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forecasters have said that control of the Senate is now a toss up and none other than Mitch Mcconnell seems to agree. Here's what he recently said to an NBC reporter quote, I think, there's probably a greater likelihood. The house flips than the senate senate races are just different. Their state wide canada quality has a lot to do with the outcome on sunday, Donald trump. True, the truth in response, I is there an easy way to find his truth. I obviously am not signing up for truth, but does someone retweet his truths full time? Yes getting a nod from, and yes, I notice, like people pluck up some of them out. There was like an account. There was like a bot account that was doing it, but then I think twitter shut that down because it's like they don't The whole point was to get rid of the law, so it's still sort of rely on reporters to just give you the truth. Once in a while, like I want to get those truths all the time full time truth, I want my treat how far we've come on this issue. Anyway, here's the here's, this particular tree

wider republican senators, allow a broken down hack politician mitch, Mcconnell to openly disparage hardworking republican candidates. He should spend more. I'm an money, helping them get elected and less time helping is crazy. Wife and family get rich on china return. China, ok is restored. Former to his former transport in secretary yeah, he was talking about for all four years, Elaine chao yeah. So I guess he turned on her because she does remember she called on him to resign. She purrs the insurrection yeah. She blows that she plays the violin insurrection, so that was alright. Why do you think Mitch said that I mean it seems to me correct me if I'm wrong john, but roughly translates to. I don't blame me. If the Democrats keep the Senate blame trump and the idiots he recruited

so that's what I heard, commissioner coddle doesn't just saying that, like me, yet very doesn't he's he's pretty calculating guy everywhere you can say about minstrel caught a very where he could have easily said. I feel good or will see what happens in november. We are, in fact showing even that little bit of insecurity about the outcome is very unlike very unlike him. He wants to hang this around donald trump snack if they lose and he wants to blame him specifically for the candidates. He has endorsed in the senate primaries, who were now most of them nominees. Herschel walker and blake masters, Dr Oz, adam laxalt. These are all trump candidates yeah. I think these comments are probably the most directed at DR oz down in pennsylvania and hershel walker in georgia, but he's also Mitch Mcconnell's obvious, also, probably not happy about

his super pac having to spend twenty eight million dollars worth of ads in ohio to help at JD events in JD vance has been critical of Mcconnell. Personally, he called him out of touch with the base, which is fun I in two thousand twenty two. That means that I guess too old to storm the capitol. Also Eric schmidt, the republican candidate in Missouri and blake masters have also suggested in Mcconnell should no longer led the gnp. So I do now. I wonder like bitches, unlike in the vibes, is it like in vibes viable? probably don't get em they they if they did take the senate. I bet you, don't have a critical majority of trumpets that would throughout Mcconnell, but it's gettin in get by comfortable from gone down to the annoying double arm. Do you think Mcconnell's right in what he said, he's absolutely right. The candidate quality matters. I think it's the full quote. It's like maybe we'll tie. Maybe they'll win it by a couple. Maybe we'll win it by a couple so like he is yes, he is absolutely right. Quality matters and I think you're, seeing that in some these numbers especially got herschel walker's just more DR oz, who are just fumbling. Their way

two yeah? Why? One reason why the we know can equality matters in Senate raises is that we ve seen republicans miss a chance to retake the senate in two dozen ten. When obviously If republicans did really really well in the house and took back, the house was a horrible year for us being in the white house. Democrats yeah the tongue, but they had horrible candidates and in two thousand and twelve they had a chance to when they blew it with, because they had candidates like todd akin. in Missouri Richard murdoch share an angle in nevada, Christine o donnell, for those of you don't where Christine O'Donnell as she was running in india, for the senate in delaware and nc for dancy and one of her ads, she had to come out and say I am not a witch that was a. That was a thing that has powered backers. Twenty ten. Well, maybe not historic. First, it probably happened in like the sixteen hundred. Those are different times and yeah todd akin had some despicable comments about ray horrible human being richard Murdoch did as well. There was in

in abortion there was those two candidates that were saying horrible things about rape and abortion. That's great! I don't even remember who Richard Murdoch. He ran in indiana as rupert. She could have fringed out with Indiana republican state and didn't and didn't win good, so yeah, so that happened to Mitch. Mcconnell and the republican party knows war, so they think it could happen And even when the political environment is better for republicans, so shingle marker than your times reported last week that dumb the national republican senatorial can he recently cancelled ten million dollars worth of planned. Advertising in pennsylvania was consonant arizona or jamaica. That story. They actually been a bunch of very interesting fund stories about the energy, the national republican senate committee. In there bending so the new york times said they had cut ten million and adds politico said they had cut thirteen point five million and that cuts

and then later in that I think that same paragraph in the story said, but a democratic source said it was ten sort of like a bitchy little aside pointing to what the new york times sourcing was, but politico has us. Since august first, the nrsc has cut ad, buys in pennsylvania, seven point: five million cloth, top arizona. Three point: five wisconsin, two point: five in nevada, one point five, so it's hard to know exactly what's happening here, because there's so many different committees. Money sloshing around, obviously chimed in an ideal world. You don't cut spending, let's just eat less than a hundred places. Go at the simple explanation: it's not good! I mean there's all the spin from an hour I see in the peace. That's like well we're moving it from the independent expenditure side, which is the side that you can't coordinate directly with the campaigns by law and took it. We're gonna move some of it directly to the other side's you we can coordinate with the campaigns themselves

was better- and it's just moving money around here and there and all that kind of shit, but that, like you, said the bottom line, is you don't you don't cut money? You don't cut spending this this a couple of months out before the election. Also, presumably, if you're buying ads eight months out six months out a year out, you can kind of get a better rate than at the very end when everyone's trying to come in and the prices go up. We also do know that the nrcs already spent thirty six million in ad. So far, the question is just always like. What's going to happen, the super pac spending because Mitch Mcconnell has this huge super pac and he's dumping cash places. Peter teal is trying to personally buy the race in arizona and then he gave ten million dollars to J d events. The really really fun part. Is this the republican hate rick scott risk on the head of the energy, and there are some staff with stories. So the d c c has nearly twice as much cash on hand as the generosity, fifty three million to twenty eight million. Basically, the washing posted a Democrat throughout Spain republicans by more than double the arizona race to do,

