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Speaker 1: the big post election day news. Republicans won, but somehow
Speaker 1: also lost. Donald Trump is throwing Milannia under the bus,
Speaker 1: and slavery is now illegal almost everywhere. So let's do
Speaker 1: these people. Let's come straight to all the results in
Speaker 1: another edition of Vote Demo. So, going into last night's midterms,
Speaker 1: almost everyone was expecting a huge night for Republicans, a
Speaker 1: red wave that would wash away the Democrats in Congress
Speaker 1: and yank off Joe Biden's swim trucks so one could
Speaker 1: see his old man butt. But now the votes are in,
Speaker 1: and already already people are realizing that although there's still
Speaker 1: a lot left to count. It's clear that the red
Speaker 1: wave did not show up this morning. Control of Congress
Speaker 1: up in the air, with both the House and Senate
Speaker 1: still hanging in the balance, Republicans acknowledging the expected red
Speaker 1: wave never materialized. Five races still to call. It's un
Speaker 1: clear who will control the Senate. Control of the House
Speaker 1: is leading Republican, but only barely. Democrats overall are doing
Speaker 1: much better than expected. That predicted red wave only appears
Speaker 1: to be a splash. If you will, the word wave
Speaker 1: has no application yet to what we're seeing. This might
Speaker 1: feel more like the edge of a lake. This really
Speaker 1: looks much more like a red whisper. If that This
Speaker 1: wasn't even red wave. It's not even a red little
Speaker 1: ripple in a pond. If I've heard it called, you know,
Speaker 1: the red sprinkler. I've heard it called the red splash,
Speaker 1: the red puddle, the red drizzle, the red sprints. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, when you're paying and then a little bit
Speaker 1: comes out after you're done. It's a red one of those.
Speaker 1: You should probably go get that checked out, by the way,
Speaker 1: And like some of these didn't even make sense, you know,
Speaker 1: Like I'm sorry, but what what is a red whisper?
Speaker 1: What is that? Like a smr ful Conservatives stuff? It is?
Speaker 1: I was just like, now i'm the voting writings. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: but yes, last night was not the red wave that
Speaker 1: many people expected it to be. And to be clear,
Speaker 1: to be clear, Republicans are still in good shape to
Speaker 1: take control of the House and they may even take
Speaker 1: control of the Senate when it's all said and done.
Speaker 1: Now it's too early. It's too early to tell because
Speaker 1: you know America Council's votes as slowly as George R.
Speaker 1: Martin writes the books. But it's definitely not the huge
Speaker 1: win that they were expecting. So it feels like a
Speaker 1: lost which is really strange to me about politics. You know,
Speaker 1: it's the only place where you can technically win but
Speaker 1: still lose because people thought you were gonna win. More basically,
Speaker 1: Republicans got the hand job version of winning. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: it got the job done, but no one's really happy
Speaker 1: about it. It was like ma id have done the
Speaker 1: chi Marsel ma And again, lots of races are still undecided.
Speaker 1: Arizona and Nevada won't be done counting votes for a
Speaker 1: few more days. We won't know who won Alaska's racist
Speaker 1: until the dog sled arrives. And the big Senate race
Speaker 1: in Georgia looks like it is headed to a runoff
Speaker 1: in December. Yeah, which is only gonna score up herschel
Speaker 1: Walker's brain even more right, I don't think it's like
Speaker 1: another election has been six years already. Oh man, that
Speaker 1: means I got thirty five children. Now what's happening? Oh wow.
Speaker 1: For one big race that was decided last night was
Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania, where John Federman defeated Dot Dog, which you
Speaker 1: gotta admit as exciting for the Capital because nobody in
Speaker 1: the Senate looks like this guy. I mean, have you
Speaker 1: seen this. He doesn't look like everyone. He's massive. He's
Speaker 1: got the bald head, the goatee, the hoodie, which is dope.
Speaker 1: Nor many senators look like your dad's boss from work.
