WEBVTT - The Great Blacklash Election 0:00:00.230 --> 0:00:03.259 Native Lamb Pod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:04.760 with Reason Choice Media. 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:10.900 Welcome home, y'all. 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:15.140 This is episode 156 of Native Lamb Pod, where we 0:00:15.180 --> 0:00:18.079 give you all things politics and culture. 0:00:18.300 --> 0:00:20.619 And today, guess what? We mostly politics. 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:21.300 We out here. 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:24.260 We have bottles of pop. We be popping them bottles, bitch. 0:00:24.579 --> 0:00:25.820 We are excited. 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:29.220 It is a big, big day. And, sadly, we're missing 0:00:29.300 --> 0:00:31.180 a co-host. He's probably still out celebrating. 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:32.430 We're just kidding. He has another job. 0:00:32.729 --> 0:00:35.810 He's at Bakari Cellars. But it is me today, Angela Rye, 0:00:35.870 --> 0:00:36.729 with my. 0:00:36.670 --> 0:00:39.970 Favorite brother in Politico. That is Andrew Gillum. 0:00:40.130 --> 0:00:41.410 What's up, everybody? Welcome home. 0:00:41.620 --> 0:00:43.920 Absolutely. We're here. We're going to get started because we 0:00:43.940 --> 0:00:45.120 have a lot to get into today. 0:00:45.820 --> 0:00:48.620 Andrew, you know, we normally do four-year situational awareness when 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.019 we start. Y'all, we're not even giving you a rundown. 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:54.140 The rundown is the 2026 midterms, okay? The Black Lash. 0:00:54.340 --> 0:00:56.020 Yes, the Black Lash. 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:58.500 And on that point, I think that's a good place 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.860 to start. Let's run this clip from our friend Terrence Woodbury, 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.899 who talked about what the Black Lash is from polling data. 0:01:06.220 --> 0:01:09.420 He's saying Terrence Woodbury was just on with us, I 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:13.140 think it was last week, from Hit Strategies talking about 0:01:13.860 --> 0:01:17.620 the blacklash and what it would mean, what this election 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:21.610 would mean as a referendum from black voters to the 0:01:21.670 --> 0:01:22.390 rest of the country. 0:01:23.450 --> 0:01:28.050 And since it was Woodbury who coined the term blacklash 0:01:28.630 --> 0:01:31.870 and it was his strategies research who detected the blacklash, 0:01:32.230 --> 0:01:34.250 I thought I would take a second just to tell 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:38.610 y'all what it actually is. Blacklash is a counterforce of 0:01:38.709 --> 0:01:42.810 black voters clapping back against effort to limit, reduce, or 0:01:42.870 --> 0:01:47.600 oppress our votes and our power. We have quite literally 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:51.640 detected this blacklash all over the country, but it is 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.460 really concentrated in the South. Places like Georgia, where the 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:57.700 black share of the electorate is up to 32%. Louisiana, 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.080 where black share of the electorate is up to 34%. 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.580 In North Carolina, the black share of the electorate is 0:02:03.660 --> 0:02:08.139 up to 24%. This backlash is giving black candidates like 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:12.910 Keisha Bottoms in Georgia, Aaron Ford in Nevada, and David 0:02:12.970 --> 0:02:16.549 Crowley in Wisconsin the chance of becoming three black governors 0:02:16.590 --> 0:02:19.609 when there's only been three in American history. So let's 0:02:19.630 --> 0:02:20.490 go make history. 0:02:22.030 --> 0:02:23.280 I love this. 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.899 And Andrew, part of the reason is, you know, Terrence 0:02:25.940 --> 0:02:28.540 says you have a chance. So this is before we 0:02:28.580 --> 0:02:30.619 got the election results last night. He says we have 0:02:30.660 --> 0:02:34.760 a chance. to make history in Georgia, Nevada, and Wisconsin. 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.280 And Terrence, because his dad is always on point, is 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:41.340 exactly right. The history was made in Georgia, Nevada, and Wisconsin. 0:02:41.980 --> 0:02:46.619 Wes Moore campaigned on the idea that I don't want 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:48.740 to be the only black governor in this country. I 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:50.320 hope that on the other side of this, when we 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:55.900 saw him during ALC, He said that he was anticipating 0:02:55.940 --> 0:02:58.680 having a gubernatorial black caucus and he got his wish. 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:00.299 Now, Byron Donald's also one. 0:03:00.340 --> 0:03:02.980 But given that he is skinfolk and not kinfolk, he 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.579 will not like to join that black caucus. 0:03:05.700 --> 0:03:06.160 Yeah. 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.299 You know, just pulling back for a minute, Angela, first 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.920 of all, I know you don't like this, but I'm 0:03:10.940 --> 0:03:15.240 gonna say it anyway. Kudos to you for assembling, I think, 0:03:15.419 --> 0:03:21.310 one of the most impressive collections of black journalists and culture, 0:03:21.330 --> 0:03:26.400 you know, As well as political figures to last night's 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:30.079 coverage to bring that into people's homes. You know, we 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:32.230 know we weren't the first ones breaking news and calling 0:03:32.270 --> 0:03:35.750 races first. But you it was a room of people 0:03:35.790 --> 0:03:39.770 who have been deeply invested in our community, sharing our 0:03:40.110 --> 0:03:44.440 collective knowledge about about these elections. Black Lash is like. 0:03:45.210 --> 0:03:47.500 Thank you, Terrence, for claiming credit for that, by the way. 0:03:47.860 --> 0:03:50.520 You own that. And I've heard it on other networks 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:51.860 and nobody's giving credit. 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.320 Oh, we don't give credit, whereas do around here, Terrence Wilbury. 0:03:55.720 --> 0:04:01.190 The outcomes, Angela, were beyond. I mean, I know I 0:04:01.210 --> 0:04:05.850 got PTSD about elections. You know I have PTSD about elections, right? 0:04:06.210 --> 0:04:10.140 So I always cap my enthusiasm just at a certain level. 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:13.150 I stay at a hum level. With these races, like, okay, 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:16.600 I'm vibrating. I feel something. Something might happen here, but 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:20.799 something might not happen here. Unfortunately, my home state, Florida, 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:25.880 as we sometimes do, but around the country in Georgia, 0:04:26.100 --> 0:04:30.280 Keisha Lance Bottoms, of course, John Ossoff, 60% of the 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:35.220 vote in Georgia went to him, right? In Georgia, they 0:04:35.300 --> 0:04:39.820 swept every single cabinet seat that was on the ballot. Yeah. 0:04:40.410 --> 0:04:43.330 and picked up the majority now of the commission, UT's 0:04:43.350 --> 0:04:47.039 commission for the state. Everybody is a black woman in 0:04:47.060 --> 0:04:50.920 the Georgia cabinet, except the Lieutenant Governor, right? In Texas, 0:04:51.900 --> 0:04:55.690 They took the whole state. They turned out every single 0:04:55.750 --> 0:04:58.890 Republican cabinet member that they had. Not one of them 0:04:58.950 --> 0:05:02.010 exists today. They still hold their current position, but they 0:05:02.029 --> 0:05:04.590 will not be in a new administration. They took all 0:05:04.630 --> 0:05:07.110 of it out. And it wasn't by small margins. We're 0:05:07.130 --> 0:05:11.910 talking about 50, 54, 55, 52, 53 percent votes. It 0:05:11.970 --> 0:05:14.490 was it was an incredible night. And I'm actually still 0:05:14.529 --> 0:05:17.390 pinching myself to make sure this thing is real. 0:05:17.610 --> 0:05:17.890 Yeah. 0:05:18.210 --> 0:05:19.740 I love that you brought up Georgia, Georgia. 0:05:20.660 --> 0:05:24.739 Besides John Ossoff and Josh McLaurin, who's the lieutenant governor, 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.080 you have Keisha Lance Bottoms, the governor. You have Penny 0:05:28.140 --> 0:05:32.430 Brown Reynolds, secretary of state. You have Tanya Miller, attorney general. 0:05:32.700 --> 0:05:37.729 You have Catherine Juhon Arnold, the agricultural commissioner. You have 0:05:37.810 --> 0:05:42.650 Keisha Sean Waits, the insurance commissioner. You have Nikki Porcher, 0:05:42.850 --> 0:05:43.630 labor commissioner. 0:05:44.290 --> 0:05:47.030 All black women. It's incredible. 0:05:47.089 --> 0:05:50.309 And so to this point, Andrew, I want to go 0:05:50.470 --> 0:05:55.440 to first the happiness and the exuberance that you saw 0:05:55.860 --> 0:05:58.300 from Georgia given this outcome. 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:00.219 We saw it live on our show last night with 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:01.339 the Zactivists. 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:02.320 Incomprehendable. 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.860 I was having a panic attack, but Andrew was enjoying 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:05.450 every moment of it. 0:06:05.460 --> 0:06:06.060 We cannot hear it. 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:09.100 Let's roll this clip. It's clip four from Zachary Kirk. 0:06:10.060 --> 0:06:13.740 We also have someone who is a content creator. His 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:18.480 name is the Zactivists. Zachary Kirk is live and I 0:06:18.500 --> 0:06:19.660 think ready to join us now. 0:06:19.700 --> 0:06:21.729 Zach, are you with us? Zach, are you with us? 0:06:22.260 --> 0:06:26.989 There he is. I am with you, baby. Live from Atlanta, Georgia. 0:06:27.310 --> 0:06:30.330 With celebrities, with celebrities, boo. That's what we give you 0:06:30.370 --> 0:06:31.310 in Atlanta. 0:06:30.930 --> 0:06:34.830 Where we have made history with Keisha Lance Bottoms as 0:06:34.870 --> 0:06:37.640 the first black woman in American history to be named 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:40.339 governor of a state, the great state of Georgia. 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:42.560 Okay. 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:44.740 This city is so excited. 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:46.860 It is bananas outside. 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.990 It is bananas in this building. Keisha's coming out shortly. 0:06:50.010 --> 0:06:51.770 It is wild. I've not seen. 0:06:51.790 --> 0:06:53.110 Oh, we're going to have to get a piece of Keisha. 0:06:53.410 --> 0:06:53.890 Okay. 0:06:54.070 --> 0:06:56.390 When I tell you, I've never seen a political event 0:06:56.770 --> 0:06:59.570 in my life this excited, this turned up, and this hyped. 0:06:59.850 --> 0:07:01.600 It is so loud in the main room. I had 0:07:01.630 --> 0:07:02.960 to come out because there was no way I was 0:07:02.980 --> 0:07:03.680 going to hear you guys. 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:04.720 Andrew. 0:07:04.740 --> 0:07:08.839 So first of all, I do want to say you're right. 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.179 Like the excitement of it was great. 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:14.980 But in that moment, I was like, I can't understand. 0:07:15.060 --> 0:07:18.360 I was like, they were like, yeah, I was like, 0:07:18.380 --> 0:07:20.120 give it up. Whatever they say, it don't matter. 0:07:20.140 --> 0:07:23.940 I was like, I couldn't hear. But OK, so that's. 0:07:23.820 --> 0:07:27.420 Just a son. I mean, I. Oh, my gosh. I mean, 0:07:27.460 --> 0:07:28.200 it was incredible. 0:07:28.220 --> 0:07:28.520 Yeah. 0:07:28.620 --> 0:07:30.260 As I think about it today, Keisha was on this 0:07:30.300 --> 0:07:33.040 morning and did a couple of the national interviews, national hits, 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.920 you know, My hope is that in this lame duck 0:07:36.940 --> 0:07:41.640 session time where Republicans who have control will go back, 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:45.460 that they don't do anything to injure her before she 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.600 can take office. You know, we've seen this in other places. 0:07:49.050 --> 0:07:51.430 The South has not had to deal with this for 0:07:51.470 --> 0:07:54.050 a very long time. And what I'm talking about is. 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:58.580 when they elect the opposite party and you've been in 0:07:58.620 --> 0:08:01.560 control for 30, 40, 50, 60 years of a place, 0:08:02.020 --> 0:08:03.920 you're not ready to give up that grip on power. 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:07.180 And so they go in and during these periods before 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.860 the new government is sworn in, they change laws. They'll 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.000 say the governor can't make any appointments without the confirmation 0:08:12.020 --> 0:08:14.850 of the Senate. They'll say the governor no longer has 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:19.610 appointment power or clemency power to extend clemency to people 0:08:19.650 --> 0:08:21.710 in the state. All these kinds of things, unless it 0:08:21.770 --> 0:08:25.310 is embedded in the constitution of that state, It is legislative. 