have just up deportations like
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  Obama did.
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  Granted, a lot of those were at the
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  border versus the interior, but they
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  decided to then switch their focus and
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  like they didn't have to do they didn't
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  have to put on tariffs on anybody. They
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  didn't have to go after law firms and
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  universities. They didn't have to do any
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  of these things.
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  And they decided to do it anyway.
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  And it ruined
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  everything for them.
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  I've It's It's It's really It's not
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  enough discussion about like, "Well,
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  what what what were Americans focused
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  on?" Well, they were focused on
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  affordability. They were focused on
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  corruption. They were focused on
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  democracy. Yeah, they were focused on
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  these things.
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  But
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  the policies that the right undertook in
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  the last 2 years, so much of this was
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  not merely overreach, but unnecessary in
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  every possible way. And they did it
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  anyway.
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  Why? Because their ideology is
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  nonsensical.
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  The ideas that power this movement make
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  no sense.
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  It doesn't make sense to rip apart
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  families, but putting that aside,
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  look at South Texas. If you tear away
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  the people who make the housing industry
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  possible, and we know that through vast
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  research, those jobs are not very easily
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  replaceable if replaceable at all, what
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  did you dumb [ __ ] think was going to
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  happen?
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  And they elected to do it anyway.
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  You just can't believe how bad they are
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  at this.
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  I mean, look at the results. You can
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  believe it. But I just think it's really
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  really really really important to say,
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  was there a lot of good dem messaging on
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  kitchen table issues, on affordability,
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  on corruption, on By the way, we're
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  talking about like the reality of of
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  APAC money and and what it means to have
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  outside group influence now uh um in the
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  Democratic Party.
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  You know, there's these these are These
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  are really really important questions,
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  but but
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  and I and I appreciate all those things,
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  and they're real, and they matter, and
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  they contributed to an enormous historic
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  victory, one since you haven't seen
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  since before I was even born
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  for a party. That's how bad it is.
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  1974 is the worst time the last time a
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  um
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  a party suffered this kind of electoral
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  defeat.
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  I just can't get over how much they
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  handed this to everyone on a silver
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  platter. They had everything in the palm
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  of their hands and they crumpled it up,
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  threw it on the ground, and spat on it.
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  And it resulted in yesterday.
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  It's unbelievable how bad they are at
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  governing. They don't understand what
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  makes America great.
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  Look at what makes America great.
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  I will show you what makes America
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  great.
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  America showed what's great about itself
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  last night.
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  That's what's great about America.
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  A coalition of people, white, black,
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  young,
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  lesser extent old,
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  a lesser extent white, but some white
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  too, obviously,
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  but a multiracial, multi, you know, all
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  men, women,
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  rich, poor,
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  saying no to corruption.
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  Saying no to the the abridgement of
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  reproductive rights. Saying no, by the
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  way, to data centers. One of the big
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  stories here, we'll talk about it. I
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  have a list of a lot of the ballot
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  initiatives that went down state by
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  state and where things stand with them.
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  Saying no to data centers, saying no to
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  AI, saying no to tech oligarchy.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, I want to tell you
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  we
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  we now can see
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  what makes America great.
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  It is this.
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  This is the redeeming part of America.
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  And America is crazy. When when when
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  when the world calls us crazy and they
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  look at our the way we govern ourselves
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  and our laws and the way in which we
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  have organized ourselves in so many
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  different ways, socially, politically,
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  economically, they're right to call us
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  crazy. It's true. Like we have acted
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  crazy the last 2 years. It is part of
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  our story, but so is this.
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  This is what makes America great. You
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  want to make America great again? That's
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  what the voters said. Yeah, we do,
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  actually. We do want to do it, but we
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  want to do it better this time.
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  So so I have to say, shouts to all of
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  the MAGA folks
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  who are so [ __ ] stupid, they don't
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  understand what makes America great,
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  they don't understand what the problems
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  are and invented a series of fake
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  solutions to non-existent problems
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  or problems that deserve a different
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  solution, not the one they gave.
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  And it exacerbated and worsened
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  everything. And I'm not happy about
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  that.
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  But I'm happy that Americans, at least
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  on if there's a silver lining anyway,
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  cuz it you know, the misery is the most
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  important thing. But if there is a
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  silver lining that they can see these
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  people for who they are now.
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  Look at how bad they are at this.
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  It is if you have a clogged drain and
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  someone comes to mow your yard. What the
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  [ __ ] are you doing that for?
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  We don't need this.
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  What we need is that. And not just that,
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  tearing it up and ruining the yard in
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  the process.
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  That's what they've been doing for 2
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  years.
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  I I just don't think that there's any
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  way to start this conversation other
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  than to to to to note part of what you
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  saw in the results last night is a
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  function of
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  the right
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  fumbling [snorts] a generational
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  opportunity to put us away.
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  But rope-a-dope, [ __ ]
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  It's round [ __ ] seven now.
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  Now it's our turn to [ __ ] turn it up
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  on you. And I absolutely hope that that
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  is what happens. All right.
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  So, that's one of my big takeaways.
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  I mentioned [clears throat] some of the
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  other ones here
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  that are kind of important to note. And
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  I'll have some things to show you here
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  in just a minute. Let me get a sip of my
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  my drink.
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  I won't belabor the point, but I just
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  want to circle back to it very quickly.
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  The surge in turnout, particularly in
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  the Sun Belt states, of black voters is
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  historic black turnout in a lot of
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  different places. I believe in Georgia
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  they had historic black turnout. I have
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  to check uh
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  I don't know what the full numbers are
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  in Mississippi yet, but I suspect that
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  if Colum gets elevated to victor here,
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  that will be proving a decisive
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  ingredient in the nation's poorest
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  state. That's really important. Again,
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  Latinos massive massive massive, but
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  some of these other issues really kind
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  of mattered as well. I mentioned where
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  do I have it here? I have to find it. I
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  might show it to you here if I can find
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  it.
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  No, I've still got I got I got some
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  Abdul stuff I want to show you here in a
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  minute.
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  Um
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  Here's one.
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  Let's see.
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  Uh I'll pull this up in a minute.
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  Um
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  Oh, here's the ballot issues.
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  Let's see.
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  Okay, it's this one. Yeah, okay.
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  Um
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  A lot of incumbents actually won, which
• 17:04
  was kind of interesting. There was still
• 17:05
  I think a 24 to 4 incumbency
• 17:09
  um
• 17:10
  favor even in the Senate last night.
• 17:12
  Obviously, there were some seats that
• 17:13
  were flipped. Some were open, right? So,
• 17:15
  it's not so much a
• 17:17
  um
• 17:19
  you know, you're not beating an
• 17:20
  incumbent in those cases, right? Like
• 17:21
  the the case of the Senate with Abdul
• 17:23
  El-Sayed and Mike Rogers. But uh let's
• 17:25
  let's go to the Senate here if we can
• 17:27
  just a little bit. I want to go state by
• 17:28
  state on some of this stuff.
• 17:30
  Um
• 17:32
  What did we see on the map? Here, I'm
• 17:34
  going to pull this open
• 17:35
  so we can go through this here a little
• 17:36
  bit.
• 17:42
  Now, Florida got away from us.
• 17:44
  Florida got away from us. In the end,
• 17:47
  Ash uh Ashley Moody got 50.9%
• 17:51
  of the vote. Angie Nixon got 48. So, a
• 17:54
  difference of
• 17:56
  about not even a
• 17:58
  about 300,000 little bit less, maybe
• 18:00
  250k out in Florida. The only two
• 18:03
  national Dems who visited down in
• 18:06
  Florida to help Angie Nixon were uh AOC
• 18:08
  and Bernie. Bernie, by the way,
• 18:10
  did something like 20 rallies
• 18:13
  just in the month of October alone. And
• 18:16
  I think in the last 6 weeks did
• 18:17
  something like 40.
• 18:19
  An amazing push by a guy who's I think
• 18:22
  what is he 84 at this point? A very old
• 18:24
  guy.
• 18:24
  And and or maybe he's 82. Something he's
• 18:26
  in his 80s.
• 18:28
  An impressive AOC doing that as well,
• 18:30
  but clearly a major major opportunity
• 18:32
  missed. There was money that could have
• 18:34
  been spent down there. I think I think
• 18:36
  Moody outspent her something greater
• 18:38
  than 6X. I think it was even more than
• 18:40
  that in terms of the overall spending
• 18:43
  uh between the campaigns. She could have
• 18:45
  used a huge huge help. And it didn't get
• 18:49
  there. However, I want to remind
• 18:50
  everyone that is Marco Rubio's seat. So
• 18:53
  Moody is only going to hold that for 2
• 18:55
  years. There's going to be another
• 18:57
  election frankly starting you know the
• 18:58
  the the the campaign will for that
• 19:01
  is probably going to start in earnest in
• 19:03
  another in another year. But the the
• 19:05
  Dems I think missed an opportunity here
• 19:07
  to swing Florida as well. I'll give the
• 19:10
  Florida GOP credit like in a sense which
• 19:12
  is that
• 19:13
  they are
• 19:15
  remarkably stubborn. I mean for this
• 19:17
  massive national trend to happen and
• 19:18
  then for Florida to bucket
• 19:20
  kind of says yes the Dems really [ __ ]
• 19:23
  an opportunity here, but at the same
• 19:24
  time Florida GOP is a powerful machine.
• 19:26
  It really sort of goes to show just how
• 19:28
  red Florida has become. I mean no one
• 19:30
  was really holding on to the idea that
• 19:32
  it was a purple state, but there is
• 19:33
  still this kind of feeling like oh it's
• 19:35
  still a little bit unpredictable.
• 19:37
  I don't know how unpredictable um
• 19:40
  I don't know how unpredictable it
• 19:41
  actually is anymore. But okay, you move
• 19:43
  to Georgia and then we'll move up to
• 19:44
  South Carolina here in a minute. Jon
• 19:46
  Ossoff wins [ __ ] easily 49 59% to 41.
• 19:50
  He absolutely destroys Mike Collins. No
• 19:53
  question about it. Um Warnock is
• 19:55
  obviously already in office. And then
• 19:57
  Keisha Lance Bottoms wins there. Where
• 19:59
  did she win in the governor's race? What
• 20:00
  it was the total number there? Dude, she
• 20:02
  did a comfortable win as well. 54.3% to
• 20:05
  45.7%.
• 20:07
  Guys, she consistently trailed
• 20:10
  consistently trailed Rick Jackson in the
• 20:13
  polls.
• 20:14
  I I I I remember checking in week after
• 20:16
  week and it would be close. It'd be like
• 20:17
  49 him 46 her. You know, it'd be
• 20:20
  somewhere hovering in that. She
• 20:22
  outperformed that majorly. If there is a
• 20:24
  polling miss, I don't know where it
• 20:25
  ended up at the last week, which is
• 20:27
  obviously the most important polling,
• 20:29
  but but for the long duration of this
• 20:32
  race, she was not dominating in the
• 20:34
  polls at all. A surge, a surge in key
• 20:39
  constituencies coming out to to lift her
• 20:41
  campaign. I know there were some folks
• 20:43
  saying, and I thought so, too, that
• 20:44
  there might have been a coattail effect,
• 20:46
  right? We were wondering, two states you
• 20:48
  were looking at a coattail effect,
• 20:49
  potentially Ossoff.
• 20:50
  Ossoff was going to win this one. That
• 20:52
  was a That was a given. This This This
• 20:53
  They called that race as soon as the
• 20:54
  polls closed, for crying out loud. All
• 20:57
  right. And by the way, I should point
• 20:58
  out that they couldn't call Florida
• 20:59
  immediately also speaks to how great
• 21:01
  Angie Nixon really performed here. She
• 21:04
  has nothing to be ashamed about. She has
• 21:06
  no reason to to hang her head. But in
• 21:08
  credit to Ossoff, the instant the
• 21:11
  the polls closed, boom, it gets called.
• 21:15
  I thought there may have been a coattail
• 21:16
  effect there, and I was wondering if we
• 21:18
  were going to see a coattail effect out
• 21:20
  in Texas, because some of the polling
• 21:22
  out there had a similar kind of vibe.
• 21:24
  Remember, you got two male two white
• 21:26
  male candidates, and then you've got two
• 21:28
  minority female candidates for governor.
• 21:30
  There was some symmetry there. You
• 21:31
  thought, well, let's see how it goes.
• 21:32
  And then the polling
• 21:34
  was a little bit different, because
• 21:35
  Ossoff was way out in front, whereas
• 21:36
  Tello-Ricco was like he was leading, but
• 21:38
  it was within the margin of error, you
• 21:40
  know, everyone was skeptical of the idea
• 21:42
  of a black sis, that whole kind of
• 21:43
  thing. But But in the end, I don't think
• 21:45
  it was a coattail effect. I think what
• 21:47
  the better explanation is, in different
• 21:49
  ways, I don't know if Latif knows really
• 21:51
  rallied behind Keisha Lance Bottoms in
• 21:52
  the same kind of way. Again, I have to
• 21:53
  go look at the cross-tabs at a future
• 21:55
  time.
• 21:57
  But certainly, there is enough of a
• 21:59
  groundswell of support in those two
• 22:02
  different areas by key constituencies
• 22:04
  who those women represent
• 22:08
  that lifted them to to greater heights.
• 22:10
  I don't think that the coattail effect
• 22:12
  is the right explanation here. I really
• 22:14
  really don't. That I think Could there
• 22:16
  have been some lift because Ossoff was
• 22:17
  really popular, or that Tello-Ricco
• 22:19
  himself really was a dynamic candidate,
• 22:21
  and we'll talk about that in a minute,
• 22:22
  cuz turns out he really was.
• 22:24
  Maybe it's I can't say it didn't help.
• 22:26
  But I don't think that's what accounts
• 22:27
  for Lance Bottoms having a nine-point
• 22:31
  lead on her opponent. A nine-point
• 22:33
  [ __ ] difference.
• 22:35
  That's crazy. That's crazy. That's
• 22:37
  unbelievably crazy. Then you go to South
• 22:40
  Carolina and dude, what can you say?
• 22:43
  This was such an interesting race. Annie
• 22:45
  Andrews, a pediatrician, wins with 51.1%
• 22:49
  to Darlene Graham 46.2.
• 22:51
  A difference of about 100,000 votes,
• 22:54
  give or take.
• 22:56
  Annie Andrews ends up flipping this
• 22:58
  seat. This of course was Lindsey
• 22:59
  Graham's seat. Darlene had held it
• 23:01
  provisionally, and then they had to have
• 23:03
  this race. So here they go. First of
• 23:05
  all, shouts to Lindsey Graham for being
• 23:07
  dead. Thank you. That helps a lot.
• 23:09
  Secondly, although he maybe he would
• 23:10
  have lost, too. Maybe he maybe he would
• 23:12
  have lost to Annie Andrews. God,
• 23:13
  wouldn't have that been delicious?
• 23:15
  Either way, it doesn't matter. Annie
• 23:16
  Andrews What's interesting about her
• 23:18
  campaign, I don't know if you guys paid
• 23:19
  attention to this one very close. She
• 23:21
  was not necessarily one of these
• 23:22
  national standout candidates. It wasn't
• 23:24
  like Talarico or El-Sayed or even Adam
• 23:27
  Hamilton out of tech excuse me, out of
• 23:29
  Kansas. They were kind of getting these
• 23:31
  bigger national vibes. There was a
• 23:32
  little bit of that. This dude She wasn't
• 23:34
  even getting the same kind of treatment
• 23:35
  that Troy Jackson was out of Maine even
• 23:37
  in late stage runs there.
• 23:40
  She had an interesting background, and I
• 23:42
  think that like her her the fact that
• 23:44
  she is a literal, you know, a physician
• 23:46
  of children,
• 23:47
  um and what this does for her, you know,
• 23:49
  image sake and what this does for her
• 23:51
  expertise on healthcare issues, what
• 23:53
  this does for, you know, child welfare
• 23:55
  more generally. It made her uh through
• 23:58
  this national mood much, much easier to
• 24:00
  lift. I will also say one thing that you
• 24:02
  really have to go here. I keep talking
• 24:04
  about the beginning of the show
• 24:06
  about the nature of Darlene uh sorry,
• 24:08
  the nature of MAGA just having really
• 24:10
  [ __ ] up policies. Guys, can we take a
• 24:12
  moment? Can we take a moment to back up
• 24:14
  a step and just say, "Look at the
• 24:17
  candidate quality that you see from MAGA
• 24:20
  this time around." Darlene Graham
• 24:22
  literally was admitting
• 24:24
  in through debates or doing media, like
• 24:27
  half of the things she needed to know,
• 24:29
  particularly on foreign policy, she had
• 24:30
  no idea what she was talking about by
• 24:31
  her own
• 24:33
  admission. Not that not a pediatrician
• 24:35
  is necessarily an expert in all things,
• 24:36
  you know,
• 24:38
  straight-up war moves, but this like
• 24:41
  she couldn't even fake knowing anything.
• 24:45
  She couldn't even pretend. It wasn't
• 24:46
  even possible.
• 24:49
  And this idea that like in American
• 24:52
  politics, you know, seats go from one
• 24:54
  Kennedy to another, one Bush to another,
• 24:57
  and now one Graham to another. I am so
• 24:59
  glad we put a stop to that.
• 25:02
  That is just an absolutely phenomenal,
• 25:04
  phenomenal thing to see.
• 25:07
  So, her that campaign and that race was,
• 25:10
  relative to some of the other ones, a
• 25:12
  little bit more generic. But, of course,
• 25:14
  what could have powered her? A lot of
• 25:16
  the black vote in South Carolina. This
• 25:18
  is what I mean about like core
• 25:19
  constituencies of the Democratic Party
• 25:22
  really being energized to get out there
• 25:24
  and vote, to get out there and vote in
• 25:26
  large numbers. And I believe that that
• 25:27
  powered her in South Carolina. Now, I do
• 25:30
  believe the other senator in South
• 25:31
  Carolina sitting, Tim Scott, you know,
• 25:34
  that's not going to change anytime soon.
• 25:35
  I'm not sure when he's up. Let's go to
• 25:36
  North Carolina. Roy Cooper, this was no
• 25:39
  surprise. Dude, he dominated Michael
• 25:41
  Whatley. 58.7% to 39 Basically, almost a
• 25:45
  20-point [ __ ] spread out there. They
• 25:48
  called that one pretty quickly after
• 25:49
  polls closed as well. The bigger story,
• 25:51
  of course, for North Carolina will be in
• 25:53
  the house and then the full-on state
• 25:55
  government. They ripped. Dude, the
• 25:57
  Democratic Party in Texas, for example,
• 25:59
  in Nevada, in North Carolina, they
• 26:02
  ripped MAGA down to the [ __ ] studs.
• 26:06
  Winning seats in the state Senate,
• 26:08
  winning seats in the state house,
• 26:09
  flipping them overall in in I think at
• 26:11
  least six different states.
• 26:14
  North Carolina being one of them. North
• 26:16
  Carolina, I think has what? 12
• 26:17
  congressmen? 10 of them. 10 of them. 10
• 26:20
  of them
• 26:21
  are going to be dem in North Carolina,
• 26:23
  the Tar Heel State.
• 26:26
  So, no surprise there. Virginia,
• 26:28
  obviously, Mark Warner was going to win.
• 26:30
  I mean, this was the easiest call in the
• 26:32
  world, 61% to 38%.
• 26:35
  Virginia voted heavily blue in 2025.
• 26:39
  They voted even bluer
• 26:42
  in 2026.
• 26:45
  We'll talk about what happened in the
• 26:46
  state capital, but they enshrined, I
• 26:48
  believe, reproductive rights in the
• 26:51
  Virginia Constitution. I believe voting
• 26:53
  rights they had consecrated in the
• 26:55
  Constitution and some other ones as
• 26:56
  well. We'll talk about them. So, like,
• 26:58
  it wasn't just that they put back in
• 27:00
  people you reliably thought were, you
• 27:01
  know, there was no way they were going
• 27:02
  to lose, but individually, we've talked
• 27:04
  about like states taking opportunities
• 27:06
  to combat
• 27:08
  the fallout of the of the end of Roe v.
• 27:10
  Wade, Virginia did that.
• 27:12
  Virginia absolutely did that in their
• 27:14
  state constitution, and they're not the
• 27:16
  only ones, by the way.
• 27:18
  Um By the way, I don't know if anyone
• 27:19
  saw the uh the numbers for Josh Shapiro
• 27:22
  in
• 27:24
  in uh Pennsylvania. He's not necessarily
• 27:26
  like my favorite guy in the world. Here,
• 27:28
  in fact, let me pull up his numbers here
• 27:29
  very quickly. Josh Shapiro, 60% to 38%
• 27:33
  to Stacy Garrity, an easy easy win. But,
• 27:35
  dude, his margins everywhere were like
• 27:38
  absolutely incredible. Okay, well, we're
• 27:39
  talking about the Senate, so let's skip
• 27:41
  that. Let's go to Texas, for example.
• 27:43
  Okay, let's talk about this. James
• 27:45
  Talarico, 55%
• 27:48
  to Ken Paxton, 43. Dude, he won by 12.
• 27:53
  He won by 12
• 27:56
  in Texas.
• 27:59
  12.
• 28:02
  That is stunning beyond description.
• 28:06
  He won the youth vote. He won the early
• 28:08
  vote. He won election day vote. He won
• 28:10
  virtually every way you can slice it.
• 28:15
  Flipping
• 28:16
  Trump districts that were plus 13, plus
• 28:18
  15, turning them into Dem plus 12.
• 28:22
  Massive, massive shifts.
• 28:26
  Deep double digits, 20% There are
• 28:29
  yeah, 20%, 30%, 40% in certain cases.
• 28:32
  He performed like an absolute rockstar.
• 28:35
  And the way in which he did it, he did
• 28:38
  moderate, so to speak, on certain
• 28:39
  issues. For example, trans issues. We'll
• 28:41
  talk about that, because trans issues
• 28:42
  were on the ballots in a lot of state
• 28:43
  houses um for various different things.
• 28:45
  And some of that stuff did actually
• 28:47
  pass. We should note that.
• 28:49
  But the point I'm trying to make is, in
• 28:50
  general, what did he also say? I'm not
• 28:52
  taking money from AIPAC.
• 28:54
  I'm against AI. I want to regulate Big
• 28:56
  Tech. The oligarchs are the real 1% of
• 28:58
  the problem. It's not the 1% of
• 28:59
  immigrants. It's not the 1% of trans
• 29:01
  people. It's none of that. It's the
• 29:03
  oligarchs. It's Big Tech. And he wants
• 29:05
  to bring them to heel. This is Elon
• 29:07
  Musk's state. Can we say, by by
• 29:10
  by extension, who had a horrible night?
• 29:13
  Elon Musk.
• 29:15
  Elon Musk really, truly better hope that
• 29:18
  Donald Trump is going to give him some
• 29:19
  pardons, because I think at a bare
• 29:20
  minimum, the government's going to
• 29:22
  review its relationship to SpaceX. Now,
• 29:24
  I grant that even spending nearly 500
• 29:27
  million of his money, I think that
• 29:29
  someone said the equivalent was if you
• 29:30
  make a hundred thousand dollars, this
• 29:32
  was like spending something close to
• 29:33
  like a hundred.
• 29:35
  So, it's nothing to him what he spent.
• 29:37
  And we all have to kind of recognize
• 29:38
  that. But his [ __ ] didn't work at all.
• 29:41
  All his fearmongering didn't work at
• 29:43
  all. In fact, I didn't say this at the
• 29:45
  top. One of the lessons from this,
• 29:47
  everyone is making this out to be,
• 29:49
  again, an issue of kitchen table issues
• 29:51
  and affordability and gas prices. And it
• 29:53
  absolutely was in profound and major
• 29:55
  ways. It was also more than that. It was
• 29:58
  a rejection of in especially in Texas
• 30:01
  where Bo French. Remember where Bo
• 30:02
  French was the one who put up the UT
• 30:04
  celebration of the football game and was
• 30:06
  saying who I think what was he running
• 30:07
  for? I think the name was like railroad
• 30:08
  commissioner, but it has a
• 30:10
  it was it's a much more important
• 30:11
  position than it sounds.