Speaker 1: You know. John Federman looks like he can physically raise
Speaker 1: the death ceiling seven trillier at look not. One of
Speaker 1: the reasons so many people were surprised by lost night's
Speaker 1: results is that for weeks. For weeks, pundits have been
Speaker 1: saying that there are only a few issues that really
Speaker 1: mattered to Americans right now, like inflation, crime and whatever
Speaker 1: the hell is going on with the Twitter check marks,
Speaker 1: and in particular, in particular, the experts were saying that
Speaker 1: voter concerns about abortion had faded since the summer. I
Speaker 1: guess all those experts have been fired and will never
Speaker 1: be allowed back on television because it turns out they
Speaker 1: were just a little bit wrong. The issue of abortion
Speaker 1: turned out to be a massive factor yesterday, with the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court's decision in the Job's case to overturn Roe v.
Speaker 1: Wade playing a much bigger role than polls before the
Speaker 1: election suggested. In California, Michigan, and Vermont, voters chose to
Speaker 1: enshrine reproductive rights into their states constitutions. The biggest surprise
Speaker 1: came in Republican leading Kentucky, where voters rejected and anti
Speaker 1: abortion constitutional amendment. It was a huge night for abortion
Speaker 1: rights across the country. I mean, women vote it in droves. Yes,
Speaker 1: But people said a few weeks ago that it didn't
Speaker 1: matter that it was fading. It didn't. Turns out that
Speaker 1: wasn't right. Yeah, it turns out abortion rights didn't fade
Speaker 1: away as a concert And it's crazy that people ever
Speaker 1: thought it would. You know, Like what women out there
Speaker 1: would be like, you know what ready bothered me over
Speaker 1: the summer when the state government wanted to take control
Speaker 1: of my reproductive system. But now I'm like whatever, Maybe
Speaker 1: my body is their choice. I don't know. So it
Speaker 1: looks like abortion rights with a big one last nights.
Speaker 1: And it looks like the big loser last night was
Speaker 1: not another than Donald jumped the shock Trump because because
Speaker 1: so far it looks like many of the candidates he
Speaker 1: endorsed ended up being unendorsed by the voters. Here's what
Speaker 1: we know for sure this morning. It was a disappointing
Speaker 1: night for former President Trump. The biggest loser last night
Speaker 1: was Donald Trump. In state after state candidates that he
Speaker 1: brought to the race, candidates that he endorsed did not
Speaker 1: win or are losing right now. But perhaps a worst
Speaker 1: result for Trump is that his biggest Republican rival had
Speaker 1: the best night of anybody. Florida Governor Rhonda Santist might
Speaker 1: have moved closer to a possible presidential bid with a
Speaker 1: commanding victory over former Governor Charlie Chris. That's rights. It
Speaker 1: was a bad night for Trump and a great night
Speaker 1: for his rival, Ronda Sanctimonious, who absolutely crushed it in Florida,
Speaker 1: I mean crushed it like Bosuls crushed it. And judging
Speaker 1: by this post on his knuckle of Twitter, Trump is
Speaker 1: not taking it. Well. Yeah, he wrote, shouldn't it be
Speaker 1: said that it Dunie to Eddie I got one point
Speaker 1: one million more votes in Florida than run d got
Speaker 1: this year five point seven million to four point six minute,
Speaker 1: Jess askin, Oh wow, and you see what you've done?
Speaker 1: Run to Sanctas. You see what you've done. You made
Speaker 1: Trump so mad he's doing maths four pointed that's five
Speaker 1: pite seven even, sounding like Shakespeare? And that shouldn't it
Speaker 1: be said? And here that too far. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing that's exciting about this. The Santors of success,
Speaker 1: combined with Trump's failures, is already causing chaos in the
Speaker 1: Republican party right because now Republicans are asking themselves, what
Speaker 1: do we do? Do we stick with Trump, who's screwed
Speaker 1: up two elections now but still controls all of the
Speaker 1: hardcore Republicans and it's also completely toxic with everyone else.
Speaker 1: Oh were gold around the Santus, who's clearly the upgrade
Speaker 1: of Trump, But then you risk losing Trump and then
Speaker 1: he burns down the entire g O P. What do
Speaker 1: you do? And it's funny. It's so funny to watch
Speaker 1: because all these Conservatis they don't know what to do,
Speaker 1: all right. They're just like, do I go with Trump? Oh?
Speaker 1: Do I go with the census? Oh? If I had
Speaker 1: principles that would follow them, But I just want to
Speaker 1: be on the winning side. Which one do I go with?