0:08:25.390 --> 0:08:28.590 It is statutory, which means the legislatures, the houses in 0:08:28.610 --> 0:08:30.780 the Senate can go and do that. I'm fearful of 0:08:30.810 --> 0:08:34.220 that also in the state of Texas where another clean 0:08:34.300 --> 0:08:38.099 sweep took place. Will this legislature in this period go 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.460 back and say the governor can't appoint presidents to universities? 0:08:41.500 --> 0:08:45.510 The governor can no longer appoint boards of trustees to governments. 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:47.790 We should be watchful for it. I don't want to 0:08:47.830 --> 0:08:51.370 dampen the excitement because excitement is well-learned. It's real. But 0:08:51.410 --> 0:08:54.470 we also got to be aware that shenanigans are still, 0:08:54.690 --> 0:08:57.280 you know, in the toolbox of these guys and it's 0:08:57.300 --> 0:08:57.880 not beyond them. 0:08:58.179 --> 0:09:01.459 I want to now, we normally have a FYSA, a 0:09:01.500 --> 0:09:03.960 Fourier Situational Awareness. This is going to be our brief 0:09:04.020 --> 0:09:06.090 election recap. We have some deeper dives we want to 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.150 get into with our audience today. 0:09:08.190 --> 0:09:08.890 We know we're taking. 0:09:09.630 --> 0:09:14.260 questions straight from our comments. And we're also, questions straight 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.820 from our comments. We're also taking questions from the audience. 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:20.080 In the comments section. Yes, but also comments. That's what 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:20.650 I was trying to say. 0:09:20.660 --> 0:09:22.819 Questions, comments, and Lolo's in the house in case y'all 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:23.120 were worried. 0:09:23.140 --> 0:09:24.949 She's going to scream it out. 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.349 Because Lolo loves to have lots of jobs while she's 0:09:27.390 --> 0:09:31.170 in law school. More on that next episode. So, biggest 0:09:31.270 --> 0:09:33.610 loss from your perspective last night. 0:09:34.309 --> 0:09:34.990 Angie Nixon. 0:09:35.110 --> 0:09:38.500 And it wasn't a loss for her. It's the biggest loss, 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:40.240 I think, for us. 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:44.060 For Floridians with good sense. To that point. 0:09:44.100 --> 0:09:45.380 What about you? Biggest loss? 0:09:45.450 --> 0:09:47.620 Well, hold on, because I want to stay in this 0:09:47.670 --> 0:09:50.110 pocket for just a moment because Angie did not take 0:09:50.150 --> 0:09:52.790 it as a loss. We have clip 10 where we 0:09:52.830 --> 0:09:54.250 have part of Angie Nixon's speech. 0:09:55.070 --> 0:10:03.010 We brought together Democrats, Republicans, independents. Hell, a libertarian said 0:10:03.050 --> 0:10:08.340 he voted for me today. And folks who had never 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:14.340 believed politics had anything to offer them. And because of 0:10:14.380 --> 0:10:18.530 the work that you all did, We all gave people 0:10:18.650 --> 0:10:19.390 something to. 0:10:19.330 --> 0:10:20.490 Believe in again. 0:10:21.809 --> 0:10:23.330 We reminded them. 0:10:24.290 --> 0:10:31.840 We reminded those people that their voices matter. That their 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:37.880 lives matter. And that they deserve a government that works 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:39.340 for them. 0:10:40.500 --> 0:10:41.220 Love it. 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.850 Andrew, I have got to tell you, when you watch 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:48.560 her speech, you feel like, It's a to be continued. 0:10:48.620 --> 0:10:50.380 Oh, for sure. I think she made that clear. 0:10:50.620 --> 0:10:51.050 Yeah. 0:10:51.190 --> 0:10:53.050 I want to know, and I know we're still in 0:10:53.090 --> 0:10:56.410 our hot takes, but, you know, do you see being 0:10:56.510 --> 0:11:02.250 able to build a groundswell, a grassroots movement with Angie? 0:11:02.290 --> 0:11:05.520 There are still so many Floridians that, I mean, hell, 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:07.819 sometimes just like me and you are stuck in 2018 0:11:07.820 --> 0:11:13.300 because you represent Florida. Something that is the future of Florida, 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.900 the now of Florida, 3.9 million people agree with the 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.160 politics of you and Angie, the kind that would stand 0:11:19.220 --> 0:11:20.300 up to the status quo. 0:11:20.780 --> 0:11:22.730 What do you like? What do you see moving forward? 0:11:22.990 --> 0:11:25.330 I think it's so I want to point out last night, 0:11:25.809 --> 0:11:28.530 Florida tried the strategy of going middle of the road 0:11:28.550 --> 0:11:32.790 in the governor's race, former Republican. And then as his 0:11:32.830 --> 0:11:35.619 lieutenant governor, the member when she was in Congress, a 0:11:35.660 --> 0:11:38.800 registered Democrat, but who deliberately said in the midst of 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:42.380 the Republican caucus. and fought hard to be its most 0:11:42.420 --> 0:11:46.920 conservative Democratic member in the Congress during that time. And 0:11:46.980 --> 0:11:50.000 so this is a strategy that's well-worn in Florida, that 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.100 we've got to be very conservative. You've got to stay 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.719 middle of the road. Don't offend anybody. And I'm not 0:11:54.820 --> 0:11:56.920 accusing this campaign of having done that. That is just 0:11:56.970 --> 0:12:01.690 the pathology of, I think, our state. So they did that. 0:12:01.870 --> 0:12:06.770 And in Angie Nixon, she pulled a different card. She was, 0:12:07.090 --> 0:12:08.890 I don't even, it would be a shame to put 0:12:08.910 --> 0:12:12.650 her in the box of left and right. She was 0:12:12.710 --> 0:12:15.689 the voice of working people and disaffected Floridians. 0:12:16.390 --> 0:12:18.620 Honestly, it was a blueprint. 0:12:19.100 --> 0:12:20.920 This is my perspective that you laid. 0:12:21.500 --> 0:12:25.160 Everybody that I talked to that was a registered Florida voter, 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:29.140 students who were inspired by Angie, knew like there's something 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.160 about her that's similar to Andrew Gillum. 0:12:31.940 --> 0:12:34.820 Well, I will tell you this. The reason I pointed 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:39.199 out the governor's dynamics is to say this. Last night's 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:42.080 governor's race in a wave election that swept every other 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:45.490 state to include potentially Mississippi in the south. 0:12:45.540 --> 0:12:45.679 Right. 0:12:45.710 --> 0:12:49.330 We'll get to that. Didn't include Florida. Left us out 0:12:49.370 --> 0:12:52.650 in that way. Right. But there was a hundred thousand 0:12:52.690 --> 0:12:55.630 vote difference between Donald's and the governor's race. That's what 0:12:55.690 --> 0:12:58.809 it's been for four out of the five or so 0:12:58.850 --> 0:13:02.370 last cycles. The only time it was closer was when 0:13:02.410 --> 0:13:06.570 we ran as the voice of working class, hardworking, disaffected 0:13:06.590 --> 0:13:10.110 Floridians in twenty eighteen. And so Angie has something she 0:13:10.150 --> 0:13:13.180 can build on there. We've demonstrated you don't have to 0:13:13.220 --> 0:13:16.280 be at the ideological far right or necessarily far left. 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:18.640 But you do have to be with the people. And 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:20.819 when you're with the people, they will reward you. So 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:24.690 she she said last night in her own comments, watch out, 0:13:24.790 --> 0:13:27.370 Ashley Moody. You know, this is a two year term. 0:13:27.530 --> 0:13:29.209 I'll be I'll see you in two years. And I 0:13:29.270 --> 0:13:31.069 hope what that means is what we think that it 0:13:31.130 --> 0:13:33.309 means that she may run again. And guess what? It'll 0:13:33.330 --> 0:13:34.340 be a presidential cycle. 0:13:34.580 --> 0:13:34.840 Yes. 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.560 And guess what? After last night in Texas, the strongest 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:42.540 Republican state going all the way blue, there are no 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:47.520 automatic blue or red states anymore. It's up for grabs. 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:48.540 I think that's right. 0:13:49.730 --> 0:13:56.610 My biggest loss is actually the establishment, the Democratic Party establishment. 0:13:57.290 --> 0:14:00.210 And the reason why I say that is because there 0:14:00.290 --> 0:14:04.460 was an opportunity to show voters that That you were 0:14:04.500 --> 0:14:05.800 going to lean into courage. 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:06.160 Yeah. 0:14:06.570 --> 0:14:09.329 And the opportunity to do that was to invest in 0:14:09.370 --> 0:14:10.070 the Black South. 0:14:10.150 --> 0:14:10.329 Yeah. 0:14:10.590 --> 0:14:13.250 Was to invest in the candidates that represent the Black South. 0:14:13.530 --> 0:14:17.160 Was to support the people who stand on the shoulders 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:19.840 of a Fannie Lou Hamer who said, I'm sick and 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:21.220 tired of being sick and tired. 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:25.840 And you, instead of doing that, leaned into courage. People 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.460 who made you feel comfortable. Annie Andrews, who was also successful. 0:14:29.900 --> 0:14:30.160 Right. 0:14:30.500 --> 0:14:34.040 But what you say is when we think about a prototype, 0:14:34.580 --> 0:14:35.520 y'all don't fit the mold. 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:35.800 Yeah. 0:14:36.020 --> 0:14:38.700 And so we'll throw a little cash your way. Just 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.020 enough for you to shut up. Just enough for your 0:14:41.060 --> 0:14:44.110 people not to protest us. Yeah. But what you lost 0:14:44.210 --> 0:14:47.110 in the process was someone who was very clearly capable 0:14:47.150 --> 0:14:50.450 of getting to the other side. 3.9 million votes. And 0:14:50.490 --> 0:14:54.370 she wasn't successful. But what could she have done with investment? 0:14:54.390 --> 0:14:54.470 Yeah. 0:14:55.310 --> 0:14:58.490 Same thing with Scott Colombe. Scott Colombe right now, we're talking. 0:14:58.230 --> 0:15:02.670 About 43 votes at the last time we checked, separating 0:15:02.770 --> 0:15:06.140 him from Cindy Hyde-Smith, who was the person who refused 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:08.280 to give him the vote he needed to become a 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.359 federal judge under the Biden administration. 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:12.540 Scott Colombe got a little. 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:17.030 Mini, measly $ 1 million thrown at him from Chuck Schumer 0:15:17.470 --> 0:15:20.330 the week before the election. And that's why I was 0:15:20.370 --> 0:15:22.050 raising hell about it on our podcast when we had 0:15:22.070 --> 0:15:27.440 him on. Because at some point, It's not their race 0:15:27.500 --> 0:15:32.280 to lose. It's the party's lack of ability to envision 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.350 an America that looks like the rest of the country, 0:15:35.730 --> 0:15:37.910 that looks like the vision we all have for ourselves. 0:15:38.210 --> 0:15:40.390 And I think that if they're going to govern and 0:15:40.450 --> 0:15:43.210 to lead and to vote like the interests that we're 0:15:43.250 --> 0:15:45.530 telling them are ours, they've got to show that when 0:15:45.550 --> 0:15:46.470 people are campaigning. 0:15:46.570 --> 0:15:49.070 Yeah. So that was one of the other things I 0:15:49.130 --> 0:15:53.540 got to say that felt valedictory last night was The 0:15:53.660 --> 0:15:56.320 folks who had been the bedrock vote for the Democratic 0:15:56.380 --> 0:16:04.109 Party finally got just a modicum of what we have 0:16:04.210 --> 0:16:10.750 labored into. Keisha, the entire freaking cabinet of Georgia. What 0:16:10.790 --> 0:16:13.489 we're seeing, and don't give up on Scott Colon. I 0:16:13.530 --> 0:16:16.590 know there are votes still to be had. I actually, 0:16:16.690 --> 0:16:18.890 if I were betting man, and I'm not, But if 0:16:18.970 --> 0:16:20.430 I were a betting man, I would put money on 0:16:20.470 --> 0:16:22.150 the fact that he will be the next senator from 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:26.420 the state of Mississippi. These numbers are incredible. I think 0:16:26.460 --> 0:16:31.080 there's there's probably 60 or so thousand votes are still remaining. 0:16:31.380 --> 0:16:34.020 And in that, some 20 or so, 15 or so 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.990 thousand that that have to be cured because they were 0:16:37.020 --> 0:16:40.870 challenged ballots. Guess who is forced to vote challenge ballots often? 