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Political Fallout · Newsradio WGAN

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  There has been some pushback in some red states, including
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  Indiana. They didn't want to do that.
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  They didn't want to mess up their districts and turn them
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  into ridiculous salamanders. And you know that whole thing.
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  So they resisted that push. And Donald Trump, of course,
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  none too happy about their resistance to that push.
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  So looking at the results last night, Trump had endorsed a
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  number of candidates who had ultimately, you know, opposed
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  the people that opposed the redistricting plan.
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  In other words, if you had people standing in the way of
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  it, Trump was like, all right, you're out.
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  Somebody else pointed at a guy and said, go vote for him.
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  Most of those people won last night.
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  Only one of the 8 senators opposed by the pro redistricting
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  groups, Greg Goode, was a certain winner.
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  The rest were either losing. 5 of them definitely have lost or
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  appeared like that may in fact happen as the the voting as the
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  counting continues. Excuse me.
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  So anyway, those those incumbent senators will now be out.
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  And it just now increases the likelihood that we have even
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  more of what I was talking about.
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  That would, I mean, is there anyone who has ever been more
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  vindicated than yours truly on this issue?
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  As I've been telling you for weeks, actually months really,
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  that this was a stupid fight to pick and that it was ultimately
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  going to harm the Democratic Party if they wanted to do it.
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  It's, you know, at some point sometimes you just have to take
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  the L. You just have to take the L.
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  And what, what Texas was doing to, to initiate this latest
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  round of all this would have been, by your perspective,
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  unfair. Although I would have had plenty
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  to say about what had happened the prior year and the year
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  before that and the year before that and the year before that
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  and the decade before that and the multiple decades before that
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  and the century before that. I'd have a lot to say about
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  who's been doing what unfair things and when and who really
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  started what. So we can play the game if you
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  want to. But if you if you accept that
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  Texas decided to do an irresponsible thing and try to
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  gerrymander to get a political advantage, you knew you were
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  going to lose like 4 seats by doing that.
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  And you don't like losing 4 seats.
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  I don't like losing 4 seats. Nobody likes losing 4 seats.
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  I get that. And so your impulse would be,
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  well, we don't want to lose 4 seats.
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  Let's do something about that. Let's fix that.
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  And so you decide to consider doing what they're doing in
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  other places. And if you do that, you should
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  have asked yourself, but wait a minute, is this going to end up
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  being a good thing in the end for us?
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  Like, can we do we can we do this enough in enough places
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  that it will ultimately benefit us to do this?
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  Because if the answer to that was no and oh, oh, it was no.
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  Oh, it was very much no. But if the answer to that was
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  no, you should just have said, well, that sucks.
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  We'll get him next time. Or found some other way, found
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  some something else to do. I don't know, maybe just go all
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  in on suing Texas and see if we can stop.
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  I don't know. But like, you shouldn't have
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  necessarily done what Gavin Newsom and friends did to
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  really. I mean, I hate to say it.
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  Well, no, I don't because he's a, he's a grifter.
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  So I don't mind slamming Gavin Newsom.
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  But the only reason he really did that was to to increase his
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  own standing within the progressive element of the
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  Democratic Party. It is to make himself the
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  primary Trump fighter in the country.
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  And it doesn't matter if it's even going to work, if it's good
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  for your party or ultimately, if this was wise in any way, it
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  didn't really matter because I was fighting Trump.
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  And that's all that mattered in that particular moment of time.
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  And I think that's what mattered to Miss Spanberger in Virginia.
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  And I think that's what's mattered in a lot of places.
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  And it was suicidal. They may have now set off
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  something that bakes in a protection for the Republican
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  majority in the House that they would have otherwise lost.
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  Because it is very, very rare for a midterm election of any
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  sitting president of any party to go well for them.
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  Usually goes poorly. Sometimes it goes very poorly.
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  Second midterms are usually not as bad as the first midterms,
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  but they're still not great. So losing a loss of 10/15/20
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  seats? Not unrealistic right?
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  But what happens if the Republicans gain district wise,
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  10/15/20 seats? Yeah, food is always.
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  That means that they're going to at least Nix it and get it back
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  to a place where you might keep control or the very least keep
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  it very narrow if you lose, as opposed to a big landslide
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  victory for the Democrats. So, I mean, you, you wanted
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  this. You wanted this.
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  I didn't. I don't.
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  I didn't want to go here. I didn't want any of this.
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  And I still condemn all of you for doing it.
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  But I also know exactly what's happening right now.
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  And this is going to be a losing fight nationwide for the
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  Democratic Party.