For better or for worse, it's not the sort of thing you can fake. There's no substitute, no alternative, no replacement. But without it, political parties of any and all stripes have learned again and again, perhaps some more recently than others, that without genuine grassroots enthusiasm, authentic excitement among the vast majority of your voters electorally, you are toast. So, you can understand why Democrats are starting to feel like they've got their mojo back today. The wind back in their sales thank ...

Donald Trump, if you're watching, if you're listening, the American people are hurting and they want us to move forward and make sure that we restore their healthcare. They It's not sustainable for people. I'm literally seeing people come up to me in my state crying, saying, "Help us. " I had a letter from a woman and she said, "These are supposed to be our golden years. " And at the end of the letter, she said, "I'm a Republican, so this isn't even partisan.They they are literally hurting everyone right. ...

her speakerhip is in such a stark contrast to Mike Johnson's current speakerhip where she would always like to remind people that article one came before article 2 for a reason that Congress was supposed to be a co-equal branch of government and it was supposed to be a check and I think she took that role very seriously not just as speaker but part of a deliberative body which she really understood to be critical to the functioning of our democracy and to currently have a speaker who so often is conceding p ...

They don't care what your political label is. And Donald Trump demonstrated that there were Democrats who voted for I mean I remind people Alexandria Okaziocortez who is really along with Bernie Sanders the the titular leader of the so-called democratic socialist movement in America won in a district in which Donald Trump won. People split their ticket when they voted for her.They voted for Donald Trump for president and Alexander Okaziocortez, a Democratic socialist for their representative because both Do ...

Donald Trump has been bad for Republicans. I mean, morally, uh, but to begin with, but actually politically. I mean, 2016, he eaked out electoral college win, but then Republicans lost 40 plus seats, tons of local offices in 2018.A whole bunch of state houses flipped. In 2020, Trump lost in by four and a half points, right. A one-term president.He's been an albatross for down ballot Republican races when he is not on the ticket. Like in 2022 when everyone was predicting the big wet red wave and remember Rep ...

and Democratic Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware. >> Senator, um I think Tuesday showed a lot of things, but one of the takeaways I had is that voters um are exhausted by the chaos in politics and they do prefer um candidates and and issues that are just clear and speaking directly to what is affecting them in their lives. Prices, flights, SNAP, affordability. So, uh let's just put the reduction map, the FAA reduction flight map up on the screen for folks. um everywhere from Anchorage. I mean, I want ...

Today, Nancy Pelosi announced that she's retiring after nearly four decades in office at the end of her term. Here's the heartfelt message from the first woman Speaker of the House to her constituents. I say to my colleagues in the house all the time, no matter what title they have bestowed upon me, speaker, leader, whip, there has been no greater honor for me than to stand on the House floor and say I speak for the people of San Francisco.The timing of this is incredible, right. a huge win on Tuesday for C ...

it. This is bigger than just the people being targeted. This goes back to a running theme that we frankly talk about on this show is that the president is weaponizing law enforcement and using it as a way to crush descent, punish his enemies, like insert whatever explanation you want, but the law enforcement apparatus is now becoming a tool that the president and his allies believe that they can use rather than just being tethered strictly to the law.Do I have that right. >> Yes. I mean, look, uh, we it's a ...

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We are tracking this Democratic sweep which began pretty early on Tuesday night, but it's been sinking in now quickly. Democrats winning double-digit blowouts that cannot be spun away here on planet Earth in reality. And while Donald Trump has led a party that has at times lied and denied about its own election losses in the past, sometimes so unlawfully that allies ultimately paid out hundreds of millions of dollars for their election lies.This sweep that began Tuesday is so clear and decisive that MAGA le ...