Speaker 1: You know? Right now? Right now? Conservances in America like
Speaker 1: kids who can see a bad divorce coming and they
Speaker 1: want to pick sides, but they don't show which parent
Speaker 1: is going to keep the house. But it's true. Trump
Speaker 1: had a tough nights. You know, poor guy was just
Speaker 1: at home watching his top election deniers lose and crying
Speaker 1: into a box of classified documents nuclear But because this
Speaker 1: is Donald Trump, he's not taking responsibility. In fact, it's
Speaker 1: being reported that he's blaming Millannia for pushing him to
Speaker 1: endorse Dr Oz in the first place, saying it was
Speaker 1: quote not her best decision. Yeah, and I'm sure. In response,
Speaker 1: Millania was like, yes, it's true, I'm very bad that
Speaker 1: picking man, But not everything about the election was about
Speaker 1: Democrats or Republicans. So let's take a moment to appreciate
Speaker 1: all the history Rick moments from last night. We want
Speaker 1: to tell you about several historic firsts across the country.
Speaker 1: In Alabama, Republican Katie Britt the winner in the race
Speaker 1: for US Senate. She is the first woman ever elected
Speaker 1: to the Senate in Alabama. In Maryland, Democrat Westmore will
Speaker 1: be the state's first black governor. And Massachusetts made history
Speaker 1: onto fronts. Democratic Attorney General Maura Healy will become the
Speaker 1: first female governor in the state's history, and she will
Speaker 1: also be the nation's first openly lesbian governor. Election history
Speaker 1: was also made in Florida. Year old Democrat Maxwell Frost
Speaker 1: is said to be the first member of Generation Z
Speaker 1: to win a seat in Congress. Wow, a twenty five
Speaker 1: year old congressman. That's gonna be great to have a
Speaker 1: young person in Congress. And by young, I mean under
Speaker 1: I mean it will be tough, though, will be tough
Speaker 1: being that young around that many old people. Office time
Speaker 1: is going to be spent helping them with their phones.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be the middle of a speech like and
Speaker 1: that's why my district and the people of it deserved
Speaker 1: what what, Chuck, No, just just swipe up, swipe up
Speaker 1: to close the app. No, swipe up, No, don't tick that.
Speaker 1: There are not really hot singles in your area. It's
Speaker 1: a trick, Chuck, it's a trick. And then a lot
Speaker 1: of other cool First. Two women first, lgbt Q first,
Speaker 1: immigrant first. Honestly, I almost feel bad for anyone who
Speaker 1: won last night and wasn't a historic first. There's probably
Speaker 1: some straight white guy last night giving his victory speech
Speaker 1: like it's an honor to be the first governor in
Speaker 1: state history. Who can uh do this? Uh? Pretty pretty sick? Right? Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: just me? All right, that's a really headlines. But before
Speaker 1: we go to a break, it's sound to check in
Speaker 1: on the weather forecast without very own desil like everybody,
Speaker 1: good to see you again, Desi. You know it's getting
Speaker 1: co from the east, the storms everywhere. What's the weather
Speaker 1: looking like? Weather's great? Look outside. What I want to
Speaker 1: talk about is how people came out and voted for
Speaker 1: abortion rights all over this country. Yes, big deal, big deal,
Speaker 1: including my home state of Kentucky. Yeah that was huge. Kentucky, Trevor,
Speaker 1: the state where women have fewer rights than most horses.
Speaker 1: It's true. I mean, in college I had to get
Speaker 1: my birth control from a horse fed Wow, veterinarian. That's
Speaker 1: terrible dizzy. Yeah right, I mean they also had kedemy
Speaker 1: and so it wasn't all bad. And that year I
Speaker 1: went on to win the Belmont anyway, Also, New York
Speaker 1: and Massachusetts elected female governors for the first time, which
Speaker 1: is a win. It is a win. But if we're
Speaker 1: being honest, how is this only happening now in New
Speaker 1: York and Massachusetts? These two states have been states since
Speaker 1: the beginning of states. You know how long women have
Speaker 1: been around, Like at least that long, maybe more. Oh
Speaker 1: and how about that Rhonda Santis victory last night? Huh
Speaker 1: oh my god. I almost feel bad for Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: You know, he had to smile and clap for to
Speaker 1: Santis on the outside when he was fuming with jealousy
Speaker 1: on the inside. Trump finally felt like one of his
Speaker 1: beauty pageant contestants. And perhaps the best news is that
Speaker 1: the massive red wave only hit Florida. Oh man, and
Speaker 1: I think all women can agree. It's always a good
Speaker 1: thing when you're red wave is lighter than you expected.