0:16:41.590 --> 0:16:46.530 usually younger voters and almost exclusively voters of color. These 0:16:46.550 --> 0:16:48.510 are the people who, when they go to vote, their 0:16:48.550 --> 0:16:52.330 names may or may not appear on the rolls as 0:16:52.350 --> 0:16:55.010 they appear on their license, but they're declaring that they 0:16:55.050 --> 0:16:59.490 are registered voters. The registrar who's there says, I'm sorry, 0:16:59.730 --> 0:17:02.650 we can't accept you into the normal ballot process. Here's 0:17:02.690 --> 0:17:06.710 a challenge ballot. Vote. And there's an investigation, a provisional, 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.159 I call it challenge ballot, but a provisional ballot. And 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.020 after the election is over, they then go And they 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:15.780 cure those ballots. Oftentimes those ballots are not cured in 0:17:15.820 --> 0:17:17.959 a lot of states because the differences are so wide. 0:17:18.390 --> 0:17:21.170 Mississippi happens to be a state where there is no 0:17:21.230 --> 0:17:24.290 law on the books for a recount. If this thing 0:17:24.650 --> 0:17:26.740 comes down to 20 some odd votes. 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:26.940 Yeah. 0:17:27.670 --> 0:17:29.969 Cindy Hyde-Smith will have to go to a judge and 0:17:30.030 --> 0:17:32.970 make up some reason or rationale for a recount to 0:17:33.010 --> 0:17:35.190 take place. There is no automatic recount in the state. 0:17:35.210 --> 0:17:38.109 So if the numbers stay as they are, he will 0:17:38.750 --> 0:17:41.010 he could succeed at this rate. But my guess is 0:17:41.070 --> 0:17:43.869 as once the votes are further counted, this brother will 0:17:43.890 --> 0:17:47.890 pull away. But but it was valedictory, Angela, because all 0:17:47.910 --> 0:17:50.340 of our hard work, all of our many years, all 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:54.419 of our many sacrifices feel like they're coming home to 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:59.570 roost in a good way. Having four, maybe five, black U.S. 0:17:59.609 --> 0:18:04.510 senators in the United States Senate. Four, maybe five, black 0:18:04.530 --> 0:18:06.590 people serving as governor at the same time. It's wild. 0:18:06.810 --> 0:18:07.050 Yeah. 0:18:07.170 --> 0:18:10.410 I'm still not counting Byron Donalds, but I understand. Your 0:18:10.490 --> 0:18:12.590 biggest win from last night. 0:18:13.390 --> 0:18:15.670 Keisha Lance Bottoms and Georgia's outcome. 0:18:15.950 --> 0:18:18.730 Yeah. I actually agree with you there, so I don't 0:18:18.750 --> 0:18:23.530 even have a second one. Keisha Lance Bottoms, I was 0:18:23.750 --> 0:18:26.590 hoping and wishing but was scared to Yeah. 0:18:26.810 --> 0:18:27.350 Be too. 0:18:27.570 --> 0:18:28.230 You're not alone. 0:18:29.070 --> 0:18:29.370 I know. 0:18:29.730 --> 0:18:30.350 We share that. 0:18:30.369 --> 0:18:32.670 Even though I was not on the ticket in Florida, y'all, 0:18:32.690 --> 0:18:33.310 that's my brother. 0:18:33.330 --> 0:18:34.970 I was on a ticket in Florida. So, yeah, I 0:18:35.020 --> 0:18:35.860 was afraid. 0:18:35.990 --> 0:18:38.920 And people in Georgia who were, they were there for her. 0:18:39.540 --> 0:18:41.820 I think what partly helped, I think she helped Asif 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:43.720 and I think Asif in some ways helped her. 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:46.040 Yes. They were the perfect tag team. 0:18:46.060 --> 0:18:46.480 Yeah. 0:18:46.540 --> 0:18:48.659 Even though they weren't running for the same office or 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.080 similar enough, but statewide, no less. 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:53.260 The other one. 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:53.379 Which. 0:18:53.770 --> 0:18:54.990 OK, you said Georgia's was yours. 0:18:55.650 --> 0:18:56.630 I'm agreeing with you on that. 0:18:56.670 --> 0:18:59.490 The other one that I actually want to pull, we're 0:18:59.510 --> 0:19:02.290 going to go to clip eight for this really sweet 0:19:02.730 --> 0:19:07.930 South Carolina moment right before the race for the Senate. 0:19:08.010 --> 0:19:09.910 United States Senate was called for Dr. 0:19:10.450 --> 0:19:11.149 Annie Andrews. 0:19:11.190 --> 0:19:14.470 This was on our event last night. Clip eight. 0:19:15.750 --> 0:19:18.070 Just so you know, we just got some Greenville in 0:19:18.950 --> 0:19:22.340 and Congressman Greenville. 0:19:21.990 --> 0:19:23.170 Is damn near going blue. 0:19:24.410 --> 0:19:25.290 Are you serious? 0:19:25.730 --> 0:19:27.910 Yeah. 0:19:28.690 --> 0:19:37.000 Greenville is 50% in. It's 55% in and Annie was 0:19:37.060 --> 0:19:39.179 up 20 points with 55% in in Greenville. 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:43.399 Well, she's going to be the next senator. 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:44.590 That's the math I'm doing. 0:19:44.630 --> 0:19:46.389 I just don't believe it just yet. So give me 0:19:46.430 --> 0:19:47.530 some more time to process it. 0:19:48.170 --> 0:19:52.480 It appears that the difference Andy Andrews in South Carolina 0:19:52.580 --> 0:19:58.920 will be beating Darlene Graham, which is historic to say 0:19:58.960 --> 0:19:59.379 the least. 0:20:01.070 --> 0:20:01.810 You know what? 0:20:02.390 --> 0:20:02.810 The whip. 0:20:03.710 --> 0:20:08.230 He's a former United States House majority whip. The resident 0:20:08.270 --> 0:20:13.350 CBC historian has written books about black people in the 0:20:13.450 --> 0:20:17.490 Senate and Congress before Reconstruction. And what I loved about 0:20:17.530 --> 0:20:22.740 that moment, Andrew, is no matter— how much experience you have. 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:23.560 You can still be shocked. 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:24.580 You can still. 0:20:24.700 --> 0:20:26.859 And it was like a legitimate surprise for those of 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:28.080 you at home who don't know. 0:20:28.420 --> 0:20:28.700 Mr. 0:20:28.780 --> 0:20:31.540 Clyburn is mostly stoic. 0:20:31.580 --> 0:20:34.950 Never very emotional. And he's like, are you serious? 0:20:34.990 --> 0:20:37.350 You hear me cackling on the set because I'm like, 0:20:37.750 --> 0:20:38.490 what in the world? 0:20:38.510 --> 0:20:39.710 So I love that moment. 0:20:39.810 --> 0:20:42.449 It was shocking for him. And I know how that feels. 0:20:42.550 --> 0:20:44.699 I can pick the place in Florida where if I 0:20:44.740 --> 0:20:47.959 heard that, I would have been you Bay County and 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:51.200 you're winning 20 points. It's over. Yeah. There's just there's 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:54.530 no race to be had. It's already done. And that 0:20:54.590 --> 0:20:56.470 clearly that's what happened with them last night. But it 0:20:56.510 --> 0:20:58.810 was a it was awesome moment to be witness to 0:20:58.830 --> 0:21:02.130 is the shock and awe of the senior member from 0:21:02.170 --> 0:21:06.590 his own state majority whip in disbelief about about a candidate. 0:21:06.650 --> 0:21:08.469 I said I want that T-shirt and I mean, are 0:21:08.510 --> 0:21:08.910 you serious? 0:21:09.250 --> 0:21:09.490 Yeah. 0:21:09.550 --> 0:21:10.670 So here's the other thing. 0:21:11.150 --> 0:21:14.520 That almost, it was also clearly a surprising moment. We 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:17.439 have biggest surprise. I wanted to tee our biggest surprise 0:21:17.500 --> 0:21:20.619 with Mr. Clyburn's very incredulous, Are You Serious? 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:21.740 And I'd love to hear. 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:22.740 Is that your biggest surprise? 0:21:22.900 --> 0:21:25.080 No, I have mine. I'm ready for yours. 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:26.700 Well, you go first. I've been going first. 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:27.119 Okay. 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:31.060 So my biggest surprise, let's put up graphic two on 0:21:32.220 --> 0:21:37.810 our list here. Because graphic two shows us Gina- I 0:21:37.850 --> 0:21:39.369 should have went first. 0:21:40.430 --> 0:21:40.710 Why? 0:21:40.730 --> 0:21:41.450 Is this your suit? 0:21:41.470 --> 0:21:42.910 Yeah, that's my piece. Go ahead. That's good. 0:21:42.950 --> 0:21:43.610 We're up on the court. 0:21:43.630 --> 0:21:44.350 Come on, brother. 0:21:44.910 --> 0:21:45.150 Bam. 0:21:45.230 --> 0:21:45.490 It is. 0:21:45.750 --> 0:21:52.760 Texas governor, newly governor, new governor, Gina Hinojosa. And the 0:21:52.820 --> 0:21:55.800 reason why this surprised me, I'm going to be honest 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:56.160 with you. 0:21:56.340 --> 0:21:57.580 We spent so much time. 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:00.880 Talking about James Tallarico, who also had a very big 0:22:00.940 --> 0:22:05.159 win last night, that I almost forgot that Gina was winning. 0:22:05.340 --> 0:22:07.120 I mean running, Freddie and Slip. 0:22:07.500 --> 0:22:11.310 The thing that I thought was incredible about this race, Andrew, 0:22:11.390 --> 0:22:16.510 quite honestly, is Gina Hinojosa won with more than 5.2 0:22:16.510 --> 0:22:18.590 million people voting. 0:22:18.330 --> 0:22:19.330 For her, 52.8% of the vote. 0:22:19.369 --> 0:22:26.770 Greg Abbott, 4.5 million votes. Forty five percent of the vote. 0:22:26.830 --> 0:22:30.109 So it's not just that Gina won. 0:22:30.270 --> 0:22:30.450 Yeah. 0:22:30.830 --> 0:22:33.000 I've been saying this since the breakfast club this morning. 0:22:33.240 --> 0:22:34.600 It's the mollywop for me. 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:35.460 Yeah. Yeah. 0:22:35.619 --> 0:22:36.840 It's the mollywop for me. 0:22:36.940 --> 0:22:40.840 I mean, these people got beat handily, clearly, decisively in 0:22:40.859 --> 0:22:41.619 multiple states. 0:22:42.920 --> 0:22:44.730 Gina was my was going to be my pick of 0:22:45.070 --> 0:22:48.709 of of like it's just God. They're my pick for everything, 0:22:49.090 --> 0:22:49.649 to be honest. 0:22:49.810 --> 0:22:50.060 Mm hmm. 0:22:50.859 --> 0:22:55.200 They not only, so Gina Hinojosa, similar to what Angie 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:57.680 Nixon experienced in Florida, you know, there was not a 0:22:57.720 --> 0:22:59.510 lot of money, except in Florida, there was not a 0:22:59.510 --> 0:23:00.929 lot of money in the governor's race either, to be 0:23:01.369 --> 0:23:04.010 completely frank about it. But not a lot of money put, 0:23:04.470 --> 0:23:06.330 you know, to double down on her in this governor's race. 0:23:06.369 --> 0:23:09.550 People were just very animated by the Senate race. And 0:23:09.590 --> 0:23:13.119 for good reason. Tallarico was bringing in serious cash from 0:23:13.180 --> 0:23:16.080 outside the state of Texas as well as inside. No 0:23:16.180 --> 0:23:20.320 one paid attention. And she crept up there being consistent. 0:23:20.810 --> 0:23:26.470 you know, showing up, talking about these data centers, reshaping 0:23:26.710 --> 0:23:29.440 what the map in Texas really looks like. I think 0:23:29.540 --> 0:23:31.859 I don't know Texas well enough to know this, but 0:23:31.900 --> 0:23:34.740 it is a state with the greatest number of Black 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:38.320 voters in the entire country. It is also the highest 0:23:38.340 --> 0:23:40.960 population of Black people in the United States, concentrated in 0:23:40.980 --> 0:23:45.369 the state of Texas. Obviously, there are the Latino, Mexican-American 0:23:46.710 --> 0:23:49.189 shifts that we've seen in that state. Not only did 0:23:49.230 --> 0:23:52.600 they pick up Senate, they picked up the governor's mansion. 0:23:53.180 --> 0:23:56.980 They kicked every single Republican in that state out of 0:23:57.000 --> 0:24:01.490 the cabinet position. The Republicans ran roughshod over the state 0:24:01.550 --> 0:24:05.609 of Texas. They introduced the whole idea of banning books. 0:24:05.970 --> 0:24:10.510 Remember way back when, Texas was the ones taking curriculums out, 0:24:10.810 --> 0:24:14.330 removing black history. Abbott was banning books. Everybody we had 0:24:14.369 --> 0:24:16.350 on our show with a book has been banned in 0:24:16.369 --> 0:24:18.850 the state of Texas. Yeah. They swept the whole thing, 0:24:18.890 --> 0:24:23.560 kicked Republicans completely out. It is now safe to say 0:24:23.600 --> 0:24:25.700 that Texas is a battleground state. 0:24:25.820 --> 0:24:26.080 Yeah. 0:24:26.460 --> 0:24:27.740 Yeah. Which blows my mind. 0:24:37.980 --> 0:24:41.159 Well, there are a couple of other surprises that I 0:24:41.200 --> 0:24:44.240 want to bring up. And part of the reason for 0:24:44.300 --> 0:24:46.179 it is, you know, some people might have seen it 0:24:46.240 --> 0:24:47.879 as as expected. 0:24:48.180 --> 0:24:52.050 But, Andrew, there used to be a thing called an 0:24:52.109 --> 0:24:53.070 October surprise. 0:24:53.090 --> 0:24:54.010 Yeah. 0:24:55.310 --> 0:24:59.330 For some reason, this election cycle in the year of 0:24:59.410 --> 0:25:01.690 our Lord, 2026. 0:25:01.770 --> 0:25:04.170 Folks decided to try out a November surprise. 0:25:04.210 --> 0:25:06.750 Yeah. November 1st. 0:25:07.730 --> 0:25:11.409 And it happened on the Lord's Day in the Lord's year. 0:25:12.410 --> 0:25:16.129 Let's go to clip one where the person who gave 0:25:16.250 --> 0:25:20.790 us this November surprise tries to justify said November surprise. 0:25:21.490 --> 0:25:23.950 Ladies and gents, Distinguished Grace, Haley Stevens. 0:25:24.690 --> 0:25:26.740 Did you talk to anybody? Did you have a long 0:25:26.760 --> 0:25:29.360 night of the soul? Were you up all night? What 0:25:29.619 --> 0:25:30.240 do you have a dream? 0:25:30.280 --> 0:25:30.740 What happened? 0:25:32.960 --> 0:25:36.729 No, look, I would just say that, you know, I 0:25:36.810 --> 0:25:40.670 had some time to, you know, think just, you know, 0:25:40.730 --> 0:25:44.619 alone with my thoughts. I was writing things out. And look, 0:25:44.910 --> 0:25:49.420 this level of anger. And the things that we are seeing, look, 0:25:49.500 --> 0:25:50.960 we all want Democrats to win. 0:25:51.240 --> 0:25:52.899 I'm a really proud Democrat. 0:25:53.520 --> 0:25:56.800 And by the way, Abdul's got every other Democrat with him. 0:25:56.920 --> 0:26:00.100 He just doesn't have me and a few other people 0:26:00.240 --> 0:26:03.580 who love this party. Who love this party. 0:26:03.940 --> 0:26:06.120 Nothing with me changed, Anderson. 