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[00:00:07] of
[00:00:24] a and good
[00:00:28] evening,
[00:00:28] it is prime time here in the... United States, thanks for watching America Now, I'm Ben
[00:00:32] Swan. Tonight we continue our special coverage
[00:00:34] of the US mid-term
[00:00:37] a of elections, because tonight, America has spoken, the votes have come in,
[00:00:40] and what
[00:00:41] of we have seen is nothing
[00:00:42] a short of a political earthquake. Some are calling it a blue wave, others
[00:00:46] a blue tsunami, whatever you want to call it, the result is the same,
[00:00:50] democrats have taken control of both the house and the senate as well as
[00:00:54] governors mansions across the country, and they've done it by breaking
[00:00:58] through in states that Republicans have. counted on for decades, this
[00:01:02] was not just a bad night for the GOP, it could go down
[00:01:05] as the party's worst election night since
[00:01:09] watergate, and to understand just how big this shift is,
[00:01:12] look at where things changed. Democrats
[00:01:16] of actually flip seats in Texas and in North Carolina and
[00:01:20] in South
[00:01:20] of Carolina, and in
[00:01:21] of Ohio, in and Kansas and Iowa and Maine. They also won governorships and made
[00:01:26] of major gains in states that have been Republican strongholds for years.
[00:01:30] but two results stand out above the rest, South
[00:01:33] Carolina and Texas. Let's start out in South Carolina. This is a state
[00:01:37] that Donald Trump carried by nearly 18 points just two years ago, and
[00:01:40] Republicans have won every single US senate election there since
[00:01:44] 1998. That streak is now over. Democrat
[00:01:48] Annie Andrews, pediatrician with no previous elected office. She defeated
[00:01:52] Republican Darline Graham, the sister
[00:01:56] of of the late Senator Lindsaygram, who was appointed to fill his seat after his death. And this
[00:02:00] wasn't just another senate pickup. President Trump backed Graham.
[00:02:04] Republican group spent millions trying to hold to that seat, and still voters
[00:02:08] chose democrat in one
[00:02:09] of the reddest states in the
[00:02:11] of country. Andrews also makes history as the first woman elected to represent South
[00:02:15] Carolina in the United States Senate.
[00:02:19] You have shown the nation what is
[00:02:21] possible.
[00:02:25] You have shown the nation that in
[00:02:28] a this
[00:02:29] of era of partisan. divides, vitrial and name
[00:02:32] calling,
[00:02:34] of in a politics dominated by billionaires and special interest groups
[00:02:38] and insiders in Washington DC that we will
[00:02:41] of not bow down. But if South Carolina was a
[00:02:45] shock, what happened in Texas was a political collapse for
[00:02:49] the Republican Party. Look, for more than three decades, Republicans have dominated
[00:02:53] state-wide politics in Texas. No Democrat had won a statewide election there since
[00:02:57] 1994, the last democrat to
[00:02:59] in win tex. his senate election did so in
[00:03:02] 1988 and the last democrat
[00:03:04] of elected governor, that was Ann Richards back in 1990. That's more than
[00:03:08] three and a half decades of Republican control, and in one
[00:03:12] election democrats actually broke through James Talorico defeating
[00:03:16] Republican Kin
[00:03:17] of of Paxton for that US senate seat. Also Gina Inosa defeated the
[00:03:21] three-term governor Greg Abbot to become the first democratic governor of Texas
[00:03:25] in more than 30 years and again it didn't stop there.