Speaker 1: I just want to say I get how Republicans are feeling.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you expect your red wave to arrive, and it doesn't,
Speaker 1: and then you start to panic. You consider your options,
Speaker 1: which are suddenly very limited. Ah plus plus with this
Speaker 1: runoff in Georgia, you might not know if your red
Speaker 1: wave is coming for another few weeks, and by then
Speaker 1: it might be too late. The next thing you know,
Speaker 1: herschel Walker sending you a get well card with the
Speaker 1: check in it. Anyway, I just want to say to
Speaker 1: all of those Republicans who are feeling this way, don't stress.
Speaker 1: Trust me. I've got a great veterinarian in Kentucky. You
Speaker 1: can call it hot, not because Martin was a Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for the However, I guess all right
Speaker 1: we come back. We're gonna be talking about a surprising
Speaker 1: result from last night that most people don't know about.
Speaker 1: So don't go away, Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: You know, yesterday's election, yesterday's election wasn't just about politicians.
Speaker 1: People also voted on ballot issues. For instance, Connecticut voted
Speaker 1: to implement an early voting system, right, California voted against
Speaker 1: legalizing mobile gaming, and Maryland voted to legalize marijuana. So
Speaker 1: finally you can buy drugs in Baltimore. Right. But but
Speaker 1: a big ballot measure in several states involved slavery. And
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about teaching slavery. I'm talking about actual slavery.
Speaker 1: Five states were voting on constitutional amendments to banned slavery,
Speaker 1: and not all of them past those bands. In all,
Speaker 1: five states were voting on removing slavery from their constitutions.
Speaker 1: For Mont, Alabama, Tennessee all voted to banned slavery as
Speaker 1: punishment for a crime. Louisiana, a former slave state, rejected
Speaker 1: that amendment. All right, America, Four out of five states
Speaker 1: said no to slavery in the year twenty two. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. That's amazing. Now we just need
Speaker 1: to invent electricity and we're living in the future. Baby, Oh,
Speaker 1: I can't wait. Yeah, as you're a Louisiana unlike those
Speaker 1: other woke states, voted against ending slavery. Yeah, and for
Speaker 1: more on that, we go live now to Roy Withold Jr. Everybody, Hello,
Speaker 1: what's going on after them? For the reason we com
Speaker 1: excused because you are in Louisiana right now. Run no no, no,
Speaker 1: Old no, no, no no no. I'm not in Louisiana.
Speaker 1: I'm on the Mississippi side of the border. And that's
Speaker 1: as far as I'm going. But I'm definitely not going in.
Speaker 1: I ain't going to this. You can't tell me a
Speaker 1: place just voted yes on slavery then asked me to
Speaker 1: go there. I'm too old, too tired, I don't seem good.
Speaker 1: I can't be a slavey right. This is bad. This
Speaker 1: is bad, yes, but but it doesn't apply to you.
Speaker 1: This is about forcing prisoners to perform labor for free.
Speaker 1: Oh is that right? I didn't realize that, my bad man?
Speaker 1: You right? You you know what, man, let me just
Speaker 1: mosey on into Louisiana, fool. Next thing, you know, I
Speaker 1: walk around and then they got me for jaywalking. Now
Speaker 1: I'm twelve years of slave and I got away for
Speaker 1: Brad Pitt to come and save my ass. No, thank you.