0:26:07.350 --> 0:26:12.490 Look, this is about Abdul getting angrier and angrier and saying, 0:26:12.850 --> 0:26:15.270 I don't want these people in my campaign. 0:26:15.890 --> 0:26:19.690 What changed other than he had put out that statement 0:26:19.770 --> 0:26:23.030 and disinvited you from that church service? Is that was 0:26:23.070 --> 0:26:26.889 that the angrier and angrier part that you're focusing on? 0:26:28.500 --> 0:26:31.179 Anderson, this is a broader point about what's going on 0:26:31.220 --> 0:26:31.820 in our party. 0:26:32.180 --> 0:26:32.720 It's actually not. 0:26:32.760 --> 0:26:35.119 It's really just a question of why you change your mind. 0:26:35.140 --> 0:26:39.400 We were just recognizing, look, I haven't cast my vote yet. 0:26:39.960 --> 0:26:42.040 You know, people, my neighbors were asking me. 0:26:42.320 --> 0:26:43.620 So you might change your mind again. 0:26:43.640 --> 0:26:47.649 They feel the same way. Anderson, my mind is made up. 0:26:48.130 --> 0:26:49.390 I'm rock solid. 0:26:49.450 --> 0:26:51.660 I'm an independent woman. I made my decision. 0:26:52.119 --> 0:26:55.140 Back in August, you posted on social media, quote, Mike 0:26:55.200 --> 0:26:58.660 Rogers will be another rubber stamp for Donald Trump's dangerous agenda. 0:26:59.119 --> 0:27:02.340 We can't afford to give MAGA another Senate seat in November. 0:27:03.180 --> 0:27:06.379 How do you why is it OK now? Why can 0:27:06.420 --> 0:27:09.500 you afford now to give MAGA another Senate seat in November? 0:27:10.980 --> 0:27:13.729 Well, why is it OK to have the Democratic Party 0:27:13.750 --> 0:27:18.640 and a top nominee You know, ejecting, you know, this 0:27:18.680 --> 0:27:22.000 type of or injecting rather this type of anger and 0:27:22.060 --> 0:27:22.940 lack of kindness. 0:27:23.200 --> 0:27:23.620 That's all. 0:27:24.100 --> 0:27:27.230 Haley, we're done here, boo. We have nothing left for you, honey. 0:27:27.510 --> 0:27:29.530 We have nothing left for you, honey. And here's why 0:27:29.570 --> 0:27:31.730 we don't have anything left for you. Andrew, I don't 0:27:31.770 --> 0:27:33.970 do math. Well, I went to law school, but I 0:27:34.030 --> 0:27:36.270 just want to go to I want to show you 0:27:36.330 --> 0:27:41.390 how effective her little love. November surprise was, baby, because 0:27:41.470 --> 0:27:43.820 Haley said, I'm going to go out here and try 0:27:43.859 --> 0:27:47.560 to throw the freaking race because I'm an independent woman, Anderson. 0:27:48.260 --> 0:27:50.300 And let me tell you how independent she was. 0:27:50.320 --> 0:27:52.560 She's so independent, y'all. You know, there's a. 0:27:52.540 --> 0:27:56.440 Chinese proverb that says if you leading somebody, ain't nobody 0:27:56.480 --> 0:27:57.609 following you. 0:27:57.640 --> 0:28:00.470 You take a damn walk. Haley, you took a walk. 0:28:00.530 --> 0:28:03.870 Keep on walking. We not talking to you anymore. C.C. Penniston. 0:28:04.170 --> 0:28:07.070 Can we put a pin in her? I mean, I 0:28:07.109 --> 0:28:09.130 don't think we ever need to revisit this woman's name again. 0:28:09.170 --> 0:28:10.740 That's fine. I just want to tell you how well 0:28:10.760 --> 0:28:10.919 she did. 0:28:10.940 --> 0:28:13.080 No, I don't know what her life looks like after this. 0:28:13.140 --> 0:28:14.040 And we don't care. 0:28:14.920 --> 0:28:20.950 Abdul El-Sayed won with 2.4 million votes. 0:28:21.150 --> 0:28:22.710 Show me the money, Haley. 0:28:23.130 --> 0:28:24.530 You ain't shit. 0:28:24.590 --> 0:28:25.629 Sorry, we're on live. 0:28:25.670 --> 0:28:29.550 They can't bleep me. It's too bad. Haley, keep on walking. 0:28:29.869 --> 0:28:36.040 Mike Rogers, your candidate. Haley, with your dumb ass. 2.16. 0:28:36.040 --> 0:28:40.260 You took a walk. You let nobody. As confused as 0:28:40.300 --> 0:28:43.520 you were in that Anderson clip, heffa, we still confused. 0:28:43.740 --> 0:28:48.060 We so confused nobody followed you except for maybe Marvin Winans. 0:28:48.400 --> 0:28:48.620 Oh, no. 0:28:48.720 --> 0:28:50.340 Who was one of my favorites. 0:28:50.660 --> 0:28:51.960 Andrew, I got to ask you about Marvin. One of 0:28:51.980 --> 0:28:54.550 your favorite singers. He was one of my favorite singers. 0:28:54.680 --> 0:28:56.980 And he embarrassed the lady during the offering time. He 0:28:57.030 --> 0:28:58.250 said we took it out of context. 0:28:58.450 --> 0:28:58.950 He said he. 0:28:58.930 --> 0:29:01.690 Didn't know when Mike Rogers was coming to church. But 0:29:01.730 --> 0:29:04.530 I want to go to what Bakari said because Bakari 0:29:04.570 --> 0:29:05.670 is not here. And then I want to talk to 0:29:05.690 --> 0:29:08.290 you about the black church because we messing up black church. 0:29:08.350 --> 0:29:10.090 I'm a Christian. I know I'm a cussing Christian. 0:29:10.290 --> 0:29:13.690 But let's go to clip five where Bakari has some 0:29:13.750 --> 0:29:16.890 challenges to pastor wine and strategy with Mike Rogers, who 0:29:17.010 --> 0:29:19.390 only won two point one six million votes. 0:29:19.430 --> 0:29:19.750 Haley. 0:29:20.590 --> 0:29:23.350 Politics is funny sometimes. You've got to laugh to keep 0:29:23.370 --> 0:29:29.130 from crying. You had probably the most Islamophobic campaign ever 0:29:29.190 --> 0:29:35.150 run by Mike Rogers. You had these hurls of anti-Semitism. 0:29:35.370 --> 0:29:36.970 And then they did it all in the backdrop of 0:29:37.030 --> 0:29:41.160 a black church. And they had the permission structure from 0:29:41.220 --> 0:29:42.340 Marvin Winans from. 0:29:42.220 --> 0:29:43.380 The pulpit to do so. 0:29:44.480 --> 0:29:47.700 And so while we are giving people permission to utilize 0:29:47.740 --> 0:29:50.880 our people as props, to allow him that platform and 0:29:50.900 --> 0:29:54.709 that permission to utilize that well, that backdrop, and our 0:29:54.750 --> 0:29:58.530 people three days before an election troubles me just as 0:29:58.590 --> 0:30:02.710 much As a white woman, I cannot control. Like, I 0:30:02.730 --> 0:30:06.170 don't have a level of expectation for Haley Stevens. I 0:30:06.270 --> 0:30:08.550 do have a level of expectation for Marvin Wyman. 0:30:09.850 --> 0:30:12.219 Pastor, the doors of the church are now open and 0:30:12.260 --> 0:30:15.380 you may come to the altar. Sometimes the pastors have 0:30:15.420 --> 0:30:19.320 to be rebuked, too. Before we go to Abdul, I 0:30:19.360 --> 0:30:24.160 want to ask you, is Marvin Wyman showing us that 0:30:24.200 --> 0:30:27.410 the influence of the black church, particularly in our politics, 0:30:27.430 --> 0:30:28.090 is starting to wane? 0:30:30.110 --> 0:30:32.590 Can't make that leap yet. I mean, the black church 0:30:32.630 --> 0:30:37.610 still is the single most, I think, prominent organizing ground 0:30:38.190 --> 0:30:41.620 for our communities, period. I don't care how many degrees 0:30:41.660 --> 0:30:44.860 we get, how wealthy we become. We all come home 0:30:44.940 --> 0:30:45.459 on Sunday. 0:30:46.040 --> 0:30:46.320 Right. 0:30:46.400 --> 0:30:48.780 And even though people are accessing it in different ways, some, 0:30:49.080 --> 0:30:51.460 you know, tune in on the Internet. Yeah. Some others 0:30:51.480 --> 0:30:53.870 are in the pulpits, but it is still a trusted 0:30:53.890 --> 0:30:57.750 source for the exchange of information. But also, and this 0:30:57.770 --> 0:31:01.100 has always been true, black people ain't stupid. So I 0:31:01.120 --> 0:31:03.700 can sit in the pulpit and I can appreciate the 0:31:03.740 --> 0:31:06.739 word of God from you. And then I realize you 0:31:06.790 --> 0:31:09.570 might be steering out of your depth once you start 0:31:09.630 --> 0:31:12.930 talking to me about who I should vote for for governor. 0:31:13.470 --> 0:31:17.210 Because especially when behind the scenes, this might be about 0:31:17.250 --> 0:31:21.100 something completely different, right? This may be about charter schools. 0:31:21.170 --> 0:31:24.260 This may be about certain benefits you might get, a 0:31:24.400 --> 0:31:28.000 partnership you might create between your church and a governor. 0:31:28.060 --> 0:31:31.200 You just never know. People have different politics. And so 0:31:31.640 --> 0:31:34.260 black folks have always known that. I always make the 0:31:34.320 --> 0:31:37.060 argument I think black people are among the most sophisticated 0:31:37.100 --> 0:31:40.640 voters that there are, largely because we have always had 0:31:41.060 --> 0:31:45.560 to consider the moves of other people as a harbinger 0:31:45.600 --> 0:31:47.540 for whether or not something was going to be possible. 0:31:47.920 --> 0:31:50.380 So we never gave away our votes to candidates who 0:31:50.400 --> 0:31:53.420 we didn't think could potentially win. We said, does this 0:31:53.460 --> 0:31:56.040 person have it? Take Obama, for instance. Black people were 0:31:56.080 --> 0:31:59.610 not with him prior to Iowa. They were not there. 0:31:59.690 --> 0:32:03.470 We were looking. We were saying, oh, well, he inspires 0:32:03.510 --> 0:32:06.370 and there's something good about it. But not until we 0:32:06.410 --> 0:32:09.530 could make the math work, we could see, oh, white 0:32:09.570 --> 0:32:13.350 people could see him as president. Now, you saw the 0:32:13.390 --> 0:32:17.130 floodgates open. You saw people reverse endorsements come South Carolina. 0:32:17.150 --> 0:32:19.710 You saw a whole bunch of shift in movement after 0:32:19.750 --> 0:32:22.350 that point in time. And that's part of the sophistication 0:32:22.370 --> 0:32:24.890 that has to happen. What I also love about last 0:32:24.930 --> 0:32:28.060 night is that we're now at a place where Maybe 0:32:28.120 --> 0:32:30.440 we are the deciders ourselves and other people have to 0:32:30.480 --> 0:32:34.190 calibrate themselves around where we're going to show up, how 0:32:34.230 --> 0:32:36.709 we're going to vote. We're not a monolith, but we 0:32:36.750 --> 0:32:38.030 certainly are a leading indicator. 0:32:38.870 --> 0:32:44.270 I want to play this clip from Abdul El-Sayed. Abdul El-Sayed, 0:32:44.370 --> 0:32:50.360 from the beginning of this campaign season, showed that he 0:32:50.440 --> 0:32:54.640 was not going to go by the rules of the 0:32:54.680 --> 0:33:00.660 traditional playbook. he campaigned on Medicare for all. He campaigned 0:33:00.700 --> 0:33:03.430 in his own way in a black V-neck. He was like, 0:33:03.590 --> 0:33:06.710 I am going to do this my way. And last night, Andrew, 0:33:06.990 --> 0:33:10.810 his election had not yet been called. And Abdul said, listen, 0:33:10.890 --> 0:33:14.870 I have an acceptance victory speech that y'all are going 0:33:14.890 --> 0:33:15.230 to hear. 0:33:15.290 --> 0:33:16.810 Let us roll part of that speech. 0:33:17.990 --> 0:33:25.090 Habibi, there is this delicious irony in the fact that 0:33:25.470 --> 0:33:28.050 you're constitutionally obligated. 0:33:27.610 --> 0:33:37.360 To swear me in in January. So you know what 0:33:37.380 --> 0:33:37.900 that means. 0:33:39.260 --> 0:33:41.420 Wolverine one, Buckeye zero. 0:33:48.620 --> 0:33:52.840 Donald, look, I know you struggled with my name. 0:33:53.900 --> 0:33:54.900 So after J.D. 0:33:54.940 --> 0:33:56.850 Swears me in in January, you can just go on 0:33:56.870 --> 0:33:57.570 and call me Senator. 0:34:00.630 --> 0:34:05.130 Call me Senator, bitch. I love that moment, Andrew. 0:34:05.230 --> 0:34:07.250 And I think that, you know, it really does show 0:34:07.910 --> 0:34:11.089 how much things are changing. There are some things that 0:34:11.150 --> 0:34:14.850 remain the same. We are, you know, definitely filling the 0:34:14.890 --> 0:34:18.190 mode of celebration. But I also have this question for 0:34:18.230 --> 0:34:20.890 you around the headline from last night. When you look 0:34:20.930 --> 0:34:24.830 at the full map, the governors across the country. When 0:34:24.850 --> 0:34:29.029 you look at the U.S. Senate results, 54 seats now 0:34:29.090 --> 0:34:32.739 held by Democrats, 44 seats held by Republicans. When you 0:34:32.760 --> 0:34:37.740 look at the United States House, 220, 28, let me start, Jesus, 0:34:37.739 --> 0:34:41.900 228 according to AP, now held by Dems, 139 now 0:34:41.940 --> 0:34:46.000 held by Republicans, governors, 28 Ds, 20 Rs so far. 0:34:47.120 --> 0:34:49.500 What is that headline for you? What does that tell you? 0:34:50.980 --> 0:34:55.680 So, I kind of wish you'd proffer first what your 0:34:55.760 --> 0:34:58.859 thought is on whether or not there's a broad street 0:34:58.880 --> 0:34:59.100 to this. 0:34:59.120 --> 0:35:00.640 And when I went first last time, you said you 0:35:00.660 --> 0:35:01.279 should have went first. 0:35:01.380 --> 0:35:04.210 Well, I know we disagree on this one. Oh, okay. 0:35:04.550 --> 0:35:05.290 Well, you want me to go? 0:35:05.590 --> 0:35:05.850 Yeah. 0:35:05.910 --> 0:35:07.910 I mean, I think you should proffer what you think. 0:35:08.430 --> 0:35:11.589 You know, what's the banner? Do we all celebrate in 0:35:11.610 --> 0:35:14.110 this party or is there a cautionary tale? 0:35:14.250 --> 0:35:21.720 I think that the headline is Democrats win seats. 0:35:22.670 --> 0:35:24.470 But have to prove courage. 0:35:25.850 --> 0:35:30.690 I think Democrats have to show that they can stand 0:35:30.760 --> 0:35:32.620 in the gap when people are in harm's way. 0:35:33.860 --> 0:35:36.980 And I think that the jury is still out on that. 0:35:37.060 --> 0:35:40.940 The reason why I brought up Angie Nixon and Scott 0:35:40.980 --> 0:35:45.150 Colon and the limited investment there is because there is 0:35:45.250 --> 0:35:48.890 something that is still a through line for the party 0:35:49.170 --> 0:35:54.089 that demonstrates courage is not still at the forefront. When 0:35:54.120 --> 0:35:57.770 you hear the ways in which progressive incoming members of 0:35:57.810 --> 0:36:02.489 the House have been talked about, you know, even so 0:36:02.530 --> 0:36:07.609 much as some people saying that now Hakeem doesn't have 0:36:07.670 --> 0:36:11.129 to listen to them, you know, as speaker. Like now 0:36:11.150 --> 0:36:13.350 they just have to get in line or fall in line. 0:36:14.070 --> 0:36:18.069 I think that is the type of arrogance that gets 0:36:18.130 --> 0:36:22.430 you with a referendum vote where people say, actually, we 0:36:22.469 --> 0:36:23.210 don't want that. 0:36:23.230 --> 0:36:23.310 Yeah. 0:36:23.719 --> 0:36:27.089 What the people are saying they need is relief. When 0:36:27.150 --> 0:36:31.830 I was on with Breakfast Club earlier, Envy prolifically said 0:36:31.870 --> 0:36:33.410 this was a vote to stop the pain. 0:36:34.630 --> 0:36:35.670 And I think that's right. 