and about a nearly to want to do that. I and forty one, higher according to some media tracking firms, and then they again, they say, like it's out, fund raising the republicans senate campaigners raise a hundred and seventy three million but they're down to only having twenty eight million left and they also pointed out their bricks got caught in released and add featuring him like himself himself saying some of the most popular things, a republic into possibly say so. It's just I we don't. I don't know, tell me of election. The consensus clearly is the energy is poorly run in the terrible organization. You also have to assume that trump constantly fund raising with these email, I said that I was in Britain cloudy siphoning off some cash. Of course, he is it so funny that donald trump is doing his like best fund raising ever especially like after the. I think too he's not on the ballot re energies there having you read that they raised a bunch of money

having low dollar fundraising issues like they're having trouble getting like the five and ten dollar donations from the base. So they have to relying on these like big billionaire donors, the super pacs that when read that their act, blue version, they're down twelve percent in Q, two vs q, one yeah it's so instead they don't give rick Scott your money and then he'll go on tv and tell people how he wants to eliminate medicare and social security and raise taxes. working class people of be great. Here's are worded. That's got to be in the most unappealing man. You can possibly think of just like Lord voldemort, in a hat for some reason and then give him awful idea. as that give them the worst polling ideas that you thought were buried in the mitt romney Paul ryan campaign and when he put them on tivo, will bring him back for millions. That's what we're going to do. That's our plan now, lest anyone worry that republicans are strapped for cash. The times folded up, story monday that this ninety year old manufacturing mogul. I had never heard me, neither borrow side how we're pronouncing it-

I mean, is it like a like a bar class like a bar, where, with spelled sort of like a bar class cars, are lindy pitch anyway, and he made a donation worth one point: six billion dollars to a right wing group called the marble freedom, trust which is controlled by Leonard Lee. Of the federalist society. How alarmed were you about the story? This in the stories it's like it's so complicated and confusing that it's easy get lost. Let me give you that here's what you need to literally, as you said, right wing creep, I think he actually finally left the federalist society to move on

new, equally murky ibrahim, and if you like, sit on the board and sail donor. I e elegant honouring boards get his finger on the pulse literally o, basically owns stock in the huge chunk of the right wing judges currently serving anywhere in the country, including supreme court justices, like roberts, Alito, corsica cabinet, bear it he's bodies who clarence thomas from back in the day, clarence Thomas once called Leonard Leah, the number three most powerful person in the world, the only will Ferrell said he bad, powerful right wing organization and Mary's up sort of right wing zealots corporate money in the in the judicial branch, not a good combo, so you're having your this Leonard LEO, starts. His new organization called the marble freedom trust in may of twenty twenty. It's a

profit. This donor donates one hundred per cent of the shares of a company. I think he started or he owned called tripp lite. Who cares what it does and then the company was sold to an irish conglomerate for one point: six five billion. So that means I think the nonprofit pays no taxes on the sale. I suspect it also means that this original donor avoids any tax taxes on the sale racks. I wonder if I don't think he gets to write off the profits cause. I don't think you can write off donations to see fours vs see threes yeah, maybe- and I like whether or not that's the case-

Wait. The the real bad part is now. They have one point: six billion dollars to spend on politics too. Bad points, the campaign finance system is totally broken right now, Leonard LEO has well over a billion dollars to just shovel at every right wing cause that he wants and here's the emmy so much money. You brought this up many times because you're, a jane mayer fan and you've any read, jane mere stuff and got my attention, but it's it's not just that they're spending this money or that they can spend this money on races right. They are going to spend this on an institution's policy. Think thanks right like they are going to local races, local institutions, media organisations right like this is now the single largest political donation in history. History one point: six billion dollars to cede this right wing mega revolution all over the country, not just an electoral politics, but in every facet of

the institution you can imagine yeah, ironically and under the irs code, these are called social welfare organizations right right, and so this is like it's just its real, pretty scary. It so much money, and it's so much. They have one point four billion left over to do whatever they want with four four forever anyway. So this is why we need to m. This is why we need to win the elections here, so a secular, these centre, races and the quality of the republican candidates that seem to be worrying mitch, Mcconnell. We can just go through go through the map here so the Senate's currently split. Fifty fifty therefore send a Democrats were uncompetitive races, georgia, centre, Raphia warnock areas, send a remark: nevada, nevada, Catherine cortez quarter in new Hampshire, Hampshire, maggie maggie how tight tight these races and what what you think about the republican opponent. Opponents stana check back in with the five thirty eight

I guess this way you did mostly it's that time of year, where mostly, I wanted to hear Galen ass, just like a totally straightforward question that innate kind of get mad at the premise. Yeah sorta like a little passive, aggressive, just sort of like how mario yeah no but there's a they. They have it at sixty percent. Chance of Democrats hold the senate. The odds in the house are worse, but improving so. You're go from one by one year ago, new hampshire, maggie aston doesn't have an opponent yet so that republican primary September thirteenth, the same as poll near and dear to your heart and the sunni islam Hassan, is a forty four percent approval, so she is clearly vulnerable. The leading republican opponent is a guy named don balder cannot say his name. The threat is a trump big lie. Guy he's a right wing zealot. If he wins, I think we have a good chance. He's a retired, brigadier general Who wants a? U S, to be directly involved in the war in ukraine and its troops on the ground troops on the ground troops on the ground in ukraine, and he called governors who knew a chinese communist sympathise wildly popular report.

lookin governor christen, new chinese communist sympathiser. He also by the way, doesn't believe that people should get to directly elect their senators of you after appeal that you went to repeal the the the many cities you want. These were republic, not a democracy, genuine the state legislature to pick the senators. So he got that sir, the last. Your last vote is for don bold. I can then these guys are all worried about majority rule. For you can you can figure out why it's scary, when the just these right wing, crazy zealots are former generals in the military that doesn't make me feel good yeah. He there's a a. I think. A lot of sort of the republican establishment in new Hampshire is a little worried about him. the christian you know, is not a fan governing. It's not family, want our states and a president yeah. So that's no, but I think you're right like it. He if, if he ends up and winning that primary and he isn't leading it right now. Then, I think Hassan has a has a much better shot yet she's bribe much more of a player leaned damn are likely to.