• 30:13
  And he was saying that like, "Oh, this
• 30:15
  look how terrible this is, that UT is
• 30:16
  now essentially overrun by South
• 30:18
  Asians." Like, dude, what did the South
• 30:20
  Asians have to say about that in Texas?
• 30:23
  Saagar Enjeti last night on Breaking
• 30:25
  Points brought up a great point. Namely,
• 30:28
  he was noting that like, "This is the
• 30:29
  world's, I think, eighth or eighth
• 30:31
  largest economy." The eighth largest
• 30:32
  economy did a massive regime change. You
• 30:35
  got regime change in Texas before you
• 30:37
  got it in Iran, Trump.
• 30:39
  You should reflect on that for a minute.
• 30:42
  But I want to point out that he got
• 30:44
  elected on a message of kindness, of of
• 30:47
  neighborliness, of caring for one
• 30:48
  another. And you could say he threw some
• 30:50
  trans people under the bus and okay, I
• 30:51
  mean the record is not
• 30:53
  perfect. But again, the overall tenor of
• 30:57
  his message and by the way, look at what
• 30:58
  happened again, if we if we were you
• 31:00
  know, obviously Oklahoma is ruby red and
• 31:02
  and and stayed as much in between, but
• 31:04
  with Kansas, you have Adam Hamilton, a
• 31:07
  Methodist like mega pastor, and then in
• 31:09
  Talarico, this kind of kind Christian
• 31:12
  face of the Democratic Party. I'm not
• 31:14
  going to sit here and say that all of a
• 31:15
  sudden Democrats are going to win
• 31:17
  evangelical voters over, but it made a
• 31:19
  difference here.
• 31:21
  It made a difference here.
• 31:24
  In these particular areas, I also think
• 31:26
  they were able to bleed from these kinds
• 31:28
  of rock-ribbed parts
• 31:31
  of the community. It should also be
• 31:33
  noted why did Talarico win in Texas?
• 31:36
  Yes, I've been focusing on Latinos, but
• 31:37
  it's more than that and this was
• 31:39
  something that you saw well beyond
• 31:40
  Texas.
• 31:42
  Namely,
• 31:43
  the decline in rural vote. And this
• 31:46
  [ __ ] them the the the Republicans
• 31:48
  everywhere. It [ __ ] them in Ohio, it
• 31:50
  [ __ ] them in Iowa, it got them in
• 31:51
  Texas. The rural areas, these
• 31:54
  rock-ribbed areas
• 31:56
  for Donald Trump, they did not show up
• 31:58
  at all. And I think Talarico in fact
• 32:00
  even swung some of those rural districts
• 32:03
  in his direction.
• 32:06
  The rural vote simply was not there.
• 32:08
  That was a key, almost kind of secret
• 32:11
  ingredient in 2024 that was nowhere to
• 32:14
  be found. And why would it be? Those
• 32:16
  people are suffering, too.
• 32:18
  Yeah, the tip of the spear whenever
• 32:20
  Trump came to power, we all recall it
• 32:21
  was going after immigrants who and it's
• 32:24
  not just Latinos, of course, it's
• 32:25
  Haitians that they're going after and
• 32:26
  many, many other groups. It's been
• 32:28
  nothing but cruelty from day one. But
• 32:30
  one of the other sort of factors, again,
• 32:31
  we talked about it with like, you know,
• 32:32
  in Maine, they have so many uh business
• 32:34
  has to you can do logging in Maine, they
• 32:36
  have to send product to uh Canada, but
• 32:39
  then it has to come back to the United
• 32:40
  States through Canada again. That's sort
• 32:42
  of the nature of the supply chain, and
• 32:43
  that really, really messed up everything
• 32:45
  there. That's That's That's That's
• 32:46
  honestly quite true. But again, it's in
• 32:49
  all those areas, the the kind of older
• 32:51
  white vote that is rural,
• 32:54
  that was a glue that held that MAGA
• 32:56
  coalition together that was nowhere to
• 32:58
  be found this time. And you saw that in
• 33:00
  multiple places, and I honestly believe
• 33:02
  there's many factors for that, the price
• 33:03
  at the pump, but part of it in cases of
• 33:05
  Texas, part of it in cases of Kansas is
• 33:08
  also going to be you had a different
• 33:11
  look of the Democratic Party being able
• 33:13
  to ingratiate themselves to these
• 33:15
  communities. And of course, you know, a
• 33:16
  guy like Adam Hamilton came from the
• 33:18
  church, so it's easier in his regard,
• 33:20
  but I think Paxton Oh, sorry. I think
• 33:23
  Tallarico ended up being pretty
• 33:24
  persuasive
• 33:26
  on those terms as well.
• 33:28
  It worked.
• 33:29
  It worked. People were hungry for
• 33:32
  kindness.
• 33:34
  They were hungry for solutions. They
• 33:37
  were hungry for
• 33:38
  ending the misery, but they were also
• 33:40
  hungering in Texas, obviously, to a
• 33:43
  strong degree. They were hungering for a
• 33:45
  humanity being introduced, and that's
• 33:48
  not just treating immigrants kindly.
• 33:50
  Humanity also means making things
• 33:52
  fairer, going after AI companies, going
• 33:56
  after Big Tech, trying to make the
• 33:58
  economy fairer for working people in all
• 34:01
  the ways that that means, and having
• 34:03
  equality before the law.
• 34:06
  That kind of kindness was on display
• 34:08
  last night, particularly in Texas.
• 34:13
  I mentioned in Kansas you had Adam
• 34:15
  Hamilton. He wins 50.9% to 46 for Roger
• 34:19
  Marshall. That's an incumbent. They
• 34:20
  flipped that one.
• 34:22
  This was one of those stories that I
• 34:23
  didn't really pay attention to until
• 34:25
  about the last couple of months, and I
• 34:26
  heard Adam Hamilton speak. And listen,
• 34:28
  he's got a lot of views I don't
• 34:29
  necessarily care for.
• 34:31
  All right? Um but if you listen to him
• 34:33
  speak, there's two very interesting
• 34:34
  things about him. Like Tallarico, there
• 34:36
  is a humanity to him. I saw him face
• 34:39
  down some constituents in one of his
• 34:41
  rallies at a small town I think it had
• 34:43
  like a population of 3,000 people and
• 34:45
  they were asking him about the border
• 34:46
  they were asking him about immigrants
• 34:47
  and he was trying to say yes if people
• 34:49
  are committing crimes we should deport
• 34:50
  them but we should not be roughing
• 34:52
  people up in the streets and they didn't
• 34:53
  like that and one of the I recall one of
• 34:55
  the women even in this
• 34:57
  rally was like yep there you go there's
• 34:58
  just another Democrat you can hear her
• 34:59
  say that talking about Adam Hamilton
• 35:02
  clearly that's not representative of the
• 35:03
  majority view in Kansas at this point
• 35:05
  for him anyway.
• 35:07
  But you know he had to face down in the
• 35:09
  belly of the beast and that moderates
• 35:10
  him in certain ways you know but it but
• 35:13
  it worked.
• 35:14
  It worked.
• 35:16
  This kind of
• 35:17
  religious not identity just that but
• 35:20
  like
• 35:21
  um
• 35:23
  authenticity to speak
• 35:25
  amongst those communities. The other
• 35:26
  thing that's really interesting about
• 35:28
  and I think it's going to prove very
• 35:29
  very helpful about Adam Hamilton.
• 35:31
  Hamilton's got really really and I want
• 35:34
  to emphasize this
• 35:35
  Hamilton's got really smart insights
• 35:38
  about the union of right-wing politics
• 35:42
  and the Christian church
• 35:44
  and dispensationalism and and the Groper
• 35:47
  movement and the whole Christus King
• 35:48
  thing he's got really really really
• 35:52
  smart analysis about that and I think
• 35:54
  his leadership
• 35:56
  uh in the next couple of years cuz
• 35:57
  remember the Gropers Nick Fuentes was
• 35:59
  cheering all of this last night. Nick
• 36:01
  Fuentes has been very open that what he
• 36:03
  wanted was for the Republicans to suffer
• 36:05
  as much as possible to make it
• 36:07
  impossible for either Marco Rubio
• 36:11
  and especially JD Vance to lose. JD
• 36:13
  Vance by the way took to Twitter to
• 36:15
  throw Trump under the bus we're going to
• 36:16
  talk about that we're going to read his
• 36:17
  statement here before too long but
• 36:20
  remember he was they they the Gropers
• 36:21
  were doing this too but the Gropers
• 36:23
  intend to come back.
• 36:24
  They want to make a move after that they
• 36:26
  want to burn what's left of this the
• 36:28
  sort of pro-Israel
• 36:30
  um
• 36:31
  self-dealing MAGA movement low IQ the
• 36:34
  whole bit they want to move on from it
• 36:36
  but then they plan to make a a huge
• 36:37
  comeback having people like Adam
• 36:39
  Hamilton
• 36:40
  helping the Democratic Party to navigate
• 36:43
  some of those challenges I think is
• 36:44
  going to be be extremely
• 36:47
  useful going forward. So that's one
• 36:49
  where again I don't love all of Adam
• 36:51
  Hamilton's views but in facing down
• 36:53
  future right-wing challenges
• 36:55
  particularly of the kind that involve
• 36:57
  our democracy that involve the the union
• 37:01
  of the church and political life he's
• 37:03
  going to be enormously enormously
• 37:05
  valuable.
• 37:07
  Um I want to get to Abdul El-Sayed in a
• 37:09
  minute cuz I have so much to say about
• 37:10
  that. Let's quickly talk about Maine if
• 37:12
  we can. How about Troy Jackson brother?
• 37:14
  How about Troy Jackson? 53.7%
• 37:18
  to Susan Collins's 46.3%.
• 37:22
  Can you believe it?
• 37:27
  I watched her concede last night or I
• 37:29
  watched the report about her conceding
• 37:30
  last night
• 37:32
  when it happened. I put up the video I
• 37:33
  did previously at that time.
• 37:40
  Troy Jackson won for I think a variety
• 37:42
  of reasons. Susan Collins is an
• 37:44
  interesting slippery character
• 37:46
  in
• 37:48
  um
• 37:50
  American politics. Understand something
• 37:52
  she's not a traditional MAGA candidate.
• 37:54
  Now the problem with her is that she has
• 37:56
  aligned with MAGA too many times for her
• 37:59
  to not be able to disassociate herself
• 38:01
  and I think that's why she lost but
• 38:03
  she's a true retail politician.
• 38:07
  You hear stories in Maine all the time
• 38:09
  of being like hey listen I'm not a Susan
• 38:12
  Collins person ordinarily but she voted
• 38:15
  for I'll make something up funding for
• 38:17
  our local library. She voted for funding
• 38:20
  for uh you know this defense contractor
• 38:22
  to get work in the state which provided
• 38:24
  jobs. She did that long through her
• 38:27
  career and it saved her ass for 30
• 38:30
  years.
• 38:32
  She did all that and so I didn't know
• 38:34
  how Troy Jackson was going to overcome
• 38:36
  that in part not just because of that.
• 38:39
  Remember she you know and and this is
• 38:40
  like a deal cutting thing she you know
• 38:42
  she's voted
• 38:43
  she she's not a traditional MAGA
• 38:45
  candidate.
• 38:46
  Right? She's more of the old kind of
• 38:48
  Mitt Romney style of politics, where
• 38:51
  it's more Wall Street-ish, you know,
• 38:53
  it's it's moderate on some things. It's
• 38:55
  not enough. You do would never vote for
• 38:57
  her if you were left-wing, but you know,
• 38:58
  it's not identical to sort of the
• 39:00
  hardcore version of what, you know, MAGA
• 39:02
  cruelty looks like. It's not exactly
• 39:03
  what she did. And again,
• 39:05
  you know, she helped make sure people
• 39:06
  got sent to torture dungeons in El
• 39:08
  Salvador. I'm not trying to free her of
• 39:10
  blame, but it wouldn't just not be right
• 39:12
  to call her a traditional MAGA
• 39:13
  candidate. So, because she wasn't MAGA
• 39:16
  in all those ways,
• 39:17
  right? And because she is an incredibly
• 39:20
  successful retail politician, I didn't
• 39:22
  know how Troy Jackson was going to do,
• 39:24
  especially after the fallout of
• 39:25
  everything with the Grant Plater went
• 39:26
  through.
• 39:28
  There is an argument to be made, and I
• 39:29
  saw some people make it last night,
• 39:31
  namely that Troy Troy Jackson benefited
• 39:34
  from the fact that Grant Plater, yeah,
• 39:35
  he imploded, but there was already this
• 39:38
  kind of process that had been started,
• 39:40
  this organizing process,
• 39:41
  that the Plater kind of machine had put
• 39:44
  together,
• 39:45
  and that he was able to jump in and use
• 39:47
  a lot of that. Obviously, he had his own
• 39:48
  staff and stuff like that, but a lot of
• 39:49
  the use of the same machinery, the same
• 39:51
  kind of opportunity to to to leapfrog
• 39:53
  from that. And if he had to start from
• 39:54
  scratch, it simply wouldn't have worked.
• 39:56
  You can say that. I I I'm I'm glad Grant
• 39:58
  Grant Grant Plater was not in the race.
• 40:00
  We didn't necessarily need him, it
• 40:02
  turned out.
• 40:03
  But I for all those reasons, I didn't
• 40:05
  know how it was going to go. And then
• 40:06
  you add in the fact that ProPublica had
• 40:09
  all of this reporting that she was
• 40:10
  basically taking bribes for years. Not
• 40:12
  just her, by the way, Clyburn was taking
• 40:14
  bribes, all Republicans, too. Lindsey
• 40:16
  Graham was taking bribes, apparently.
• 40:19
  And ProPublica basically has them dead
• 40:20
  to rights and shows that the
• 40:21
  investigatory arm of the federal
• 40:23
  government that was looking into it was,
• 40:25
  you know, decimated and destroyed and
• 40:27
  dismissed by President Trump, so they
• 40:29
  didn't go anywhere. And I and I thought,
• 40:30
  okay, well, they got her dead to rights.
• 40:32
  But then it never became a national
• 40:33
  story. Everyone just kept wanting to
• 40:34
  talk about Abdul El Sayed
• 40:37
  in Michigan.
• 40:39
  So, I was like, I just don't know. And
• 40:40
  then you look at the polling, and it was
• 40:41
  like, man, but the polling's looking
• 40:42
  pretty good for him of late. But Susan
• 40:45
  Collins, it's 30 years. It's retail
• 40:46
  politics. She's going to find a way to
• 40:48
  break through.
• 40:49
  Nope. They got her [ __ ] ass, too. And
• 40:52
  I absolutely hope, Susan, that you get
• 40:55
  prosecuted and you spend your final days
• 40:57
  in jail.
• 40:58
  Not going to hold my breath, but that's
• 41:00
  what's deserving.
• 41:02
  They They They unseated her, too.
• 41:05
  In the end, Mainers, particularly the
• 41:07
  price of um
• 41:10
  heating oil
• 41:11
  was an enormous issue for them. The
• 41:13
  decline in Canadian tourism to Maine,
• 41:16
  which was, you know, a a key part of the
• 41:19
  state economy.
• 41:20
  She couldn't get past it. She had too
• 41:22
  many votes
• 41:23
  in conjunction with him
• 41:25
  to get past it. And there was a lot of
• 41:27
  times where she would vote in committee
• 41:28
  and then vote no on the floor. But, you
• 41:30
  know, one way or the other, you're
• 41:31
  looking to pass legislation that is
• 41:34
  terrible for the country. You're not
• 41:35
  going to be able to get away from that
• 41:37
  just because you were a little
• 41:38
  wishy-washy on it. In the end, people
• 41:40
  were looking for something different.
• 41:42
  They didn't want another politician who,
• 41:45
  by the way, I don't know what her health
• 41:46
  situation is like, but it didn't look
• 41:47
  great. Right? It didn't look great.
• 41:51
  And Troy Jackson wins in the end.
• 41:54
  And he wins on a message of
• 41:56
  working-class affordability, but really
• 41:58
  tariffs, the particular kinds of pain
• 42:02
  that Mainers were suffering from either
• 42:04
  her espousal or her indifference or her
• 42:08
  association. But, they got it done.
• 42:12
  She wins by four
• 42:14
  over there.
• 42:15
  Uh
• 42:16
  before I get to uh Michigan, I want to
• 42:19
  point out something. The Dems had
• 42:20
  flipped the Senate last night before
• 42:23
  before Michigan,
• 42:26
  Minnesota,
• 42:28
  and Maine had even been called.
• 42:32
  Before that
• 42:36
  had even taken place, we'd already
• 42:37
  flipped the Senate.
• 42:39
  Can you believe that? Is that not
• 42:41
  mind-blowing to you in the most insane
• 42:44
  of ways? Is that not insane?
• 42:46
  It's insane. All right. Let's talk about
• 42:48
  um And by the way, Peggy Flanagan wins
• 42:50
  53% to Michelle Tafoya's 43%. [ __ ]
• 42:53
  Michelle Tafoya.
• 42:55
  She tried to moderate, too, by the way.
• 42:57
  She tried to be like I think she even
• 42:58
  said she was pro-choice. She tried to
• 43:01
  throw in a bunch of things that made her
• 43:02
  look like a little bit more moderate. It
• 43:03
  wasn't going to work.
• 43:05
  You know,
• 43:06
  it's just not
• 43:07
  the the politics of the present moment
• 43:09
  are so bad. They're so ruinous that even
• 43:12
  some of her moderating didn't matter.
• 43:14
  Few people in Minnesota were [ __ ]
• 43:15
  pissed.
• 43:16
  You know, they had two of their
• 43:17
  residents gunned down on camera trying
• 43:20
  to protect their neighbors from a
• 43:22
  paramilitary force that only answers to
• 43:24
  the executive branch.
• 43:28
  And and Michelle Tafoya is trying to
• 43:29
  run, you know, in essentially in
• 43:32
  conjunction with that.
• 43:34
  Good luck. All right.
• 43:36
  In Illinois,
• 43:37
  this was not a big difference or a big
• 43:39
  this was no surprise. Juliana Stratton
• 43:41
  wins over Don Tracy. Okay, let's talk
• 43:43
  about Michigan cuz I have a lot to say
• 43:44
  about Michigan.
• 43:46
  Abdul El-Sayed wins 52.5%. This is 97%
• 43:49
  of the vote counting so it might go up a
• 43:51
  little bit. Mike Rogers at 45. What did
• 43:53
  Abdul call as the percentage he was
• 43:55
  going to win by in May of this year?
• 43:57
  Does anyone recall the number? He goes,
• 43:59
  "I'm going to win by" Does anyone recall
• 44:01
  what the number was?
• 44:03
  It was 7%.
• 44:05
  And he's currently sitting at 7 and 1/2.
• 44:07
  He might go even higher to 8.
• 44:09
  Now, I have seen an enormous amount of
• 44:12
  people
• 44:13
  say he is underperforming relative to
• 44:16
  some of the other Dems, particularly in
• 44:18
  the Sunbelt, for example. If you look at
• 44:20
  Talarico, Talarico's out there winning
• 44:22
  by 12. No, he didn't win by 12. Let me
• 44:25
  take a step back here and say something
• 44:27
  about Abdul El-Sayed.
• 44:29
  First of all, I interviewed him on my
• 44:32
  Substack
• 44:33
  at the very very very very beginning
• 44:36
  stages of his campaign.
• 44:38
  When he was still talking to nothing
• 44:41
  MMA journalists like me. He was doing
• 44:44
  media with anybody who would do media
• 44:46
  with him. He was trying to get his
• 44:48
  campaign started. So, I just want to say
• 44:51
  to the Abdul El-Sayed campaign, I really
• 44:52
  appreciate that. I don't imagine I
• 44:54
  played in any way
• 44:55
  any kind of a role that matters, but I
• 44:57
  will say it mattered to me. It mattered
• 44:59
  to me to hear a candidate say the things
• 45:01
  he was saying and to attempt the things
• 45:03
  he is attempting because, ladies and
• 45:04
  gentlemen, what we have to say right
• 45:07
  now, I don't give a [ __ ] what the
• 45:10
  centrist Dems spin is on this. Abdul
• 45:12
  El-Sayed winning in Michigan is one of
• 45:15
  the great political achievements of my
• 45:18
  life.
• 45:20
  Every single day
• 45:23
  he had to face a nuclear blast
• 45:28
  of Islamophobia.
• 45:30
  I have never in my life, and he wasn't
• 45:32
  the only one,
• 45:34
  uh there was several other Muslim
• 45:36
  candidates had to deal with it, but he
• 45:37
  took the brunt of it by a million miles.
• 45:41
  They were saying he was an active member
• 45:43
  of the active member of the Muslim
• 45:45
  Brotherhood.
• 45:47
  They said he wants to implement Sharia
• 45:49
  law. Mike Rogers called him a terrorist.
• 45:56
  They impugned his wife for wearing head
• 45:57
  covering.
• 45:59
  They said the Trump the President Trump
• 46:01
  said he needed a metal detector a
• 46:02
  special metal detector when he goes
• 46:04
  through the halls of Congress like like
• 46:06
  the almost like the pager joke
• 46:08
  that the Israelis make
• 46:10
  um
• 46:11
  with with with Hezbollah.
• 46:16
  Every single day he had to face this
• 46:18
  down. Every single day on cable news you
• 46:21
  heard there was a divide with black
• 46:23
  voters. Did you see the margins he We're
• 46:24
  going to look at them. Did you see the
• 46:26
  margins he won by black voters?
• 46:29
  There's
• 46:30
  not a [ __ ] bit bit of daylight
• 46:32
  between them
• 46:33
  at all.
• 46:34
  Dominated with them. Dominated with
• 46:36
  them. And we're going to look at the
• 46:38
  Jewish vote, too. Slight [snorts]
• 46:39
  changes, but none that actually matter
• 46:41
  at all.
• 46:43
  This guy
• 46:44
  had the center left and the right and
• 46:48
  the corporate media apparatus every day
• 46:52
  going after him for Hasan [ __ ] every
• 46:54
  day going after him for his faith,
• 46:57
  everyday going after him for his name,
• 46:59
  lying to their audiences, lying to their
• 47:02
  to the to the to the electorate, lying
• 47:04
  to the American people about who he was
• 47:07
  and what he represented and what he was
• 47:08
  going to do, and it didn't work even a
• 47:11
  little bit.
• 47:13
  So, no, he doesn't have 12 points to
• 47:15
  show like Tallarico. Credit to
• 47:17
  Tallarico, he [ __ ] killed it. Who
• 47:19
  could say otherwise?
• 47:21
  But, Tallarico and he was I mean, let's
• 47:22
  be fair, he also was under a nuclear
• 47:24
  blast of assault calling this guy
• 47:26
  effeminate and weak and you know, what
• 47:28
  not. But, like there are also factors in
• 47:30
  that Sunbelt area, the black vote as I
• 47:32
  mentioned, and in particular Texas, the
• 47:34
  Latino vote carried him to victory.
• 47:36
  Those kinds of forces are not really in
• 47:37
  play in Michigan.
• 47:40
  And they didn't they said he couldn't
• 47:41
  win to begin with. And by the way, the
• 47:43
  guy the the the the the opponent he beat
• 47:46
  in the Dem primary, who was supposed to
• 47:47
  rally for him, ended up endorsing his
• 47:49
  opponent at the last minute. When have
• 47:52
  you ever seen a candidate have to deal
• 47:55
  with something like this? The bad faith
• 47:58
  lies about him over and over and over
• 48:01
  and over again.