0:36:35.810 --> 0:36:39.069 People are like, what do I do right now to 0:36:39.130 --> 0:36:42.870 stop the floodgates from opening? Because I can't handle the 0:36:42.910 --> 0:36:45.470 slow drip of pain that I'm receiving now. My SNAP 0:36:45.510 --> 0:36:48.450 benefits being cut, me trying to figure out my parents, 0:36:48.489 --> 0:36:49.950 the elders in my home's health care. 0:36:50.320 --> 0:36:50.740 Me trying. 0:36:50.860 --> 0:36:54.629 We know he's talking about that prescription drug cost. My 0:36:54.710 --> 0:36:57.650 kids now they were getting student loans forgiven. Now they 0:36:57.690 --> 0:37:01.210 have a student loan penalty. All of these different things 0:37:01.530 --> 0:37:03.150 that are coming in. And you're like, I don't know 0:37:03.170 --> 0:37:05.850 where to stop the thing. First, my unemployment, the fact 0:37:05.870 --> 0:37:08.009 that I haven't had a job for months. 0:37:09.320 --> 0:37:09.560 Right. 0:37:09.620 --> 0:37:11.440 And there's more month at the end of my money. 0:37:11.980 --> 0:37:14.440 You know, that is the part. 0:37:14.500 --> 0:37:17.340 And so I don't think that this was a victory 0:37:17.380 --> 0:37:17.980 through and through. 0:37:18.000 --> 0:37:19.980 It was a OK now. 0:37:21.180 --> 0:37:22.839 I'm going to see what y'all can do. 0:37:23.060 --> 0:37:23.239 Yeah. 0:37:23.580 --> 0:37:25.859 But I do think it's that I think that this 0:37:25.920 --> 0:37:28.600 is a probation, not a celebration. 0:37:28.719 --> 0:37:29.160 I hear you. 0:37:29.180 --> 0:37:33.279 OK, that's fair. I'll say we don't disagree as strikingly 0:37:33.340 --> 0:37:38.350 as I thought. I do think that, yes, we needed 0:37:38.390 --> 0:37:41.130 to stop the flood for a lot of people. We're underwater. 0:37:41.310 --> 0:37:45.430 I mean, the country's underwater. Our reputation globally is underwater. 0:37:45.850 --> 0:37:48.810 Our policy globally is underwater. Without a doubt, people wanted 0:37:48.850 --> 0:37:52.280 to reduce the harm. But I don't want to discount 0:37:53.080 --> 0:37:58.260 the inspiration that came from so many candidates. Scott Cologne, 0:37:58.580 --> 0:38:02.299 that brother was the happiest warrior I've ever seen. I 0:38:02.340 --> 0:38:05.020 know they have history. I know Cindy Hyde-Smith, you know, 0:38:05.060 --> 0:38:07.440 withheld the blue slip, you know, on him. Would not 0:38:07.780 --> 0:38:09.839 give the green light for the Senate to approve him 0:38:09.880 --> 0:38:12.460 as a judge. But you would not have known at 0:38:12.540 --> 0:38:15.080 any point in that campaign if that brother had a beef. 0:38:15.489 --> 0:38:18.250 with Cindy High Smith over keeping him off the bench. 0:38:18.570 --> 0:38:20.930 If he had it, he covered it with a beautiful smile. 0:38:21.219 --> 0:38:22.399 With a pick another protein. 0:38:22.440 --> 0:38:24.319 With a pick another protein. That was great. 0:38:24.420 --> 0:38:26.819 He was smiling when he was saying that. Cracking up. 0:38:26.840 --> 0:38:27.400 Cracking up. 0:38:27.600 --> 0:38:29.259 So I think the attitude that he brought to it 0:38:29.300 --> 0:38:33.279 was just really, really powerful, beautiful. Angie Nixon inspired a 0:38:33.320 --> 0:38:36.259 whole state of people, nearly four million of them, to 0:38:36.300 --> 0:38:38.470 go out and cast a vote for her. Keisha Lance 0:38:38.510 --> 0:38:42.090 Bottoms and the whole ballot in the state of Georgia. 0:38:42.250 --> 0:38:49.540 That was also inspiring. In Texas, Tallarico, Gina Hinojosa, what 0:38:49.560 --> 0:38:54.060 we saw with Roy Cooper even, Ohio got taken back. 0:38:54.460 --> 0:38:59.560 In Minnesota, and not just Minnesota, New Mexico, we're about 0:38:59.600 --> 0:39:03.410 to have the first Native American U.S. governor in the 0:39:03.489 --> 0:39:07.509 history of this country, a land that they previously occupied 0:39:07.550 --> 0:39:10.430 through and through. And the first time we'll have a governor, 0:39:10.450 --> 0:39:14.190 the former interior secretary. So, There was some inspiration spread 0:39:14.310 --> 0:39:17.860 all throughout this election. What there wasn't a lot of 0:39:17.940 --> 0:39:21.859 fervor and energy for is there was nobody really running 0:39:21.880 --> 0:39:26.190 around caping Democratic Party. No, you didn't see a bunch 0:39:26.230 --> 0:39:28.210 of banners. I'm a Democrat and I'm a Democrat and 0:39:28.230 --> 0:39:31.540 I'm a Democrat that comes into it. but nobody was running, 0:39:31.560 --> 0:39:36.540 necessarily waving that flag or that banner. That doesn't mean 0:39:36.560 --> 0:39:39.160 they're not proud Democrats that got elected, but people were 0:39:39.200 --> 0:39:41.819 assessed at a very individual level. 0:39:42.610 --> 0:39:45.669 I want to give you one thing, because we didn't 0:39:45.730 --> 0:39:47.830 talk about this, and we didn't talk about it last night, 0:39:47.850 --> 0:39:48.830 we haven't talked about it yet. 0:39:49.260 --> 0:39:50.520 This one is personal for you. 0:39:51.300 --> 0:39:54.890 I don't know if you've had an opportunity to celebrate this, 0:39:54.989 --> 0:39:59.410 but Andrew has a good friend that also had a 0:39:59.489 --> 0:40:03.870 pretty handy victory yesterday. Out of the state of Minnesota, 0:40:04.660 --> 0:40:08.759 the senator, Peggy Flanagan, who absolutely loves Andrew. They came 0:40:08.800 --> 0:40:11.160 up together as young elected officials. 0:40:11.200 --> 0:40:13.899 Yeah, I'm very proud of Peggy. Again, a woman whose 0:40:13.940 --> 0:40:16.160 leadership I've seen through and through completely. 0:40:16.160 --> 0:40:17.319 53.7% of the vote. 0:40:17.340 --> 0:40:20.520 She's about to be a dynamic U.S. senator. 0:40:20.560 --> 0:40:20.860 Yeah. 0:40:21.100 --> 0:40:26.219 I'll bolt the ground down because I can't wait. And 0:40:26.239 --> 0:40:28.279 then add Scott Colum to that. I don't want to 0:40:28.300 --> 0:40:29.240 get ahead of anything. 0:40:29.260 --> 0:40:29.340 Yeah. 0:40:29.700 --> 0:40:30.660 But God willing. 0:40:30.760 --> 0:40:30.980 Yeah. 0:40:31.350 --> 0:40:34.690 You know, you have that. You've got the new senator 0:40:34.730 --> 0:40:35.870 from Illinois. 0:40:35.890 --> 0:40:38.390 Yes, Julianna Stratton. 0:40:38.410 --> 0:40:39.060 Julianna Stratton. 0:40:39.380 --> 0:40:39.940 Absolutely. 0:40:39.960 --> 0:40:42.839 Who is going to blow the— and then they're joining three 0:40:42.900 --> 0:40:46.200 other dynamic ones that are already in there, moving and shaking. 0:40:47.219 --> 0:40:52.480 It is going to be something to behold. And my 0:40:52.540 --> 0:40:56.890 real admonishment is that they get there and they act 0:40:56.930 --> 0:40:59.790 with the same kind of courage that all these voters 0:40:59.930 --> 0:41:02.739 acted with when they went out. and they voted. I've 0:41:02.800 --> 0:41:06.020 never been under the illusion that politicians are a leading indicator. 0:41:06.260 --> 0:41:09.960 They are not. They are a lagging indicator. The people 0:41:10.060 --> 0:41:14.339 are almost always ahead of where the politicians are. They 0:41:14.360 --> 0:41:17.020 get there first, and then you end up dragging the 0:41:17.060 --> 0:41:20.280 politician along behind you if they ever make it there. 0:41:20.320 --> 0:41:23.989 So I expect that in politics, which tells me if 0:41:24.030 --> 0:41:25.770 we want them to do right, we're going to have 0:41:25.810 --> 0:41:26.489 to lead them there. 0:41:27.150 --> 0:41:30.350 You know, one thing where I kind of want to 0:41:30.410 --> 0:41:36.049 sit to is it's not just about the courage for me. 0:41:36.250 --> 0:41:41.649 It's also about racism as a nonpartisan issue. And where 0:41:41.670 --> 0:41:44.390 I want to go here, Andrew, is in South Carolina, 0:41:44.430 --> 0:41:47.870 we already talked about Mr. Clyburn's great surprise in Annie 0:41:48.010 --> 0:41:53.989 Andrews winning 51% of the vote, more than 100,000 vote 0:41:54.050 --> 0:41:57.790 difference between she and Lindsey Graham's sister, who should not 0:41:57.830 --> 0:42:01.190 have ever been in office or even on the ticket. 0:42:02.080 --> 0:42:03.860 But now I want to turn to the governor's race 0:42:04.080 --> 0:42:11.520 in South Carolina where Jermaine Johnson was running. And those 0:42:11.600 --> 0:42:19.200 results basically flip Jermaine Johnson with 47 percent of the vote, 0:42:19.200 --> 0:42:23.529 100000 votes separating him from Alan Wilson. Why am I 0:42:23.650 --> 0:42:28.450 bringing this up? Well, Jermaine Johnson is a black man. 0:42:29.390 --> 0:42:32.780 Our friend Jamie Harrison, friend of this show. is crushed 0:42:32.860 --> 0:42:35.379 by this outcome. Of course, you know, he ran statewide, 0:42:35.880 --> 0:42:38.439 raised hella money to run for the Senate and lost 0:42:38.480 --> 0:42:43.040 by 10 percentage points. This is much closer. But Andrew, 0:42:43.060 --> 0:42:46.399 the sting, you can't remove it when you're like, this 0:42:46.620 --> 0:42:50.859 is somebody, Dr. Jermaine Johnson, who was qualified for the office. 0:42:51.300 --> 0:42:55.370 What made him so different from Annie Andrews? It wasn't policy. 0:42:56.450 --> 0:42:56.890 Who was it? 0:42:56.989 --> 0:42:59.779 So I don't know what the money is. look like 0:42:59.800 --> 0:43:02.940 between those two races. And sometimes there is a despaired 0:43:04.340 --> 0:43:08.130 impact there. I have been side by side with a 0:43:08.140 --> 0:43:11.290 candidate who in the same part of the state where 0:43:11.350 --> 0:43:15.529 I lost by 30,000, they had 30,000 more votes than 0:43:15.570 --> 0:43:17.750 I did. And we were the same party. So I 0:43:17.770 --> 0:43:25.120 won't disallow those differences. But I will say this, there 0:43:25.239 --> 0:43:28.620 is a model that That is, I think, now unearthing 0:43:28.660 --> 0:43:32.810 itself in the South, in the traditional South, geopolitical South 0:43:33.370 --> 0:43:37.370 that is emerging. And nobody helped it along. Black people 0:43:37.750 --> 0:43:43.549 are birthing this out of whole cloth. Scott did not 0:43:43.590 --> 0:43:47.820 get what he needed. nor what he deserved from a 0:43:47.860 --> 0:43:51.759 resourcing standpoint, right? Yet, we are talking about Mississippi today. 0:43:51.780 --> 0:43:52.380 Yeah, we are. 0:43:52.390 --> 0:43:54.270 And you know what? Whether he wins or loses, and 0:43:54.290 --> 0:43:56.509 I'm declaring right now I believe he will win, but 0:43:56.550 --> 0:43:58.850 whether he wins or loses, we can never look at 0:43:58.910 --> 0:44:00.650 Mississippi the same way again. 0:44:00.670 --> 0:44:01.010 Ever. 0:44:01.210 --> 0:44:04.450 We can never treat Mississippi the same way again. We 0:44:04.469 --> 0:44:08.560 can never treat South Carolina the same way again, or Georgia, 0:44:08.880 --> 0:44:11.630 or Texas, right? We can't treat any of those states 0:44:11.650 --> 0:44:13.950 the way that we have perceived them before. And I 0:44:14.010 --> 0:44:16.690 would love to add Alabama to that list. I would 0:44:16.730 --> 0:44:19.690 love to add Louisiana to that list. Hell, I'd love 0:44:19.730 --> 0:44:23.500 to add Florida to that list. But there is a 0:44:23.640 --> 0:44:26.640 new politics that is birthing. We talked about this with 0:44:27.340 --> 0:44:30.060 Terrence when he was on, this idea of a new South. 0:44:30.780 --> 0:44:35.029 I believe a new South has broken through. And it's 0:44:35.130 --> 0:44:36.730 now going to be up to us whether or not 0:44:36.750 --> 0:44:38.890 we're trying to run through the tape on it. Or 0:44:38.910 --> 0:44:41.010 have we given up before we reached the finish line? 0:44:41.050 --> 0:44:42.330 Because we're not there yet. 0:44:43.270 --> 0:44:50.270 I want to go to another Midwesterner who made history 0:44:50.310 --> 0:44:54.420 last night. We have clip 11 with David Crowley, who 0:44:54.620 --> 0:44:57.240 became the first black governor of Wisconsin. 0:44:58.180 --> 0:45:04.700 Tonight, Wisconsin made history. And being your next governor is 0:45:04.760 --> 0:45:08.840 humbling in its own right. I don't take any of 0:45:08.880 --> 0:45:12.140 this lightly. And I know exactly the shoulders that I 0:45:12.180 --> 0:45:15.160 stand on. And I want to say thank you for 0:45:15.239 --> 0:45:20.739 placing your faith in me. That's ultimately what voting is. 0:45:22.400 --> 0:45:25.960 A tremendous act of faith. Not faith in one person 0:45:26.000 --> 0:45:29.640 or a party, but faith in the idea that elections matter. 0:45:30.460 --> 0:45:33.240 That the right leadership can make a difference in people's lives. 0:45:33.880 --> 0:45:36.339 Because when you're sitting around the kitchen table at night, 0:45:36.800 --> 0:45:40.370 Having to decide which of your bills will go past 0:45:40.410 --> 0:45:45.670 due that month. Or when your kid is sick. 0:45:45.710 --> 0:45:48.009 Or a parent needs caretaking. 0:45:48.810 --> 0:45:51.609 But your job doesn't afford the leave for those that 0:45:51.630 --> 0:45:55.379 you love. When a family moves off a farm, not 0:45:55.410 --> 0:45:57.600 because they want to leave, but because they don't see 0:45:57.620 --> 0:46:00.980 a future in staying. You don't really care about the 0:46:01.020 --> 0:46:02.680 letter that's behind the candidate's name. 0:46:03.000 --> 0:46:04.459 You just want to know that those who. 0:46:04.420 --> 0:46:06.290 Empower, that they see you. 0:46:07.930 --> 0:46:08.430 I see you. 0:46:09.850 --> 0:46:12.350 I hear you. I was you. 0:46:13.410 --> 0:46:17.270 And now I'm going to fight for you each and 0:46:17.469 --> 0:46:18.410 every single day. 0:46:20.130 --> 0:46:20.430 Powerful. 0:46:20.590 --> 0:46:21.190 I see you. 0:46:21.210 --> 0:46:21.649 I love that. 0:46:21.850 --> 0:46:24.029 I was you. And now I'm going to fight for 0:46:24.070 --> 0:46:25.180 you every single day. 0:46:25.320 --> 0:46:27.419 I mean, how does that make you feel? I mean, 0:46:28.140 --> 0:46:34.040 add Crowley to the slate. This is what I meant 0:46:34.080 --> 0:46:38.250 by the valedictory part of our sacrifice is that at 0:46:38.450 --> 0:46:38.890 one night. 0:46:40.410 --> 0:46:44.529 But even that, right, like the celebratory nature of it, 0:46:45.210 --> 0:46:47.969 my argument is not that there should be no celebration. 