Yeah, I should go to georgia. Ga I mean warnock, vs walker, you guys know. I mean five. Thirty eight has Warnock up a couple points like forty six point, two percent to walker's. Forty four point: four percent is a hard one. I mean look hers waters a terrible candidate, but there's also this big statewide governor's race. I think everyone should be turning folks out. The question I have is I mean I guess, the democratic party's path to winning the Senate seat. Is he their higher democratic turnout or republican split ticket voters? A combo of both I dunno can happen. Herschel, walker's, terrible. You know we let we we talked up. We did a whole game about herschel walker and brian camp went on in our atlanta pod and we had all kinds of herschel walker greatest hits, there's a new one. Now that we just got over the weekend, he was asked what the inflation reduction act.

And he said I dunno a lot of money. It's going to trees, don't we have enough trees around here? A lot of money is going to trees and says like what was he thinking a rake he doesn't like. Raking was going on up there that was trump's by the way that was trump's climate plan that was still a plant, a trillion trees or something literally that's awkward for him. That anywhere where no, I think I saw I did day for the wilderness, had a focus group in atlanta. It was a focus group of black voters who had voted for Joe Biden and now either aren't sure who they're going to vote for or whether they're going to vote. It is sort of an upsetting focus group, flirt there. Everyone I talked to there was very down on politics for a lot of good reasons. You know hate brian camp says not vote for him, but like but weren't too happy with Joe Biden, but when I talked about herschel walker

like anyone. Maybe you gonna vote for Hershel walker. What do you think rush walker? They were like he is stone, cold, fucking, crazy. Absolutely! Not! That makes me feel better. Yeah and they're not like super happy with warnock, but they're all like. If we end up going to vote, we're going to vote for warnock and we're gonna vote for stacey abrams like there's really anti incumbent thing going on across the country. Yes for sure for sure, but walker was not yeah, but what not? No one careful work, good god I'd. So then we go to arizona mar Kelly and blake masters yeah me. So I think the poles have consistently had more kelly ahead, including some republican poles. Asters is a fairly recent nominee has not a lot of time, hell he's great candidate. You got a lot of cash. Is an astronaut I'm just words into its wacky state with a wacky republican party and carry them

running for governor and their about inside of it I'm a little worried about it. You know, I think that kelly, but yet that that the average, the polar now has Kelly much further ahead than I thought it would be highly one. The state by you know like two and a half points in twenty twenty in us and has just two years ago and other average has around. You know a point three, but just he's running adds about masters doesn't mentioned trumped as a mention peter tail is a mantra dislike basically just has to offer quotes one like master saying. Maybe we should privatized of security and the other saying that he wants a nation wide ban on abortion, no exceptions and calling abortion demonic. yeah I mean, maybe that's all he needs. I read it. It's a very like old, school feeling, election of issues that have been important in collections for decades. Yeah,

Well, hopefully, I'll work and then you've got mark kelly running an ad with a republican mayor endorsing him saying. Oh he, you know he's good with republicans and democrats, which I know like makes, you know, probably make some liberals uncomfortable, but it's like state, like arizona, mark Kelly's, been with democrats and voted with Democrats and vote with Joe Biden every every step of the way. Unlike you know his or his his colleagues, you listen cinema and your eyes are too great democrats, oh yeah! That's how you when I was on a that's, how you in Arizona Catherine cortez, master, nevada, so five thirty, it has her at forty five percent issue him at forty. One percent issue but trafalgar. Remember those guys, though the rural republican in polling firm. Who did a better job, I think, of reaching trump voters back in the day I had laxalt up three in their most recent poll and it makes me worried. I actually have. I would say, of the four democrats up, I'm most worried about the nevada, Ssris yeah. I am too busy the demographics

estate and the challenges of incumbency, she's running on very local issues, she's running, unlike we got, drought really funding and the inflation reduction act, which a great message, hopefully in the other issue that she's been running on is abortion because you know we just talked about demographics in nevada and it's been sort of inching towards the republicans over the last several years, but nevada's a very pro choice, state and so she's been really hammering this issue, and I also think she's you know she's suffering from like. don't know, have a high profile in the senate. Right catherine, cortez master, but yet Adam lacks all the republican, their believe The big lie, big lie, supporter he's called roby waited joke dan pfeiffer called him the connor roy of

in nevada, political dynasty like that and then sure enough, Catherine cortez Mastro came up with an ad where she basically has music. That's like the succession music, all about laxalt, and she calls him like son of a dc lobbyist. He was kicked out of an elite school. He was arrested for assaulting a cop, but he still got back into another elite school and she does basically the whole ad is like Dan calling him Connor Roy come to life in an ad. I love it now. I saw that as good at it's pretty good, but I think that's going to be a you know if you can help a volunteer and help out catherine cortez master. That's config shaper important because I think that's a real tight one. Alright. So if one of these Senate Democrats lose we'll need to flip a republican seat to hold the senate if to lose, will need to flip to and so forth, our best chances for flips are in pennsylvania, where John fetterman and doctor oz are competing to fill retiring republican, pat toomey seat and wisconsin, where mandela barnes lieutenant governor Mandela Barnes is running against RON Johnson and

and I talked about us and federal last pod tommy. Do you think I trust feeling good that the debate has now moved from his crudity outing to how many houses he has hit if the worst candidate, I've ever seen so far, dockers, I've more own goals, then a six year old soccer game, mind you I mean you didn't mention this cause. You're his opponent had a stroke yeah. He will literally off the plane felt for months. I mean The doctors could been running on the state owning every new cycle for months and months and months. It unbelievable that he was owned by the news like them you like to come back story. People are paying attention. I feel good. Having ten houses. Is me good for him? I guess but not knowing how many has, as you have or try to draw a distinction between how many huh, you own and how many properties you owned. That's college is digging your own political, grave, John Mccain, mislead got asked how many houses do you own doing that those nay race and