Speaker 1: I am safe for here in Mississippi, which it's something
Speaker 1: no black man has ever said. But Mississippi it is
Speaker 1: not because he's vot enough, fair enough for it, at
Speaker 1: least at least your home state of Alabama votes in
Speaker 1: last night to band slavery, and it won the vote
Speaker 1: by that's amazing. Yeah, But but that means voted to
Speaker 1: keep slavery that's a lot of people. Now, every time
Speaker 1: I'm at the grocery store, I'm looking around trying to
Speaker 1: guess who voted to enslaved my ass. I bet ms
Speaker 1: Patterson was the one she always saying shipped to be like,
Speaker 1: oh baby, you grew up so strong. Get your hands
Speaker 1: off me, squeezing the muscle, sizing me up, Trevor, this
Speaker 1: is terrible for black people. Well, technically, Roy, under these laws,
Speaker 1: it's not just black people. Everyone, even white people could
Speaker 1: be enslaved. Blue bullshit. Well why didn't they just leave
Speaker 1: with that? They're gonna make white people slaves? Now, that's
Speaker 1: the most progressive thing I ever heard. You know, no, right,
Speaker 1: I think even something. They're gonna make white people's slaves.
Speaker 1: I know you can't make them out here. You gotta
Speaker 1: catch them on your own. Hey, you know what you know?
Speaker 1: I think I'm my head in the Louisiana's gonna get
Speaker 1: me a white slave. Man. I see you later, Bro,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be nav three. You're under a refer
Speaker 1: day rocket. No no, no, no, no, no, no doubt,
Speaker 1: how Devin, they're trying to get me travel oh ship,
Speaker 1: good luck with that, right, right? Would j everybody I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to put bell the all right, thank you
Speaker 1: because when we come back, Mark leave a bit for
Speaker 1: the journey on the show to try to buy half
Speaker 1: the Republicans. The capital shots don't go away talking about
Speaker 1: to day show might get to like or the stock
Speaker 1: writer at the Atlanta Here's you have to discuss the
Speaker 1: midterm results and his latest number one New York Times bestseller.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your servitude, Donald Trump's Washington and the
Speaker 1: price of submission. Please welcome Mark Leibovitch, everything, Mark Leibovitz,
Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Daily Show. Thank you for having
Speaker 1: and congratulations on another number one New York Times best
Speaker 1: selling book. Um, this this is really interesting for me
Speaker 1: because you're one of the best writers out there, not
Speaker 1: just because of how you write, but how you capture
Speaker 1: the world that you observe and its politics. You know,
Speaker 1: talking about Trump, talking about the Republicans, talking about the
Speaker 1: Democrats and how the respond. But this book is really
Speaker 1: interesting because it's about the whole that Donald Trump has
Speaker 1: on the Republican Party and you talk about it in
Speaker 1: a way that I think few people understand. And tell
Speaker 1: me why it's servitude and not just him being the
Speaker 1: head Honcho because the Republican Party has surrendered to Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: I lost my voice last night. I was up all night.
Speaker 1: But I understand surrendered. And there is not another book
Speaker 1: about Donald Trump. This is a book about the party
Speaker 1: that enabled him. This is a book about the people
Speaker 1: who bowed out to him, who could have stopped him,
Speaker 1: and yet continue to underperforming elections like they did last night.
Speaker 1: And the reason is Trump is sort of an anchor
Speaker 1: around their necks and no one is standing up to them.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to give readers a sense of what
Speaker 1: this looks like. You've given us more than just a sense,
Speaker 1: because we saw a glimpse of this when when the
Speaker 1: you know, when the primaries we're still taking place. You
Speaker 1: had all these Republicans like Trump is not the Republican Party,
Speaker 1: all of them, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, who
Speaker 1: was on the show saying Donald Trump will never be
Speaker 1: the face I will never support all these things. Trump wins,
Speaker 1: and almost overnight everybody falls into line. Everybody becomes pro Trump.
Speaker 1: But what you show us in the book, because of
Speaker 1: the interview, some people anonymous, but some people on the
Speaker 1: record saying, no, we hate this guy, but we care
Speaker 1: about winning more than anything else, so we're gonna work
Speaker 1: to keep him in. It's such a weird dynamic. I
Speaker 1: was stunned by what they said to me, both on
Speaker 1: the record and obviously the dirty little secrets inside Washington
Speaker 1: is that most Republicans, who absolutely um you know, just
Speaker 1: bow down to him in public, trash him in private.
Speaker 1: And there are a lot of people last night in
Speaker 1: the Republican Party who are saying Donald Trump did this,
Speaker 1: this is another election he coughed up for us. He's
Speaker 1: the first president in a hundred years to lose the
Speaker 1: White House, the House, and the Senate. Um they underperformed
Speaker 1: in another election last night, but they're only saying it privately.