0:46:48.090 --> 0:46:51.450 My argument is just that the celebration should be temporal, 0:46:51.610 --> 0:46:56.350 that it is still a probationary vote. David, I believe, 0:46:56.390 --> 0:47:01.750 was victorious because people wanted to elect courageous fighters. And 0:47:01.790 --> 0:47:04.710 the referendum really is on the status quo. The people 0:47:04.750 --> 0:47:07.109 that think they're there to be seat warmers, the ones 0:47:07.170 --> 0:47:09.390 that think they if they could just, you know, be 0:47:09.650 --> 0:47:12.310 meek enough and mild enough that maybe the Republicans won't 0:47:12.350 --> 0:47:14.480 know that they're different and they can sneak something through. 0:47:14.780 --> 0:47:16.500 I think the days of that are over. 0:47:16.520 --> 0:47:19.200 They don't know it. Yes, they don't know. 0:47:19.219 --> 0:47:23.700 That's my point. And so what I'm talking about. This referendum, 0:47:23.780 --> 0:47:27.820 this probation, it is for the folks who have already 0:47:28.000 --> 0:47:28.580 been there. 0:47:28.739 --> 0:47:29.120 I get it. 0:47:29.200 --> 0:47:33.250 I think that there is a celebration, but also a 0:47:33.310 --> 0:47:37.069 demand of the incoming to be different, to stand up, 0:47:37.350 --> 0:47:39.330 to be bolder, to be more courageous. 0:47:39.750 --> 0:47:41.029 And I think that might be what. 0:47:40.969 --> 0:47:42.240 I mean by probation. You know what? I don't think 0:47:42.260 --> 0:47:43.940 you're wrong about that. And I think we're going to 0:47:43.980 --> 0:47:45.239 have to fight every day. 0:47:45.260 --> 0:47:45.340 Yeah. 0:47:45.880 --> 0:47:49.620 To remind Leader Jeffries and Leader Schumer, should they be 0:47:49.680 --> 0:47:53.700 the people who hold those positions in the majority, we 0:47:53.739 --> 0:47:58.770 have to make sure, because there are consultants and other 0:47:59.370 --> 0:48:03.509 folks on the ideological extreme within the Democratic Party on 0:48:03.550 --> 0:48:05.430 the other side who are basically going to say, if 0:48:05.510 --> 0:48:08.350 you do that, you're going to risk this win and 0:48:08.390 --> 0:48:10.549 this win and this win. And what we have to 0:48:10.610 --> 0:48:14.370 tell them is, We are the people who put you there. 0:48:14.390 --> 0:48:17.370 Are you prepared to risk us? Shut the hell up. 0:48:17.390 --> 0:48:18.009 Let me tell you something. 0:48:18.030 --> 0:48:20.509 They should shut the hell up, but unfortunately, they have 0:48:20.550 --> 0:48:21.770 couches in these offices. 0:48:21.810 --> 0:48:23.209 Let me tell you something about these consultants. 0:48:23.230 --> 0:48:24.330 They pull right up whenever they want to. 0:48:24.390 --> 0:48:27.720 I have a PSA for the consultants. This was not 0:48:27.760 --> 0:48:30.600 your election. We had an event last night called the 0:48:30.739 --> 0:48:34.960 People's Election Night. This was the people's election. The people 0:48:35.060 --> 0:48:38.480 showed up despite your lack of investment. The people showed 0:48:38.580 --> 0:48:40.779 up despite the fee you took on top of the 0:48:40.940 --> 0:48:44.359 ad you placed. The people showed up despite the ad 0:48:44.400 --> 0:48:48.459 you ran. The people showed up despite the texts you sent, 0:48:48.780 --> 0:48:52.700 the emails you sent. They showed up in spite of you, 0:48:52.820 --> 0:48:57.190 not because of you. And I'm talking especially... To the 0:48:57.250 --> 0:49:03.010 white consultant class of the Democratic Party, y'all are not 0:49:03.210 --> 0:49:07.780 talking to voters of color. Folks showed up in spite 0:49:07.860 --> 0:49:11.960 of your normal tactics, your lazy, raggedy tactics. Despite the 0:49:12.000 --> 0:49:15.509 fact that you won't pay black consultants their worth and 0:49:15.550 --> 0:49:18.870 they could have been told you this. Because we know, AG, 0:49:18.950 --> 0:49:21.940 our lived experience. dictates it and I just am so 0:49:22.080 --> 0:49:25.360 frustrated because I already know y'all wrote them damn memos 0:49:25.620 --> 0:49:28.860 this morning claiming credit for your strategies for your expensive 0:49:28.920 --> 0:49:30.259 ass strategies that are. 0:49:30.200 --> 0:49:32.500 Terrible yeah so two things one. 0:49:32.380 --> 0:49:35.009 Yeah lucky trying to claim credit. 0:49:35.489 --> 0:49:38.729 I think I think we should celebrate the win yes 0:49:39.350 --> 0:49:42.250 I think that's one thing because we spend a lot 0:49:42.290 --> 0:49:46.450 of time negotiating between how sad we are about to be. 0:49:46.690 --> 0:49:47.450 Yeah, that's true. 0:49:47.489 --> 0:49:51.509 And I think a part of getting better out of 0:49:51.550 --> 0:49:57.029 these people is congratulating us for the wins and then 0:49:57.190 --> 0:50:00.790 circling right back around to say, and we still expect more. 0:50:00.969 --> 0:50:01.290 Yes. 0:50:01.770 --> 0:50:04.870 The reason why we can't treat Mississippi the same anymore 0:50:04.910 --> 0:50:07.109 is because we now see what the opportunity looks like. 0:50:07.130 --> 0:50:07.250 Mm-hmm. 0:50:07.810 --> 0:50:11.720 These folks, the consulting, whatever that is, they may not 0:50:11.760 --> 0:50:15.540 be the ones for the birthing of the Southern strategy. 0:50:15.600 --> 0:50:17.799 There are other folks who are out there who now 0:50:17.840 --> 0:50:19.279 need to be brought to the table to do that. 0:50:19.360 --> 0:50:25.339 But the whole ballgame can change. Last night is an 0:50:25.540 --> 0:50:28.840 exhibit A of the fact that the whole game plan 0:50:28.880 --> 0:50:32.400 can change. Will we change with it? Will they change 0:50:32.500 --> 0:50:34.540 with it is my question. And I don't know that 0:50:34.560 --> 0:50:35.480 we have the answer yet. 0:50:35.989 --> 0:50:41.440 I have two that I'm kind of worried about. When 0:50:41.480 --> 0:50:46.219 I look at Tennessee, we know that people were said 0:50:46.260 --> 0:50:47.989 last night over and over again, we heard it on 0:50:48.050 --> 0:50:51.590 our coverage too, that the gerrymandering didn't work. 0:50:52.430 --> 0:50:53.190 Andrew, it did. 0:50:53.210 --> 0:50:53.910 It worked significantly well. 0:50:53.930 --> 0:50:57.720 We lost a whole member of Congress out of Louisiana, 0:50:57.760 --> 0:51:01.710 to your earlier point, in Tennessee. Steve Cohen was once 0:51:01.810 --> 0:51:08.780 the member representing Memphis District 9, is what it is now, 0:51:09.980 --> 0:51:13.360 Congressional District 9. Justin Pearson is running in that race. 0:51:13.739 --> 0:51:17.630 It is neck and neck right now, just slightly more 0:51:17.670 --> 0:51:23.610 than 2,000 votes between him and Brent Taylor. And that's disheartening. 0:51:23.650 --> 0:51:25.690 There's another race that I want to call out. It 0:51:25.730 --> 0:51:29.239 wasn't impacted by redistricting. in South Carolina, but one of 0:51:29.260 --> 0:51:35.040 my PDP students, alums, Courtney McLean, ran against William Timmons 0:51:35.100 --> 0:51:39.610 in District 4. Courtney McLean went viral earlier on. If 0:51:39.640 --> 0:51:41.029 I would have thought about it, we would have played 0:51:41.050 --> 0:51:47.910 this video. But Courtney McLean has just 20,000 votes separating her, 0:51:47.950 --> 0:51:52.630 less than 20,000 votes, actually closer to 17,000 votes, separating 0:51:52.930 --> 0:51:59.390 her and William Timmons. Young Black woman, Brilliant. And I 0:51:59.430 --> 0:52:01.219 just want to shout her out. Courtney, we're so proud 0:52:01.260 --> 0:52:05.100 of you for stepping up and trying to seize this moment. 0:52:05.180 --> 0:52:06.419 Your time is not over, honey. 0:52:06.480 --> 0:52:07.100 It's just beginning. 0:52:07.180 --> 0:52:10.660 Yeah, that's real. You know, so there's some downstream effects 0:52:10.680 --> 0:52:12.410 of these competitive races as well. 0:52:12.469 --> 0:52:12.709 Right. 0:52:13.170 --> 0:52:18.910 Because when someone like Courtney takes on a challenger in 0:52:18.930 --> 0:52:22.739 a congressional district, Well, within that congressional district, there are 0:52:22.780 --> 0:52:26.530 school board races. There are superintendent races. There are mayor 0:52:26.570 --> 0:52:31.130 and city council races that because of the attention and 0:52:31.170 --> 0:52:34.850 the increased turnout of certain votes in that congressional district, 0:52:35.410 --> 0:52:37.560 they're now going to be able to sweep to carry 0:52:37.620 --> 0:52:41.120 in with them other elected officials who then become the 0:52:41.160 --> 0:52:44.500 training ground for when you need another congressional candidate. They 0:52:44.520 --> 0:52:46.140 become the training ground for when you've got to take 0:52:46.320 --> 0:52:49.080 on a Darlene or whomever the Republicans put up the 0:52:49.120 --> 0:52:51.340 next time for a U.S. Senate seat in that state. 0:52:51.719 --> 0:52:54.660 So the down ballot, Georgia is a great example of 0:52:54.680 --> 0:52:58.859 the down ballot impacts. All those, the Attorney General on 0:52:58.930 --> 0:53:02.170 down are women who are right now in the pipeline 0:53:02.210 --> 0:53:05.810 to replace Raphael Warnock whenever he retires from the Senate 0:53:06.469 --> 0:53:10.770 or in Ossoff. So there's so many incredible impacts, but 0:53:10.790 --> 0:53:14.940 your point around the redistricting, no one should confuse that 0:53:16.390 --> 0:53:21.760 The Republicans were not successful at their attempts to create 0:53:22.040 --> 0:53:28.780 more Republican districts. They were incredibly successful at creating these seats. 0:53:29.380 --> 0:53:35.000 They were not, however, electorally successful at securing those seats. 0:53:35.120 --> 0:53:38.520 But those opportunities for Republicans to come back, maybe with 0:53:38.560 --> 0:53:42.020 better candidates, maybe with a different funding stream and a 0:53:42.140 --> 0:53:46.370 different cycle. They'll be set up for success. So let's 0:53:46.410 --> 0:53:49.290 not confuse this. The agenda still is the agenda, which 0:53:49.370 --> 0:53:51.410 is we have got to put teeth back in the 0:53:51.450 --> 0:53:53.879 Voting Rights Act. We have got to make sure that 0:53:53.980 --> 0:53:57.960 a Democratic Senate and House negotiate with this president to 0:53:58.000 --> 0:54:01.200 get some new legislation, codifying legislation through so that we're 0:54:01.239 --> 0:54:04.540 not fighting this battle. But they weren't ready for the 0:54:04.580 --> 0:54:07.000 fight that they bought. No, they were not ready for 0:54:07.040 --> 0:54:07.720 the fight they bought. 0:54:07.880 --> 0:54:11.080 Yeah, they brought a butter knife to a gunfight. And 0:54:11.120 --> 0:54:13.380 to that point, Ellie actually had a term for it 0:54:13.420 --> 0:54:16.680 last night, Andrew. This is clip seven, dog walked. 0:54:17.000 --> 0:54:17.660 Oh, yeah. 0:54:18.460 --> 0:54:20.820 How are you guys doing? So I know the internet's 0:54:20.880 --> 0:54:23.259 not great in this studio out there. I don't know 0:54:23.280 --> 0:54:26.540 if you guys realize we are dog walking these people. 0:54:26.560 --> 0:54:28.460 And I think we should feel a little bit good 0:54:28.480 --> 0:54:30.739 about that because there have been enough bad nights that 0:54:30.800 --> 0:54:32.609 I'm going to feel good about dog walking these people. 0:54:32.800 --> 0:54:34.989 And when I say we, to your point, I don't 0:54:35.050 --> 0:54:39.489 mean Democrats. I mean people who are in favor of democracy. 0:54:40.000 --> 0:54:44.149 are dog walking these people. These fascists, these authoritarians, they're 0:54:44.170 --> 0:54:47.190 getting kicked out. I lived for 13 months in Indiana. 0:54:47.489 --> 0:54:48.890 One of the things that I'm looking at is the 0:54:48.989 --> 0:54:52.210 Indiana Fifth. It is a suburb of Indianapolis. It is 0:54:52.750 --> 0:54:56.270 essentially where the Klan goes for vacation, right? It's kind 0:54:56.290 --> 0:55:00.160 of like a resting place for them. They just elected 0:55:00.560 --> 0:55:05.620 a Democratic guy against a Republican incumbent who is openly gay, 0:55:06.000 --> 0:55:11.719 who defends trans rights, In Kokomo, Indiana. That's a dog walk. 0:55:11.760 --> 0:55:12.780 And that's what's happening. 0:55:13.540 --> 0:55:16.530 Let me tell you about another dog walk. Name starts 0:55:16.550 --> 0:55:20.830 with a D. Comes out of Michigan Congressional District 13. 0:55:20.830 --> 0:55:25.870 Donovan McKinney, Andrew Gillum. He won his congressional seat 76.5% 0:55:25.870 --> 0:55:33.650 of the vote. Uh, Donovan McKinney again in Michigan's congressional 0:55:33.690 --> 0:55:34.910 district 13. 0:55:34.910 --> 0:55:35.589 Congratulations. 0:55:35.690 --> 0:55:37.850 Congratulations to Donovan. I know we wanted to get him 0:55:37.910 --> 0:55:40.969 on the show and didn't have the opportunity to do that, 0:55:41.050 --> 0:55:43.609 but we see you and we just want to make 0:55:43.690 --> 0:55:45.450 sure that we acknowledge that. 0:55:52.180 --> 0:56:00.140 You know, Angela, we talked about, um, the redistricting seats 0:56:01.200 --> 0:56:03.780 in Texas when all of that with the Cal-A decision. 0:56:04.300 --> 0:56:06.600 They were the springboard for a lot of the rewriting 0:56:06.760 --> 0:56:11.910 of these maps afterwards. In the final analysis, y'all, these 0:56:12.010 --> 0:56:14.910 people lost of the five seats they created for themselves, 0:56:15.730 --> 0:56:18.250 lost four of them last night. And the fifth one 0:56:18.750 --> 0:56:22.040 may go away today as the votes continue to come in. 0:56:22.460 --> 0:56:26.450 They will have gained All that pain, trauma, and so 0:56:26.469 --> 0:56:28.669 on and so forth. It wasn't all for naught, y'all, 0:56:28.690 --> 0:56:30.969 because we now still have a Cal-A decision on the books. 0:56:30.989 --> 0:56:31.770 Yeah, that's right. 0:56:31.870 --> 0:56:34.370 That decision still stands. It is not court precedence. 0:56:34.430 --> 0:56:34.730 Yeah. 0:56:35.110 --> 0:56:37.549 So we've got to do work to change it. But 0:56:37.570 --> 0:56:40.330 it just goes with these people meant for evil, for bad. 0:56:40.370 --> 0:56:42.950 You know what I mean? Just got twisted out by 0:56:42.969 --> 0:56:43.610 the voters. 0:56:43.950 --> 0:56:44.970 That's exactly right. 0:56:45.390 --> 0:56:50.190 We're still watching our friend, rocket scientist Chris Jones, um, 0:56:50.739 --> 0:56:53.350 It's still too close to call with 99 percent of 0:56:53.430 --> 0:56:59.009 the votes counted in Arkansas's congressional district to 4000 votes 0:56:59.050 --> 0:57:02.270 separating them. Lola, before we go to our calls to action, 0:57:02.310 --> 0:57:03.930 I wanted to check to see if we have any 0:57:03.989 --> 0:57:07.850 comments or questions from the audience. Do you want to share? 