We ran ads on it for months and months and months. This campaign is like all of our best mccain's out of touch and romney's out of touch hits times. A millionaire vanessa hid it. Just it's true is something too these include a day. Its age has been telling us what you got some. I guess you ve got some credit. Finally, the credit you deserve on lifting up the crudity, video and there's a buzzfeed story. That said that that noted, that you did you tweet, oh, but really I see that yeah malaysia is utilised. Anchor tweeting deserves a lot of but it is clear in this case you should talk to each other that, yes, we ve, though they have now moved. A lot of the forecasters, have moved pennsylvania from attack sub, which pencilling you should always be a toss up. It is an incredibly close state, but there because oz is such a bad candidate in all entered the ferryman campaigns. Credit because fishermen is it a good candidate, has done a deva, moved to lean

in a lot of these forecasts. They've done a really good job mean in it again. Let's just it's so impressive. What fetterman team has done? Yes, guess he has been unable to camp campaign in in the past Fishermen, I think, has been kind of like a one man band going everywhere, meaning with everyone, his own turn out his own feel program right and because he had a stroke, he was unable to to really campaign hard and his team just filled the gap in such an impressive way with all these great digital adds super creative attacks on oz, great you The oppo file, which you know, is voluminous yeah. There's lots of hits to be had on doctorates, but they deserve a ton of credit seems like a fun campaign to be on in wisconsin. There's only been two polls since Mr Barnes one the primary the fox news pulse, has I'm up for marquette has asthma, seven, both pretty good quality poles in air, and I think both had him at fifty percent.

higher, that said, John we saw owing to the biggest most disastrous, pulling the eyes industries. I only want to think about it. There there's also a big governors race in a great state party in wisconsin, but, as you know, as you said, to the others and anti incumbent mood out there and you have run Johnson has just been sitting around. You know they again, they elected RON johnson thinking, like oh he's, sort of a independent minded businessman that will go to washington or whatever, and he just has become a fucking trump lackey and a conspiracy theorist and says all kinds of crazy shit. sucks? So you know hopefully, hopefully many elements can pull that up I'd. So there are also three other races were Democrats have a chance at flipping republican seats, TIM rhine versus jade events in ohio veil, demagogues versus marker rubio in florida and sherry beazley, verses ted, but in north carolina you're, a longshot. You think these are the thing. The short answer is, I don't know, I would add one more, which is iowa

in running against chuck Grassley hundred and forty years old hundred and thirty franken had an impressive navy career. Ah, he spent a bunch of time in in eastern africa taken out terrorists right. He was he. The guy was born and raised in sioux city at things like one of nine kids still lives there so also an interesting race which is keep an eye on ohio's. A really hard state trump got fifty three percent in two thousand and twenty, but TIM ryan has raised seven times. The amount of money that JD vance has so far JD vance, you might have noticed, is a weirdo in kind of a schmuck yeah, but I'm worried about you know super pacs, riding to Judy's rescue with a bunch of cash like mitch, Mcconnell adjusted. Can I your line from jaded, fundraising, fundraising, email that was sent today. Yes, at this point, if I don't do a complete one, eighty on the fund raising front. Not only will I have to possibly shut down my campaign, but republicans never win another race this year is that that is a wow

Fun really emails are bad. In general, both sides Democrats wrote. That is one of the best taken it to another night and gaiety events like turning the sign open to close, and the window has made me shut down my campaign look. I have been skeptical of this because you know trump won ohio. Fifty three, forty five, that's a big margin, a lot. So that means there's a has to be a lot of TIM ryan, Donald trump voters, gay people who voted for donald trump, who vote for TIM ryan this time round, a lot of them for TIM ryan to win now but even as even as I explained this to my in and all and now, I'm Emily's family inference from my eyes still say: hey we believe, can I call them bucket is or does that offend them as not serve ohio, state or columbus people. I don't know if we should be getting into this value to people who are not tech, I'm not that guy. I can't I can't speak for them on that tweeted, but actually there's a lot of people in ohio who have a lot of faith in TIM ryan that he can pull this off.

and so I've started to believe. I start to believe the one that I really want to believe in is north carolina cause five. Thirty eight has cherry, beasley and ted by the tide, she's crushing him in fundraising. I think it's two to one. As of the june third filing- and I just in my soul- I want north carolina to be a blue state. The obama hagen one state widen in two thousand and eight at a really get what happened since yeah. I think we have does the in the in the trump era they turned out to so many rural x urban white voters who had never turned out before were decision usually tramp before and so, even though its a diversifying state and it was helping. Turning towards Democrats sort of the trump era brought it a little bit.

Just put it out of reach, which was unfortunate, but cheri beasley a great candidate. You know we interviewed her here and and, like I said, it's it's tied right now, so yeah guys. Look, I am ready for florida like listen florida, you just have you broken my heart so many times that I just can't let you back in. I want Val deming's to win, I think hey famously we hate Marco rubio. What I wonder, are marco rubio, as he sits around his house, and he puts on his like little athleisure outfit in his goofy hats and he records little videos that are just poorly lit and everything about him screams. I give up I don't want this job. You will the only satisfying thing about mercury videos. You will never be presented states and that's what he's one or more than anything. So it's it's comforting to know they will never achieve that, but I'd also like him to night,

Yeah he's like a he's, a jv ted cruz, but there's two hundred thousand more republicans registered republicans. I think in the state than Democrats that I just know. I think that the tower is going to be hard was tough, but here's the thing all of these races, like the with Senate, is very much up for grabs here. Democrats can hold onto the center. We could even add to our senate majority, as if we've said this before or to like for you about holding onto the senate, you get two more centres than we have now, who are pro choice, anti filibuster and not only can we the codify roe v wade, but you could do a whole bunch of other stuff that we couldn't get done, because the filibuster, if we also are somehow able to keep the house which is a longer shot you know who else so anyway, I go to vote. Save america com sign up for a mid term. Madness on there also voter registration deadlines coming up in