[00:03:28] a Democrats swept the major state wide. races in Texas including Lieutenant
[00:03:31] Governor, the attorney general, they made gains in congressional and local
[00:03:35] races. To be clear, this was not a close call, it
[00:03:39] was
[00:03:39] a rejection of a political machine that had controlled Texas for
[00:03:43] a generation. In this race, we
[00:03:47] went up against our own
[00:03:51] of Goliaths. The richest man in the
[00:03:55] world, the most powerful
[00:03:57] of man in the world, and the entire Washington. DC
[00:04:00] establishment, David, David
[00:04:04] wasn't as big or as strong as Goliath, he didn't have
[00:04:08] as many weapons, but he
[00:04:10] of had hope, he had faith, and he
[00:04:13] had
[00:04:15] of slingshot, of you
[00:04:17] of were of my slingshot, and look, Texas matters
[00:04:21] for another reason, republicans have long counted on that state as the
[00:04:25] foundation
[00:04:26] of their
[00:04:26] of national electoral strategy. Keep in mind, this is one
[00:04:29] of the biggest state. in the country, it is major source of republican votes in
[00:04:33] presidential elections where the electoral college comes into play. It's
[00:04:37] been a place where the GoP could expect, and they knew they
[00:04:40] could, every time to win statewide. That
[00:04:44] of assumption is now in question, and the consequences here
[00:04:46] in go of well beyond the governor seat or a Senate seat. Texas and South Carolina
[00:04:50] though, they're not alone. Democrats also picked up senate seats in Kansas, in
[00:04:54] Iowa, in Ohio, in North
[00:04:56] a Carolina and in Maine. Across the country Republicans, they lost.
[00:05:02] a
[00:05:05] of
[00:05:12] with all of my distinguished colleagues in
[00:05:15] leadership right after this
[00:05:19] stunning rebuke of mega extremism
[00:05:23] and a great night for the American people. Mike
[00:05:26] Johnson was correct. The
[00:05:30] polls were wrong. It
[00:05:33] wasn't simply a blue wave, it was an
[00:05:37] American tsunami. You know, calling
[00:05:41] it a blue tsunami. an understatement, it brings us though to the bigger question
[00:05:44] of what happens now, because this election doesn't just change the
[00:05:48] color the map, it changes who has power in Washington and in
[00:05:52] state legislatures and in governor's mansions again across the
[00:05:56] nation. Democrats, they are going to control both chambers of Congress at this point, and
[00:06:00] that means they can block much of President Trump's legislative
[00:06:03] agenda, they can control the committee process, they can hold hearings, they can
[00:06:07] investigate the administration, and they can put real pressure on the White House, and
[00:06:11] tonight, the President knows it, just congratulations
[00:06:15] to the democrats, they did a good job, they've been looking for this one for
[00:06:19] 11 years and they finally got it, but I don't view it
[00:06:22] as a hit on me, I think we've done a we've had the greatest two
[00:06:26] years in the history the presidency, okay,
[00:06:30] president is saying that it's not a hit on him, maybe that's true because
[00:06:34] technically his name wasn't on the ballot, but let's be honest here,
[00:06:38] he made this election about him, and the election was about him, we've told you for...
[00:06:42] that he campaign across the country, endorsing candidates, he told republicans to
[00:06:46] vote as if he were on the ballot, and now when the results are in, he
[00:06:50] says, this really wasn't a defeat for him, remember he was doing that, and
[00:06:54] as he was doing it, he ignored what voters were most concerned
[00:06:58] about, the economy, the cost of living, gas prices,
[00:07:01] grocery prices, the war with Iran, and now the
[00:07:05] Democrats have control of Congress, but remember the president still has the power the
[00:07:09] veto, he still has broad authority over foreign policy. we're going
[00:07:13] to talk more about that coming up in our next hour, but regardless, right now,
[00:07:16] trump says, maybe everybody can hold hands and get along, with the
[00:07:20] democrats, unless they want to be destructive, but they have the power the veto,