• 48:03
  And yet still persevere with his name
• 48:05
  being
• 48:06
  Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed.
• 48:11
  It is a stunning political achievement
• 48:13
  and something that just cannot be wish
• 48:15
  casted away by the center Dems because
• 48:17
  they say he didn't do as well as
• 48:19
  Tallarico. Tallarico wasn't up against
• 48:20
  that. I'm sorry, he wasn't.
• 48:22
  He was up against a lot. He was up
• 48:24
  against Ken Paxton. Mike Rogers is not
• 48:26
  he wasn't a great candidate. But, he was
• 48:28
  Mike Rogers was not as bad a candidate
• 48:29
  as Ken Paxton.
• 48:32
  We can find ways to to have praise for
• 48:34
  all of the winners and I I hope that we
• 48:36
  do, but I just want to start with the
• 48:38
  El-Sayed equation.
• 48:40
  That is that is one of the most stunning
• 48:43
  political achievements you will ever
• 48:45
  see. And don't let anybody tell you
• 48:48
  otherwise. He ran on calling it a
• 48:50
  genocide from day one and they did their
• 48:53
  damndest
• 48:55
  to make him walk that back. They tried
• 48:56
  everything. AIPAC tried to undo our
• 48:59
  democracy and they got away with it
• 49:01
  against Thomas Massie in the pri- in his
• 49:03
  primary, and they tried to get away with
• 49:05
  it here, and he didn't let them.
• 49:08
  AIPAC burning through what? $50 million
• 49:10
  outside spending overall? $70 million?
• 49:13
  I know the Texas race was more. That's a
• 49:15
  partly a relate that relates to the uh
• 49:17
  media pricing in Texas. But okay,
• 49:19
  putting that aside.
• 49:21
  I hope everyone can have a smile on
• 49:23
  their face about what that means. Now,
• 49:25
  let's look at some of his numbers
• 49:26
  because I actually feel like this is
• 49:28
  pretty critically important here.
• 49:30
  Here. Let me see if I can show this to
• 49:31
  you.
• 49:36
  Um
• 49:39
  Let's see.
• 49:46
  Where are we on this one?
• 49:49
  Oh, here we go. Screen
• 49:54
  one. Let's see. Is that the right one?
• 49:55
  Yes. Okay.
• 49:58
  All right. Very quickly, look here.
• 50:00
  This is the exit polling out of
• 50:03
  Michigan. Abdul El-Sayed, 60% Jews he
• 50:06
  got. Mike Rogers got 36% of Jewish
• 50:09
  voters, and then, you know, blank was
• 50:10
  5%.
• 50:12
  Okay. Why is this significant? Why does
• 50:14
  this matter? The standard number
• 50:17
  historically, we've talked to I've I've
• 50:18
  mentioned this any number of different
• 50:20
  times.
• 50:22
  Latinos, as you saw, made massive
• 50:24
  changes. We'll look at that in a minute.
• 50:25
  Massive, massive changes.
• 50:27
  Jewish votes are historically not that
• 50:29
  way at all. Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick
• 50:31
  in the Israel lobby talk about for
• 50:32
  decades, decades, decades, decades, the
• 50:35
  Jewish vote has hovered around 67 to
• 50:37
  71%, 72%
• 50:40
  for Let's just say 70, 70% to um to the
• 50:45
  Dems and 30% to Republicans, and it's
• 50:47
  stayed that way. Now, you do have a bit
• 50:48
  of a drop-off here from some of these
• 50:51
  exit polls
• 50:52
  this way. But by the way, this is, you
• 50:53
  know, where does he work? Yeah, I mean,
• 50:55
  he works for a publication that's not
• 50:57
  going to be super, I think, in favor of
• 50:59
  the idea that Abdul El-Sayed is is all
• 51:01
  that um
• 51:02
  great.
• 51:04
  So, this is a slight change cuz he had
• 51:05
  67% overall voting for him. 67
• 51:09
  nationwide of Jewish voters going for
• 51:11
  Dems is about exactly in line with this
• 51:14
  one. This one is a little bit less, but
• 51:16
  it doesn't change the fact that A, you
• 51:18
  had guys like Abdul Sayed doing better
• 51:20
  than they thought in the upper
• 51:21
  peninsula. That was kind of important.
• 51:23
  And also, the Arab vote that had gone to
• 51:25
  Trump to a degree in 2014, quite
• 51:27
  mistakenly in my view, but nevertheless,
• 51:29
  it did, it all came roaring back to him.
• 51:33
  In other words, there may have been How
• 51:35
  do I get this off?
• 51:37
  Oh, here we go. In other words, there
• 51:39
  may have been some differences, but they
• 51:41
  are so marginal as to be quite literally
• 51:43
  electorally irrelevant.
• 51:46
  So, this idea that like Jews in in
• 51:48
  Michigan, Jewish voters in Michigan on
• 51:50
  mass were like deeply divided, they were
• 51:54
  marginally more divided than the
• 51:56
  national Dems. Not much at all.
• 51:59
  And certainly not enough to matter.
• 52:02
  Nonexistent.
• 52:08
  Let me pull one up here.
• 52:10
  Um Oh, we'll look at that in a minute.
• 52:12
  Okay.
• 52:13
  Let's just try to get the right one
• 52:15
  here.
• 52:17
  All right.
• 52:18
  In any case,
• 52:22
  I think his margins with black voters,
• 52:23
  he outperformed Kamala in Michigan.
• 52:27
  He outperformed Kamala in Haley Stevens'
• 52:31
  own district.
• 52:33
  Now, he ran a little bit behind the
• 52:34
  governor's race. Okay, fine. Like, yeah,
• 52:38
  there may have been more friction that
• 52:40
  he had to deal with. Let me make one
• 52:41
  other point.
• 52:43
  Maybe Haley Stevens would have gotten
• 52:44
  seven, although like
• 52:47
  maybe she gets eight, maybe she gets
• 52:48
  nine. I don't know.
• 52:50
  Who cares?
• 52:52
  I don't want Haley Stevens. I want
• 52:55
  someone who wants to take money out of
• 52:57
  politics. I want someone who's going to
• 52:59
  champion Medicare for All. I want
• 53:01
  someone who wants to disassociate the US
• 53:05
  relationship with Israel, who wants to
• 53:07
  sanction them.
• 53:08
  This is what I want.
• 53:12
  Here's another takeaway from the overall
• 53:14
  election. This idea that progressives
• 53:16
  can't win,
• 53:17
  where?
• 53:18
  Oh, they couldn't win in Florida. Uh
• 53:20
  [ __ ] give me another try. Give us
• 53:22
  another try in 2 years. Let's test that
• 53:24
  theory. I can't wait to test that one.
• 53:27
  By all means, let's see how that goes.
• 53:30
  They got away with it because the Dem
• 53:31
  party did had their didn't have their
• 53:33
  eye on the ball for Florida.
• 53:35
  But I would love where where can't they
• 53:37
  win? Can they win in Maine? Yep. Can
• 53:38
  they win in Minnesota? Yep. Can they win
• 53:40
  in Michigan? Yep. And you could say that
• 53:42
  Talarico has moderated, but on on the
• 53:45
  kinds of big picture issues about making
• 53:47
  the economy fairer, he's got a lot of
• 53:50
  progressive tendencies. He sounds
• 53:51
  exactly like Bernie on a number of
• 53:52
  different things. So, he can't win in
• 53:54
  Texas? You know, O'Rourke can't win in
• 53:55
  Texas? [ __ ]
• 53:57
  [ __ ]
• 54:00
  They can win anywhere
• 54:01
  because there is a hunger for a kind of
• 54:04
  politics that will do things
• 54:06
  differently.
• 54:08
  And you see it here very clearly.
• 54:15
  Abdul El-Sayed absolutely pulling off
• 54:18
  what can only be described as
• 54:21
  miraculous? No, I don't think so. There
• 54:22
  was a lot of energy for this for this um
• 54:25
  movement at this time. You know, but
• 54:30
  had to swim upstream the entire time.
• 54:32
  Want to
• 54:34
  pay one special bit of attention if I
• 54:35
  can to the Hasan [ __ ] question because
• 54:37
  it became such a big thing. First of
• 54:39
  all, Hasan [ __ ] is
• 54:41
  fairly vindicated through this whole
• 54:44
  thing.
• 54:45
  So many of the ideas that he thought
• 54:48
  would push a lot of progressive
• 54:49
  candidates to the forefront and which
• 54:52
  kinds of progressive candidates could be
• 54:53
  pushed to the forefront was correct.
• 54:56
  Also, Ryan Grim reported that Drop Site
• 55:00
  had done I think some surveys or some
• 55:02
  polling
• 55:03
  right after
• 55:06
  um
• 55:06
  I think Abdul El-Sayed had just either
• 55:09
  not gotten into the race or had just was
• 55:10
  about to get into the race. It was kind
• 55:12
  of rumored he would. I think I think
• 55:14
  Stevens was obviously in it.
• 55:18
  You know,
• 55:19
  the Whitmer campaign was in it. And what
• 55:21
  they ultimately discovered was there
• 55:23
  wasn't really a lane necessarily for
• 55:25
  Abdul El-Sayed at that time to get ahead
• 55:27
  and to win. It just didn't seem
• 55:29
  electorally viable then.
• 55:31
  Hasan [ __ ] goes to Michigan and it
• 55:33
  changes the equation cuz what he ends of
• 55:35
  doing is Abdul takes the real true
• 55:37
  insurgent progressive change lane and it
• 55:41
  pushed Whitmer or pushed Mallory
• 55:42
  McMorrow to the center. Stevens was kind
• 55:44
  of always the de facto, you know, um
• 55:48
  incumbent choice Chuck Schumer's choice.
• 55:51
  And so it it nullified her to a degree.
• 55:55
  To a strong degree. To the point where
• 55:56
  she had to drop out and then it just
• 55:57
  became about El-Sayed versus Stevens and
• 55:59
  you know, that was ended up being pretty
• 56:00
  close. This was not that close in the
• 56:01
  end. But the point I'm trying to make is
• 56:03
  Hasan Piker's
• 56:05
  trip down to Michigan
• 56:07
  the one that caused so much
• 56:09
  consternation in the media. It's the
• 56:10
  thing that maybe has propelled as a
• 56:13
  catalyst for change the entire El-Sayed
• 56:15
  campaign.
• 56:18
  And what did you hear about him this
• 56:19
  whole time? He's out of touch. He
• 56:21
  America deserved 9/11. [ __ ] he, you
• 56:25
  know, what does he wants to ship all,
• 56:27
  you know,
• 56:28
  right-wingers to the moon or, you know,
• 56:30
  some some insane [ __ ] you heard
• 56:31
  constantly that he would say. And again,
• 56:32
  I'm not trying to to double down on
• 56:34
  every comment Hasan [ __ ] has made on
• 56:36
  everything.
• 56:39
  But as an overall electoral bellwether
• 56:42
  as well as an electoral energizer
• 56:45
  he was right about so many things.
• 56:47
  And he may have saved this entire
• 56:49
  campaign.
• 56:51
  Should keep that in mind.
• 56:54
  Um
• 56:55
  You may have seen
• 56:56
  El-Sayed speech afterwards
• 56:59
  where, you know, he says JD has a
• 57:01
  constitutional obligation to swear me in
• 57:03
  and he even says to the president, you
• 57:05
  know, you don't have to worry about my
• 57:06
  name. You can just call me senator from
• 57:07
  now on.
• 57:08
  It was pretty [ __ ] great. This is
• 57:10
  another case. We talked about the
• 57:11
  humanity of Tal War Rico. I'm sorry,
• 57:13
  people can say what they want. Oh, Abdul
• 57:14
  El-Sayed is a bigot. No, he's not.
• 57:16
  His politics is one of humanity. It is
• 57:19
  one of protecting American interests.
• 57:21
  And I said this on CNN, by the way. By
• 57:23
  the way, I feel very vindicated about
• 57:26
  the things I've been saying on CNN for
• 57:28
  the last, I don't know, two, three
• 57:29
  months.
• 57:30
  Where I'd go on these panels and I'd be
• 57:32
  the only one being like, I don't know,
• 57:33
  guys. I don't think I don't I don't
• 57:35
  agree.
• 57:36
  I think El-Sayed is going to perform
• 57:38
  just fine with a lot of these groups.
• 57:40
  I think he's got a real good chance of
• 57:41
  winning. I think people are hungry for
• 57:43
  this kind of messaging.
• 57:44
  I feel very, very, very vindicated by
• 57:46
  that. But in the case of the Hasan [ __ ]
• 57:47
  thing,
• 57:49
  there was so much pushback on him, so
• 57:52
  much insanity thrown at him because the
• 57:55
  reality is
• 57:57
  whether Tal War Rico got 12 and El-Sayed
• 58:00
  only gets seven, the point is we want a
• 58:02
  different kind of politician. And maybe
• 58:04
  those margins are at 7% versus 9% on
• 58:08
  this kind of a year. Maybe so.
• 58:10
  This is an upgrade legislatively to an
• 58:13
  almost immeasurable degree.
• 58:16
  Understand what we learned, not just in
• 58:19
  this race, but in these races overall.
• 58:22
  This idea that you have to go to the
• 58:24
  center to win. Listen, did lots of
• 58:26
  centrist candidates win? Jared Moskowitz
• 58:28
  won in Florida. Plenty of centrist
• 58:29
  candidates won.
• 58:31
  Plenty of centrist candidates won who
• 58:32
  even flipped seats
• 58:34
  in various house races. That happened
• 58:36
  pretty significantly.
• 58:40
  But you can win not taking AIPAC money.
• 58:43
  You can win saying everyone deserves
• 58:45
  health care. You can win
• 58:48
  being a real progressive candidate. So,
• 58:51
  what does the centrist have to say? Oh,
• 58:53
  our guys performed well. Yeah, but we
• 58:55
  can get a better candidate quality out
• 58:57
  of this
• 58:58
  if we just reach in a little bit.
• 59:02
  We don't have to get the kind I mean,
• 59:04
  it's Again, I left What was my message
• 59:06
  last night before I signed off? It was
• 59:08
  very simply,
• 59:10
  if the Dems don't deliver,
• 59:13
  ultimately, on the mission that's
• 59:15
  required of them,
• 59:17
  this won't mean anything. The
• 59:20
  Everyone will swing back and forth, or
• 59:22
  it just won't hold.
• 59:24
  You actually have to deliver. The kinds
• 59:26
  of people that Abdul El-Sayed is, even
• 59:28
  if he would perform at a seven versus a
• 59:30
  nine for Haley Stevens, which I'm not
• 59:32
  even going to buy, but let's just say
• 59:33
  it's true, it doesn't matter, because
• 59:35
  legislatively, he's going to be much
• 59:37
  more oriented to the actual kinds of
• 59:40
  changes that are going to seal
• 59:42
  Democratic dominance,
• 59:44
  and
• 59:45
  more importantly, alleviate so many of
• 59:47
  these issues that that that we have.
• 59:50
  Big, big, big [ __ ] result. By the
• 59:52
  way, in Michigan as well, let's take a
• 59:54
  look at this.
• 59:56
  Hold on.
• 59:57
  In Michigan as well, I want to show this
• 59:59
  to you.
• 1:00:11
  Okay.
• 1:00:12
  Michigan proposal uh for uh
• 1:00:15
  proposal two for campaign finance
• 1:00:17
  prohibits utility and electric
• 1:00:19
  companies, as well as certain government
• 1:00:21
  contractors, from making campaign
• 1:00:23
  contributions. Now, this is just in
• 1:00:25
  Michigan.
• 1:00:26
  This is not anywhere else. However, look
• 1:00:29
  at this phenomenal response in Michigan
• 1:00:32
  to cleaning up politics. This was done
• 1:00:34
  by the voters themselves
• 1:00:37
  to make it part of what is allowed and
• 1:00:39
  not allowed in state-wide races there. A
• 1:00:41
  phenomenal, phenomenal achievement
• 1:00:43
  there. By the way, there's another one,
• 1:00:45
  too. Let me go back and look at this one
• 1:00:47
  here very quickly, if I may.
• 1:00:51
  Where is it? Oh, here we go.
• 1:01:02
  This was in North Dakota.
• 1:01:04
  So, there was a
• 1:01:07
  uh a a vote that had to happen there as
• 1:01:10
  extra review before industrial projects,
• 1:01:11
  data centers included, can be approved.
• 1:01:15
  Uh it failed.
• 1:01:16
  It failed.
• 1:01:18
  This is partly a thing that was designed
• 1:01:20
  to Oops, hang on.
• 1:01:23
  This is partly a thing that was designed
• 1:01:25
  to
• 1:01:26
  um
• 1:01:30
  push back on a lot of the data center
• 1:01:31
  voting. Data centers, by the way, 43 and
• 1:01:33
  1 in statewide races. It failed for
• 1:01:36
  various different measures or sorry,
• 1:01:37
  passed. So some restrictions that were
• 1:01:39
  passed on data centers, 43 to 1
• 1:01:42
  over the course of the evening. 43 to 1
• 1:01:44
  if you can believe it. Um so data center
• 1:01:46
  pushback, AI control,
• 1:01:49
  you know, again, this kind of push on
• 1:01:52
  top of society to force onto us the kind
• 1:01:55
  of changes that we're simply not ready
• 1:01:57
  for and people don't want. Again,
• 1:01:59
  everyone's like, "Oh, you're you're
• 1:02:00
  against the you know, this is this is
• 1:02:01
  creating jobs. This is part of building
• 1:02:03
  out capacity. This is important."
• 1:02:05
  Maybe there is something to be said for
• 1:02:06
  that, but not in a way that's not
• 1:02:08
  planned, not in a way that happens
• 1:02:10
  without a subsequent regulation of AI.
• 1:02:13
  There is a major AI pushback that you
• 1:02:15
  saw throughout this entire thing and so
• 1:02:17
  many of the part of the right, they
• 1:02:19
  tried to be anti-AI late, but it of
• 1:02:21
  course it did not work. They've taken,
• 1:02:23
  you know,
• 1:02:24
  their their association with the right
• 1:02:25
  is now sort of complete, but
• 1:02:28
  this worked pretty well. Uh let me go
• 1:02:30
  back to the map here.
• 1:02:32
  Oh, Jesus Christ, I lost my place.
• 1:02:35
  Look at this shift.
• 1:02:46
  These are all the These are all the uh
• 1:02:48
  districts
• 1:02:49
  and how they've moved nationwide over
• 1:02:51
  the last as of 10:00 a.m.
• 1:02:53
  over the last
• 1:02:55
  election cycle.
• 1:02:57
  Look at that.
• 1:02:59
  Is that insane or let me blow that up a
• 1:03:00
  little bit.
• 1:03:02
  Is that insane or what?
• 1:03:06
  Just a remarkable remarkable remarkable
• 1:03:09
  turn. I'm trying to find There's a
• 1:03:10
  couple of red spots here in Illinois
• 1:03:13
  where it shifted. I don't know what
• 1:03:14
  explains that. There's a little bit of a
• 1:03:16
  one here in Central Florida. Again,
• 1:03:18
  Florida's going to be a sort of a
• 1:03:19
  different thing, but um
• 1:03:22
  you get the idea here. Okay.
• 1:03:25
  Going back to my map.
• 1:03:28
  Where are we here?
• 1:03:32
  Sorry, one second. Uh you know what? Let
• 1:03:34
  me just transition to some other things
• 1:03:35
  I saw. Okay.
• 1:03:38
  How about young men?
• 1:03:39
  We'll look at some of the house races in
• 1:03:40
  a minute. How about young men?
• 1:03:43
  Check this out.
• 1:03:50
  How about that?
• 1:03:52
  Do you consider yourself MAGA? Yes, 5%.
• 1:03:56
  No,
• 1:03:58
  79%.
• 1:04:01
  Do you consider yourself democratic
• 1:04:02
  socialist? This is
• 1:04:04
  uh exit poll
• 1:04:06
  a third of voters 18 to 29 identified as
• 1:04:09
  democratic socialist of whom 99% voted
• 1:04:11
  Democrat. So, understand something here.
• 1:04:13
  You've got more people
• 1:04:15
  identifying themselves as democratic
• 1:04:18
  socialists than you do MAGA
• 1:04:20
  by a
• 1:04:22
  10 to 1 margin.
• 1:04:24
  A 10 to 1.
• 1:04:26
  Here's another takeaway. All of this
• 1:04:28
  nonsense about what this is like the
• 1:04:30
  radical left and these are policies that
• 1:04:32
  we can't get behind and this is
• 1:04:34
  socialism and this is communism. Did any
• 1:04:36
  of that work?
• 1:04:39
  People are weren't buying it. They were
• 1:04:40
  not buying any of the messaging
• 1:04:43
  that these are oh, these are going to be
• 1:04:45
  viewpoints. These are going to be so
• 1:04:46
  radical. These are going to be insanity.
• 1:04:48
  We can't get on board with this. Da da
• 1:04:50
  da da da.
• 1:04:51
  It none of it worked. None of it worked.
• 1:04:53
  What people wanted They may not like
• 1:04:54
  hardcore go out and say I'm a socialist.
• 1:04:56
  By the way, a socialist got elected in
• 1:04:59
  Nebraska of all places. And by the way,
• 1:05:01
  to the state Senate in Alabama, a trans
• 1:05:03
  person got elected yesterday in Alabama.
• 1:05:07
  In Alabama to the state Senate, not to
• 1:05:08
  the not to the national Senate, but to
• 1:05:11
  the state Senate.
• 1:05:12
  A remarkable turn.
• 1:05:15
  Another takeaway was people were not
• 1:05:17
  buying the scare tactics on the labeling
• 1:05:19
  of democratic policies.
• 1:05:21
  They did not believe that oh, this is a
• 1:05:23
  socialist thing. I what am I going to
• 1:05:24
  do? I can't handle this. This is going
• 1:05:26
  to be terrible for me. No.
• 1:05:28
  They they they absolutely did not work.
• 1:05:31
  And more to the point, the young men
• 1:05:34
  vote
• 1:05:35
  of of like men 18 to 24, men 18 to 29,
• 1:05:39
  they completely abandoned MAGA. They
• 1:05:41
  have utterly walked away. Now, whether
• 1:05:43
  they stay with the Democrats, I think is
• 1:05:45
  going to be a very, very different
• 1:05:46
  question.
• 1:05:47
  Right? It's not necessarily something
• 1:05:49
  that I'm prepared to say is going to be
• 1:05:50
  a lasting durable part of their
• 1:05:52
  constituency. There's a lot of things
• 1:05:54
  that bring that into question, but
• 1:05:55
  nevertheless, there was a huge movement
• 1:05:58
  away from them. All of the gains that
• 1:05:59
  they had made the UFC side. Boy, UFC is
• 1:06:02
  looking real [ __ ] stupid today, are
• 1:06:03
  they not?
• 1:06:05
  I mean, they're going to may maybe not,
• 1:06:06
  right? Because they got something on the
• 1:06:08
  White House lawn and they may get this
• 1:06:09
  legislation passed. And folks are
• 1:06:11
  asking, "Oh, what's going to happen with
• 1:06:12
  the the the Muhammad Ali boxing the
• 1:06:15
  Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival
• 1:06:16
  Act, this attempt to destroy the Ali
• 1:06:18
  Act?" It might still go through. They
• 1:06:20
  might just ram it through before um the
• 1:06:23
  the session is over before January. It's
• 1:06:25
  still possible. So, maybe they they get
• 1:06:27
  the last laugh in the end. But dude,
• 1:06:28
  they have stained their organization
• 1:06:30
  forever.
• 1:06:32
  No No- Nobody wants to be associated
• 1:06:34
  with MAGA anymore.
• 1:06:36
  Nobody.
• 1:06:39
  Nobody wants to self-identify that way.
• 1:06:41
  Sp- Particularly among the young.