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here's addition, pakistan. I hurt radio app apple pie, guess wherever you get your podcast joining us now now, along friend of the pod, who is now running to be the next governor of texas, texas, better or rourke, better welcome back hates thanks for having me back good to see both great to see you too, you ran state wide for Senate twenty eighteen men Democrats had the winded our back. You came closer turning texas blue than any candidate decades now you're running for governor in a political environment. That's much tougher for democrats! What lessons from twenty eighteen are you planning to this campaign? What's different about this reason and what different about you is a candidate. So there are a lot of good lessons going everywhere. Making sure that you talk to him and to everyone right. Nobody off take no one for granted. That was a big take away for me from. Twenty eighteen, ten and something that were applying to this right, as well and so you'll? Certainly

the essen in Houston and in dallas in austin in the kinds of places you would expect a demo. Two, because I want to make sure I'm not taken any one for granted. and within those reliably blue, as were told counties, were tried, go to places where maybe Democrats haven't shown up because they just taken these voters for granted and oftentimes. That's black and brown voters in texas but going to places like greenville, or medicine, ville or clodagh long, texarkana, even lubbock and amarillo bigger communities that have voted republican for the last twenty or thirty years. showing up and seeing that there are a lot of Democrats, but also a lot of republicans and independence, who are looking for something better and often having more people than we have space in the halls. We rented shows me that there is a deep demand for change.

In the state of texas step that holds true from what we saw in twenty teen. Only much bigger this time in terms of changes, you know a stake on made in twenty eighteen. was assuming that everyone understood ted crews and injustice. Dangerous this guy was or that they just formed their opinion on this guy. They loved him or they hated him. There is just going to be little that I could add to that. I I I now realize I left a lot of boats on the table. There are people who are working, two or three jobs to make ends meet they're, taking care of their kids or their parents are just not plugged in the way that may be. Unplugged enter your plugin politics and the candidate me in that case needed to do a better job of prosecuting the case. on proves just just the lost that we were suffering from having this guy's are junior senator in it's race with abbot, I'm making sure everyone knows that when the lights went out last february and what

Seven hundred were fellow texans died when Utility bills went up as a result. Forty five bucks a month more than you are paying before that, when a large drivers of inflation in the state of texas, your property taxes freeze up twenty billion dollars, cumulatively or less, Seven years across the state of texas, five of the worst. Shootings in? U s history in five years on this guy's watch, this is gregg abbots, texas, the extremism on a toy Will abortion ban, with no exception for rape or incest, turned his back and law enforcement and signing a bill biblical permit must carry that did away dark licence to carry programme. So no longer must you get a background check or proof, We should have seen the firearm that you want to carry on our streets. Yours free to go out there fully loaded with the public. None the wiser

or or the safer for it. I want to make sure every single texas voter knows that this is Greg abbott and by contrast, we can focus on the big things that bring us together: world class public schools, expanding medicaid, so that you can actually see it actor in the least insured state in america, reversing somebody extremism on abortion, our gun laws and then just doing stuff that invest in some of these communities that are so long been overlooked or forgotten, because abbot thinks he's got them in the back so it doesn't have to show up or deliver for them. A broadband internet is is a great example across texas we invest in that as an infrastructure as a technologies utility, we will least extraordinary economic power. So that's a big difference from the way I ran in two thousand and two

and yet allows us to build on that base that produce the largest voter turnout in texas history. Since nineteen seventy had the largest young voter turnout, probably ever was up five hundred percent from the previous midterm election and though we didn't win. A lot of Democrats got over the line that night and eighteen twelve new state house reps to new members of congress, that flipped control of that institution and in harris county home to Houston. Seventeen black women got elected you judicial position, so that was a transformative election we held. all that ground. John and Tommy, in in twenty twenty, we didn't lose it single seat or position. We didn't gain as much as I think we should have an twenty twenty, but it shows that basis solid. Now we get to be,

on top of that yeah me either way and when a winning sounds great I mean, I think no one would ever accuse you of not working hard or not. Showing up are not going to all these places and thank god, Joe Biden, got these. These gas prices under control us your campaign would be literally bankrupt. Let's talk about gun control for a minute, because you, this past summer congress in washington, they passed the first gun control law in decades, and I think even the authors of the bill would concede that they wish it did a lot more. But I was wondering what you made of that law, especially how extreme governor Abbott is pushing for permit less carry, which sounds like the worst idea. I could ever imagine being a senator murphy and some of the other sponsored the bill. Their theory of the case is basically, let's prove this was passed this law, let's get something done on a bipartisan basis and prove that the nrl can't make us pay a political price and then try to build on that success. I wonder if you agree with that yeah I am so impressed with senator murphy and others who worked on that, but this guy has been

so persistent over the last decade and never been deterred. Never despaired never gave up and- and I think is proving that progress is possible and is the first to say what he's been able to bring to the table and get the present sign is wholly insufficient to the challenge we face and yet its proof that this work pays off in its one step among many we have yet to take. I think that is not lost on the people of texas on the families and you value we're not thirteen weeks since nineteen kids were slaughtered in that classroom, along with their duty hers, kids, whose bodies could only be identified by the shoes that they were wearing. Just who saw those kids afterward and talked about how that high impact high velocity round bitterly liquefied the soft tissue- that it met in their bodies or or in their heads those family

and they are republicans, are Democrats are folks in some cases have never been politically engaged before to a person want us to take. Action and make change and ensure that no other family has to go through what they are experiencing right now. What they'll frankly live with war? The the rest of their lives, so that was some cause for hope for us here in texas, because right, you know, abbot may have only made things worse after sutherland springs in santa fe high school midland odessa- EL paso, now you ve by signing permanent carry in the law, but there is an answer to that. And that is all of us, we can change the person in power, have someone who will work on things like at least raising the minimum age, a purchase from eighteen to twenty, that may only val who had for me when I showed up at a press conference in the day after that, shooting he and his council members unanimously sent a letter from the about his city council to gregg out at seeing hey, please call a special session and

raise the minimum age. No reason this guy at eighteen years, old goodbye, not one but two hour- fifteen's- hundreds around for ammunition perfectly legally and are such signals at his friends call him the school should before he ever walked into the school, we can do better than this so as to show that common ground between republicans and Democrats demonstrates that this is possible. But we're gonna need political leadership that will do this. Abbots called a special session to go after trans kids to go after critical race theory to make it harder to voting axis cannot be bothered to call special session to save the lives of kids, and most kids in Texas have already started that twenty twenty two twenty twenty three school year and literally not a thing- has changed too it less likely that they'll be shot in their classrooms. Just like those kids and evaluate santa fe high