[00:07:24] so if we don't like what they're doing or the they've already called and they want
[00:07:28] to talk about things and that's fine, and look, only time will
[00:07:32] tell if that is true, but what is a certainty tonight is that Trump is going to
[00:07:36] face much more hostile congress for the next two years and
[00:07:39] the democrats now have responsibility their own se "they ran on
[00:07:43] affordability and healthcare and accountability and checking the power
[00:07:47] the White House,
[00:07:48] and now it's time to show the voters that they can deliver on those
[00:07:51] promises. All right, let's continue our coverage these results that are
[00:07:55] coming in with reports coming out of Texas, American House, Rachel Blevins was there for that
[00:07:59] historic upset last night, and she filed this report for us from the
[00:08:03] ground. The 2026 mid-term
[00:08:06] elections have concluded, and here in the state of Texas democrats
[00:08:10] have seen the blue wave that they..." have been pushing for for
[00:08:14] years now, for the first time in nearly 40 years, the state of
[00:08:18] Texas will have democratic senator, that is of
[00:08:22] course James Talorico, he was previously a state representative here
[00:08:26] in Texas, and he went up against attorney general Ken
[00:08:30] Paxton, and he won, that's despite polls in recent
[00:08:34] weeks showing raisor thin margins between the two candidates, but
[00:08:38] Texans, they got out and they voted, specifically in the
[00:08:42] early... election, we saw a Texas State Record
[00:08:45] broken with 7.7 million ballots cast
[00:08:49] before we had even made it to election day. I'm so
[00:08:53] grateful for that opportunity, I'm so grateful for
[00:08:56] the support I've had, the friendships I've developed, this is a great state, it has,
[00:08:59] it has the greatest people, and I've been so blessed
[00:09:03] to be a part of that and to have the opportunity to try to do the
[00:09:07] best I could to do good for
[00:09:09] Texas. We were the... dogs
[00:09:12] in this race, we went up against nearly 40 years
[00:09:16] of doubt and disillusionment, we went up against
[00:09:20] more than $300 million dollars, more than any senate campaign
[00:09:24] in American history. We went up
[00:09:28] against all the negative ads, smear campaigns, foreign bots and AI
[00:09:31] deep fakes that money can buy, those those
[00:09:35] attacks were the final hows of
[00:09:38] dying establishment, and it wasn't just the...
[00:09:42] Tala Rico race, it was also notably the race for the
[00:09:46] governor of Texas, as you had governor Greg Abbot, who
[00:09:50] was fighting for fourth term going up against State
[00:09:54] Representative, Democrat, Gina Ina Hosa. She
[00:09:57] notably also won a resounding victory
[00:10:01] for the Democrats and she will be the first Democratic
[00:10:04] governor in the state of Texas in 32
[00:10:08] years. The voters have delivered a mandate for
[00:10:12] change. and it is changed they
[00:10:15] will
[00:10:16] yes.
[00:10:27] We will lead with a politics of courage, not
[00:10:30] convenience. Progress will not be halted by
[00:10:34] partisanship, and Texas will bow down to no
[00:10:38] one. Now, President Trump came out on social media, and he said
[00:10:41] that if he was the one on the ballot, then it would be a landslide
[00:10:45] victory for the Republicans, but this race was in many ways
[00:10:49] an indictment of Trump and his second term in office,
[00:10:53] as you had people like the... Republicans, Ken Paxton, the attorney
[00:10:57] general, and Greg Abbot, the governor of Texas. They have been very
[00:11:01] closely tied with Trump. They had his endorsement in
[00:11:05] this race, and they fell short as result of
[00:11:08] it. Reporting in Dallas, Texas, for American now, I'm
[00:11:12] Richel Blovens. All right, moving across the country now to the state of
[00:11:16] Michigan where we saw major political shift take place there as well.
[00:11:19] Democrat Abdul Al- Saied has defeated Republican Mike Rogers,
[00:11:23] becoming the first ever Muslim American elected to the US senate.