• 1:06:43
  The boomers who might, who cares what
• 1:06:45
  the [ __ ] they think? They're going to be
• 1:06:46
  gone soon anyway.
• 1:06:50
  Okay.
• 1:06:51
  Remarkable. Remarkable change.
• 1:06:55
  Um let's look at some Florida Hispanic
• 1:06:58
  districts cuz I found this one to be a
• 1:07:00
  really, really interesting kind of
• 1:07:03
  uh
• 1:07:04
  moment. Check this out.
• 1:07:07
  Okay.
• 1:07:08
  This is the 2024 presidential margin,
• 1:07:11
  which is the open dots.
• 1:07:13
  Okay? And then 2026 house margin solid
• 1:07:15
  dot.
• 1:07:16
  So, in some of these cases, Miami-Dade,
• 1:07:19
  slightly more Republican, right? Uh
• 1:07:22
  Miami, slightly more, but barely. This
• 1:07:25
  one did move um for
• 1:07:28
  the 70% Hispanics in the Florida 28.
• 1:07:30
  They they moved a little bit. However,
• 1:07:32
  look at Miami-Dade Hispanic. They went
• 1:07:35
  to the right, I'm sorry, to to the left.
• 1:07:37
  I mean, look at this shift from D plus
• 1:07:40
  38 to D plus 61. Here they were R 17 7,
• 1:07:44
  they go to D plus 4.
• 1:07:47
  In in Broward County, they went from
• 1:07:50
  Republican to plus 10 to Democrat plus
• 1:07:52
  3. This is in [ __ ] South Florida,
• 1:07:54
  folks.
• 1:07:55
  South Florida. Palm Beach.
• 1:07:58
  Palm Beach, which is 30% Hispanic, went
• 1:08:01
  from D plus 13 8 to then D plus 32. So,
• 1:08:04
  even in cases of Florida 22 and Florida
• 1:08:06
  9, Orlando and Palm Beach, now this is
• 1:08:08
  sort of center
• 1:08:10
  Florida, but certainly Palm Beach and
• 1:08:11
  then
• 1:08:12
  this one these two here, Florida 22 and
• 1:08:14
  Florida 2023, Florida 23, excuse me.
• 1:08:19
  They moved from right to the left.
• 1:08:22
  And even the gains that they had made,
• 1:08:24
  with the exception of Miami-Dade and the
• 1:08:25
  Keys in Florida 28, the gains were
• 1:08:28
  marginal for the right itself, anyway.
• 1:08:30
  And that's in Florida.
• 1:08:33
  The Texas ones are even more to that
• 1:08:36
  degree.
• 1:08:38
  Um one thing one big lesson I would like
• 1:08:40
  to talk about here, if I may. I'm going
• 1:08:42
  to show you something that I think is
• 1:08:43
  just really kind of critical to
• 1:08:45
  understanding the issue, and this is why
• 1:08:47
  it's important of one candidate quality.
• 1:08:49
  Look at this.
• 1:08:51
  After Mondaire Jones won in New York,
• 1:08:53
  Democrats started saying affordability.
• 1:08:55
  So, look at this graph. So, Democrats,
• 1:08:57
  this is here we go, mentions in in
• 1:09:00
  emails, right? Like this. And then
• 1:09:03
  Republicans, this is this one. Mondaire
• 1:09:05
  Jones wins primary. Look at how the
• 1:09:08
  messaging goes to affordability after
• 1:09:11
  Mondaire Jones wins. This is what I mean
• 1:09:13
  about like, oh, Haley Stevens could have
• 1:09:15
  gotten nine. I don't give a [ __ ]
• 1:09:18
  A higher candidate quality, even if
• 1:09:21
  there is friction in first getting them
• 1:09:23
  into the office, yields the kind of
• 1:09:25
  greater, frankly, political insight,
• 1:09:27
  political messaging, and the ideas that
• 1:09:30
  need to power a movement and a campaign
• 1:09:33
  much better than centrist Dems who
• 1:09:35
  triangulate their way to something that
• 1:09:37
  doesn't offend people.
• 1:09:39
  Mondaire had a vision. Mondaire had an
• 1:09:43
  idea. Mondaire had a had had a goal.
• 1:09:48
  And was relentless about his messaging,
• 1:09:49
  relentless about his focus, knew
• 1:09:51
  affordability mattered, and it changed
• 1:09:53
  the tenor of how the Democrats talked
• 1:09:55
  about themselves. And I think following
• 1:09:58
  what we learned in New York by Mondaire,
• 1:10:01
  it set the tone nationally for what
• 1:10:03
  Democrats knew they needed to do.
• 1:10:06
  So,
• 1:10:07
  why does that matter? Well, again,
• 1:10:09
  there's the candidate Oops.
• 1:10:12
  Sorry. It's kind of fading in and out
• 1:10:13
  here. Hang on. There we go.
• 1:10:17
  In addition to the candidate quality, as
• 1:10:19
  I mentioned before, right, which is this
• 1:10:21
  idea that like
• 1:10:22
  you know, you you put in something more
• 1:10:24
  moderate, you're just not going to get
• 1:10:25
  this kind of change.
• 1:10:26
  They wanted to tell you that Mondaire's
• 1:10:28
  politics was not going to Well, that's
• 1:10:29
  New York City. It's not really
• 1:10:30
  representative of anywhere else. Yeah,
• 1:10:32
  sure, Mondaire can win like that there,
• 1:10:34
  but nobody can win like that anywhere
• 1:10:35
  else. And yes, there are particular
• 1:10:37
  things that are specific to New York
• 1:10:38
  City that are not going to be specific
• 1:10:40
  to Kansas or Arizona or Nevada. That's
• 1:10:42
  all true, but
• 1:10:45
  he actually set the tone for the whole
• 1:10:47
  way in which this was won.
• 1:10:49
  It was a Democratic Socialist who kicked
• 1:10:51
  this whole thing off from New York City.
• 1:10:55
  Look at the ideas that actually powered
• 1:10:58
  this thing, and tell me with a straight
• 1:11:00
  face what that said was Americans are
• 1:11:02
  ready for more centrist triangulation.
• 1:11:06
  They may have elected different
• 1:11:07
  centrists in that particular area to
• 1:11:10
  then enact that message, but who was the
• 1:11:13
  message the messaging coming from? Who
• 1:11:16
  was setting the tone?
• 1:11:18
  Who was the one that defined the terms?
• 1:11:23
  They want you to believe that only
• 1:11:25
  triangulating centrists can do something
• 1:11:27
  like this. And it's just not the case.
• 1:11:31
  It's just not the case.
• 1:11:35
  Okay, close that one out.
• 1:11:38
  I got some other stuff I want to show
• 1:11:39
  you guys here. That one I've got
• 1:11:42
  Oh,
• 1:11:43
  real quickly, one last thing on
• 1:11:45
  uh
• 1:11:48
  El El-Sayed, I forgot to show you these
• 1:11:50
  numbers earlier.
• 1:11:55
  El-Sayed got 30,000 got a 30,000 30,000
• 1:11:58
  vote margin out of Dearborn, which is
• 1:11:59
  obviously heavily Arab area and Muslim
• 1:12:01
  area, after Harris lost it by 2,000.
• 1:12:05
  13,000 plus vote margin out of Dearborn
• 1:12:07
  Heights after Harris had lost it by
• 1:12:08
  1,500 votes. 16,000 vote margin out of
• 1:12:12
  Canton versus 9,000 for Harris.
• 1:12:16
  One more time, yes, there may have been
• 1:12:18
  a little bit of measurable friction with
• 1:12:20
  the Jewish community, but it was
• 1:12:22
  massively oversold, and electorally the
• 1:12:25
  gains he made everywhere else more than
• 1:12:28
  made up for it.
• 1:12:30
  More than made up for it.
• 1:12:33
  Is that not stunning? I think that it
• 1:12:35
  is. If there is a part of me that is
• 1:12:36
  kind of worried about stuff, um I can't
• 1:12:39
  really show you the clip. I don't think
• 1:12:40
  there's any way to play the This thing
• 1:12:42
  is I don't know why it's doing this
• 1:12:43
  again. Sorry about that, y'all.
• 1:12:45
  Um
• 1:12:46
  Let me back Well, you know what? Let's
• 1:12:47
  try that. Um
• 1:12:49
  I cleaned this thing. It should be good.
• 1:12:51
  Point I'm trying to make is
• 1:12:53
  maybe there's this one.
• 1:12:56
  Ah, no, hold on.
• 1:12:58
  Okay, this one. I can't really show it
• 1:13:00
  to you
• 1:13:01
  with audio, but check this out if I can
• 1:13:03
  here.
• 1:13:09
  Okay, here's Hakeem Jeffries on Morning
• 1:13:11
  Joe. The American people don't want us
• 1:13:13
  to get even. They want us to get things
• 1:13:16
  done on their behalf because life is way
• 1:13:17
  too expensive. We ran on affordability.
• 1:13:20
  We won on affordability, and now it's
• 1:13:21
  our job to govern on affordability. To
• 1:13:24
  which I would say, Hakeem, I'm glad you
• 1:13:27
  are focused on affordability. Let me be
• 1:13:29
  as explicitly clear as I possibly can to
• 1:13:31
  you and to Chuck Schumer, who by the
• 1:13:33
  way, Hakeem Jeffries is going to be the
• 1:13:34
  first black speaker of the house. I
• 1:13:35
  don't know about I don't know about
• 1:13:36
  Schumer. I don't know if Schumer
• 1:13:39
  Abdul Sayed was asked today on Good
• 1:13:41
  Morning America if he's committing to
• 1:13:42
  voting for Chuck Schumer, and he did not
• 1:13:44
  commit to it. He says he wants to see
• 1:13:46
  his options. We'll see about Schumer.
• 1:13:47
  But the point I would like to make is to
• 1:13:48
  you two bozos, someone clip this up and
• 1:13:50
  send this to them.
• 1:13:53
  Yes, we do want you to do a work on
• 1:13:55
  affordability. We want you to burn MAGA
• 1:13:59
  to the [ __ ] ground.
• 1:14:01
  I want you and we want you absolutely to
• 1:14:05
  get even with them. I absolutely want
• 1:14:07
  you to drive them out of American
• 1:14:10
  [ __ ] life.
• 1:14:13
  That is what you need to do. I lived
• 1:14:15
  through Obama putting his arm around the
• 1:14:17
  Bushes after the Iraq war, and it was a
• 1:14:20
  gigantic [ __ ] mistake.
• 1:14:23
  Grifters, liars, cheaters, election
• 1:14:27
  deniers need to see that there's a
• 1:14:29
  consequence for what they do.
• 1:14:32
  You cannot turn the page in American
• 1:14:35
  life until you hold those rapists,
• 1:14:39
  pedophiles, lawbreakers,
• 1:14:43
  and self-dealers
• 1:14:46
  to account.
• 1:14:48
  It cannot be done. There is no way to
• 1:14:51
  get there except through that.
• 1:14:54
  This idea that we can just pass stuff on
• 1:14:57
  affordability and everyone's going to be
• 1:14:59
  happy.
• 1:15:00
  Again, I'm not saying that's not a
• 1:15:02
  massively consequential part of the ball
• 1:15:04
  game, if Trump even wants to play ball
• 1:15:06
  with that, which does he even want to
• 1:15:08
  play ball with that? I don't know. He's
• 1:15:09
  We'll talk about Trump in a minute, cuz
• 1:15:10
  I I've been finding his answers to be
• 1:15:12
  very, very funny.
• 1:15:14
  But I just want to be clear, this is not
• 1:15:15
  the right attitude.
• 1:15:17
  The right attitude is not "Hey, they
• 1:15:18
  don't want us to look for more strife."
• 1:15:20
  Yes, the [ __ ] I do. I want maximum
• 1:15:23
  problems.
• 1:15:24
  You ever seen that guy? I wake up in the
• 1:15:25
  morning, I want maximum I want I want
• 1:15:27
  problems all day.
• 1:15:28
  All day.
• 1:15:29
  I want you to [ __ ] burn them.
• 1:15:33
  Burn MAGA to the ground. Send it into
• 1:15:36
  the ash heap of [ __ ] history.
• 1:15:39
  Nothing less than that.
• 1:15:41
  Maximum warfare from from the day of
• 1:15:44
  inauguration they're swearing in, I
• 1:15:46
  should say. Day of Day of swearing in
• 1:15:48
  until the job is done.
• 1:15:51
  Step on their [ __ ] necks. Now is the
• 1:15:54
  time.
• 1:15:56
  This is it.
• 1:15:57
  Putting your arm around rapists,
• 1:16:00
  pedophiles, the party that had ads
• 1:16:04
  celebrating the child rape of Amy Acton,
• 1:16:07
  you have to burn these people to the or
• 1:16:09
  their move movement, I should say, to
• 1:16:11
  the ground.
• 1:16:14
  I don't want conciliatory language at
• 1:16:16
  all. Now, whether or not you get mired
• 1:16:18
  in this one particular investigation or
• 1:16:20
  another one, there are some choices to
• 1:16:22
  be made about that. They cannot fire
• 1:16:24
  hose the entire thing in all ways.
• 1:16:27
  But this attitude
• 1:16:28
  this attitude
• 1:16:30
  It's an affordability issue. Mm.
• 1:16:33
  It's definitely an affordability issue.
• 1:16:34
  Yeah, for sure.
• 1:16:36
  That ain't all it is.
• 1:16:39
  The right attitude is crucial here.
• 1:16:43
  Let me make a point, if I may,
• 1:16:45
  on this.
• 1:16:46
  I found this just to be absolutely
• 1:16:48
  incredible.
• 1:16:56
  Check this out. Let's blow this up a
• 1:16:57
  little bit.
• 1:17:01
  We didn't talk about the uh the
• 1:17:02
  governors' races.
• 1:17:04
  How about the governors? Not just how
• 1:17:06
  many they won,
• 1:17:08
  but how many they won in insanely new
• 1:17:12
  ways or uh
• 1:17:13
  what what new ground is being broken.
• 1:17:15
  You have the first black female governor
• 1:17:17
  in US history, that's Keisha Lance
• 1:17:18
  Bottoms out of Georgia. First Muslim
• 1:17:20
  senator, of course, El Sayed. First
• 1:17:23
  openly gay senator, this was Pappas, I
• 1:17:25
  believe, out of New Hampshire.
• 1:17:27
  Uh he won, too, by the way. First female
• 1:17:30
  Native American governor, Deb Holland
• 1:17:31
  won out in New Mexico. She's full Native
• 1:17:34
  American. She is now going to be
• 1:17:35
  governor of the state of New Mexico. Oh,
• 1:17:37
  I'm sorry. New America.
• 1:17:40
  Okay. First female Native American
• 1:17:42
  senator, first Latina which should be
• 1:17:44
  Peltola. First Latina governor in Texas
• 1:17:47
  history, you know, Hinojosa. First
• 1:17:48
  female governor in Ohio history, Acton.
• 1:17:51
  First elected female senator in South
• 1:17:53
  Carolina history. Uh this of course
• 1:17:55
  Darling Graham served previously, but
• 1:17:57
  Andrews won it. First black governor in
• 1:17:59
  Florida history, Byron Donalds did win.
• 1:18:02
  Celebrate that. You know,
• 1:18:04
  if if you want. First elected Latino
• 1:18:06
  governor in California history, which is
• 1:18:07
  amazing. First Kansas Democratic,
• 1:18:09
  although he's not my favorite
• 1:18:10
  politician. First Kansas Democratic
• 1:18:12
  senator in the century in 94 years. 1932
• 1:18:15
  was the last time there was one. First
• 1:18:16
  Congress set up for black speaker of the
• 1:18:18
  house. Again, one more time I'm going to
• 1:18:20
  say this. This idea that like oh this is
• 1:18:22
  just about affordability. Yeah, it is.
• 1:18:26
  But the individual constituents of the
• 1:18:28
  electorate, the in the individual parts
• 1:18:30
  of the voting groups in the electorate
• 1:18:32
  clearly want more than that done. The
• 1:18:35
  the unraveling of DEI as a way to undo
• 1:18:38
  the civil rights era.
• 1:18:40
  Right? It's been pretty big.
• 1:18:42
  And they didn't like that [ __ ] at all.
• 1:18:45
  Nor would they. To say nothing of what
• 1:18:46
  DOJ did to the federal government
• 1:18:48
  decimating jobs that are often held by
• 1:18:51
  you know, some of these
• 1:18:52
  um populations.
• 1:18:55
  Pre- pretty remarkable the turn that
• 1:18:56
  they had. What was the final tally in
• 1:18:58
  the house? Where are we in the house? In
• 1:19:00
  the house, oh here's an update.
• 1:19:02
  The house we've got
• 1:19:06
  They're at 234. There are still 62 to be
• 1:19:09
  called.
• 1:19:11
  I guess we'll see in the end whether or
• 1:19:12
  not they do. I want to talk about Trump
• 1:19:14
  a little bit if I may. Hold on, I'm
• 1:19:15
  going to take this uh
• 1:19:17
  How does it end?
• 1:19:18
  Sorry.
• 1:19:20
  I didn't sleep much last night.
• 1:19:22
  I needed something to kind of get me
• 1:19:23
  through my day.
• 1:19:25
  Let's talk about Trump a little bit. So,
• 1:19:26
  I was one of these people who was
• 1:19:28
  definitely fear mongering around the
• 1:19:29
  fact or the the expectation I should say
• 1:19:32
  that he was going to try and steal this
• 1:19:33
  election. He has been remarkably
• 1:19:35
  conciliatory.
• 1:19:37
  I have been
• 1:19:39
  somewhat surprised and not surprised.
• 1:19:42
  I'm somewhat surprised that there wasn't
• 1:19:44
  more of an effort to stop some of this.
• 1:19:46
  I thought that there would be.
• 1:19:48
  Okay, credit to them for not, I guess.
• 1:19:52
  He says he's ready to work with
• 1:19:53
  Democrats. I don't really believe that,
• 1:19:54
  but you know, I guess stranger things
• 1:19:56
  have happened.
• 1:19:57
  But
• 1:19:58
  the
• 1:19:59
  something happened last night. Like the
• 1:20:01
  margins were so high
• 1:20:03
  everywhere.
• 1:20:04
  That's a tough election to steal.
• 1:20:07
  Right? Because the states run their own
• 1:20:08
  elections. So you're having to say that
• 1:20:10
  the Democrats stole in Kansas. They
• 1:20:12
  stole in Ohio. They stole in Georgia.
• 1:20:16
  They stole in North and South Carolina.
• 1:20:19
  They stole in Maine. They stole in
• 1:20:20
  Texas. They stole in
• 1:20:22
  you know, everywhere that you want to
• 1:20:24
  where where all of this change happened.
• 1:20:26
  It's a very, very difficult thing to do.
• 1:20:27
  So like if the margins had been closer,
• 1:20:30
  yeah, maybe Trump would have tried a
• 1:20:31
  little bit harder, but the fact that it
• 1:20:32
  was so overwhelming, it made it quite
• 1:20:34
  difficult for him to move forward with
• 1:20:36
  it. But I think something interesting is
• 1:20:37
  going to happen.
• 1:20:39
  I think if you're expecting Elon Musk to
• 1:20:41
  go to jail, this is probably an unwise
• 1:20:44
  and nonsensical I suspect he's just
• 1:20:47
  going to be pardoned. That doesn't mean
• 1:20:49
  the investigations don't matter to the
• 1:20:51
  extent that they can
• 1:20:52
  not just break up big tech, but for
• 1:20:54
  purposes of Musk, like you know, revisit
• 1:20:56
  the American government's relationship
• 1:20:57
  to his businesses and what that might
• 1:21:00
  mean. That's to say nothing of what the
• 1:21:01
  investigations might show or even if he
• 1:21:03
  doesn't have criminal liability because
• 1:21:04
  he can be saved, there might state
• 1:21:06
  charges that can brought eventually or
• 1:21:08
  at a bare minimum just the just the
• 1:21:09
  stink
• 1:21:11
  of corruption, just the stink of
• 1:21:14
  you know, what the investigation show.
• 1:21:16
  That could have a pretty pronounced
• 1:21:17
  effect on his businesses, Tesla, SpaceX,
• 1:21:20
  you know, Starlink, you name it.
• 1:21:22
  Starshield, I guess with the one with
• 1:21:24
  the the the the government.
• 1:21:27
  Um
• 1:21:28
  it'll be interesting to see what kind of
• 1:21:30
  happens there, but I suspect he's going
• 1:21:31
  to get a pardon.
• 1:21:33
  And I suspect what Trump has basically
• 1:21:35
  concluded, he's old. He doesn't want to
• 1:21:38
  do this [ __ ] anymore.
• 1:21:39
  Right? He fought like tooth and nail
• 1:21:41
  because he didn't want to go to jail in
• 1:21:42
  January of 2020. That's true.
• 1:21:45
  But
• 1:21:46
  I think what he plans to do, I'm being
• 1:21:48
  dead serious about this, I think what he
• 1:21:50
  plans to do
• 1:21:52
  is to pardon himself, which is legally
• 1:21:54
  dubious, but that and anyone else he
• 1:21:56
  cares about, and then just head for the
• 1:21:58
  exit with his riches.
• 1:21:59
  And I think it when the rest of this
• 1:22:01
  party gets burned to the ground through
• 1:22:03
  investigation, if that's what actually
• 1:22:05
  happens, which I think is actually still
• 1:22:06
  a decent chance on some level a lot of
• 1:22:08
  that can happen.
• 1:22:10
  He's just going to
• 1:22:14
  wash his hands of it and walk. The
• 1:22:17
  Republicans have it figured out. Dude,
• 1:22:19
  this is the guy that bankrupted [ __ ]
• 1:22:21
  casinos. He's going to bankrupt your
• 1:22:23
  party, too, [ __ ]
• 1:22:25
  He's going to bankrupt that whole thing.
• 1:22:26
  This is just the start of it. There's
• 1:22:28
  plenty more to come. They're going to
• 1:22:29
  make his life [ __ ] hell
• 1:22:31
  in so many ways.
• 1:22:33
  I also want to point out with all these
• 1:22:34
  Senate wins, recall you've got two
• 1:22:38
  Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas,
• 1:22:42
  who are of retirement age, I think
• 1:22:43
  78-ish for both of them, right around
• 1:22:46
  that.
• 1:22:47
  And now the Republicans don't really
• 1:22:50
  have a good chance to recapture the
• 1:22:51
  Senate until 2032. Those guys aren't
• 1:22:54
  going to last till 2032.
• 1:22:56
  We're not going to put any of your
• 1:22:58
  bitch-ass Supreme Court nominations on
• 1:23:01
  the [ __ ] court. We're not going
• 1:23:03
  to do it. This is devastating for them.
• 1:23:05
  Now, he's still got some time before all
• 1:23:07
  of that goes into play, but they're not
• 1:23:08
  going to make it to 84. They're not
• 1:23:10
  going to There's no [ __ ] way.
• 1:23:13
  So, another massive benefit to all of
• 1:23:16
  this in terms of blocking his judicial
• 1:23:18
  nominations in the Senate, phenomenal.
• 1:23:20
  Also, the Dems now nationally have
• 1:23:24
  enough votes to pass a What's the
• 1:23:27
  official name? The National Voter
• 1:23:29
  Compact. I forget the exact terminology,
• 1:23:31
  but basically to get rid of the
• 1:23:32
  Electoral College.
• 1:23:34
  So, now the popular vote would just be
• 1:23:36
  the one that counted. Now, yes, Trump
• 1:23:38
  won the popular vote in 2024. What was
• 1:23:40
  the last time a Republican won the
• 1:23:41
  popular vote before that for a
• 1:23:43
  presidential election? It was Bush in
• 1:23:45
  '04, which I still can't [ __ ]
• 1:23:47
  believe. I remember that election. But
• 1:23:49
  it 20 years. It took 20 years for them
• 1:23:51
  to win the popular vote, but they had a
• 1:23:52
  lot of time to occupy during that time.