Why are so many others across the state of texas? One trend that we saw in the twenty two thousand election is a shift towards republicans among latino voters, both nationally and in texas, actually working class latina voters in more rural areas. Round the rio Grande valley, What are you hearing when you go to some of those communities, because obviously one one issue is people who just haven't voted before another issue? Is people who had voted for democrats, but you know, decided I'm gonna now vote for report guns. And what are you what you hear from those voters? And what do you say them to turn what he sang to them to persuade them to her, to give you a shot. When I ask him when I listen you're, whether here a paso or down in the real, and valley, or along the texas mexico border. It is overwhelming the economy. Now give you an example in the go for shale if you have one of those great oil and gas jobs

You are making sixty bucks an hour if you dont you're on food stamps donald trump. Twenty twenty had an incredibly powerful, simple, compelling argument. It was just jobs and specifically it was oil and gas jobs in south texas Biden, unfortunately, did not happen. Could you please not one that was heard in south texas? There was no money spent by that campaign, an republican showed up and they were hungry and democrats literally. This is twenty twenty. It was a pandemic, and so I understand the excuses, but democrats literally phoned in the work. Republicans were on the door. They were, they were hungry, they really wanted this, and regardless of ideology or or partisanship or any other thing, and all those can be important. I always give it to the guy although the guy who's gonna work harder than than the other person option-

up now, seven times in the Rio Grande valley. As you all know, not the easiest part of texas. To get too, I show up to do big public town hall meetings, all comers. What no holds barred. Anyone ask any questions asked in English. Asking spanish talk about the things that are most important to me and when we do, we make connections on the economy where gregg abbot shut down all trade on the. U S, mexico border for more than a week earlier this year, and it just hammered the shit out of these communities, import export businesses literally their traffic, dried up and moved to new mexico and to arizona two thirds of the protests that we consume in texas was on those bridges literally just rotting in the back of those trucks. That's

at last on those voters there, but to the point I was making earlier about prosecuting the case, I can't just assume that people will make those connections. I've got to be there to say, hey Greg Abbott did this to your community and here's. What I propose to do that is different. Not only am I going to support U S, mexico trade! We can raise the minimum wage from seven twenty five words still is today to fifteen bucks our can expand medicaid because you live in the least insured part of the least insured states in amerika we're gonna make sure that we invest your public schools, because your teachers encounters are making a fraction of what their counterparts across a nation are making leaving you I'm going to invest in new I've heard you we're gonna partner with you and follow your leave.

And it really does seem to be paying off for whatever poles matter today. Not only we pulling better than abbot in these communities were pulling better than Biden did in twenty twenty and though he did worse than Clinton did those communities he was doing far better than he's doing now. So it's that that's a fairly low bar that we passed now we really do have to build on it. That's why I'm going back on the first two september to end bird into brownsville. We just learned a hope as a party, you just can't take anyone for granted. Note no one's yours for life, regardless of how they voted before the color of their skin, any other, identifying characteristic that differentiate themselves from anybody else. You gotta go out there and fight for them, and so

The only way I know to do it, maybe not the most sophisticated way, is to show up in person, be there listen to folks and and try to earn that vote, and I think that's what we're doing so. You mentioned that you know we're talking about greg abbott on gun laws and how extreme he has been, or continues to be. The other extreme policy position that's been we've been hearing about from texas for awhile has been anti abortion activists passing these draconian bills. That became more of a direct threat to everyone in the state. When the supreme court dod's decision came down. How did that decision impact?

it's what you're talking about and what you're hearing from voters and whether it is or isn't motivating people because we're starting to see. You know instances like in Kansas, where folks are coming out, because they don't want the government restricting the kind of health care women can get yet. So it's so important to remember that, fifty years ago, half a century ago, abortion was just as illegal in texas, then as it is today, and it was texas women who ended up delivering for texas women, so Jane roas, your nose, a texas woman, but her to attorneys sarah wedding tenant, Linda coffee, who still lives in Dallas texas, successfully prevailed upon in all male united states supreme court to win protection for the right to privacy. To make these very personal and painful decisions. Texas women came through nineteen. Seventy two nineteen, seventy three

confident texas women are going to come through in two thousand and twenty two, and I see it wherever we go. I mentioned in in greenville in in hunt county, and you know, unless you're from there and you're you're not passing through there, You have to you, have to want to go to greenville and hunt county to be there. We had a gym for for five hundred people reached, ass? We three hundred more waited outside and a guarantee those eight hundred folks coming on brindle or not their primary. to see me or to rally for the democratic party They are there to fight for, and work for change and that dobbs decision, the top abortion ban, with no exception, for rape no exception for incest in a state of texas. It starts at conception in state that has won the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world because, as you ve foreclosed options to seek an abortion, you ve also turn them away for cervical cancer screenings. Family planning help

just as any kind of doktor at all. People are meeting the moment and it's one of the very of silver linings, I guess, and this really dark sky- that's descended over the state of texas. Is people aren't, haven't it an organ? Do everything they have to do? in order to change it, and I do think we saw that in cannes I know that I'm seeing that on the ground across the state of texas right now, and you better believe that will show up in the votes on it on the night of november. Eighth, The poles have us canopy access, five down other, say too On other, say: seven down your probably somewhere around there, but I dont know that pulling can measure the anger, the deep drive, the work ethic, the people in texas have it's gonna produce the victory that I know we're going to see on the night of november eight, this decision, the extremism, a gregg abbot, as can have a lot to do with the result that we see