[00:11:27] American House Jalissa Dugro has more on those results from Detroit and
[00:11:31] also news from race out of Florida. Ben the
[00:11:35] results are in and we can project that Democrat Abdullah Said has
[00:11:39] won Michigan's open US senate seat. Defeating a Republican
[00:11:42] Mike Rogers and race watched closely for control the chamber
[00:11:46] asides victory keeps this open seat in the Democratic column
[00:11:50] after one the most expensive and intensively watched senate
[00:11:53] contests in the... so to get here, Ellisid had to overcome
[00:11:57] immense obstacles from within his own party and across the
[00:12:01] aisle, defending his progressive healthcare and environmental agenda
[00:12:05] against intense criticism, surviving late race intraparty divisions
[00:12:09] and mobilizing a massive grassroots ground operation to
[00:12:12] drive critical turnout in Wayne, Oakland and Washington Counties.
[00:12:16] Here's Abdull after his win. My
[00:12:18] name is Abdul Rahman
[00:12:22] Muhammad.
[00:12:29] "and I am so proud and honored to stand
[00:12:32] here as your senator elect from the great state of
[00:12:35] Michigan. So the wind caps two very different paths to
[00:12:39] November. El Saiad battled his way through a bruising multi-million
[00:12:42] dollar Democratic primary against Representative Haley Stevens and State
[00:12:46] Senator Mallary Mcmarrow narrowly edging out Stevens by a single
[00:12:50] point in August before immediately pivoting to unify the
[00:12:54] coalition." Rogers, on the other hand, secured the GoP
[00:12:57] nomination unopposed with President Donald Trump's backing, allowing him to
[00:13:01] bank valuable resources quite early, but ultimately facing the headwinds
[00:13:05] of sagging White House approval, ratings down the stretch
[00:13:08] overall. A decisive victory tonight in Michigan for sure that
[00:13:12] provides major lift for senate democrats
[00:13:14] nationwide. And we can project
[00:13:18] that Republican Byron Donald has won Florida's Gouber National Race,
[00:13:22] defeating Democrat David Jolly a... has closely watched
[00:13:26] as a barometer for the sunshine states political future. Donald's
[00:13:29] victory keeps the governor's mention firmly in Republican hands as he
[00:13:33] succeeds term-limited governor Ron desantes. while making
[00:13:37] history as lord is first black governor, and he wasn't the only republican
[00:13:41] celebrating at the top the ticket tonight, incumbent Republican US
[00:13:44] senator. Ashley Moody also won her race, turning back a challenge
[00:13:48] from Democrat Angie Nixon to retain her seat to get
[00:13:52] here. Donald's had to navigate a tumolt. path induring
[00:13:56] bitter personal attacks and primary challenges from within the
[00:14:00] conservative ranks confronting intense scrutiny over
[00:14:03] skyrocking property insurance and housing costs and
[00:14:06] mobilizing a massive base turnout across southwest florida
[00:14:10] and the pan handle and to fed off jolly's
[00:14:13] coalition. here's Byron Donalds after his historic win. the
[00:14:17] second call that I received tonight
[00:14:21] was from the President the United States Donald J. Trump.
[00:14:30] "Mr. President, I want you to hear from Florida that we
[00:14:34] are still red. Back to you, Ben. All right,
[00:14:38] and moving to Georgia, because Georgia also made history last night.
[00:14:42] Democrat Keisha Lansbottoms defeat of Republican Rick Jackson to become the
[00:14:45] first black woman elected governor, not just in Georgia, in
[00:14:49] the entire United States and the first Democrat to win the governor's race in
[00:14:53] Georgia since 19'. '98, the history doesn't stop there.