• 1:23:57
  They have enough to get rid of the
• 1:23:58
  Electoral College. They might even have
• 1:23:59
  enough Let's see if they have the
• 1:24:01
  political will to nuke the filibuster.
• 1:24:04
  They might get rid of that, too.
• 1:24:08
  So, these wins
• 1:24:10
  in the governorships, these wins in the
• 1:24:12
  state houses, these wins are massively
• 1:24:15
  critical,
• 1:24:17
  but these wins in the Senate are going
• 1:24:18
  to prove potentially very decisive for
• 1:24:21
  the next 10 years if the Dems want it to
• 1:24:24
  be that way.
• 1:24:27
  But I think Trump's headed for the door.
• 1:24:30
  I think he wants to do He This is what
• 1:24:32
  he What What he wants to do
• 1:24:34
  is tear down the Kennedy Center and
• 1:24:35
  build some new monument for himself. He
• 1:24:37
  wants to build his golf course at East
• 1:24:39
  Potomac. He wants to do the the
• 1:24:42
  ballroom. We should tear down the
• 1:24:44
  [ __ ] ballroom. We should tear down
• 1:24:46
  anything that's got his [ __ ] name
• 1:24:48
  Institute of Peace has got his name on
• 1:24:50
  it. Anything. Absolutely destroy it.
• 1:24:53
  Treat him like a Confederate war general
• 1:24:55
  that we're that we're
• 1:24:57
  you know,
• 1:24:58
  I mean, repudiating in every possible
• 1:25:00
  way
• 1:25:02
  uh I I after they've been punished for
• 1:25:04
  their
• 1:25:06
  you know, being a traitor.
• 1:25:10
  Now, that brings us to J.D. Vance
• 1:25:12
  who said something very very very very
• 1:25:15
  interesting. I'm going to show it to
• 1:25:17
  you. Let me pull it up here.
• 1:25:18
  We don't have to read the whole thing,
• 1:25:20
  but
• 1:25:25
  Oh, he deleted it. Oh, no, he didn't.
• 1:25:27
  No, he didn't. Okay.
• 1:25:29
  I thought he did. All right, let's take
• 1:25:30
  a look at this.
• 1:25:33
  Take a look at this. This is from J.D.
• 1:25:34
  Vance today.
• 1:25:36
  Today.
• 1:25:38
  Now, we're not going to read the whole
• 1:25:40
  thing, but I want to get to a part.
• 1:25:42
  Okay.
• 1:25:45
  There will be a lot of infighting
• 1:25:47
  and arguing over what happened and why
• 1:25:49
  that is. One of the pollsters I really
• 1:25:51
  respect told me that our economic
• 1:25:53
  messaging wasn't sharp enough down the
• 1:25:55
  stretch. I'm sure that's true.
• 1:25:57
  But the real reason we lost is obvious
• 1:26:00
  to almost everyone.
• 1:26:02
  Another pollster, one of the smartest
• 1:26:04
  people I know in politics, told me
• 1:26:06
  yesterday we'd lose the generic ballot
• 1:26:08
  by 13 points. I felt negative going into
• 1:26:11
  Tuesday, but I even I wasn't shocked by
• 1:26:13
  this excuse me, but even I was shocked
• 1:26:15
  by this. In his polling, he saw that a
• 1:26:17
  lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and
• 1:26:19
  planning to vote for Democrats. He asked
• 1:26:21
  those voters who had abandoned us what
• 1:26:23
  would cause them to come back on our
• 1:26:25
  team. The top four answers, accounting
• 1:26:27
  for nearly all the responses, were A or
• 1:26:29
  one I should say, end the war. Two,
• 1:26:32
  focus on cost of living and inflation.
• 1:26:34
  Three, put America first. I'm not sure
• 1:26:35
  exactly what that entails, but four,
• 1:26:38
  change our relationship to Israel.
• 1:26:43
  The reason we lost is the war. The
• 1:26:47
  president himself said so last night.
• 1:26:52
  What does this mean?
• 1:26:55
  First of all, I just want to point out
• 1:26:58
  end the war, Abdul El-Sayed among
• 1:27:00
  others, focus on the cost of living and
• 1:27:02
  inflation,
• 1:27:03
  Abdul El-Sayed among others, put America
• 1:27:06
  first. I would argue he had the most
• 1:27:07
  America first campaign of anybody. And
• 1:27:10
  then four, change our relationship to
• 1:27:11
  Israel. Yeah, those are damn
• 1:27:13
  Well, I don't know about the change
• 1:27:14
  relationship to Israel part, but
• 1:27:17
  in general, those are some of what you
• 1:27:18
  see from our progressive candidates.
• 1:27:21
  Remember when they said progressive
• 1:27:22
  ideology doesn't pull people over?
• 1:27:25
  Here you have the Vice President of the
• 1:27:26
  United States saying the things that
• 1:27:28
  some of the most progressive candidates
• 1:27:29
  ran on was the things that their base
• 1:27:32
  wanted that they wouldn't deliver, and
• 1:27:33
  so they went another direction. So, in
• 1:27:35
  terms of pulling independents, and we
• 1:27:37
  still don't have a ton of data on that
• 1:27:39
  yet, I just want to point out like what
• 1:27:42
  what we saw there.
• 1:27:44
  Okay.
• 1:27:45
  They're they're aping progressive
• 1:27:48
  arguments about what change to policy
• 1:27:51
  should be to get back. That's one thing
• 1:27:53
  I want to take away. Two,
• 1:27:56
  Dude, is he calling out his own boss?
• 1:27:59
  Right?
• 1:28:00
  Is that what he's doing here?
• 1:28:03
  Did Trump approve this?
• 1:28:06
  This is J.D. Vance I have a feeling
• 1:28:09
  maybe he didn't, dude.
• 1:28:10
  Cuz here's my real feel
• 1:28:12
  on this. I think what's happening is
• 1:28:14
  J.D. Vance, I mean, hello, we can read
• 1:28:17
  He knew this was coming, but you know,
• 1:28:18
  now you can really read the room and
• 1:28:20
  they know that any association with
• 1:28:23
  Trump, despite being his [ __ ] vice
• 1:28:25
  president, is going to make it
• 1:28:26
  impossible for him to win in '28. So,
• 1:28:28
  him and Tucker Carlson are trying to
• 1:28:31
  show that this is the guy in the White
• 1:28:32
  House who understands your pain.
• 1:28:36
  This is the guy in the White House that
• 1:28:37
  didn't want to do the Iran war. This is
• 1:28:39
  the guy in the White House that wasn't
• 1:28:41
  so sure about those tariffs. This is the
• 1:28:43
  guy in the White House that understands
• 1:28:45
  that Israel needs to be reined in.
• 1:28:47
  That's the message that they're trying
• 1:28:48
  to send so that he can win.
• 1:28:54
  It's not going to work.
• 1:28:55
  It's not going to work, brother.
• 1:28:58
  You are tied to this movement forever.
• 1:29:01
  You will burn to the ground just like
• 1:29:04
  this movement will burn It is burning
• 1:29:05
  and will burn to the ground.
• 1:29:07
  There is no way you're going to try and
• 1:29:09
  put a wedge between you and Trump that
• 1:29:12
  you're the kind of sane influence within
• 1:29:14
  the White House
• 1:29:16
  that didn't want to do any of this.
• 1:29:18
  But you did, J.D.
• 1:29:21
  But you did, didn't you?
• 1:29:24
  Didn't you?
• 1:29:25
  You went ahead with all of it and in
• 1:29:27
  fact, you condescendingly got out there
• 1:29:30
  and told the media, "Yeah, listen, I
• 1:29:32
  know I said I wasn't for forever wars or
• 1:29:33
  new wars in the Middle East, but the
• 1:29:35
  difference is we had dumb presidents
• 1:29:37
  before. What happened with this one,
• 1:29:38
  J.D.?
• 1:29:40
  I thought you had the smart president.
• 1:29:42
  Mhm?
• 1:29:45
  There's no walking this back. They're
• 1:29:46
  trying. I hope everyone can see this.
• 1:29:49
  They're trying. They recognize that all
• 1:29:52
  of these things, attachment to Israel,
• 1:29:54
  um cost of living. Remember they
• 1:29:56
  affordability was a hoax. There is no
• 1:29:58
  affordability. Guys, just because
• 1:30:00
  there's low unemployment in the economy
• 1:30:02
  doesn't mean people believe that the
• 1:30:04
  economy is good.
• 1:30:06
  That's not what they believe.
• 1:30:09
  And it doesn't work. It didn't work for
• 1:30:11
  Biden and it sure as [ __ ] didn't work
• 1:30:12
  for MAGA yesterday.
• 1:30:14
  We are very, very far past that.
• 1:30:17
  There's just enough evidence now to
• 1:30:18
  conclude very affirmatively that's not
• 1:30:20
  real.
• 1:30:22
  But J.D. Vance is trying to wedge
• 1:30:25
  himself
• 1:30:27
  between his boss and those disastrous
• 1:30:29
  policies, or I should say use his boss
• 1:30:30
  as a shield and say, "No, no, no, no,
• 1:30:32
  no, no, no. I Mhm.
• 1:30:34
  I I feel your pain. I hear it. I believe
• 1:30:38
  you. This is what really matters
• 1:30:41
  to me, too. Mhm. Yes.
• 1:30:46
  Don't buy it.
• 1:30:48
  Don't believe it.
• 1:30:50
  I didn't even get to Ohio, Vivek
• 1:30:52
  Ramaswamy.
• 1:30:55
  Feels good to watch him eat [ __ ] to be
• 1:30:57
  honest with you. This should be the end
• 1:30:58
  of his career. He had a fake president
• 1:31:01
  He had He was wise enough to get out of
• 1:31:03
  the way when Doge was going down. I'll
• 1:31:04
  give him credit for that. But then he
• 1:31:07
  goes to Ohio and he thought, "You know
• 1:31:09
  what? This is what I mean about this
• 1:31:10
  campaign and this whole this whole
• 1:31:12
  cycle." Everyone's like, "It's about
• 1:31:14
  affordability." Yes, it is. It
• 1:31:16
  absolutely is in the most major of ways.
• 1:31:19
  But the other lesson is like the Bo
• 1:31:21
  Frenches out of Texas and the Vivek
• 1:31:22
  Ramaswamys out of Ohio, this doubling
• 1:31:25
  down on sadism.
• 1:31:27
  Right? This doubling down on
• 1:31:30
  we're just going to be as cruel and as
• 1:31:33
  evil and as
• 1:31:36
  principle-free as possible just to win
• 1:31:38
  elections. People don't like this.
• 1:31:42
  MAGA had a moment to unleash its sadism
• 1:31:45
  on the world and the world gagged.
• 1:31:49
  We don't want it anymore.
• 1:31:51
  And it is very, very clear people have
• 1:31:54
  had enough.
• 1:31:56
  I mean, I had enough in 20 [ __ ] 16. I
• 1:31:59
  can't believe the rest of the country it
• 1:32:00
  took them this long to get here, but
• 1:32:02
  you know,
• 1:32:04
  better late than never, I suppose.
• 1:32:06
  But, it's simply not the case that like
• 1:32:08
  what really won here was affordability.
• 1:32:10
  What won here was affordability in
• 1:32:13
  conjunction with a malignant form of
• 1:32:15
  politics that has become toxic to the
• 1:32:18
  point of intolerability.
• 1:32:21
  That is also what happened here.
• 1:32:27
  Um
• 1:32:28
  let's go over ballot proposals, and then
• 1:32:30
  we'll get to some of your questions.
• 1:32:32
  So, if you again, I'm going to remind
• 1:32:34
  everyone, if you'd be so kind as to put
• 1:32:36
  in a donation in the super chat, you do
• 1:32:37
  not have to. I am so glad all of you are
• 1:32:39
  here. By the way, this is for this
• 1:32:41
  channel the most watched stream I've
• 1:32:42
  ever done. I've realized I'm at humble
• 1:32:44
  beginnings here, but um I appreciate all
• 1:32:47
  of you for being here. Thank you so much
• 1:32:48
  for spending your time to listen to what
• 1:32:50
  I have to say. I don't take
• 1:32:52
  After the several years I've had,
• 1:32:54
  believe me, I do not take it in any way
• 1:32:55
  for granted. If you want to support the
• 1:32:57
  channel a little extra, if you've got it
• 1:32:59
  in you, and if you don't, it's okay. I
• 1:33:00
  totally get it. Again, I'm really just
• 1:33:02
  glad you're here, but if you put a
• 1:33:04
  little money into the super chat, it
• 1:33:05
  does go really long way to support what
• 1:33:07
  I'm doing, right? To to help my goals
• 1:33:09
  personally, and to make this kind of
• 1:33:11
  coverage possible. And I got to say, I I
• 1:33:14
  I I you know, it's not really just about
• 1:33:15
  me going on CNN. By the way, I'll I'll
• 1:33:16
  be back on Friday. I'm going to be back
• 1:33:18
  on CNN on Friday.
• 1:33:19
  Um
• 1:33:23
  so, I can't wait to go on to CNN and be
• 1:33:24
  like, "Well, well, well."
• 1:33:26
  Mhm.
• 1:33:29
  Um
• 1:33:31
  I started this channel because I did not
• 1:33:33
  hear in a lot of places. I mean, I'll
• 1:33:36
  give CNN credit for putting me on. Like,
• 1:33:37
  at least they're doing that, you know, I
• 1:33:39
  and and I really appreciate it. Like,
• 1:33:41
  Audie Cornish is giving me a lot of
• 1:33:43
  opportunities to get my kind of
• 1:33:45
  messaging out there. But, the reason I
• 1:33:46
  started this channel
• 1:33:47
  was because I could not believe the
• 1:33:49
  direction the country had gone. I could
• 1:33:50
  not believe that the my favorite
• 1:33:52
  favorite sport of all time had helped
• 1:33:54
  them do it, and I thought it was a
• 1:33:55
  disaster for the country and ruinous and
• 1:33:57
  I did not see enough people fighting
• 1:33:59
  back at that time. Well, now there is a
• 1:34:01
  [ __ ] army of us.
• 1:34:05
  Now, there are many of us.
• 1:34:09
  And I intend to absolutely put the pedal
• 1:34:13
  to the [ __ ] metal until every inch of
• 1:34:16
  Maga is destroyed.
• 1:34:18
  And honestly, for the Joe Rogans out
• 1:34:20
  there who helped facilitate this, I'm
• 1:34:22
  not done
• 1:34:23
  frying you.
• 1:34:25
  And for the UFC who helped make all this
• 1:34:27
  misery possible, I am I will never be
• 1:34:30
  done frying you. I'm going to make sure
• 1:34:33
  for the rest of my days
• 1:34:35
  that when it counted, you people turned
• 1:34:38
  your back
• 1:34:39
  on America.
• 1:34:41
  That's exactly what you did. Look at the
• 1:34:43
  result. Do people look happy with your
• 1:34:46
  advocacy?
• 1:34:51
  Do they look pleased?
• 1:34:55
  They are livid at the ruin you have
• 1:34:59
  brought upon the world.
• 1:35:01
  And it will never be forgotten. You will
• 1:35:04
  never break this association. You will
• 1:35:06
  be associated with this malignant loser
• 1:35:10
  political movement
• 1:35:13
  for the rest of time.
• 1:35:17
  Enjoy that.
• 1:35:21
  Okay, let's talk a little bit about some
• 1:35:22
  ballot initiatives in a few different
• 1:35:24
  places cuz there were some Ls that we
• 1:35:25
  There was a bunch of wins, too, but
• 1:35:26
  there were some Ls. Very quickly,
• 1:35:28
  abortion was on a lot of different
• 1:35:32
  statewide ballots. Okay, Missouri,
• 1:35:34
  voters defeated an amendment that would
• 1:35:36
  have reimposed restrictions on most
• 1:35:37
  abortions, so they defeated it. Um
• 1:35:41
  I think it was yes 55.5%.
• 1:35:44
  Virginia, as I indicated, the they had
• 1:35:47
  an amendment that had 62% consecrating
• 1:35:50
  reproductive rights in their
• 1:35:50
  constitution. Idaho, uh their
• 1:35:53
  proposition one did not pass.
• 1:35:55
  Well, it's not fully counted yet. So,
• 1:35:57
  you know what, we'll go back to that
• 1:35:58
  one. Missouri, we kind of already talked
• 1:35:59
  about this. Voters ended the GOP Oh, how
• 1:36:01
  about gerrymandering backfiring?
• 1:36:04
  Gerrymandering in so many districts that
• 1:36:06
  the Dems either held or flipped.
• 1:36:08
  Didn't even mention gerrymandering.
• 1:36:10
  Gerrymandering was a huge part of this
• 1:36:12
  and it backfired completely. But to that
• 1:36:14
  end, in Missouri, voters ended the GOP
• 1:36:17
  drawn map by rejecting the redistricting
• 1:36:18
  legislation. In Maryland, voters
• 1:36:20
  approved an amendment that could clear
• 1:36:22
  the way for a new congressional
• 1:36:23
  districts in 2028. And by the way, the
• 1:36:25
  one in Missouri also makes it harder to
• 1:36:27
  change the map going forward,
• 1:36:29
  which is big. Taxes is an interesting
• 1:36:31
  one. In Florida, Amendment 3 won 62% of
• 1:36:35
  the vote, two points above the state's
• 1:36:36
  62% supermajority.
• 1:36:40
  Uh and this, by the way, is one of the
• 1:36:43
  largest property tax cuts in the state's
• 1:36:45
  history. We have seen boomers say that
• 1:36:47
  they don't want property taxes. I don't
• 1:36:50
  think that's a viable thing, but it did
• 1:36:51
  pass
• 1:36:52
  in Florida. California, Proposition 40
• 1:36:54
  failed. This was the billionaire tax.
• 1:36:57
  Um the five the one-time 5% billionaire
• 1:37:00
  tax, it failed. Ro Khanna has pledged to
• 1:37:03
  reintroduce this, so we'll get to that,
• 1:37:06
  um
• 1:37:07
  maybe at a later date, but that did
• 1:37:08
  fail. I'm
• 1:37:09
  People were I think a little bit scared
• 1:37:10
  about industry leaving the state. That
• 1:37:12
  those these threats tend to work on the
• 1:37:14
  populis- population, but nevertheless,
• 1:37:17
  uh in Washington, the millionaire tax
• 1:37:19
  repeal did not pass, 58% to 41%
• 1:37:23
  uh with only 60% of the vote is still
• 1:37:25
  in, so that maybe that might change.
• 1:37:28
  Voters defeated a 60% threshold for
• 1:37:29
  citizens initiatives that raise taxes.
• 1:37:32
  In voter ID, California and Colorado
• 1:37:34
  both rejected new voter ID mandates. In
• 1:37:37
  Ohio and North Carolina, uh Ohio's
• 1:37:39
  measure
• 1:37:40
  passed and North Carolina's is leading.
• 1:37:43
  Um but there's still 60% so we'll come
• 1:37:45
  back to North Carolina. In citizenship
• 1:37:47
  amendments in Arkansas, Kansas, and
• 1:37:49
  South Dakota, West Virginia, they all
• 1:37:50
  approved amendments limiting voting to
• 1:37:52
  US citizens, which is kind of a waste,
• 1:37:54
  but whatever.
• 1:37:56
  Rules for ballot measures, North Dakota
• 1:37:57
  and South Dakota defeated measures
• 1:37:59
  requiring 60% approval to amend their
• 1:38:00
  constitutions. Missouri voters favored
• 1:38:03
  an amendment requiring an 80%
• 1:38:04
  legislative vote to revise voter
• 1:38:06
  approved initiatives. That's the same
• 1:38:07
  one for the maps as well.
• 1:38:09
  Uh Nebraska voters approved adding
• 1:38:11
  existing transgender medical
• 1:38:12
  restrictions to the state constitution.
• 1:38:15
  Uh Washington also had a bill that
• 1:38:17
  requires, I think, examination of
• 1:38:19
  genitalia for high school sports. So,
• 1:38:21
  there were some rollbacks on transgender
• 1:38:23
  stuff. Massachusetts NBC marks the Let's
• 1:38:26
  see.
• 1:38:28
  Uh
• 1:38:29
  oh, marijuana legalization repeal did
• 1:38:30
  not pass 75% to 24% in Massachusetts
• 1:38:34
  somewhere. I like Saagar, but I'm sure
• 1:38:35
  he's unhappy about that. So, we're still
• 1:38:37
  working through Arizona's Prop 144,
• 1:38:39
  Nevada's Question 7. We don't have
• 1:38:41
  anything on that.
• 1:38:43
  Um we'll see. But, those are some of the
• 1:38:45
  ballot initiatives that we have there.
• 1:38:47
  Okay.
• 1:38:48
  Uh
• 1:38:49
  Let's take a moment to pause. I've been
• 1:38:51
  doing this for about an hour and 40.
• 1:38:54
  If you've got a question for the super
• 1:38:55
  chat, if you want to put in a super chat
• 1:38:56
  to to help me out, I really appreciate
• 1:38:58
  that. Certainly under no obligation. It
• 1:39:00
  goes a long way. We'll take a look at
• 1:39:01
  that in a minute. Let me grab a a drink
• 1:39:02
  here.
• 1:39:07
  All right.
• 1:39:10
  My phone, I don't know about your phone,
• 1:39:11
  but my phone's been blowing the [ __ ] up.
• 1:39:16
  Here we go.
• 1:39:19
  Damn. Vote Hub has moved the Mississippi
• 1:39:22
  and Alaska Senate races to lean
• 1:39:24
  Democratic. If they win, that means they
• 1:39:26
  get 56 seats. Dude, I thought they were
• 1:39:28
  going to get 53 at the high end.
• 1:39:32
  They might get 56. They have moved both
• 1:39:34
  Mississippi and Alaska
• 1:39:36
  at Vote Hub. Vote Hub to me is like gold
• 1:39:38
  standard.
• 1:39:39
  But, they say that right now it's still
• 1:39:40
  too close to call.
• 1:39:42
  Can you imagine they get 56?
• 1:39:45
  56?
• 1:39:48
  Unbelievable.
• 1:39:50
  All right. Let's see what you guys got
• 1:39:52
  here.
• 1:39:57
  Oh my god, there's a bunch. Holy [ __ ]
• 1:39:59
  Okay.
• 1:40:00
  Thank you so much. I really appreciate
• 1:40:01
  it. Let's go through this. Ben says,
• 1:40:03
  "Thank you, Luke." Thank you, Ben. I
• 1:40:04
  can't put these on the screen yet. I'm
• 1:40:06
  I'm having a lingering YouTube issue
• 1:40:08
  that won't let me connect it to my
• 1:40:09
  StreamYard account. We've been trying to
• 1:40:10
  solve it for a while. YouTube, if you
• 1:40:12
  see this, please help me.
• 1:40:14
  Um
• 1:40:16
  A gentleman writes, the Brewers, David
• 1:40:17
  Crowley, Dems flipping the state
• 1:40:19
  assembly and Senate, and Fran Hong being
• 1:40:21
  the complete opposite of Haley Stevens,
• 1:40:23
  it's been a great couple of weeks to be
• 1:40:24
  a Wisconsinite. Congratu- I didn't even
• 1:40:26
  cover Wisconsin. Congratulations to
• 1:40:28
  those folks as well. And by the way, in
• 1:40:31
  Texas, four of the seats that got turned
• 1:40:34
  Dem were for the state Supreme Court,
• 1:40:36
  including Chief Justice.
• 1:40:41
  LG once said, if we nominate Oh, yes,
• 1:40:43
  Lindsey Graham said, if we nominate
• 1:40:45
  Trump, we will get destroyed and we
• 1:40:47
  deserve it. It's poetic that came true
• 1:40:49
  in the day his sister lost his Senate
• 1:40:51
  seat.