Somehow, in the middle of this campaign, you managed to write a book about voting rights, called that we've got to try and it seems as if people who care about voting rights nationally and especially in texas, haven't had a lot to celebrate lately. Speaking of dark clouds- and you know, one of the more pernicious effects of voter suppression is that it makes people think like why even bother if the system is so rigged white. Why should I even do this? What do you say What do you say to that yeah? I started this book about two years ago trying to answer that question because there's this temptation to despair very understandable, given the attack on women's reproductive rights, the eligibility q community and the state of texas. The fact that our electricity grid does not work when it gets too cold and and literally people freeze to death in the energy capital of the world? The way I see it, these things would not be happening if more people had the ability to vote if more

voices were heard that this is not a reflection of the majority of us or who we are at our core as texans. This is the product of a very rigid system where seven hundred and fifty pulling places have been closed in the last decade in almost twice as much as an the state. You know a gerrymandered system based on race were black and brown texans are drawn out of a congressional district, too minimize, not only the power of their boat but john to your point, the likelihood that they will that they will vote at all and so against that I wanted to know what can we do and by looking at texas history. Specifically, this extraordinary story of a guy named lawrence Nixon black physician who lived in EL paso, more a hundred years ago, I learned that. Not only can we overcome this attack on democracy and voting rights, we ve overcome it before, against my

greater odds. This guy was fighting against the white primary nineteen. Twenty three, the state legislature here, said: if your black, you can't vote, lit we'd like know how many jelly beans, or in the jar or here's illiteracy, tasks test or quote the state constitution. Just in black and white forbade african americans from political participation, this guy fought it. He said I ve got to try he was told that he could not vote one to signal supreme court victories Finally, one integration and forty four and set the path for the first texas present l b J to sign a voting rights acts into line. Nineteen sixty four

If so, it's an extraordinary story- and it happens here in texas- which again today, is the epicenter of voter suppression and voter intimidation, the toughest state in the nation in which to vote toughest in which to register, and yet that doesn't have to be our future or our fate. We can change that, but it's going to take extraordinary courage, really tireless work, and it's going to take a lot of people and thankfully, in his campaign as an example, we've got. Eighty three thousand folks who volunteered to take shifts, knocking on doors, registering people to vote, having conversations with folks who have been the very targets for suppression and intimidation. So the stories in this book are stories of people like lawrence, Nixon or opal Lee, who walked from fort worth texas, she's, now, ninety five years

old to wash in DC, to prevail upon no first president obama, and then president Biden members of congress to make june team the first federally recognised holiday in in decades and a holiday that recognises the work that has taken place, but also the work left to be done. So some pretty inspiring people here in texas who remind us that we can do this because we ve we ve done it before. So I hope the people read the book. I'm takes him inspiration from these stories, as I have and then put in the work to make sure that we come through manifold, bad, fallen up, alec hopeful, optimistic question with this dark shit for me, but the foot

sight of, like all the good things you're trying to put into the world is a lot of what we're hearing in the conservative media, which is increasingly conspiratorial and sometimes violent rhetoric I mean Tucker carlson's show was just like agit prop about the great replacement theory. That's led to real world violence, trump's inspiring supporters to to attack the f b. I both rhetorically and then someone actually Look I'm up on it in and in a high. Oh, I see videos of your vents where you're out there on the road you're trying to talk to people and like bring people together, be also folk shown up with air fifteen's. Maybe to protest may be just the kind of bee intimidating. What is the year in the front line? What what is it feel? like out there are you concerned about the where the rhetoric is going? Are you concerned about? I don't know the safety of politicians who are like just try and do their jobs. Yeah, I mean I'm concerned about all this. I think. you will see this and feel it, and I think any anybody looking at this country today,

should be able to see it. Certainly the history books written decades from now will wool will illustrate this, or demonstrate that this is a defining moment of truth for us we are about You either save and restore this democracy or lose it forever in. I don't know a better way to put it, and I guess can sound dark than the other way to look at it is I mean how The generations have the great fortune to fight for the right to vote and this democracy I mean your johnson in that amazing speech. Sixty five, where he's been inspired by jean louis, who was nearly killed crossing the admin pettus bridge says, look at concord, the Maddox and now in sola you all of us fighting for this right to vote this great democracy and lange that charge at the feet of the members of congress. Like look you, you walk and do something about this,

By the summer of that year, he was able to get an almost all white congress, including many significant senators and house members from the south to expand the franchise and create the first true multiracial democracy in american history, We are a generation now that has that fight before us, as theirs did overcoming Jim crow, and in this book we've got to try to tell the story about what happened in texas post reconstruction, where african american, still held elected office still nominally were, were able to vote and came up against you no kind of it, the precursor to the coup klux clan in the state of texas, these armitage aunties, who would go in and literally steal. The vote at pulling locations very reminiscent in some ways to me of what happened on six, two thousand twenty one. You have legitimate

lawfully decided elections and this very violent white minority. Would come in and literally steal the ballot box in you shoot people open violence and and civil strife, and some of these counties in texas and then the united states congress and in very well meaning people catch wind of this hold. These hearings investigated come up with Then elections bill, not unlike the one that we have on the table. Right now in the united states congress that will allow for federal protection for voting rights in the states of the former confederacy and throughout the rest of the country. For that matter, and you have this, democracy party, the republicans at the time to have a majority in the house. Jordan, the senate, they just elected a guy who ran in part on a platform of protecting the right to vote and in this elections bill passes the house, it's gonna, pass a senate and it gets hung up on a filibuster and

there are unable to get it done this by eighteen. Ninety and say you wait. Seventy five years until nineteen sixty five and l b, J building on the work of lawrence Nixon to truly realise that opportunity that was present back in eighty. Ninety part of the message from this book is. We may be at an eighteen ninety moment where, if we don't get our act together and save this democracy, how many decades will we be in in the dark? this again, or will we ever get it back at all, so that that's that's? Why use that the language that I'm? I think this is now or never moment I dont know. Did you get a two thousand and twenty four unless you come through big in two thousand and twenty two, because tee to your point, tommy, there are people in positions of power and now running for greater power who deny those that the legitimacy of the last presidential election- and I, aren t you will deny the legitimacy of the legitimacy of the vote. If their candidates don't prevail. In

future elections. We got a win this one time and no bigger battleground. Then the state of texas is the ep: center of it all win it and it forever changes. What is possible and I think, protects our democracy going into another historical presidential election, so it it's all on the line and nowhere more so than right here better. It's always great to talk to you I'd it so in wiring to see you out on the trail again and and and and and to see. You continue to be in this fight with such a determination and such joy. Ah, so we recreate that and in good luck out there stay safe Thank you thank you both now a word from our sponsor better help, discuss waiting.