[00:14:57] Democrat John has also won re-election securing another term in the US
[00:15:01] senate. American house Olivia Flynn has more tonight from
[00:15:04] Atlanta. We're here in
[00:15:07] Atlanta, Georgia, we where we have been covering one the closest watch senate
[00:15:11] races during this election period, and here in Atlanta
[00:15:15] it has been John Ossof for the Democratic side versus Mike
[00:15:19] Collins on the Republican side, and although John Asof has had a strong
[00:15:23] lead over 10 points in the polls'. that that is what transpired in the votes
[00:15:27] as well, we have seen tonight that he has won the Senate
[00:15:31] seat um again here for Georgia, whereas Mike Collins was
[00:15:35] hoping to flip that seat for the Republicans. um and following
[00:15:38] that blue wave we also have Keisha Lance bottoms who has won the governor
[00:15:42] seat for Georgia, so it has been what has turned in here at the high
[00:15:46] regions where we have been all night from a watch party into a victory
[00:15:50] party for lot of Georgiance, tonight in Georgia, we've
[00:15:53] proven not just that unity is possible, but that
[00:15:57] we can overcome division without sacrificing clarity of
[00:16:00] purpose. In every corner of Georgia, this
[00:16:04] campaign urged the necessity of banning corporate and money from
[00:16:08] politics, of American leadership for peace and human rights around
[00:16:12] the world, and of guaranteeing health care for every
[00:16:15] single American. And to wrap up the evening here with
[00:16:19] a win for Kisha Lance Bottoms, the first female
[00:16:23] black governor of Georgia and the first black governor in general in
[00:16:26] general for Georgia, so this is not only a win for the Democrats on that side, but
[00:16:30] this is a historic moment as well, and she aligns fully with what John
[00:16:34] Osaf has pushed with healthcare and affordability. and
[00:16:38] trying to push back on what the Trump administration has wanted
[00:16:42] and really giving the life that Georgian's want here, but again,
[00:16:46] this is on
[00:16:47] the democratic side for what they have been pushing, but this is a win and this is what she had to say
[00:16:50] about that, but I vividly recall those rare
[00:16:54] days when my grandmother didn't ride the bus home from her job
[00:16:58] at Davidson's department store in Linux Square mall
[00:17:02] and the excitement I had when my mother would pick her up from
[00:17:05] work and the most... exciting part of that
[00:17:09] drive for me was passing the governor's
[00:17:11] mansion. i remember looking at it as we
[00:17:15] drove by and saying i want to go in there one
[00:17:18] day.
[00:17:24] so as you can see it has been a wave of blue tonight
[00:17:28] here in Atlanta Georgia and it'll be really interesting to see how this
[00:17:32] advances the national policies, the agenda within
[00:17:36] the administration and how... This is going to change really the narrative not only
[00:17:40] in Georgia but throughout America, so here in Atlanta
[00:17:43] Georgia for America now. All right, to break all this
[00:17:47] down, I'm joined now tonight by panel of guests, we have the host of America first, Scottiannel
[00:17:51] Hues joining us from Washington DC tonight and former US Marine and
[00:17:55] host of Jim Web pod podcast, excuse me, Jim Web, great to have
[00:17:59] you guys here uh,
[00:18:00] so already today, I'm sure you guys have been all over X and seeing all the responses
[00:18:04] right, everyone's blaming everyone else lot of finger. pointing, but let's start Scotty
[00:18:08] with, let's start with what the president said and the Vice President JD Vance, I mean today I think there was
[00:18:12] at least level of honesty from JD Vance who came out and said, the biggest thing is
[00:18:16] Iran, the the war with Iran is the biggest reason we lost this uh,
[00:18:20] it was a failure on our part in terms of recognizing that the American
[00:18:24] people were not being listened to and felt
[00:18:27] like too many resources went to that, and later on Trump said, yeah I
[00:18:31] agree with it, but then he also doubled down and said, but I'd do
[00:18:34] it again if I had to do it again.