0:57:09.070 --> 0:57:10.589 Like the first item on the agenda. 0:57:10.860 --> 0:57:13.939 So a question, Andrew, is what should the first item 0:57:15.219 --> 0:57:17.080 be on House Bill 1? 0:57:17.080 --> 0:57:18.300 House Bill 1 should be what? 0:57:18.560 --> 0:57:24.280 House Bill 1. So House Bill 1, H.R. 1. Excuse me. 0:57:25.030 --> 0:57:27.220 I know I have a sinus infection, everybody, so just 0:57:27.260 --> 0:57:31.120 forgive me. You threw me off, girl. 0:57:31.780 --> 0:57:34.960 What's the first agenda item for members of Congress when 0:57:35.000 --> 0:57:37.320 they get in Congress? When they swear on January 3rd, 0:57:37.340 --> 0:57:38.760 what do they do on the 4th? 0:57:38.820 --> 0:57:43.060 Yeah, so this is... Threw me off, hell. The first 0:57:44.160 --> 0:57:48.900 bill is a messaging statement as much as it is 0:57:50.530 --> 0:57:54.510 actual legislation. And so I'll tell you the contours of 0:57:54.570 --> 0:57:56.770 what is in that are going to have to speak to, 0:57:56.810 --> 0:58:02.750 in my opinion, the economic problems of this country. And 0:58:03.210 --> 0:58:05.410 I'm not a parliamentarian for the House, so I don't 0:58:05.430 --> 0:58:07.810 know how they can cobble this all together. But it 0:58:07.910 --> 0:58:11.710 also must include provisions around corruption as a part of it, 0:58:11.790 --> 0:58:15.810 because the voters were able to connect Corruption to their wallet. 0:58:15.850 --> 0:58:16.290 Yes. 0:58:16.790 --> 0:58:19.470 They made that leap. Most people, you have to separate. 0:58:19.510 --> 0:58:22.090 Corruption is not the same thing as economics. No. I 0:58:22.110 --> 0:58:24.300 know Trump just took a plane. I know his son 0:58:24.320 --> 0:58:26.640 just got his son's wedding paid for. I know they 0:58:26.740 --> 0:58:30.820 are richer, multi-times richer now in public office than they 0:58:30.840 --> 0:58:33.410 were before. And I'm worse off. 0:58:33.960 --> 0:58:36.390 So people knew. They knew that what's her name? 0:58:36.430 --> 0:58:38.169 Young Miami wrote that song about them. 0:58:38.310 --> 0:58:39.750 Where are my scammies? 0:58:39.870 --> 0:58:43.830 Oh, yes. So the scammies were all in the White House. 0:58:44.170 --> 0:58:44.570 All of them. 0:58:44.590 --> 0:58:46.070 OK, all of them were in the White House and 0:58:46.150 --> 0:58:50.230 in the Republican Party. That's exactly right. So so the 0:58:50.310 --> 0:58:53.680 voters have made that connection. Please let me encourage the 0:58:53.740 --> 0:58:57.330 elected leaders to keep that connection alive. One to the other, 0:58:57.370 --> 0:58:59.900 because I've already heard this morning people saying, well, you know, 0:58:59.960 --> 0:59:02.140 people don't want a whole bunch of investigations and this 0:59:02.200 --> 0:59:05.100 is that and the third. I'm saying, I'm sorry, y'all 0:59:05.260 --> 0:59:07.390 cited the same polling we did, which was a first 0:59:07.890 --> 0:59:11.200 number one issue on people's agenda. Right. before the economy 0:59:11.560 --> 0:59:16.400 and affordability was corruption. So they've connected corruption and economics. 0:59:16.440 --> 0:59:16.880 That's right. 0:59:17.260 --> 0:59:20.200 Let's keep that connection going and now pass some laws. 0:59:20.240 --> 0:59:24.380 Within H.R. 1, the House Resolution 1, their first bill, 0:59:24.700 --> 0:59:27.240 the messaging of it as well as the content of 0:59:27.340 --> 0:59:31.540 it has to both address the economic issues, tariffs and 0:59:31.560 --> 0:59:33.260 so on and so forth, whatever all that stuff is, 0:59:33.300 --> 0:59:36.710 whatever that package looks like, and couple that with some 0:59:36.790 --> 0:59:37.750 anti-corruption measures. 0:59:37.890 --> 0:59:38.150 Yeah. 0:59:38.630 --> 0:59:39.010 Lolo? 0:59:41.530 --> 0:59:42.630 Well, Black people don't. 0:59:43.090 --> 0:59:45.830 Black people, the question, so for those of you at home, 0:59:45.850 --> 0:59:49.790 because Lolo's supposed to be shouting out the questions, but 0:59:49.810 --> 0:59:51.790 she doesn't have a mic even if she does yell. 0:59:51.830 --> 0:59:56.320 So it's, why do Black people support Byron Donalds. If 0:59:56.400 --> 0:59:57.980 we were on Cite Your Source, my other show, I 0:59:58.000 --> 1:00:00.600 would have a buzzer to fact check you and demand 1:00:00.620 --> 1:00:01.660 that you cite your source. 1:00:02.080 --> 1:00:04.540 Yeah, well, I'm going to throw it back to you. 1:00:04.560 --> 1:00:06.340 I mean, you've talked to him directly. 1:00:06.880 --> 1:00:09.040 I'm so sad we can't run the clip. 1:00:09.200 --> 1:00:11.170 Yeah, well, we'll put it in post, put it in 1:00:11.190 --> 1:00:13.610 the notes or something. But what do you think? I mean, 1:00:13.950 --> 1:00:16.669 so the numbers out of the state of Florida still 1:00:16.710 --> 1:00:22.210 show that 92% of black women lined up behind David Jolly. 1:00:22.250 --> 1:00:22.450 Yeah. 1:00:23.460 --> 1:00:27.140 And they were with Angie Nixon as well. But it 1:00:27.160 --> 1:00:36.440 also showed that possibly 22% of Black men got behind Donald's. 1:00:37.280 --> 1:00:39.560 Oh, is this it right here, Andrew? Here's the exit 1:00:39.580 --> 1:00:44.940 polling results. Black men, 22% with Byron Donald's. I am 1:00:45.200 --> 1:00:49.040 so curious to have a focus group that perhaps you lead, Andrew, 1:00:49.060 --> 1:00:49.620 to ask them. 1:00:50.210 --> 1:00:51.250 What the hell they were thinking. 1:00:51.410 --> 1:00:55.010 I mean, I think what's scary about this is Byron 1:00:55.030 --> 1:00:59.950 Donalds sounds like us. He's relatable like us. He daps 1:01:00.030 --> 1:01:02.870 us up like us. I don't know that I could 1:01:02.930 --> 1:01:06.880 say the same thing about Tim Scott, right? He is very, 1:01:07.240 --> 1:01:13.120 you know, for lack of a better term, black culture presenting. 1:01:13.500 --> 1:01:14.020 Do you know what I mean? 1:01:14.040 --> 1:01:17.680 Like he knows how to, you know, to play the role. 1:01:17.780 --> 1:01:21.820 I think the problem is When you can play the part, 1:01:22.080 --> 1:01:26.480 but you actively pursue and champion and advocate for policy 1:01:26.980 --> 1:01:30.000 that is the antithesis to what we need to be 1:01:30.080 --> 1:01:32.840 fully liberated as a people in this country, that's where 1:01:32.860 --> 1:01:37.130 we have a problem. Case in point on Breakfast Club yesterday, 1:01:37.150 --> 1:01:42.850 I challenged Byron on if he thought or if as 1:01:42.910 --> 1:01:45.330 governor he would ensure that FAMU was made whole to 1:01:45.350 --> 1:01:48.070 the tune of $ 2 billion, which is consistent with the lawsuit, 1:01:48.110 --> 1:01:51.640 consistent with what USDA under Biden and the Department of 1:01:51.700 --> 1:01:54.500 Education that they're trying to dismantle under Trump, but under 1:01:54.580 --> 1:01:59.400 Biden said that FAMU had been not receiving it, like 1:01:59.420 --> 1:02:04.120 disproportionately not receiving that funding. Byron Donalds went back to 1:02:04.160 --> 1:02:06.080 a study, like we was talking to a white man 1:02:06.120 --> 1:02:10.240 about reparations, baby. He said, Well, I haven't looked at 1:02:10.280 --> 1:02:12.140 the study, which is the same thing he said in 1:02:12.180 --> 1:02:16.260 an interview with Uncle Luke. So he initially told me, yes, 1:02:16.560 --> 1:02:20.050 he would do it on Breakfast Club. But he said, well, actually, 1:02:20.090 --> 1:02:21.810 I don't know enough. I have to look at the study. 1:02:22.130 --> 1:02:24.890 Ain't none of the damn study. They were robbed. Every 1:02:25.090 --> 1:02:26.690 HBCU in this country was robbed. 1:02:26.750 --> 1:02:28.350 And as a black man in this country that tried 1:02:28.370 --> 1:02:29.910 to go to one but couldn't stay and found your 1:02:29.970 --> 1:02:32.110 ass at Florida State, you should know they were robbed. 1:02:32.410 --> 1:02:34.840 You know these are resource-challenged schools. He was like, well, 1:02:34.880 --> 1:02:37.640 I fought for a resource senator. Well, motherfucker, that's not enough. 1:02:37.660 --> 1:02:37.940 Yeah. 1:02:38.120 --> 1:02:40.340 You need to fight for access that they deserve. 1:02:40.760 --> 1:02:45.400 Our schools, our businesses, our people, our homes are actively 1:02:45.440 --> 1:02:48.200 doing more with less. As a black man in this country, 1:02:48.240 --> 1:02:50.100 you know that. And you can't tell me it's not 1:02:50.120 --> 1:02:52.970 a systemic problem. And you're a problem if you're going 1:02:52.990 --> 1:02:54.650 to stand in the way and guard the system and 1:02:54.690 --> 1:02:55.250 not change it. 1:02:55.250 --> 1:02:59.530 So I'm mad at y'all 22%. What's true is that 1:02:59.630 --> 1:03:02.350 on this education piece, this ought to be right up 1:03:02.390 --> 1:03:05.070 his alley because these black colleges and universities are not 1:03:05.190 --> 1:03:12.800 arguing for anything special. They're saying we are state funded institutions. 1:03:12.940 --> 1:03:16.180 Fund us like you fund the other state funded institutions. 1:03:16.260 --> 1:03:16.690 That's it. 1:03:16.730 --> 1:03:19.150 So if you are spending this much per pupil at 1:03:19.210 --> 1:03:21.950 Florida State or the University of Florida, you spend the 1:03:22.010 --> 1:03:25.390 same amount for the pupil here at Florida A & 1:03:25.270 --> 1:03:29.090 M University, which is a state sponsored school. So there's 1:03:29.130 --> 1:03:32.520 no reparation. You don't even have to get this man 1:03:32.540 --> 1:03:35.700 to make a leap. to reparations, you can just talk 1:03:35.760 --> 1:03:38.040 about paying me what you owe me. And this is 1:03:38.080 --> 1:03:41.140 not a theoretical. Oh, yeah, this is not a theoretical. Oh, 1:03:41.200 --> 1:03:44.020 this is what you paid everybody else. And now you 1:03:44.040 --> 1:03:46.340 got to put me at parity. And that's a hard 1:03:46.380 --> 1:03:49.210 challenge for him. I think a couple of things were 1:03:49.370 --> 1:03:51.450 at play here and I haven't done a focus group, 1:03:51.470 --> 1:03:53.930 but I think there were some people who legitimately said 1:03:53.950 --> 1:03:55.550 they wanted to see a black governor of the state 1:03:55.570 --> 1:03:57.490 of Florida. And I think that probably turned it toward 1:03:57.570 --> 1:04:00.500 older people than not. I mean, black men have been 1:04:00.580 --> 1:04:02.820 less in love with the Democratic Party for a very 1:04:02.860 --> 1:04:03.440 long time. 1:04:04.200 --> 1:04:07.090 And that's not a black men problem. That's a Democratic 1:04:07.130 --> 1:04:07.910 Party problem. 1:04:07.990 --> 1:04:10.690 I'm telling you, I put the onus of blame on 1:04:10.710 --> 1:04:13.280 the right part of the equation here. I'm not blaming anyone. 1:04:13.610 --> 1:04:15.370 Black man for not being in love. I ain't going 1:04:15.390 --> 1:04:16.750 to be in love with anything that don't give me 1:04:16.810 --> 1:04:17.410 anything either. 1:04:17.430 --> 1:04:17.910 Yeah. 1:04:17.930 --> 1:04:18.140 Right? 1:04:18.200 --> 1:04:20.320 I mean, you've got to pay into me. We have 1:04:20.340 --> 1:04:22.980 to nourish this relationship. You have to treat me like 1:04:23.020 --> 1:04:23.980 more than a side piece. 1:04:24.340 --> 1:04:26.860 Also, Republicans treat you worse than a side piece. They 1:04:26.880 --> 1:04:28.860 treating you like a low-class ho. 1:04:28.900 --> 1:04:31.420 So then on that end, which is going to be 1:04:31.460 --> 1:04:34.150 my third point, which is there are folks, and there 1:04:34.170 --> 1:04:37.510 have always been folks, who find the shorter line. 1:04:38.070 --> 1:04:38.370 Yes. 1:04:38.750 --> 1:04:41.810 And I think Byron Donalds is an example of someone 1:04:41.830 --> 1:04:43.090 who found the shorter line. 1:04:43.110 --> 1:04:43.190 Yeah. 1:04:43.780 --> 1:04:46.820 It is much more competitive to try to run in 1:04:46.860 --> 1:04:49.419 a Democratic seat against other people who look like you, 1:04:49.520 --> 1:04:53.470 who will challenge you and stuff. It's much easier if 1:04:53.510 --> 1:04:55.290 you are a black person who's willing to stand up 1:04:55.310 --> 1:04:58.390 next to Trump, swallow those lies, act like his cheerleader 1:04:58.450 --> 1:05:02.330 and his side piece. You just get to go further. 1:05:02.350 --> 1:05:02.950 Call him Daddy. 1:05:03.450 --> 1:05:05.290 There's a podcast named that, Byron. 1:05:05.450 --> 1:05:07.770 Who was that we brought up last? Herschel. Take that 1:05:07.850 --> 1:05:08.530 for instance. 1:05:08.570 --> 1:05:11.090 We don't need to take Herschel. Leave Herschel where he was. 1:05:11.250 --> 1:05:14.700 You got Byron in Florida who presented much better. I 1:05:14.740 --> 1:05:17.060 just don't know what the real thing looks like for 1:05:17.100 --> 1:05:19.360 him because he can go and he can talk in 1:05:19.420 --> 1:05:23.860 black barbershops about his felony record history, his criminal background. 1:05:23.880 --> 1:05:24.460 With a cigar. 1:05:24.640 --> 1:05:28.710 Background, right? He can do that. He suppresses that information 1:05:28.750 --> 1:05:32.290 when he's talking to the majority population. And then when 1:05:32.330 --> 1:05:35.330 it comes to how he votes, he then votes against 1:05:35.350 --> 1:05:37.510 the very thing that he supposedly shares in common. 1:05:37.530 --> 1:05:39.640 Well, let me tell you to this point, I wish 1:05:39.660 --> 1:05:41.820 we had this damn clip. When he went to the, 1:05:41.840 --> 1:05:45.960 you know, they had like a midterm Republican National Convention. 1:05:46.060 --> 1:05:46.560 Oh, yeah. 1:05:46.780 --> 1:05:47.600 In Dallas. 1:05:47.740 --> 1:05:48.500 Wasn't it Dallas? 1:05:48.860 --> 1:05:51.460 In Dallas, Byron is standing up there and he was like, 1:05:51.480 --> 1:05:52.280 if you break. 1:05:52.120 --> 1:05:56.880 The law, you go to jail. When you was doing 1:05:56.900 --> 1:05:58.540 whatever you were doing, you got. 1:05:58.380 --> 1:05:59.500 A little slap on the wrist. 1:05:59.940 --> 1:06:02.260 When it comes time for you to consider what other 1:06:02.320 --> 1:06:05.230 young people that get caught up with the law for 1:06:05.290 --> 1:06:07.470 possession of marijuana or whatever. 1:06:07.490 --> 1:06:11.590 And most of those are individual, not going and scamming people, 1:06:11.670 --> 1:06:12.650 taking their money. 