Speaker 1: I will think that this spell has been broken when
Speaker 1: I see some people actually speaking publicly about what he's
Speaker 1: doing to the party. You know, it's interesting that you
Speaker 1: say that, because because as as we read through these
Speaker 1: conversations in the book, and you know, I love how
Speaker 1: the book sort of starts with the Trump Hotel and
Speaker 1: what it represents a moment in time, a moment where
Speaker 1: he's at his peak, and how people literally come in
Speaker 1: physically almost bow to his shrine, and then at the
Speaker 1: end way it's now, you know, almost like the vacated
Speaker 1: version of its former self. But but the party seems
Speaker 1: different in that Republicans are murmuring, but nobody's saying. You
Speaker 1: see what people are saying. I'm like, it wasn't ideal
Speaker 1: that Trump did this. It wasn't you know. They're scared
Speaker 1: of him though, because they've given him the pozzy or
Speaker 1: he's taken it, but they seem scared of him, and
Speaker 1: it's been depressing to watch play out over all these years.
Speaker 1: When I was scared about was yesterday's election being the
Speaker 1: red wave that so many people anticipated, which would have
Speaker 1: indicated all of this. It would have indicated the character flaws,
Speaker 1: the weakness, the pathetic nous that so many of them
Speaker 1: who could stop it. And if there were ten less
Speaker 1: Cheneys it would be different, but there's only one. I
Speaker 1: think it also illuminates something that's actually I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't even know how to say this correctly, but it's
Speaker 1: weird because Trump is almost more honorable than they are,
Speaker 1: because I mean, he says what he's saying, he does
Speaker 1: what he's doing. Yeah, they say what they're saying in private,
Speaker 1: but then they do what he's doing in public. And
Speaker 1: so you know what I mean, where does that leave
Speaker 1: a country where lawmakers don't believe what they're voting for,
Speaker 1: don't believe what they what the cow tewing to like?
Speaker 1: Where does that leave American How do they feel about
Speaker 1: the position that they're put in the country in? Right?
Speaker 1: I mean, what does it's about a party when Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is the honorable one? Right? And and and also
Speaker 1: given how vulnerable Democrats were last night, how unpopular Biden is,
Speaker 1: how bad inflation is, all those issues to still you know,
Speaker 1: underperforming the degree they did, gives you an indication of
Speaker 1: how you know, voters are saying like, we don't like
Speaker 1: this either. In fact, we like this worse. So I
Speaker 1: think you know, it's again it's all relative, But but
Speaker 1: where do you think this goes? Now? Even even you know,
Speaker 1: not just as somebody who talks to them, somebody who analyzes,
Speaker 1: somebody who's been in many of the rooms where these
Speaker 1: discussions are being held, it feels like, you know, you
Speaker 1: watch Fox News now and you can see people being
Speaker 1: a little more vocal saying the Sanctis has created the future,
Speaker 1: the Santis is the guy we should be going with,
Speaker 1: The Santus de Santis de Santis. But there's still you know,
Speaker 1: but Trump, but Trump or Trump and and and it
Speaker 1: seems like unless Trump steps down. You have one of
Speaker 1: the craziest quotes I've ever seen from somebody who's a lawmaker,
Speaker 1: who says, you say, what is your plan, and the
Speaker 1: person says, dead serious, our plan is to hope that
Speaker 1: he's dead by then not listen. This is the quote.
Speaker 1: It's a quote. They're saying this. They're like, we don't
Speaker 1: have another way, we don't know what to do. It's craft,
Speaker 1: it's depressing, but it also goes to the passivity of
Speaker 1: what these folks are doing. Someone else will take care
Speaker 1: of the problem. And even now, no one has spoke
Speaker 1: up all of the like I said earlier, all of
Speaker 1: the criticisms of Trump have been private. So I just
Speaker 1: don't think and these are weak people. These are these
Speaker 1: are people who have sold I mean, whatever they've sold,
Speaker 1: they they have given up. I mean, it's the price
Speaker 1: of submission. As Lindsay Graham said to me, if you
Speaker 1: don't want to be reelected, you're in the wrong business. Um.