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commissioner, it is for some reason. Four hundred ninety two pages just lately have just foreign aid, two phases Well, I mean what he was an adviser in the white house for four years. What is he writing for four hundred ninety two pages: it's receive one of the worst book reviews. I've ever read the new york times, which called it soulless and then goes on to say a cushion or looks like a mannequin. He writes like one, that's one of their nicer lines. Tommy. Would you like to share some of your favorite parts? I know you ve been waiting long time for the yeah. Listen, so Jared is the worst he he bought his way into harvard. He married his way into power and now he's trying to ghost write his way into the story. He wants written about himself, and I just don't think we can. Let him do that. This, I think, was my favorite paragraph in this book review. Who wrote this book review? Can we do a little? She will fast googling your way to give this person the credit they deserve. Could I do this book is like a tour

once majestic eighteenth century wooden house now burned to its foundations that focuses solely on and rejoices in. What's left amid the ashes, the two cinched bathtubs, the gravel driveway in the mailbox. Then later he goes on to say. Reading this book reminded me of watching a cat lick, a dog's eye goop cause he's such a such a suck up to donald trump, and my my favorite part is that the review talks about how Jared recalls every drop of praise. Yes, ever received such as these lines or in the book you deserve it lord for all, you ve done Jared a genius. I've been in and in a long time- and I must say jared- is one of the best lobbyists have ever seen in the book. Reviewer goes on to write a therapist. Might call these cries for help at thy love that too,

by the way the reviewer is an individual named dwight garner and I've been writing a book reviews for the new york times. For quite a while, since two thousand- and I just want to say, Dwight you're, a brilliant writer that he does make a point towards the end that I think really captures Jared to and and how useless he is in general, because he look like he's not gerrard's not going to impress or any like mater It's all. Democrats are good enough, yet no one likes it Joe. It's not like an intellectual heavy weight by any means of who is this book for it, certainly not for the mega base either because they don't trust him right like their don junior's, I like donald trump or they don't like Jared Kushner, so he ended up calling him. He says he's a pair of dimples without a demographic has beautiful, which I think that is true there's just the utter lack of self awareness, there's a description of breaking up the locker and then getting back together and it of went down on rupert murdoch's yacht and they say

they're having lunch at bono's house in some town in the french riviera rupert stepped out to take a car. He walked back whispered, something in my ear about buying the wall street journal and then he's like after lunch. Billy Joel, who also been with us on the boat, played the piano while Bono sang with the irish singer, songwriter bob geldof. First lot: Jarod you like cheers occupying this war have to just hang out with seventy year old odin yeah I mean yeah. I think just let him murdoch like this, like his father in law, it's pretty he's a he So I mean did do the whole middle east peace things if no guarantees, you fucking, have him it'll, give him credit for the middle of the middle EAST. Doing middle east peace means a palestinian state, I'm so pissed off at how this has gotten bastardized and twisted by sociopathic you just give you get you get autocrat in the usa, either cut a deal with these.

Elite government, because we pay them off with some weapons as saw middle east peace like you just you can trade agreement. It's always trump is bad. Trump. Is bad the abraham accords one of the greatest unbelieving of the greatest accomplishments of the twenty first century, and you just can't even give it the kind of acknowledgement it deserves. I hope that you and Ben read that part of the book aloud on pod save the world about his exploits, and I think it'll just be insufferable either. Like two hundred pages, I've been trying to ground, an idea. So back in the day we had so much have some fun bets on the show. You know we had like the awesome blossom or whatever and other associated things. During what year we were forced to 'em were forced to tweet things. in stairwell, yes, yeah it was against her will. I wanted to put forward an idea for a competition where we, maybe we crowdsource it or may reach pick amongst ourselves, the worst political biography. Then the loser has to read it and write like a two page book report and john and John have been resisting. This idea

because they're functionally illiterate unless it's a tweet stack, I dont know what. How do you lose this? What is the game, Nevertheless, I don't know- and I leave without adding on tommy erases tommy wants to read the two page. I forgot all about Jared questioners book and he's looking for a device to get himself to the point where he can write that and he's so he's backed into this competition, in which I am ready to competing Do you wanna do predictions walter? We predict them in terms of their out of print. I know the votes were not for ten and then you guys come up.

Well, maybe there's a contest that we could lead us on with the law. If you're obligated to have the rosier prediction, because we don't want to upset anybody, you know like when their campaign doesn't win to get dan pfeiffer. The biggest optimists now Dan's running around telling everyone that Democrats are a lot I don't like, and I don't like who did this, because with this optimism, Dan has succumb to optimise idea. Is that we lost and adopted as a people complain about nepotism, I'm the one who got the steel here, that's baby, my favorite thing. I've got to be a trump quote. This is I mean the most and trump sounding quote in the history of regurgitating trump quotes Jared Kushner. I am going to be really sad bunch of people by this book? Don't buy this, but there is also a review by Peter Navarro former too. visor that took it down not around of shares. Many of the trumpery were not fans of chairs and made people or deny us. It was number one on amazon today I know I know I was gonna. Bring that up. Well, look. The truth sometimes hurts. I do think you can easily kind of juice. Those numbers they didn't know, listen jerry, cushioned just got.

And a two billion dollar check from the saudi government for his little investment fund. Despite never having invested money before he will be getting probably a two percent management fee on that money and then, if he invests it and makes a profit, we'll probably get twenty per cent of the profit. So what I'm saying is he's a shitty little rich kid sitting on a ton of saudi money. Now I would be shocked if Jared didn't buy himself. Perhaps someone buy for him a couple I was in your copies of this book. Just a stuffing out, you know yeah. We know we have authors on the show. We we we push books on the show. This don't buy this book If anything go. Tell your friends, don't buy this book and then have them. Tell their friends don't buy this book spread. The word was the abbey hoffman's steal this book, just just no one. No one needs to read this book. Know you're, not gonna, learn anything anyway. Thank you to Jared for writing. It we could read that review because I was very enjoyable rarity of by Dwight. Garner like

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