• 1:40:55
  Luke, you have truly This person writes,
• 1:40:57
  Donovan writes, Luke, you have truly
• 1:40:58
  helped shape my political understanding
• 1:41:00
  and gotten me more invested into
• 1:41:01
  politics. Your perspective has been a
• 1:41:02
  much-needed wake-up call. Keep telling
• 1:41:04
  the truth. Thank you, sir. I really
• 1:41:05
  appreciate that. I appreciate your
• 1:41:06
  donation. Here's a $100 donation from
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  Mac a Doodle. Giddy up. Bang bang. Thank
• 1:41:12
  you, sir. Very, very, very, very
• 1:41:13
  generous donation. Thank you. I really
• 1:41:15
  appreciate it.
• 1:41:16
  Um with this blue wave, what realistic
• 1:41:18
  impact can come from if they engage in
• 1:41:21
  meaningful governance, at least for
• 1:41:23
  2027? So, what I'm hearing and what I
• 1:41:25
  think is circulating around Washington
• 1:41:27
  is, again, I just mentioned for the
• 1:41:29
  Senate, for example, blocking judicial
• 1:41:31
  nominations and the House
• 1:41:32
  investigations. But, the first thing
• 1:41:33
  that I'm hearing that they want to go
• 1:41:35
  after to fix is the healthcare
• 1:41:37
  subsidies.
• 1:41:39
  I We covered this. I interviewed Dean
• 1:41:41
  Baker on my Substack. I put it here on
• 1:41:42
  this channel as well.
• 1:41:44
  I interviewed the economist Dean Baker,
• 1:41:46
  and we went through the as Abdul
• 1:41:48
  al-Sayyid calls it, the big ugly bill,
• 1:41:49
  but the big beautiful bill, I guess act
• 1:41:51
  now, uh was the bill before. Big
• 1:41:53
  beautiful act, whatever the [ __ ] it's
• 1:41:55
  called.
• 1:41:56
  Um they put in some of the cuts to uh
• 1:42:00
  rural hospitals and some of the of the
• 1:42:02
  cuts to the subsidies after the the So,
• 1:42:05
  it's about to get even worse. My
• 1:42:07
  understanding is in January they want to
• 1:42:09
  hit the ground running and claw all of
• 1:42:10
  that back. Now, whether Trump will go on
• 1:42:13
  board with that, I don't know, but
• 1:42:14
  again, they're going to put in front of
• 1:42:16
  Trump legislation that says, "We dare
• 1:42:18
  you to veto it." "We dare you to veto
• 1:42:20
  it." That is going to be absolutely
• 1:42:22
  critical. Tariffs, pulling all of those
• 1:42:25
  back. War Powers Resolutions, pulling
• 1:42:27
  all of that back. There's a lot of
• 1:42:28
  things that they can actually do. But
• 1:42:30
  again, I've been very clear, the real
• 1:42:31
  change for like if you're going to get
• 1:42:33
  Medicare for all, if that's even
• 1:42:35
  happening, or the relieving of medical
• 1:42:37
  debt, how about the relieving of student
• 1:42:38
  debt? I know it's a little more
• 1:42:39
  controversial, but I'm completely in
• 1:42:40
  favor of it.
• 1:42:42
  Um all of that might happen, I think,
• 1:42:45
  you know, after 2028 if we can get a Dem
• 1:42:47
  in the White House.
• 1:42:49
  Is now the time the progressive wing
• 1:42:51
  uses their leverage to force a decent
• 1:42:53
  speaker
• 1:42:54
  um of the House or a core issue like
• 1:42:56
  M4A? Huge miss in 2020.
• 1:42:59
  M4A, maybe. I'll even say slightly yes.
• 1:43:03
  I saw exit polling 60% of people, 60% of
• 1:43:06
  voters yesterday were in favor of
• 1:43:09
  everyone having health care. 60%.
• 1:43:12
  This can be done.
• 1:43:14
  But the Speaker of the House bit, I
• 1:43:16
  don't know how that's going to go.
• 1:43:18
  There is all these designs on making him
• 1:43:19
  the first black Speaker of the House for
• 1:43:21
  Hakeem Jeffries. And unfortunately, AOC
• 1:43:24
  endorsed it. Mondaire was you know, I I
• 1:43:26
  realize he's not a national Dem, but he
• 1:43:27
  has a national Dem role.
• 1:43:29
  He endorsed it. I cannot [ __ ] believe
• 1:43:32
  they did that. Again, it's not all
• 1:43:34
  complete
• 1:43:36
  everything is great. The mo- many many
• 1:43:38
  things are great, but that is not. I
• 1:43:40
  don't think so with that, unfortunately.
• 1:43:42
  Schumer's a different case,
• 1:43:44
  but not Jeffries, not right now,
• 1:43:46
  unfortunately.
• 1:43:47
  Charles says, "Keep it up, Luke. I'm
• 1:43:48
  doing my best."
• 1:43:51
  Mr. Fancy says, "With Dems taking
• 1:43:52
  control of Congress, how do you think
• 1:43:54
  this will impact TKO's ability to pass
• 1:43:55
  the Ali Boxing Revival Act?" So, they
• 1:43:58
  can still just stuff it through this
• 1:44:00
  time.
• 1:44:01
  They can still there's
• 1:44:02
  there's a big mechanism for them to be
• 1:44:03
  able to do that now. The the the
• 1:44:06
  there's they don't even have to attach
• 1:44:08
  it to another bill at this
• 1:44:09
  Um
• 1:44:10
  uh because of what Cruz did with uh the
• 1:44:13
  including the Senate language in the
• 1:44:14
  house bill.
• 1:44:15
  So, they can just ram that through.
• 1:44:17
  Whether they will or not, I don't know.
• 1:44:20
  My guess is that the TKO lobbyists are
• 1:44:22
  going to be just murdering the phones
• 1:44:25
  to get them to do it. Um so, it's still
• 1:44:28
  very possible. Now, if they don't do it
• 1:44:31
  for whatever reason uh by the way, like
• 1:44:33
  is Trump going to go to war now with
• 1:44:34
  Iran again? There was all this talk
• 1:44:36
  about there's going to be bombing
• 1:44:37
  afterwards. Are we still going to do
• 1:44:38
  that? Look at how unpopular the war is.
• 1:44:40
  Are they just going to go right back to
• 1:44:41
  it?
• 1:44:43
  I mean, MAGA's been doing dumbass [ __ ]
• 1:44:45
  this whole time. What would stop them, I
• 1:44:48
  suppose?
• 1:44:49
  But, something else to consider from
• 1:44:50
  this election, there is no American
• 1:44:52
  appetite for it.
• 1:44:54
  So,
• 1:44:56
  um I don't know what that will do in
• 1:44:58
  terms of providing a potential
• 1:44:59
  distraction to all of this. I It's hard
• 1:45:01
  to say. But, once we get a new
• 1:45:03
  Democratic Congress. Now, I realize that
• 1:45:05
  it's been very, very, you know, even
• 1:45:07
  Ilhan Omar voted for in the House
• 1:45:10
  Education and Workforce Committee for
• 1:45:12
  the AALI Act, which is insanely
• 1:45:13
  disappointing. It has had worked on a
• 1:45:15
  bipartisan basis. But, I think there's
• 1:45:17
  going to be a lot more friction in the
• 1:45:19
  next Congress. And also, it's just not
• 1:45:21
  going to be a priority for them.
• 1:45:23
  Like, the time to do it is now.
• 1:45:27
  Um followed your career for a decade
• 1:45:29
  plus. Just wanted to give you some love
• 1:45:30
  and show support for your new endeavors.
• 1:45:32
  Great to see you feeling optimistic.
• 1:45:33
  Thanks, man.
• 1:45:36
  I have been
• 1:45:40
  So many things have happened in my life
• 1:45:41
  since the death of Showtime.
• 1:45:44
  Showtime went away.
• 1:45:46
  MMA became this MAGAfied [ __ ]
• 1:45:49
  cesspool.
• 1:45:50
  I mean, that was in motion before, but
• 1:45:52
  it really congealed at that time. The
• 1:45:54
  world got set on fire. I lost my co-host
• 1:45:57
  on my podcast.
• 1:45:59
  You know what I mean? Like, dude, it's
• 1:46:01
  been [ __ ] rough.
• 1:46:03
  It's been rough. I've had a hard time.
• 1:46:05
  I'm not You know, I'm not even going to
• 1:46:06
  lie. Like, I've had a hard time.
• 1:46:08
  I've had a really hard time.
• 1:46:10
  And I wanted to do something productive
• 1:46:12
  with my time. So, I got into this kind
• 1:46:14
  of coverage, and I don't regret it for a
• 1:46:16
  second.
• 1:46:17
  Today's like days like today make me
• 1:46:19
  realize I I feel like I made the right
• 1:46:21
  call to kind of lean into this stuff.
• 1:46:23
  I'm going to be on CNN on Friday.
• 1:46:25
  You know what I mean?
• 1:46:27
  So,
• 1:46:28
  for those who have been around for a
• 1:46:29
  long time and have shown me love and
• 1:46:31
  shown me support, thank you so much.
• 1:46:34
  Honestly, without you guys the last 3
• 1:46:36
  years, I don't know where I'd be. And
• 1:46:38
  that's not like, "Oh, I don't know I
• 1:46:39
  don't know where I'd be." like in some
• 1:46:40
  kind of insincere way. I'm being [ __ ]
• 1:46:42
  serious.
• 1:46:44
  I don't know I don't know where I'd be.
• 1:46:45
  I'd be
• 1:46:47
  back in some office job doing PR for
• 1:46:49
  somebody.
• 1:46:50
  Probably. I don't know.
• 1:46:53
  Maybe I'd be stocking shelves somewhere.
• 1:46:54
  I mean, I don't know. I generally don't
• 1:46:55
  know, you know, I don't know what would
• 1:46:56
  even what I would even be doing with my
• 1:46:58
  life.
• 1:47:00
  So, for all the people who have been day
• 1:47:02
  ones or at least long-time supporters,
• 1:47:05
  um
• 1:47:05
  you have no idea how much this has meant
• 1:47:08
  to me.
• 1:47:09
  Thank you.
• 1:47:10
  All right. Alex says, "Luke, I have
• 1:47:11
  loved your political coverage. You've
• 1:47:13
  kept me sane. Thank you. Thank you." I
• 1:47:15
  want the Dems to walk and chew gum, send
• 1:47:17
  single-issue bills to Trump's desk, and
• 1:47:19
  force him to vote Medicare for all,
• 1:47:21
  stock trading ban, AI moratorium, and
• 1:47:23
  subpoenas. Yes, stock trading ban's
• 1:47:24
  going to be a big one. AI moratorium's
• 1:47:26
  going to be a big one. Um you've seen a
• 1:47:28
  lot of people saying we should get like
• 1:47:30
  a I think I saw Adam Mackler arguing
• 1:47:32
  this where like get a bill that's like
• 1:47:34
  an affordability bill, and it's about
• 1:47:35
  something focused on one particular form
• 1:47:37
  of affordability, and send it to Trump's
• 1:47:39
  desk, and make him veto it. Make them
• 1:47:42
  say why they're vetoing it. And try to
• 1:47:44
  like connect messaging with actionable
• 1:47:46
  law that you're putting on the
• 1:47:47
  president's desk and making it fight
• 1:47:49
  out. Maybe some of that stuff works and
• 1:47:51
  you get it through, and if it doesn't,
• 1:47:52
  then you are setting yourself up for an
• 1:47:54
  even greater domination in '28.
• 1:47:57
  C-shank says, "Not American, but good to
• 1:47:59
  see you generally invigorated and happy.
• 1:48:01
  Have family and friends in Texas."
• 1:48:03
  So, Bo French losing in Texas flipping
• 1:48:06
  raised a smile. Yeah, man.
• 1:48:08
  That racist piece of [ __ ]
• 1:48:10
  Luke so glad I get to still follow your
• 1:48:12
  work after I've become disillusioned
• 1:48:13
  with MMA. Keep it up. Thank you for your
• 1:48:15
  support, man. I appreciate it.
• 1:48:17
  This gentleman writes,
• 1:48:19
  uh today is a good day. Woke up and
• 1:48:20
  bumped Ice Cube's hit to celebrate this
• 1:48:23
  blue wave. Been following you for 20
• 1:48:25
  years. Semper Fi. Semper Fi to you, sir.
• 1:48:27
  Semper Fi to you.
• 1:48:29
  All right. Having recently moved to
• 1:48:30
  Florida to help take care of family, I'm
• 1:48:32
  disappointed Angie Nixon didn't win, but
• 1:48:34
  do you think her run is synonymous with
• 1:48:36
  a shift in the state given how close it
• 1:48:39
  was?
• 1:48:42
  It's The state didn't move in the same
• 1:48:44
  kinds of ways that other places,
• 1:48:46
  obviously. But again, the point is is
• 1:48:48
  the Dems were sleepwalking through
• 1:48:50
  Florida.
• 1:48:51
  So, what do these numbers look like if
• 1:48:53
  they're putting the same kind of money
• 1:48:55
  Okay, okay, the Tallerico race was the
• 1:48:56
  most expensive race in Senate history.
• 1:48:58
  Pick that Pick any other one, Elsahyed
• 1:49:01
  or any of the other major Senate races.
• 1:49:03
  If they put that kind of money in those
• 1:49:06
  kinds of organizational grassroots, door
• 1:49:09
  knocking, phone banking,
• 1:49:11
  mailers, ads on TVs, oh Imagine if Obama
• 1:49:15
  had circled to Florida.
• 1:49:18
  Imagine if he'd done that. Imagine if
• 1:49:19
  Obama had said, "Hey, listen, you guys
• 1:49:21
  got to get behind Angie Nixon down
• 1:49:22
  here." What would the result be today?
• 1:49:25
  So, the result the Everyone looking
• 1:49:26
  like, "Oh, Angie Nixon underperformed."
• 1:49:28
  Angie Nixon didn't have a [ __ ]
• 1:49:30
  fraction
• 1:49:32
  of the help the other candidates did,
• 1:49:34
  and she came within a spitting distance
• 1:49:36
  in the belly of the beast.
• 1:49:38
  If anything, if anything, if there is
• 1:49:41
  any takeaway
• 1:49:43
  from Florida, it is that Angie Nixon is
• 1:49:45
  a lion.
• 1:49:47
  A lion of a campaigner. L I O N.
• 1:49:51
  A of a campaign A lioness
• 1:49:54
  of a campaigner and an organizer and a
• 1:49:56
  candidate. She is viable. She is an
• 1:49:59
  absolute threat to Ashley Moody in 2028,
• 1:50:03
  and I can't wait to call her senator, as
• 1:50:05
  well.
• 1:50:08
  Um is such a huge victory possibly
• 1:50:10
  ammunition by the administration to push
• 1:50:12
  more election denial conspiracy? I don't
• 1:50:14
  think so.
• 1:50:15
  And subsequently push to grab more
• 1:50:17
  dictatorial power to protect elections.
• 1:50:19
  I don't think Trump's got the stomach
• 1:50:20
  for it and as I indicated the electoral
• 1:50:22
  win margin is so great that how are you
• 1:50:25
  going to do that when all the different
• 1:50:26
  states administer it? Dude, they're
• 1:50:28
  going to win in
• 1:50:31
  They're going to win in Mississippi.
• 1:50:37
  Like how
• 1:50:39
  That's an utterly different system from
• 1:50:40
  Florida. It's an utterly different
• 1:50:41
  system from
• 1:50:43
  Michigan,
• 1:50:44
  from Minnesota.
• 1:50:47
  It's They're all different. Like you
• 1:50:49
  They They managed to run all of these
• 1:50:50
  operations and all the The Dems can't do
• 1:50:52
  that. They're not that good at this.
• 1:50:55
  What are we talking about?
• 1:50:58
  They They tried to get another Dan
• 1:50:59
  Sullivan on the ballot and they did in
• 1:51:01
  Alaska.
• 1:51:03
  That's the That's about it. You They
• 1:51:04
  They call that ballot stacking. That's
• 1:51:06
  about what you're going to get from
• 1:51:07
  them, you know?
• 1:51:09
  Fetterman no longer matters. Great
• 1:51:12
  point.
• 1:51:13
  Great point. Fetterman, oh, I'm going to
• 1:51:16
  leave the caucus. Bye, [ __ ]
• 1:51:19
  I'll help you pack your [ __ ]
• 1:51:23
  We don't need your [ __ ] ass at all. And
• 1:51:24
  by the way,
• 1:51:27
  what threat to go to the Republicans?
• 1:51:29
  You're going to go to them now?
• 1:51:31
  How about Haley Stevens getting behind
• 1:51:33
  Mike Rogers at the worst possible time?
• 1:51:37
  Fetterman's going to join them now?
• 1:51:40
  Go.
• 1:51:41
  In the words of Yoel Romero, go.
• 1:51:44
  Go.
• 1:51:49
  LT, how do you think Rogan with Blexit's
• 1:51:51
  Mar, especially right with it after his
• 1:51:53
  second dinner with Hitler, will react to
• 1:51:55
  this? Everyone who rode the vibes in 24
• 1:51:57
  clearly not knowing [ __ ] all about
• 1:51:59
  politics. The come up and sincere. I'll
• 1:52:01
  be curious to see what Mar says because
• 1:52:03
  again, I'm watching a lot of folks who
• 1:52:05
  are super pro centrist candidates get
• 1:52:08
  out there and say, "Well, what this
• 1:52:09
  really shows is that what America wants
• 1:52:10
  is centrist." Yeah, what America wants
• 1:52:12
  is more of the [ __ ] ass same stuff
• 1:52:14
  the Democrats have been doing. Get the
• 1:52:15
  [ __ ] out of here. But they might try
• 1:52:16
  that. He might try that. I don't really
• 1:52:18
  know.
• 1:52:19
  But at the same time what's he going to
• 1:52:21
  say about Tell Rico being I'm against
• 1:52:23
  AIPAC or obviously El Sayed winning is
• 1:52:26
  [ __ ] 9/11 for him, you know.
• 1:52:28
  Um I'll be curious to about that, but I
• 1:52:30
  I
• 1:52:31
  I suspect he's going to find cope. The
• 1:52:33
  Rogan one to me is a little bit more
• 1:52:34
  interesting.
• 1:52:35
  The Rogan one to me I I'm very curious
• 1:52:37
  to see what he says. I'm not letting my
• 1:52:39
  foot off his neck at all.
• 1:52:41
  Not even a little bit.
• 1:52:44
  All those people who cheerlead this
• 1:52:46
  misery.
• 1:52:47
  Nobody wanted this [ __ ] or just not not
• 1:52:49
  like this.
• 1:52:51
  Except sadists and morons. That's what
• 1:52:54
  this party is about, sadists and morons.
• 1:52:57
  People who are like, "Yeah, we really
• 1:52:58
  need to
• 1:52:59
  you know,
• 1:53:00
  we really need to make [ __ ] more
• 1:53:01
  expensive. Hey, hey, should we hunt
• 1:53:05
  Latinos?
• 1:53:07
  People will love that.
• 1:53:09
  It's been kind of funny, too, I might
• 1:53:10
  add. I want to point this out. No one is
• 1:53:12
  saying this, but I'm going to say this.
• 1:53:14
  Immigration reform, I don't think is
• 1:53:16
  likely in '26.
• 1:53:17
  But, Dems, if they really were smart,
• 1:53:20
  would push immigration reform in '28 cuz
• 1:53:22
  Latinos are expecting it.
• 1:53:25
  They are expecting it.
• 1:53:28
  I guarantee they are expecting it. I bet
• 1:53:30
  there are cross-tabs that show this.
• 1:53:32
  That what they are looking for is
• 1:53:33
  meaningful change, real immigration
• 1:53:35
  reform, so that people can can, by the
• 1:53:38
  way, have rights protected, but have to
• 1:53:40
  stop living in the shadows.
• 1:53:43
  No one wants to say that out loud. I'm
• 1:53:45
  saying it out loud.
• 1:53:46
  I'm saying it out loud.
• 1:53:48
  I think that's actually going to be a
• 1:53:49
  big thing that
• 1:53:51
  is going to be expected of them.
• 1:53:53
  Uh it's it's a big job that they've got.
• 1:53:55
  I mean, let's be clear about that, too,
• 1:53:56
  right? Like, it's a huge job that
• 1:53:57
  they've got.
• 1:53:58
  Um but, for Rogan, I don't know.
• 1:54:02
  I don't know what he's going to say.
• 1:54:04
  I mean, it to his credit he was he's
• 1:54:07
  been pretty positive about James Tell
• 1:54:08
  Rico.
• 1:54:09
  I think Rogan actually likes him. So,
• 1:54:12
  and and and and Rogan was clear before
• 1:54:13
  the election that he liked him. He had
• 1:54:15
  him on the show. So, that won't be a big
• 1:54:17
  change. I think that is going to be a
• 1:54:18
  thing. But, you know, he's taken
• 1:54:19
  pictures and partied with Greg Abbott.
• 1:54:21
  I'd love to hear what he has to say
• 1:54:22
  about Uvalde.
• 1:54:25
  It
• 1:54:26
  He cheer led one of the most malignant,
• 1:54:29
  evil, fascistic,
• 1:54:31
  punitive, low IQ political movements
• 1:54:35
  of all time in this country. You are
• 1:54:37
  going to pay for that.
• 1:54:39
  I will see to it.
• 1:54:42
  Look at me. I will [ __ ] see to it.
• 1:54:47
  Vance is blaming the war on the loss.
• 1:54:50
  Yeah, I know. It's like, don't get me
• 1:54:52
  wrong, it contributed to stuff,
• 1:54:54
  but
• 1:54:56
  I
• 1:54:57
  the war is a big deal with with like the
• 1:54:59
  pricing. It's a It's a huge thing, but
• 1:55:01
  like that's not the only reason you
• 1:55:02
  [ __ ] lost.
• 1:55:04
  Right? There's a lot of other reasons
• 1:55:06
  why you lost, too. There's
• 1:55:07
  several.
• 1:55:10
  Next up, boot Schumer and Jeffries for
• 1:55:11
  some folks with cojones. I hope. I hope.
• 1:55:14
  Let's prosecute these fraudsters and
• 1:55:16
  like Abdul said, more money in our
• 1:55:17
  pockets and Medicare for all. No doubt
• 1:55:19
  about it.
• 1:55:20
  Uh Malone writes, "Now that Texas has
• 1:55:22
  turned blue and Governor Hot Wheels is
• 1:55:24
  out of office, do you think that Joe
• 1:55:26
  Rogan will move out of Texas?" Where's
• 1:55:28
  he going to go?
• 1:55:29
  Where's he going to go? Florida? Oh, he
• 1:55:30
  could go to Florida.
• 1:55:32
  He could go to Florida. Yeah. Miami-Dade
• 1:55:34
  County, this is where it's at. These
• 1:55:35
  Cubans, they know what's up, you know?
• 1:55:40
  What percentage of these new Dem winners
• 1:55:42
  are corporate center Dems? Semper Fi
• 1:55:44
  brother, happy early USMC B day.
• 1:55:47
  Many, most.
• 1:55:49
  Most. That's most of what the party
• 1:55:51
  still is.
• 1:55:52
  You know what I mean? That's still a lot
• 1:55:53
  of what it is.
• 1:55:54
  We should not We should be clear-eyed
• 1:55:56
  that like it's still an uphill battle
• 1:55:59
  on the Israel issue, for example. But
• 1:56:01
  like also look at the polling.
• 1:56:04
  It's becoming a bipartisan consensus on
• 1:56:06
  both bases that Israel is a huge
• 1:56:09
  problem.
• 1:56:11
  So,
• 1:56:15
  I don't want to say that there
• 1:56:18
  is no room for optimism. That's not what
• 1:56:20
  I'm saying. But what I am saying is
• 1:56:23
  um
• 1:56:25
  it's still an uphill climb.