Speaker 1: And you know, at a certain point you sort of
Speaker 1: ask is it really worth it? Yeah, Yeah, it really
Speaker 1: illuminates I think many of the things that are wrong
Speaker 1: with American politics, and that it has become more about
Speaker 1: staying in the job as opposed to doing the job
Speaker 1: that somebody has put you in, and and it leaves
Speaker 1: the country in a place where every everything is for show,
Speaker 1: everything is for an idea. So you know, when when
Speaker 1: you look at it now, just hearing the whispers, hearing
Speaker 1: everybody you know or even the people speaking publicly to you,
Speaker 1: is this the moment where the party says, Okay, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be aroundos Santis or are they still just waiting
Speaker 1: to see what Trump decides to do with the Republican Party.
Speaker 1: I've had a lot of moments where I have not
Speaker 1: fever is going to break if January six didn't do it,
Speaker 1: if him losing to Joe Biden didn't do it, I
Speaker 1: don't think this is going to do it. Wow. Wow.
Speaker 1: And so as somebody then who who who talks to
Speaker 1: these politicians, I would love to know where you see
Speaker 1: it all going from here, because you know, on on
Speaker 1: the one hand, you have the Democrats who have Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: and I remember you you wrote, uh, you know, an
Speaker 1: article by about Joe Biden which really blew up over
Speaker 1: the summer, and it was about him being too old
Speaker 1: to run in you said, you said, hey, Joe, you've
Speaker 1: done what you said you want to do, full credit,
Speaker 1: you know. But but but you you came out and
Speaker 1: you said something that got you know, got you a
Speaker 1: lot of flak, but also had many people say, yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't want to say that, but but but it's
Speaker 1: true because I don't know if people remember Joe Biden
Speaker 1: said I only want to run to beat Donald Trump
Speaker 1: and that's all I'm doing. And now it seems like
Speaker 1: he may want to run again, but you want of
Speaker 1: the first people say, don't run again. My question to
Speaker 1: you then comes, what do the Democrats do? Because on
Speaker 1: the one hand, yes, Joe Biden is old. On the
Speaker 1: one hand, yes, he may have only been the person
Speaker 1: to be Trump, etcetera. But on the other hand, and
Speaker 1: incumbent has a feeling of it's the status quo. People
Speaker 1: don't like presidents changing all the time. That's why Trump
Speaker 1: losing with such an anomaly. So what do you think
Speaker 1: the option is for the Democrats? Is there not a
Speaker 1: risk that if they put someone else up, that person
Speaker 1: is just now a toss up in the election. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean the thing about Trump is that he's not
Speaker 1: only made the Republicans scared, He's made the Democrats risk averse.
Speaker 1: They're afraid of trying someone new or exciting or different.
Speaker 1: I mean, Joe Biden, his most important contribution to the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party and arguably to the country was beating Donald
Speaker 1: Trump on November third. Wherever it was, whatever election they
Speaker 1: was fixed that. Um. The problem is governing is a
Speaker 1: bit of a bit afterwards, right as as we sort
Speaker 1: of learned, you know, he might be called upon to
Speaker 1: do it again. Um, but you know, it's not like
Speaker 1: the Democrats have an vious and deep bench. But I
Speaker 1: did believe that if some of the people like Tim
Speaker 1: Ryan were to somehow win last night, they would immediately
Speaker 1: emerge and you know, maybe a Jhon Fetterman, maybe a
Speaker 1: Pete bo Judge, maybe a couple of hours and and
Speaker 1: and to your points about being risk of us, I mean,
Speaker 1: the history of the Democratic Democratic Party has shown that
Speaker 1: they've often had the fresh off the bench person. You know,
Speaker 1: Barack Obama was like the young senator, and you know,
Speaker 1: and you look at all these other Bill Clinton was
Speaker 1: the young upstart. People didn't expect that. So maybe that
Speaker 1: is where the path lies. Isn't taking a little risk,
Speaker 1: But from your book, it seems like nobody wants to
Speaker 1: take the risk, and it seems that because of that,
Speaker 1: the country is in a really scary place, because it
Speaker 1: feels like it's risk averse and yet heading to the
Speaker 1: riskies place of all. Indeed, well, on that note, it's
Speaker 1: a really fun be treat. It is an amazing book
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you that. Congratulations again, Thank you so
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