1:06:12.910 --> 1:06:14.110 But yes, but I'm just saying. 1:06:14.150 --> 1:06:16.970 No, I'm just simply saying to me, one does feel worse. 1:06:17.090 --> 1:06:20.070 I'm talking about what he said in the barbershop, not 1:06:20.110 --> 1:06:21.970 aligning with what he said on the stage of the. 1:06:21.950 --> 1:06:22.830 Republican National Commission. 1:06:23.050 --> 1:06:24.720 And not aligning with how he votes. 1:06:24.820 --> 1:06:27.120 Or with his own background. This is what I'm saying. 1:06:27.200 --> 1:06:29.960 Or with his own vote. He's a walking contradiction. 1:06:30.140 --> 1:06:31.980 Will the real Byron stand up? There was a song about. 1:06:31.840 --> 1:06:33.340 Him called Come a, Come a, Come a, Come a, 1:06:33.360 --> 1:06:35.280 Come a Chameleon. 1:06:35.300 --> 1:06:36.020 Yeah, yeah. 1:06:36.040 --> 1:06:37.300 So I didn't know that was the word that they 1:06:37.340 --> 1:06:38.740 were saying in that song. 1:06:39.370 --> 1:06:40.030 Oh, chameleon. 1:06:40.150 --> 1:06:40.790 I didn't know that. 1:06:40.810 --> 1:06:42.190 I was like, come on, come on, come on, come on. 1:06:42.190 --> 1:06:43.370 Anyway, y'all know I'm old now. 1:06:43.430 --> 1:06:44.850 I just turned 47 and that's what it is. 1:06:44.890 --> 1:06:46.070 You come and go. 1:06:46.110 --> 1:06:46.890 Yeah, come on. 1:06:46.930 --> 1:06:48.850 You come and go. But I said, I thought they 1:06:48.870 --> 1:06:49.970 were come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. 1:06:49.970 --> 1:06:51.320 We used to have to watch all the videos on MTV. 1:06:51.330 --> 1:06:52.070 We didn't have BET yet. 1:06:52.110 --> 1:06:54.050 What was chameleon? I'm not sure why I thought it 1:06:54.070 --> 1:06:55.610 was chameleon. That's what I thought the word was. 1:06:55.630 --> 1:06:57.610 That sounds nasty. Let's go to the next question. 1:06:57.640 --> 1:06:59.680 That's an STD. 1:06:59.740 --> 1:07:00.400 It does. 1:07:00.720 --> 1:07:03.400 It sounds like some sheet. I didn't cuss. 1:07:03.600 --> 1:07:04.700 The eight times I'm in trouble with it. 1:07:04.700 --> 1:07:05.100 Give me your minus. 1:07:06.940 --> 1:07:07.080 Yeah. 1:07:07.100 --> 1:07:08.260 The comment was that. 1:07:08.960 --> 1:07:11.300 And who was the commenter? Andrew's ready to look. 1:07:11.320 --> 1:07:12.840 He's ready to look. Give you a book. 1:07:13.020 --> 1:07:15.780 No, who was the commenter? I want to say give 1:07:15.800 --> 1:07:16.260 you some credit. 1:07:16.420 --> 1:07:18.300 No, she didn't want the credit. Andrew. 1:07:18.340 --> 1:07:19.020 Oh, they don't want the credit. 1:07:19.040 --> 1:07:23.050 The question was, the statement was, Florida just lost. 1:07:23.130 --> 1:07:24.390 And Andrew has a vision. 1:07:25.130 --> 1:07:25.510 It's lost. 1:07:25.530 --> 1:07:30.080 That's what I said. Florida is lost. What did I say? 1:07:30.430 --> 1:07:34.130 Well, that person is right where the Democratic Party is 1:07:34.330 --> 1:07:37.980 about their belief. of Florida nationally, that it is lost 1:07:38.020 --> 1:07:40.200 to them, that it is no longer accessible to them. 1:07:40.800 --> 1:07:42.680 The truth is, is that we have had a lot 1:07:42.700 --> 1:07:47.620 of migration into the state from conservative areas of this country, 1:07:47.740 --> 1:07:51.460 Ohio being one of them, where their retirees have made 1:07:51.760 --> 1:07:55.250 home in Florida. We also suffer from the problem because 1:07:55.270 --> 1:07:57.730 we have so many transplants that very few people are 1:07:57.770 --> 1:08:00.710 educating their kids in the state of Florida. They're coming 1:08:00.750 --> 1:08:03.439 down when their kids are gone and grown. So they're 1:08:03.480 --> 1:08:07.520 there to enjoy the beaches and the hotels and whatever else, casinos. 1:08:08.140 --> 1:08:11.130 But they're not interested in funding public education. They're not 1:08:11.170 --> 1:08:13.650 interested in funding public libraries. They don't access them. They're 1:08:13.690 --> 1:08:17.990 not interested necessarily in the state's parks and whatever system. 1:08:18.410 --> 1:08:21.270 They're interested in being on vacation until they tap out. 1:08:21.770 --> 1:08:24.700 So it's very hard to get people to invest in 1:08:24.740 --> 1:08:27.260 a state, believe in a state that they don't really 1:08:27.340 --> 1:08:29.960 even believe is their own. They treat it like they're 1:08:30.040 --> 1:08:30.760 on vacation. 1:08:30.760 --> 1:08:31.750 365. 1:08:31.750 --> 1:08:35.250 If I were in Georgia, you waking up every day 1:08:35.310 --> 1:08:38.110 and you are traveling the roads, you are going to work, 1:08:38.450 --> 1:08:41.820 you are, you know, you're living in the place and 1:08:42.340 --> 1:08:46.240 your success depends on the success of all of these 1:08:46.360 --> 1:08:50.540 other very critical, crucial systems. That's not how it is 1:08:50.600 --> 1:08:53.360 when you live in a state that largely attracts people 1:08:53.410 --> 1:08:56.930 there for, as a touristic destination and as a retirement 1:08:56.990 --> 1:08:59.970 place where again, they're not deeply invested. We have to 1:09:00.040 --> 1:09:01.500 start to shift some of that culture. It's not an 1:09:01.540 --> 1:09:04.380 impossible culture to change, but it is a much more 1:09:04.479 --> 1:09:08.160 expensive process of engagement. I've got to be engaged with 1:09:08.200 --> 1:09:12.760 you from the point you enter my state until you 1:09:12.780 --> 1:09:15.180 choose to tap out or you tap out. None of 1:09:15.200 --> 1:09:20.099 your choosing. And we just have not resourced our organizations, 1:09:20.920 --> 1:09:24.240 our party, our community-based organizations, and the way that they 1:09:24.280 --> 1:09:26.780 need to be resourced to be in touch with voters 1:09:27.040 --> 1:09:31.060 around the clock. Republicans have done that. Rick Scott pulled 1:09:31.100 --> 1:09:33.540 out money from his own pocket and built his own 1:09:33.960 --> 1:09:37.400 collection of movement. Jeb Bush, the remnants of what he 1:09:37.439 --> 1:09:40.840 built as governor still are evident in the state of Florida. 1:09:40.890 --> 1:09:45.309 His organizers, his precinct-level organizers, people trace their political involvement 1:09:45.370 --> 1:09:49.380 back to when he was governor. And the transformational job 1:09:49.400 --> 1:09:52.910 he did on empowering the office of governor and stripping 1:09:52.950 --> 1:09:55.110 power from other state officers. It's a long answer, but 1:09:55.130 --> 1:09:57.179 all I have to simply say is we cannot give up. 1:09:57.970 --> 1:10:01.190 When a state can go from electing Ron DeSantis one 1:10:01.250 --> 1:10:07.349 cycle by 17 points and then his first cycle by 1:10:07.350 --> 1:10:13.389 0.03 percent, That is a state that is still contestable, 1:10:13.850 --> 1:10:17.189 but we're still treating it like it is a non-contestable state. 1:10:17.510 --> 1:10:21.269 And even though Jolly came 100,000 whatever votes from Donald's, 1:10:21.450 --> 1:10:26.259 he's still 1% from the office of governor. One percentage point. 1:10:26.680 --> 1:10:29.060 So what does that cost us? What does it take 1:10:29.340 --> 1:10:31.240 to close that gap? If we're willing to make that 1:10:31.280 --> 1:10:34.320 investment inside of an election year, as well as outside 1:10:34.360 --> 1:10:36.440 of an election year, then we can talk. But the 1:10:36.470 --> 1:10:38.750 state's not lost. It's only as lost as we make it. 1:10:39.580 --> 1:10:42.679 Well, speaking of lost, we're just about lost of time. 1:10:42.840 --> 1:10:46.040 And so we're going to go to CTAs. Andrew, what's 1:10:46.060 --> 1:10:46.900 your CTA? 1:10:57.479 --> 1:10:58.440 Celebrate the win. 1:10:58.460 --> 1:10:59.220 Call to action. 1:10:59.300 --> 1:11:00.330 Okay. Celebrate the win. 1:11:00.340 --> 1:11:03.760 Celebrate the win for this moment because we all got PTSD. 1:11:04.689 --> 1:11:07.730 Everybody's head is on a swivel for when the next 1:11:07.930 --> 1:11:11.370 shoe is going to drop. And we've got a couple 1:11:11.390 --> 1:11:15.990 of more days of counting. Just take a beat for 1:11:16.020 --> 1:11:19.800 a minute and celebrate the win. And yes, I will 1:11:19.820 --> 1:11:21.800 be on here next week talking about it's time to 1:11:21.840 --> 1:11:24.720 get to work. I will. I'll join Angela in that 1:11:24.820 --> 1:11:29.939 moniker and Riley Cry. But today, we have been through 1:11:29.979 --> 1:11:32.660 a lot in these last two years. We have lost 1:11:32.880 --> 1:11:38.000 a lot. The trauma that is sitting, we're all vibrating today. 1:11:38.820 --> 1:11:41.700 Every day, just waiting for the shoe to drop from 1:11:41.720 --> 1:11:45.460 the White House to the State House to the mayor's 1:11:45.540 --> 1:11:51.090 city hall. So we've absorbed that. We let our voices 1:11:51.150 --> 1:11:55.870 be heard in the election yesterday. Congratulate yourself. Give yourself 1:11:55.950 --> 1:11:58.970 a little one day vacation because we're back to work tomorrow. 1:11:59.590 --> 1:12:03.830 But we'll do tomorrow's things on tomorrow. Today, we're going 1:12:03.870 --> 1:12:06.050 to do today's things. And I think we should celebrate 1:12:06.090 --> 1:12:06.349 the win. 1:12:07.150 --> 1:12:10.510 Well, last night, the legendary Ed Gordon, as we call him, 1:12:11.530 --> 1:12:14.900 challenged us with the fact that voting was just the 1:12:15.000 --> 1:12:18.840 easiest part. And now the work begins. And so unlike 1:12:18.880 --> 1:12:21.700 my brother, Andrew, I would say that our work begins today. 1:12:22.479 --> 1:12:25.610 The work been building bridges to someone who you ordinarily 1:12:25.650 --> 1:12:28.889 wouldn't work with, but understand that it's essential in order 1:12:28.930 --> 1:12:31.580 for us to get to the promised land. I think 1:12:31.640 --> 1:12:33.920 that our work begins today because we have to know 1:12:33.979 --> 1:12:36.500 who holds the levers of power and how we begin 1:12:36.520 --> 1:12:39.439 to influence them. The work begins today because the ways 1:12:39.500 --> 1:12:42.160 in which we used to engage will not work anymore. 1:12:42.630 --> 1:12:45.470 And so that means starting to build your list of 1:12:45.530 --> 1:12:47.990 who your members of Congress will be, where you think 1:12:48.030 --> 1:12:51.189 you can find influence, just like you visit City Hall, 1:12:51.250 --> 1:12:52.910 as Andrew just said, or you go to a school 1:12:52.930 --> 1:12:54.970 board meeting. You got to blow up these phones at 1:12:54.990 --> 1:13:03.090 202-224-3121 in Capitol Hill to reach the Senate. and the House, 202-224-3121. 1:13:03.390 --> 1:13:05.090 There is an agenda they're going to try to ram 1:13:05.110 --> 1:13:07.110 through at the end of this session. That is why 1:13:07.210 --> 1:13:10.210 the work begins today. So I would encourage you all 1:13:10.229 --> 1:13:14.210 to be clear about how Congress is moving. Your president 1:13:14.250 --> 1:13:16.059 is angry. We don't know what he's going to do 1:13:16.400 --> 1:13:18.580 as a result of that anger. And so we, too, 1:13:18.620 --> 1:13:20.540 need to be angry, but we also need to be 1:13:20.660 --> 1:13:23.940 clear and very focused on what our agenda will be 1:13:24.689 --> 1:13:26.679 The State of the People came out with black papers. 1:13:27.420 --> 1:13:29.220 Those black papers are now out. 1:13:29.320 --> 1:13:33.060 I encourage you to use that as your foundation for 1:13:33.439 --> 1:13:35.760 an agenda going forward. I would encourage you to take 1:13:35.840 --> 1:13:39.150 the Black Census created by Black Futures Lab to make 1:13:39.189 --> 1:13:42.330 sure that you have your own say in our agenda 1:13:42.370 --> 1:13:44.810 and whatever one you choose to build yourself. But at 1:13:44.850 --> 1:13:46.950 the end of the day, you all know that at 1:13:47.010 --> 1:13:50.110 Native Land Pod, you are always welcome home. And we 1:13:50.150 --> 1:13:53.050 encourage you to come home with your work. We want 1:13:53.060 --> 1:13:55.210 to hear from you all what your agenda items are, 1:13:55.630 --> 1:13:59.110 how we can continue to work together. And I'm so 1:13:59.170 --> 1:14:01.450 pleased to be able to do that with my brother, 1:14:01.610 --> 1:14:03.940 Andrew Gillum, and our brother. 1:14:03.610 --> 1:14:05.439 In his absence, Bakari Sellers. 1:14:05.540 --> 1:14:08.500 As always, we want to remind everyone to leave us 1:14:08.580 --> 1:14:10.720 a review and subscribe to Native Lamb Pod. 1:14:10.760 --> 1:14:13.470 Thank y'all for joining us live. I enjoyed the live moment. 1:14:13.510 --> 1:14:14.030 It's a vibe. 1:14:14.530 --> 1:14:17.450 We're available on all podcast platforms and YouTube. You can 1:14:17.530 --> 1:14:21.970 follow us on social media and Substack or check out NativeLandPod.com. 1:14:22.030 --> 1:14:23.230 If for whatever. 1:14:22.870 --> 1:14:26.070 Reason you were crazy enough to miss the people's election 1:14:26.130 --> 1:14:28.229 night last night, you're going to want to run this 1:14:28.270 --> 1:14:28.760 thing back. 1:14:28.920 --> 1:14:31.420 It was truly incredible. Well done. 1:14:31.460 --> 1:14:34.479 Shout out to Fat Joe. Shout out to Ed Gordon. 1:14:34.500 --> 1:14:37.220 Shout out to Janae Nelson. All of the incredible work 1:14:37.240 --> 1:14:39.339 that lawyers all over the country were doing to protect 1:14:39.740 --> 1:14:42.380 us at the polls. To Ellie Mistow, who told y'all 1:14:42.640 --> 1:14:43.850 they got dog walked. 1:14:44.550 --> 1:14:44.929 To Mr. 1:14:44.970 --> 1:14:48.689 Clyburn, who joined us virtually, former Attorney General Eric Holder, 1:14:48.990 --> 1:14:55.870 all of our partners, ActBlue, SEIU, Working Families Party, NAACP, SoVote, 1:14:56.250 --> 1:14:58.590 whoever else I didn't name, Lola, I know. 1:14:59.350 --> 1:15:01.889 Who is it? Color Change. Nadine Smith, who also joined 1:15:01.930 --> 1:15:02.470 us on set. 1:15:02.770 --> 1:15:05.370 Thank you so much. Maria Teresa Kumar, who I hadn't 1:15:05.390 --> 1:15:06.670 seen in forever, joined us. 1:15:06.790 --> 1:15:10.110 Adrian Carrasquillo. Kevin. 1:15:11.330 --> 1:15:14.420 Here's now with Kevin. All of our friends and partners 1:15:14.460 --> 1:15:16.840 who came through. We are so grateful for each of you. 1:15:17.200 --> 1:15:19.820 Make sure that you check it out last night. It 1:15:19.840 --> 1:15:22.980 was really, really good. 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