• 1:56:27
  Dude, it's a big thing that we're trying
• 1:56:29
  to do. Israel has dominated our politics
• 1:56:32
  the Israel lobby has dominated American
• 1:56:33
  politics
• 1:56:35
  honestly, since Truman.
• 1:56:38
  Truman was pressured to declare an
• 1:56:40
  Israel before his national security
• 1:56:41
  advisers were ready and many of them
• 1:56:43
  thought it was a bad idea outright and
• 1:56:44
  he got pressured by the Israel lobby to
• 1:56:46
  do it.
• 1:56:47
  And he did.
• 1:56:49
  Even before there was something even
• 1:56:50
  known as an Israel.
• 1:56:54
  So like it's been a problem for a long
• 1:56:55
  time. That's going to it's going to be a
• 1:56:56
  hard one to solve, but but their
• 1:56:58
  momentum is there. Clearly, look at the
• 1:57:01
  appetite for it.
• 1:57:03
  You know.
• 1:57:05
  Bummed by Ron won in Florida, but the
• 1:57:06
  gap is closed. Yeah. Yeah. David Jolly
• 1:57:09
  and by the way, this is the other part
• 1:57:10
  about Angie Nixon in Florida. David
• 1:57:12
  Jolly did not outperform her.
• 1:57:15
  The centrist, the former Republican.
• 1:57:18
  He didn't outperform her at all.
• 1:57:20
  So like this idea like here's a here's a
• 1:57:22
  a a single political environment,
• 1:57:25
  Florida, where you have an insurgent you
• 1:57:28
  know, Democratic Socialist versus
• 1:57:30
  the all-time, you know, what you want to
• 1:57:33
  call it, like
• 1:57:34
  centrist candidate and
• 1:57:37
  he didn't in any way outperform her.
• 1:57:39
  What does that tell you?
• 1:57:42
  Thoughts on Chris Van Hollen for Senate
• 1:57:44
  leader? I don't know if he has the
• 1:57:45
  votes, but I would love it. Ro Khanna
• 1:57:47
  for House Speaker would be amazing, but
• 1:57:48
  I don't I don't think there's much of a
• 1:57:49
  groundswell for it. Richard Ojeda is a
• 1:57:51
  savage. He Oh, we didn't even talk about
• 1:57:53
  Richard Ojeda beating
• 1:57:55
  um what's his name?
• 1:57:57
  God, who did he beat?
• 1:57:59
  The donk who was in charge
• 1:58:01
  of um
• 1:58:02
  uh the party's hand the party handing
• 1:58:04
  out money to all the other candidates in
• 1:58:07
  various races and Ojeda beat him.
• 1:58:10
  Uh what the [ __ ] was his name? I forget.
• 1:58:13
  He's going to be an infusion of energy
• 1:58:14
  and will circa AOC doing a sit-in in
• 1:58:16
  Pelosi's office. He does not suffer
• 1:58:18
  fools gladly. Yeah. So Republican
• 1:58:20
  leadership got that flipped.
• 1:58:23
  Uh sorry, a Republican part of
• 1:58:24
  Republican leadership lost that race and
• 1:58:26
  it's a flip.
• 1:58:29
  In the end of Casino, Pesci's character
• 1:58:31
  does the voiceover
• 1:58:32
  "First one to skip town was John Nance."
• 1:58:36
  Which Trump Magadonk will be the first
• 1:58:37
  to skip town? Hopefully Flavio
• 1:58:39
  Bolsonaro.
• 1:58:41
  Right?
• 1:58:43
  Not only mowing the lawn, mowing at 3:00
• 1:58:45
  p.m. during the live chat. Hey,
• 1:58:46
  sometimes it happens. Is this the
• 1:58:48
  political equivalent of Olberg versus
• 1:58:50
  Yury?
• 1:58:52
  No.
• 1:58:55
  This is
• 1:58:56
  uh
• 1:58:59
  This is more [snorts] like Hoofy versus
• 1:59:01
  Chandler at the [ __ ] White House or
• 1:59:02
  something.
• 1:59:05
  Do you think the Dems should investigate
• 1:59:07
  Skydance? Break them up.
• 1:59:10
  What's his face?
• 1:59:11
  Senator Gallego was talking about
• 1:59:12
  breaking them up.
• 1:59:15
  Break them up.
• 1:59:18
  The electability argument from the likes
• 1:59:20
  of Neera Tanden, Sarah Longwell is dead
• 1:59:22
  and gone. I recognize that a variety of
• 1:59:23
  candidates won in a plethora of
• 1:59:24
  different plethora of different states.
• 1:59:26
  How does yesterday change the game and
• 1:59:28
  Overton window going to 28 early
• 1:59:30
  favorites? The idea that like you have
• 1:59:33
  to get these kinds of candidates to win
• 1:59:35
  or that these kinds of candidates curry
• 1:59:37
  the kind of ideological powering that
• 1:59:39
  recruits independents is just not true.
• 1:59:42
  Yes, in individual races, absolutely it
• 1:59:44
  can be it's certainly better than the
• 1:59:45
  Maga alternative. But the idea is that
• 1:59:48
  you oh you can only win with this way.
• 1:59:49
  You cannot win, right? The argument was
• 1:59:51
  El Sayed can't win. That Stevens was a
• 1:59:53
  better candidate, which clearly is just
• 1:59:55
  not not the case.
• 1:59:57
  You can win.
• 1:59:58
  You can win. You can absolutely win and
• 2:00:00
  you can win comfortably.
• 2:00:04
  Elon's probably got to flee the country
• 2:00:05
  now, right? I I I I would imagine
• 2:00:07
  Trump's going to pardon him.
• 2:00:09
  Yeah.
• 2:00:10
  How does this new Congress get any real
• 2:00:12
  policy pushed across the line with
• 2:00:13
  Schumer and AIPAC Jeffries
• 2:00:16
  um as party leads? Uh there's
• 2:00:21
  We shall see what they come up with.
• 2:00:23
  But I think even my diminished I mean
• 2:00:27
  the
• 2:00:28
  They're opportunists. They're
• 2:00:30
  opportunists. And that's good and that's
• 2:00:32
  bad. But like, dude, clearly this was a
• 2:00:34
  phenomenal night for the party. This is
• 2:00:37
  well in excess, I think, of their
• 2:00:39
  wildest dreams.
• 2:00:40
  This is a huge change. They feel
• 2:00:43
  emboldened to do stuff.
• 2:00:45
  Now,
• 2:00:46
  again, whether that will be enough and
• 2:00:48
  certainly whether Trump plays ball is
• 2:00:49
  another question. But all they have to
• 2:00:52
  do is look like they're doing something.
• 2:00:55
  Right? And of course, I know that's not
• 2:00:57
  what we want them to do. And ultimately,
• 2:00:59
  that won't be enough. But I'm saying for
• 2:01:00
  right now, while Trump is still in
• 2:01:01
  office,
• 2:01:02
  they have to force his hand.
• 2:01:05
  They have to force his hand. They have
• 2:01:07
  to force his hand through
• 2:01:08
  investigations, through anti-corruption
• 2:01:10
  laws,
• 2:01:11
  AI moratoriums, all that stuff. They
• 2:01:13
  have to put it on his desk and make him
• 2:01:16
  answer for it. And for the time being,
• 2:01:18
  that won't fix America's problems, but
• 2:01:20
  it will put us in a position to do so
• 2:01:22
  later.
• 2:01:26
  Let's go. Get bent, racist. I like the
• 2:01:28
  Brazilian uh
• 2:01:30
  uh uh
• 2:01:31
  rally cry, which is burn the racists.
• 2:01:37
  What do you think the ripple effects
• 2:01:39
  will be on the economy, AI, with
• 2:01:40
  full-blown regime change in Texas?
• 2:01:43
  >> [snorts]
• 2:01:44
  >> Again, this is going to be a function of
• 2:01:45
  just what kind of laws can get passed.
• 2:01:47
  Although,
• 2:01:48
  I don't know Dude, I haven't even looked
• 2:01:50
  into like what the the Texas Democratic
• 2:01:52
  Party, the the party within the state
• 2:01:54
  itself, just for state races in their
• 2:01:56
  house, in their Senate.
• 2:01:57
  I haven't even seen what their
• 2:01:59
  priorities are. I'd be very curious to
• 2:02:00
  take a look because now they're going to
• 2:02:02
  have an enormous amount of momentum.
• 2:02:04
  I suspect they're going to go after ICE.
• 2:02:06
  I think that's going to be a big one. I
• 2:02:07
  don't know how you can't. Especially
• 2:02:09
  with the governor now a Latina woman,
• 2:02:13
  like
• 2:02:14
  they're going to go after ICE.
• 2:02:18
  Hi Luke, first first super chat. Well,
• 2:02:19
  thank you. Love seeing the blue wave
• 2:02:21
  from Ireland. Great job on all you have
• 2:02:22
  done exposing this dire administration.
• 2:02:24
  Shout to Ireland.
• 2:02:25
  We love the Irish over here.
• 2:02:27
  Your channel has helped me politically.
• 2:02:28
  Thank you. Thank you for being here.
• 2:02:31
  Is there a precedent for a vote of no
• 2:02:32
  confidence for a speaker that has yet to
• 2:02:34
  be confirmed? I don't know what the
• 2:02:36
  history on that is. Can we encourage a
• 2:02:38
  new precedent or get a new one for
• 2:02:39
  Hakeem?
• 2:02:40
  I think the Hakeem one is kind of left
• 2:02:42
  the station. I don't really know why.
• 2:02:43
  It's the Schumer one as I've indicated I
• 2:02:45
  think it's still a little bit more
• 2:02:46
  possible.
• 2:02:47
  Repealing Citizens United. 1 billion
• 2:02:51
  percent. Again, possible. Not in the
• 2:02:53
  next 2 years, I don't think. Is Trump
• 2:02:55
  really going to allow that?
• 2:02:56
  But various states can do things as
• 2:02:58
  we've seen. And I do think after that
• 2:03:00
  they're going to go after Citizens
• 2:03:02
  United. There's no question. They can
• 2:03:04
  tell, dude, you can't let Elon Musk
• 2:03:07
  spend 500 million like he's just pissing
• 2:03:11
  you know, nothingness. It cannot you
• 2:03:13
  cannot have a democracy this way.
• 2:03:15
  They're going to go after Citizens
• 2:03:17
  United. There's no question in my mind.
• 2:03:20
  Here in North Carolina, they closed
• 2:03:22
  polling stations near colleges like
• 2:03:24
  NCA&T.
• 2:03:25
  250 students organized a walk in the
• 2:03:27
  polls.
• 2:03:28
  And that demon Virginia Fox has gone.
• 2:03:31
  Yeah, dude, they the Dude, again, in
• 2:03:34
  North Carolina there were the
• 2:03:35
  gerrymandered districts.
• 2:03:36
  North Carolina was ground zero for that.
• 2:03:39
  North Carolina was ground zero for the
• 2:03:41
  gerrymandered districts. And look at
• 2:03:42
  what happened.
• 2:03:44
  Mhm.
• 2:03:46
  Iglesias Cope is already saying Abdul's
• 2:03:48
  winning
• 2:03:49
  is as North Carolina is not as good as
• 2:03:53
  North Carolina, Ohio, and Kansas. Well,
• 2:03:54
  I mean, in some senses that's true.
• 2:03:57
  How do we navigate fight back in the
• 2:03:59
  internecine battle between the centrist
• 2:04:01
  establishment and progressive? Dude,
• 2:04:03
  they have moved the goalposts on this
• 2:04:05
  over and over and over and over again.
• 2:04:08
  They have said so many ways he can't
• 2:04:11
  win. This won't work.
• 2:04:14
  This is not doable. And if he does,
• 2:04:15
  he'll squeak. And none of it has proven
• 2:04:18
  true. So, they keep dialing it back and
• 2:04:20
  saying, well, he didn't win as much as
• 2:04:21
  Talarico. Talarico had a very different
• 2:04:24
  set of electoral circumstances. Some
• 2:04:25
  very unfavorable, some very favorable.
• 2:04:30
  And Elsayed didn't have hardly any of
• 2:04:32
  those. And again, the Democratic Party
• 2:04:34
  didn't turn its back on Talarico.
• 2:04:37
  They absolutely went to war with El
• 2:04:39
  Sayed.
• 2:04:40
  You mean that friction showed up
• 2:04:42
  electorally in some kind of way? Yeah, I
• 2:04:43
  bet it did.
• 2:04:45
  Not enough to matter, [ __ ]
• 2:04:47
  Not you, sir.
• 2:04:51
  Asked this 2 weeks ago, what happens if
• 2:04:53
  election night results aren't certified?
• 2:04:58
  Then we have Armageddon.
• 2:05:00
  You know, I I I just don't imagine
• 2:05:02
  that's going to happen, but
• 2:05:04
  Trump is not
• 2:05:06
  Trump is not talking like this.
• 2:05:08
  And he didn't talk like that the first
• 2:05:10
  time.
• 2:05:11
  This is different. Whether he keeps his
• 2:05:13
  word, I mean,
• 2:05:15
  your guess is as good as mine, but the
• 2:05:17
  the language is different.
• 2:05:21
  For the first time in a long time as a
• 2:05:22
  Canadian, I feel some relief about
• 2:05:23
  what's happening south. Happy to see
• 2:05:25
  good people winning. I'm sorry that
• 2:05:26
  we've done what we've done to Canada,
• 2:05:28
  but I'm hoping we can repair that.
• 2:05:30
  Shout-outs to Canada.
• 2:05:32
  MAGA still loading great again after 10
• 2:05:34
  years. Yeah, right. Good luck, you
• 2:05:35
  [ __ ] idiots.
• 2:05:37
  Love your content. Do you recommend the
• 2:05:38
  Israel Lobby book? I couldn't recommend
• 2:05:40
  it more highly.
• 2:05:41
  Any others? Red Team of Rivals, Power
• 2:05:43
  Broker and Rise of Roosevelt, and Want
• 2:05:45
  More, Rex. I've got some more
• 2:05:46
  recommendations for you. Here's one I'm
• 2:05:48
  about to start.
• 2:05:50
  So, first of all, the Israel Lobby book,
• 2:05:52
  you really got to read this one. I got I
• 2:05:54
  I I read I've read several books this
• 2:05:56
  year about Israel-Palestine, including
• 2:05:58
  Adam Johnson's
• 2:05:59
  um How to Sell a Genocide. It was a
• 2:06:01
  phenomenal book. I couldn't recommend
• 2:06:03
  that more, and particularly because all
• 2:06:04
  the royalties go to help out Palestinian
• 2:06:07
  um children's charities. So, there's a
• 2:06:09
  really good reason to buy that copy.
• 2:06:11
  However, in the case of the Israel Lobby
• 2:06:12
  book, I cannot think of something else I
• 2:06:14
  read this year, and I read Age of
• 2:06:16
  Extraction, I read Megan Greenwell's
• 2:06:18
  book on private equity, and all of these
• 2:06:19
  books were good. I recommend all of
• 2:06:20
  them. But the Israel Lobby book
• 2:06:23
  was had the most interesting information
• 2:06:26
  of all of them.
• 2:06:28
  And it laid bare something that seemed
• 2:06:30
  so hard to connect the dots. It's
• 2:06:32
  written by two Jewish guys, by the way.
• 2:06:33
  Two Jewish acade- uh investigative
• 2:06:35
  journalists and an academic. Like, these
• 2:06:37
  guys, they don't have any anti-Semitic
• 2:06:39
  motive. They're [ __ ] Jewish guys.
• 2:06:41
  Like,
• 2:06:42
  what what what anti-Semitic motive could
• 2:06:43
  they possibly have?
• 2:06:46
  You know, and I don't I don't mean to
• 2:06:47
  put that forward as like that's the most
• 2:06:48
  important way to understand their work.
• 2:06:49
  The most important way to understand
• 2:06:50
  their work is the is the is the
• 2:06:51
  scholarship that went into it. I'm
• 2:06:52
  simply pointing out like you can't
• 2:06:53
  impugn their motives. And they they
• 2:06:56
  explain everything in detail. The
• 2:06:59
  history, the tactics, the funding, the
• 2:07:01
  future, the whole nine yards. It is a
• 2:07:04
  revelatory book. The next one I'm about
• 2:07:06
  to start reading is this one,
• 2:07:09
  I think. Benjamin Moser's anti-Zionism.
• 2:07:11
  Basically, a guy traces the history of
• 2:07:13
  anti-Zionism or to to Zionism
• 2:07:16
  and realizes that the whole project is
• 2:07:19
  racist from the word go.
• 2:07:20
  Everything about it is racist.
• 2:07:22
  And he even said as a Jew like as far as
• 2:07:25
  he's concerned, everything that Israel
• 2:07:27
  is is Palestine. Now, I have to see what
• 2:07:28
  his arguments are for that. Those are
• 2:07:29
  his arguments. But, this has been this
• 2:07:32
  is apparently like this is what I mean
• 2:07:34
  about like confronting Israel. When you
• 2:07:35
  begin to do it, oh, well, we shouldn't
• 2:07:37
  sell them weapons. Oh, well, we should
• 2:07:38
  sanction them. Well, wait a second. As
• 2:07:40
  you pull on this string, it inevitably
• 2:07:43
  leads you to a place where you're like,
• 2:07:44
  dude, this whole
• 2:07:45
  nation-state project is [ __ ]
• 2:07:49
  Now, that doesn't mean there's a whole
• 2:07:50
  lot that necessarily can be done about
• 2:07:51
  that, but to understand it, I think it's
• 2:07:53
  actually pretty critical.
• 2:07:56
  LT, you're our dark woke commander. I'm
• 2:07:58
  a dark woke lieutenant. The dark woke
• 2:08:00
  commander is Cenk Uygur. I have to tip
• 2:08:03
  my hat to to senior military leadership,
• 2:08:05
  but I'll I'll be a nice lieutenant. You
• 2:08:08
  know, lieutenant
• 2:08:10
  what what what what rank was Worf
• 2:08:12
  in Star Trek: The Next Generation?
• 2:08:13
  Commander Worf? Yeah, I'll be Commander
• 2:08:15
  Worf. I guess I I guess I'm a dark woke
• 2:08:17
  commander. But, I'm not Picard. He's
• 2:08:18
  Picard.
• 2:08:20
  I'll follow you and Cenk Uygur the goat
• 2:08:21
  on translucent steeds shooting flaming
• 2:08:24
  arrows into the Maga mists of Avalon.
• 2:08:26
  Oh, captain, my captain. Thank you,
• 2:08:28
  guys. Republicans so out of touch they
• 2:08:30
  thought running disgusting racist ads
• 2:08:32
  against Abdul would win them the black
• 2:08:33
  vote. And on what planet did that make
• 2:08:35
  sense? Also, I got to point out there
• 2:08:37
  was some data that showed that Haley
• 2:08:39
  Stevens turning her back on the
• 2:08:41
  Democratic Party at the last minute, but
• 2:08:43
  doing so outside of a black church and
• 2:08:46
  then meeting up with Mike Rogers at a
• 2:08:48
  black church. In other words, using the
• 2:08:50
  black voters in Michigan as props, oh,
• 2:08:52
  they didn't like that too much.
• 2:08:55
  They didn't like that too much. How much
• 2:08:56
  that ultimately moved people in the end,
• 2:08:58
  I don't know, but that it showed up in
• 2:09:00
  exit polls from black voters, kind of
• 2:09:02
  telling.
• 2:09:05
  NPR has a story of exit poll and shows
• 2:09:07
  black people voted 90% Democrat
• 2:09:09
  yesterday. I think the story of how
• 2:09:10
  Hispanic people will vote this time
• 2:09:11
  around overlooks the contribution of
• 2:09:13
  black people. There's no question.
• 2:09:15
  And again, in individual parts of the
• 2:09:17
  country geographically, that Sun Belt
• 2:09:19
  area, in individual races like Keisha
• 2:09:21
  Lance Bottoms, the governor or the
• 2:09:22
  soon-to-be governor of Georgia, it
• 2:09:24
  showed up big, big.
• 2:09:26
  And in fact, if I think I saw on the
• 2:09:28
  exit polling, if there was only one
• 2:09:30
  group who the majority voted for the
• 2:09:33
  Democrats, or sorry, the Republicans, it
• 2:09:35
  was whites. Now, it was barely whites,
• 2:09:37
  so there's going to be a shitload of
• 2:09:38
  whites who obviously didn't. Plus, these
• 2:09:39
  other parts of the coalition. Guys,
• 2:09:41
  that's the Democratic coalition from
• 2:09:42
  1965. I've talked about this moment in
• 2:09:45
  time where they were partners with the
• 2:09:46
  southern racists, and eventually they
• 2:09:48
  said, "You know what? [ __ ] the southern
• 2:09:49
  racists. We're going to partner with
• 2:09:51
  Hispanics. We're going to partner with
• 2:09:52
  Arabs. We're going to partner with
• 2:09:54
  blacks. We're going to partner with all
• 2:09:56
  of these different constituents, and
• 2:09:57
  we're going to have a multiracial
• 2:09:58
  coalition, and we're going to use this
• 2:09:59
  to get ahead, and we're not going to
• 2:10:00
  give in to the racism of the South." And
• 2:10:02
  of course, they had been doing that for
• 2:10:03
  decades. I'm not here to exalt all of
• 2:10:05
  their behavior, but they did make a
• 2:10:07
  change. They did make a change.
• 2:10:09
  And it just like this is why the right
• 2:10:12
  is the the and the and the Republicans,
• 2:10:14
  it's the party of white resentment.
• 2:10:17
  It's what it is.
• 2:10:18
  And their resentment is intolerable,
• 2:10:21
  because look at the ruin that it leads
• 2:10:23
  to.
• 2:10:26
  Ossoff in 28, I'm not a big Ossoff guy,
• 2:10:28
  but he might win.
• 2:10:30
  What is Ossoff's stance on Israel? He's
• 2:10:31
  a Zionist.
• 2:10:33
  I don't love his stance on Israel. I
• 2:10:34
  don't.
• 2:10:35
  He's great on other things. He's great,
• 2:10:38
  for example, on messaging for a lot of
• 2:10:40
  domestic concerns.
• 2:10:42
  I don't know if you guys heard him
• 2:10:43
  destroy his opponent
• 2:10:45
  um Collins with like his stuff on racism
• 2:10:49
  in the South is
• 2:10:52
  dynamite. He's really good on stuff like
• 2:10:55
  that. And again, that's why I think that
• 2:10:57
  kind of stuff matters in in in the
• 2:10:59
  anatomy of what won in this election.
• 2:11:02
  Um but he's bad on Israel. He's bad on
• 2:11:04
  Israel.
• 2:11:06
  Can we talk about how screwed the Ali
• 2:11:08
  Act is now? Not yet.
• 2:11:10
  Not yet. And boys
• 2:11:12
  girls TKO spends a lot of money
• 2:11:17
  to get that [ __ ] passed. If you don't
• 2:11:19
  think that they're
• 2:11:20
  I mean hammering the phones today
• 2:11:22
  you're mistaken.
• 2:11:24
  Will UFC stop pushing politics
• 2:11:27
  after results? Great question.
• 2:11:30
  I'm not going to let anyone forget who
• 2:11:32
  they are
• 2:11:33
  but they might.
• 2:11:35
  I mean, dude, the entire Nevada
• 2:11:37
  apparatus has changed.
• 2:11:39
  All of the Nevada government has flipped
• 2:11:42
  to the right. Oh, sorry. So, excuse me.
• 2:11:43
  To the left. All of it. The entire state
• 2:11:46
  government.
• 2:11:47
  I mean, understand like part of what TKO
• 2:11:50
  does is they've clearly hitched their
• 2:11:51
  wagon to MAGA. But but
• 2:11:54
  they are also smart enough to know and
• 2:11:56
  and by the way, if you look at the
• 2:11:57
  Senate committee that was with that Ted
• 2:11:59
  Cruz and and uh Jackie Rosen who's out
• 2:12:01
  of Nevada
• 2:12:02
  you know, TKO still plays a big role in
• 2:12:05
  bringing money to the state of Nevada.
• 2:12:06
  Like they're they're going to be
• 2:12:08
  important as a as a uh force for getting
• 2:12:12
  what they want in in our politics or in
• 2:12:14
  Nevada's politics anyway.
• 2:12:17
  Um and Jackie Rosen's a Democrat. She's
• 2:12:19
  a Zionist Democrat, but she's a
• 2:12:20
  Democrat. So
• 2:12:22
  you know, they're going to play the
• 2:12:23
  levels. They had a good relationship
• 2:12:25
  under when when when um
• 2:12:28
  when uh
• 2:12:30
  when the Fertittas owned it, they had a
• 2:12:31
  good relationship with Harry Reid.
• 2:12:33
  They had a very good relationship with
• 2:12:34
  Harry Reid. I think that they're going
• 2:12:35
  to try and be like, "Oh, guys, remember
• 2:12:37
  us? Here's some campaign donations. We
• 2:12:39
  would love to partner with you. Oh, the
• 2:12:42
  MAGA stuff?
• 2:12:43
  Forget [clears throat] about that. Yeah,
• 2:12:44
  yeah, no, no, no, no. You know what? We,
• 2:12:46
  um, we want to work with all of the new
• 2:12:49
  members here of the government of
• 2:12:51
  Nevada. We want to stay close, and we
• 2:12:53
  want to make sure we all work together
• 2:12:55
  to lift Nevada, right? That's what
• 2:12:57
  they're going to do. They're going to do
• 2:12:58
  that. But, I'm going to be here
• 2:13:00
  every step of the way to every Send this
• 2:13:02
  someone Send this to the people in the
• 2:13:03
  UFC's office. I'm never going to forget
• 2:13:07
  what you [ __ ] did to bring this
• 2:13:09
  monster to power.
• 2:13:12
  You can pivot any direction you want.
• 2:13:14
  And Rahm Emanuel, I'm going to dog you
• 2:13:17
  with your brother [ __ ] up the world
• 2:13:20
  this whole time, every step of the way.
• 2:13:23
  Every step of the way, I'm going to do
• 2:13:25
  it.
• 2:13:28
  You helped bring to power an extremist
• 2:13:31
  political project that has gotten people
• 2:13:33
  killed, that has destroyed the economy,
• 2:13:36
  that has destroyed this city, the one
• 2:13:37
  that I live in,
• 2:13:39
  that is malignant and racist and shitty
• 2:13:42
  and awful and low IQ. You are not going
• 2:13:45
  to walk away from this.
• 2:13:47
  You are going to have this albatross
• 2:13:49
  around your neck as long as I live.
• 2:13:54
  As long as I live, you are going to
• 2:13:57
  carry this shame. Scarlet letters for
• 2:14:00
  all of you.
• 2:14:02
  For all of you.
• 2:14:04
  I will ensure it. Count on it. What are
• 2:14:08
  the Polymarket ads? I'm never going to
• 2:14:11
  let it go.
• 2:14:14
  Count on it. Bank on it.
• 2:14:16
  Expect it. Be ready for it, cuz it's
• 2:14:19
  coming.
• 2:14:24
  As a local party leader here in Utah,
• 2:14:27
  even the blue wave slammed here. Likely
• 2:14:29
  no I would have loved to have seen a uh
• 2:14:31
  a Senate seat go up for grabs in Utah.
• 2:14:33
  It didn't, but likely no longer a
• 2:14:35
  supermajority and Senate majority leader
• 2:14:37
  likely lost. Amazing.
• 2:14:41
  Luke, I'm the captain now, Thomas. I
• 2:14:42
  don't know about that. Would you go back
• 2:14:44
  on to Joe Rogan to talk Oh, I would
• 2:14:46
  happen to talk to Joe Rogan. I mean, I'm
• 2:14:47
  going to tell him exactly everything
• 2:14:48
  I've been telling you guys, but I would
• 2:14:50
  do it. But that's never going to happen.
• 2:14:52
  Come on.
• 2:14:55
  I want takedown Tuesdays on this
• 2:14:56
  channel.
• 2:14:57
  A weekly public mauling of a particular
• 2:14:59
  figure. It's a viral shoe-in segment.
• 2:15:01
  Only you can do it right. Maybe.
• 2:15:03
  Maybe.
• 2:15:04
  Thank you for being the most important
• 2:15:05
  voice in MMA. I'm not. I don't think MMA
• 2:15:07
  really wants me to be a voice for
• 2:15:08
  itself, and I'm not trying to be a voice
• 2:15:10
  for MMA anymore, to be honest with you.
• 2:15:11
  I don't really care.
• 2:15:13
  But um
• 2:15:17
  Jesus, where I I got to find this. Oh,
• 2:15:19
  here we go.
• 2:15:21
  I don't really care about being a voice
• 2:15:22
  for MMA. MMA doesn't want me, and it
• 2:15:24
  hasn't wanted me for a long time. I
• 2:15:25
  mean, I still will be in MMA, and you
• 2:15:27
  know, MK rolls on on on on Friday. Like,
• 2:15:30
  I still will do this stuff, but like
• 2:15:32
  trying to convince people in MMA
• 2:15:35
  that like
• 2:15:36
  you know, hey, we should do things that
• 2:15:38
  aren't racist, and then they just you
• 2:15:39
  get assaulted for it. What the [ __ ] I'm
• 2:15:41
  not I'm not fighting that battle
• 2:15:43
  anymore. You guys want to go do this
• 2:15:44
  [ __ ] Like, help yourself. I'm going to
• 2:15:46
  go focus
• 2:15:48
  on trying to
• 2:15:50
  undo the damage that MAGA has done.
• 2:15:55
  Uh thoughts on AOC looking more clear
• 2:15:57
  for 2028. Yeah, I think this helps her a
• 2:15:59
  lot. She's got some of the progressive I
• 2:16:01
  mean, she's compromising a lot of stuff,
• 2:16:03
  too.
• 2:16:04
  I will say this for AOC.
• 2:16:07
  She does have a major issue that's going
• 2:16:09
  to come back to bite her in the ass.
• 2:16:11
  She said that Kamala
• 2:16:14
  was tirelessly working on a ceasefire in
• 2:16:17
  Gaza, and that was never true. And she's
• 2:16:19
  never addressed it. That's going to come
• 2:16:22
  back to haunt her.
• 2:16:24
  Um and there's really no two ways about
• 2:16:26
  that.
• 2:16:28
  I am happy to have found a voice for the
• 2:16:30
  MMA space that agrees with my worldview,
• 2:16:31
  and I'm happy to support. Thank you. I'm
• 2:16:33
  happy to accept your support.
• 2:16:36
  Thanks for being a rare coherent voice
• 2:16:37
  in my feed. Longtime lurker. Hope you
• 2:16:39
  continue to stay involved in MMA,
• 2:16:41
  despite the rot. I will. I will. But I'm
• 2:16:43
  not trying to convince anyone in MMA
• 2:16:45
  anymore. I used to be like, hey, guys,
• 2:16:47
  don't you think this is really [ __ ]
• 2:16:48
  dumb that we're politically associating
• 2:16:50
  with this malignant awful force. No,
• 2:16:52
  [ __ ] you, [ __ ] you, die slowly, blah
• 2:16:54
  blah blah.
• 2:16:55
  It's like, okay, well, if you guys
• 2:16:57
  aren't amenable to good advice, I'll
• 2:16:59
  take this message elsewhere. Look who's
• 2:17:00
  receptive to the message.
• 2:17:03
  The entire country.
• 2:17:06
  So, it just sort of goes to show you
• 2:17:07
  that the kind of thinking that happens
• 2:17:09
  in the sport. These are for the most
• 2:17:10
  part, I don't know how gettable
• 2:17:12
  some of these people are. I mean, I
• 2:17:13
  think some of them are. I think there
• 2:17:15
  are a lot of people that would like kind
• 2:17:16
  of went along with Maga naively and
• 2:17:18
  maybe are having second thoughts. I'll
• 2:17:19
  talk to those people, for sure. For
• 2:17:21
  sure. People who People who really had
• 2:17:24
  honest expectations of things being
• 2:17:26
  different and are trying to do right by
• 2:17:28
  the world and maybe made a mistake. I We
• 2:17:31
  can work with these people.
• 2:17:32
  But, you know, the Dana Whites of the
• 2:17:34
  world, these are You can't help these
• 2:17:36
  people.
• 2:17:41
  Um Jon Ossoff has to be the next Dem
• 2:17:43
  prez candidate. I don't I don't know.
• 2:17:45
  I wish AOC, but to win, I think Ossoff
• 2:17:48
  has to run with a VP would be left of
• 2:17:51
  him with a big tent. The problem is
• 2:17:52
  dude, his views on Israel are real bad.
• 2:17:55
  And I don't know what to say about that.
• 2:17:59
  Uh but again, she's got baggage, too.
• 2:18:01
  I'm glad you started this page. MMA's
• 2:18:03
  descent hurt me. I've always been
• 2:18:04
  politically active myself, but I've
• 2:18:06
  loved that your space is helping bring
• 2:18:08
  other men into the fight. Keep killing
• 2:18:10
  it, brother. Thank It's only because you
• 2:18:11
  guys are here.
• 2:18:13
  To those celebs who endorsed Maga, good
• 2:18:15
  luck. Good luck, you [ __ ]
• 2:18:18
  quisling ass traitor [ __ ]
• 2:18:21
  Good luck. That That scarlet letter,
• 2:18:23
  you're going to carry this forever.
• 2:18:27
  Great coverage, thanks. And shout out to
• 2:18:28
  all the campaign volunteers, activists,
• 2:18:30
  and all the people that made this
• 2:18:31
  happen. Let's not get comfy and continue
• 2:18:33
  to push for a more progressive US. Job
• 2:18:35
  is only getting started, gang.
• 2:18:37
  It's only getting started.
• 2:18:39
  Was Maga governing just stupid, doing
• 2:18:41
  things they didn't need to, ice Iran, or
• 2:18:43
  a calculated attempt to reshape culture,
• 2:18:45
  power through destruction, then rule
• 2:18:46
  over the ashes? Maybe there's no
• 2:18:48
  difference. I think what's clearly
• 2:18:50
  happening is they they they are they
• 2:18:52
  Their governing is stupid, but part of
• 2:18:54
  what um um
• 2:18:57
  But like the immigration enforcement
• 2:18:58
  side of it, like
• 2:19:02
  Understand what what what is
• 2:19:05
  part of this is they thought that they
• 2:19:06
  had a mandate. They truly thought that
• 2:19:08
  like, "Oh, Latinos just think
• 2:19:09
  differently now."
• 2:19:11
  Like, "Oh, black men will just think
• 2:19:12
  differently now." Like, you know, we we
• 2:19:14
  we now have people who just agree with
• 2:19:16
  us. And they thought, "Oh, let's just
• 2:19:17
  enact the vision that everyone now
• 2:19:20
  agrees with us on." Rather than like
• 2:19:21
  what they were actually tasked with
• 2:19:23
  doing, which was largely around
• 2:19:24
  affordability issues from the Biden
• 2:19:26
  administration.
• 2:19:28
  Right? So, the point is is like they
• 2:19:30
  they overplayed their hand by misreading
• 2:19:33
  what the change in '24 actually meant.
• 2:19:37
  But like, those policies are still low
• 2:19:40
  IQ.
• 2:19:41
  Because you just have to get down to
• 2:19:42
  brass tacks. What does it mean for the
• 2:19:45
  construction industry
• 2:19:46
  uh in the in the south of Texas if you
• 2:19:50
  deport 20% of the labor force?
• 2:19:53
  And recall, if you're building a house,
• 2:19:56
  some people can lay the foundation, some
• 2:19:58
  people might be roofers, some people can
• 2:20:00
  do a lot of different jobs, some are
• 2:20:01
  just going to be electricians. If you
• 2:20:03
  have people who can do the foundation
• 2:20:05
  and they can do the roof, but you are
• 2:20:06
  now on the job site, the electrician's
• 2:20:08
  gone,
• 2:20:09
  and then the electrician's gone from the
• 2:20:10
  next job site and the next job site,
• 2:20:12
  these are not replaceable people.
• 2:20:14
  And you can't take the guy who was
• 2:20:15
  laying the foundation and be like, "Oh,
• 2:20:17
  now just do the wiring in the house." It
• 2:20:19
  doesn't work that way.
• 2:20:21
  What did they think was going to happen
• 2:20:23
  when you deport that many people as part
• 2:20:26
  of a critical industry?
• 2:20:28
  Like, this is what I mean. Like, did you
• 2:20:30
  Like, they kept saying, "Housing prices
• 2:20:32
  will go down." To the extent housing
• 2:20:34
  prices have gone down is because they've
• 2:20:35
  cratered the market.
• 2:20:39
  Once again, guys, why are so many
• 2:20:41
  immigrants here?
• 2:20:43
  Why are they here?
• 2:20:45
  Family reunification is a big one, but
• 2:20:47
  that's not the biggest one.
• 2:20:49
  The biggest one is that I've tried to
• 2:20:50
  explain this before.
• 2:20:52
  We have not updated the immigration
• 2:20:54
  system since 1990.
• 2:20:56
  The amount of visas and the type of
• 2:20:58
  visas and how many green cards we hand
• 2:21:00
  out was based around an economic
• 2:21:02
  expectation of what the economy needed
• 2:21:04
  in 1990.
• 2:21:06
  We have not updated it
• 2:21:08
  in 36 years.
• 2:21:10
  The economy is three times the size.
• 2:21:14
  There are now more jobs that need to be
• 2:21:17
  filled that Americans simply don't want
• 2:21:19
  to do. That's a [ __ ] fact.
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  And so as a consequence, there was this
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  labor demand that the legal pathways had
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  no way of honoring.
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  So they came illegally to feel to field
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  the labor demand.
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  That's why they're here.
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  That is the biggest reason why they are
• 2:21:37
  here.
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  We haven't updated our immigration
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  system and we now know if you provide a
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  legal pathway over just saying you can
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  live here illegally,
• 2:21:46
  they take it one-to-one. It is a
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  substitute. It's not a complement to
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  illegal immigration, it's a substitute
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  for it.
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  So if we take the immigration system and
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  we look at it and say, "What does our
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  economy actually need to function?"
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  We can pull people out of the shadows.
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  They don't have to be here permanently,
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  but we can make use of these members of
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  our community and some who want to stay
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  long-term and become citizens, great.
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  Great.
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  That's
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  That's what needs to happen.
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  They keep I keep saying this. Imagine if
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  the law was you can't drive a car if
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  you're a man below 6 ft tall.
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  Would people below 6 ft tall stop
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  driving cars?
• 2:22:26
  It's a stupid law.
• 2:22:28
  So when you change the law to make it
• 2:22:30
  more accurate to what people really
• 2:22:31
  actually need and what makes sense for
• 2:22:33
  the roads,
• 2:22:35
  you're going to have a bunch more people
• 2:22:36
  who are now legally able to do that kind
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  of a thing.
• 2:22:39
  That is what we have done.
• 2:22:44
  For the Rogan UFC McAfee Maga spit
• 2:22:46
  roast. Oh, McAfee.
• 2:22:48
  How about old McAfee, another [ __ ]
• 2:22:50
  clown?
• 2:22:51
  Could Trump flip-flop and go along with
• 2:22:53
  everything Dems do so that in the end
• 2:22:54
  his legacy is remembered as someone who
• 2:22:56
  passed Medicare for all?
• 2:22:58
  I mean, who
• 2:23:00
  unlikely
• 2:23:03
  but
• 2:23:06
  God I mean, who knows how Dude, Trump is
• 2:23:09
  I mean, if past is prologue, there's no
• 2:23:11
  way, right?
• 2:23:12
  And of course, who's going to be in his
• 2:23:13
  ear? The insurance industry. They're
• 2:23:14
  going to be in his ear. Seems very
• 2:23:16
  unlikely.
• 2:23:18
  Dems, stay out of woke politics. It's
• 2:23:20
  all the right have.
• 2:23:22
  I'm not so sure I buy that. I mean,
• 2:23:24
  certainly on the transgender stuff,
• 2:23:26
  there's not any kind of real evidence to
• 2:23:28
  say that there's appetite electorally to
• 2:23:34
  nationally anyway, I should say that you
• 2:23:35
  know, hey, we
• 2:23:36
  we everyone can move to the left on
• 2:23:38
  trans issues.
• 2:23:39
  But a bunch of trans politicians won
• 2:23:42
  seats. Again, I mentioned before there
• 2:23:43
  was one in Alabama who won in the state
• 2:23:45
  senate there.
• 2:23:46
  And um
• 2:23:48
  part of getting
• 2:23:50
  Yeah, I mean, yes, focusing on the
• 2:23:51
  issues that one are the most important
• 2:23:52
  thing.
• 2:23:53
  But dude, I don't want Democrats who are
• 2:23:56
  constantly saying we we have to just
• 2:23:59
  accept shitty policies because we don't
• 2:24:01
  want to argue for better things.
• 2:24:03
  Like
• 2:24:04
  you want
• 2:24:06
  folks in power who can lead on ideas.
• 2:24:09
  Again, before affordability, which now
• 2:24:11
  seems oh, it's so obvious. Every
• 2:24:12
  affordability, affordability. Before
• 2:24:14
  Zoran, this party wasn't doing that.
• 2:24:16
  Not to this extent anyway.
• 2:24:19
  You need people who can lead on ideas
• 2:24:21
  and change ideas. Again, getting mired
• 2:24:24
  in culture war battles, I don't know if
• 2:24:25
  it works for our benefit yet. But just
• 2:24:27
  abandoning these people, I'm not really
• 2:24:29
  in favor of that either.
• 2:24:31
  From the UK and a former huge MMA fan,
• 2:24:33
  it's been so inspiring, you said, this
• 2:24:34
  person writes, to see you speak out
• 2:24:36
  against the odious culture and great to
• 2:24:38
  see your platform grow. Keep up the
• 2:24:39
  great work and look after your sanity as
• 2:24:41
  much as you can. I'm trying, brother.
• 2:24:43
  I'm trying.
• 2:24:44
  Um some other donations here. Bro, I'm
• 2:24:46
  impressed that she lost, but Angie Nixon
• 2:24:48
  is a [ __ ] problem. Excuse me, I'm
• 2:24:50
  pressed that she lost, but she's a
• 2:24:52
  problem in a good way. We will be seeing
• 2:24:53
  this sister very soon. She's way too
• 2:24:56
  good. Dude, if if Florida thinks that
• 2:24:58
  they're done with Angie Nixon
• 2:25:01
  >> [laughter]
• 2:25:01
  >> I got bad news for you.
• 2:25:04
  That's your next senator. Mark it down
• 2:25:06
  today, November 4th, 2026. That's your
• 2:25:09
  next senator.
• 2:25:11
  Easier to flip Florida if you just let
• 2:25:13
  them be while the rest of the country
• 2:25:14
  moves on, no. You got to get out there
• 2:25:15
  and you got to argue with those people.
• 2:25:17
  You have to organize.
• 2:25:19
  Florida can be moved.
• 2:25:21
  If Dems get to work with Mom Donny style
• 2:25:23
  efficiency, yes, that would help a lot.
• 2:25:25
  Maddy's mini rant last night was
• 2:25:26
  incredible. Lose yourself, Vivek. Proud
• 2:25:28
  blue from Ohio. [ __ ] them all. Thanks
• 2:25:30
  for everything, Luke. Keep up the good
• 2:25:31
  fight.
• 2:25:32
  I guess he's got a future in what?
• 2:25:34
  Fox News desks? We'll see.
• 2:25:38
  The National Popular Vote Interstate
• 2:25:39
  Compact. That was the one where they can
• 2:25:41
  get rid of the Electoral College. Yes,
• 2:25:42
  it's closer than ever to effectively
• 2:25:43
  getting rid of the Electoral College.
• 2:25:44
  That's the one. It's called the National
• 2:25:45
  Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Dems
• 2:25:48
  have enough to get rid of the Electoral
• 2:25:50
  College, folks.
• 2:25:51
  Game changer.
• 2:25:55
  Hi Luke, you and BC lured me into combat
• 2:25:57
  culture in 2020 and I hold you both
• 2:25:59
  accountable for this. Thanks for the
• 2:26:01
  years of sophistication, Marshall and
• 2:26:03
  political. I'm like yourself, an MMA
• 2:26:05
  loving Dem. There are not many of us,
• 2:26:06
  but we do exist.
• 2:26:08
  Has Hassan meat pic on the jumbotron?
• 2:26:10
  Wait, the Hassan meat pic on the
• 2:26:11
  jumbotron didn't work? I mean, it worked
• 2:26:14
  for Trump. I guess he's thirsty.
• 2:26:17
  Odds for the Epstein files getting
• 2:26:18
  released, high.
• 2:26:20
  They're going to make They're going to
• 2:26:21
  make a push for that. High.
• 2:26:25
  Thoughts on how to deal with the
• 2:26:25
  centrist pundits like Van Jones and
• 2:26:27
  Neera? We talked about this already.
• 2:26:28
  They're already trying to skew the
• 2:26:29
  narrative by downplaying the AES win.
• 2:26:31
  Dude, dude, I don't want to hear none of
• 2:26:33
  it. They didn't think he was going to
• 2:26:35
  win. They didn't want him on there. They
• 2:26:37
  have fought him every step of the way.
• 2:26:39
  They have tried to make the Hassan [ __ ]
• 2:26:40
  issue
• 2:26:42
  something and they just won't shut the
• 2:26:44
  [ __ ] up. They've been wrong the entire
• 2:26:46
  time and now they're basking in this
• 2:26:48
  glow as if what people said was they
• 2:26:49
  wanted more Neera Tanden. Is that what
• 2:26:51
  the message was? I don't think that was
• 2:26:53
  the message. Van Jones, the dead Gaza
• 2:26:55
  baby guy. They're asking for more of
• 2:26:56
  that. They're not asking for more of
• 2:26:58
  that. They're asking for solving
• 2:27:00
  problems.
• 2:27:01
  That's what they're asking
• 2:27:07
  Thank you, Luke. Thank you.
• 2:27:08
  Strong ear gasm recommendation for you
• 2:27:10
  in the chat, the song David Sirota by
• 2:27:13
  Fortune Kit.
• 2:27:15
  It's dope as [ __ ] and hits different
• 2:27:16
  today.
• 2:27:17
  Hit a joint and pop some with champagne
• 2:27:18
  today for an epic win. Let's [ __ ] go,
• 2:27:21
  baby. Shout to the Substack gang last
• 2:27:22
  night. Yes, shout to my Substack gang.
• 2:27:24
  We were all watching live
• 2:27:26
  together and
• 2:27:28
  what a great night it was. What a great
• 2:27:30
  night it was.
• 2:27:32
  I'm going to peel some of these things
• 2:27:34
  out and make a
• 2:27:36
  and make some videos
• 2:27:38
  that I release over the course of the
• 2:27:39
  day. So, I'll have some more. I might
• 2:27:41
  make some some fresh videos as well, but
• 2:27:42
  I wanted to do a bit a bit of an
• 2:27:43
  election recap. Share this around.
• 2:27:47
  Like the video, subscribe to the
• 2:27:48
  channel, share this around. And much
• 2:27:51
  more coverage coming all this week. I'll
• 2:27:53
  be back on CNN on Friday and um
• 2:27:57
  I've got a lot to say.
• 2:27:59
  All right? Thank you guys so much for
• 2:28:00
  watching. I greatly appreciate it. I'll
• 2:28:02
  talk to you soon. And until then,
• 2:28:04
  we [ __ ] did it.