[00:18:38] Ben, whether it was self-preservation or true honesty and caring for the future the
[00:18:42] Republican Party, J.D. Vance hit the nail on this the head this morning
[00:18:46] seven hours ago when he released what I consider to be a Jerry Maguire moment
[00:18:50] and where he was fully transparent and very honest uh now
[00:18:53] there was a couple things that he left out I think that also might have been factors that people thought
[00:18:57] about uh when they went into that election booth, but the reality of
[00:18:59] it is he broke it down very simply, four reasons why
[00:19:03] Republicans lost last night and that was in the war was number one, two, focus
[00:19:07] on of living inflation, three, put America first, and four,
[00:19:10] change our relationship to Israel, and in the last seven hours you have
[00:19:14] watched jay literally be torn to shred by the
[00:19:18] neocons have easily identified themselves, the ones that uh, I
[00:19:22] actually put the blame on for this this blue wave that happened, the ones that helped
[00:19:26] get John McCain and Mitt Romney as the political leadership the Republican
[00:19:29] Party 10 years ago, and so you are seeing them trying
[00:19:33] because this transparency is so rare in Washington DC, you are
[00:19:37] seeing them tried to literally tear Jay Vance apart for this, but I think this
[00:19:41] right here will be a changing moment, defining moment with this document, with this
[00:19:44] x-post uh by JD Vance, yeah, I think it's very interesting that he put that
[00:19:48] out, Jim, one the things that I have seen across kind
[00:19:52] the, I guess Twitter sphere, or I guess it's X-sphere, now it's not even
[00:19:56] Twitter, but across that sphere, whatever it is, uh, there
[00:20:00] is also a neocon wing that they're claiming,
[00:20:04] no, no, no, the real reason that Republicans last night last night is because Trump
[00:20:08] didn't go far enough, if he had finished the
[00:20:11] job then Americans would have been happy. I don't even think that's
[00:20:15] a level of tone deafness, that's almost just trying to project, we just
[00:20:19] want to keep this thing going, and we're unwilling to accept
[00:20:23] defeat on this particular issue, the issue that actually cost these
[00:20:27] historic wins. Yeah, absolutely, and I've been digging into the
[00:20:30] data on this, and when you take a look at who voted, how they
[00:20:34] voted, and the rational behind it, 74%. voters called it a
[00:20:38] crucial Iran that is crucial or major factor
[00:20:42] in casting their vote and Democrats won approximately 62%
[00:20:46] of those who said it was major and 70%
[00:20:50] of those who said it was crucial and within that 62% of
[00:20:53] people said that using force against Iran was the
[00:20:57] absolute wrong decision and this shows up all over the place now there's
[00:21:01] a couple different ways you can break this down the most obvious one within this election
[00:21:05] cycle is the voting patterns or are the voting patterns outside
[00:21:09] of US military installations if you go to Riley County Kansas uh
[00:21:13] which was considered to be reach in terms
[00:21:16] of who was going to come out of that that went overwhelmingly blue
[00:21:20] Colorado's fifth district, which is where Fort Carson is, it's the headquarters the Air
[00:21:24] Force Academy of Norrad, once again, reach and
[00:21:28] that shows democrat leading with more than 70% the votes in,
[00:21:32] also look no further than places where the locations
[00:21:36] of Fort Brag, North Carolina are, Camp Lee, Hampton Roads
[00:21:39] area of Virginia, these places in North Carolina for the first time that I
[00:21:43] can remember, aren't called yet for Republicans and there's only a couple of districts in
[00:21:47] North Carolina that are are called and they are
[00:21:51] democrat owned districts, and you can't understate the
[00:21:55] impact of this. One thing I do find amusing though is the sudden
[00:21:59] scramble by J.D. Vance to own the terrain
[00:22:03] of being against this war when he's been on the inside the entire time. He was on the
[00:22:07] inside the entire time, though there have been reports, I don't know if it's true reports
[00:22:11] that he was one the few people who was actually pushing against it, so much so they
[00:22:15] didn't allow him to be at Marilago the night when those uh
[00:22:18] attacks were first launched. Suzy Wiles had him stay in in DC with Telsey
[00:22:22] Gabbard where he wouldn't be able to influence a president, not sure how all that shakes out, and
[00:22:26] maybe he is just positioning as well. Matt Walsh,
[00:22:30] Scotty, last night during the coverage over on the Daily Wire, I got to
[00:22:33] mention he said something that that's getting lot of play this morning,
[00:22:37] um, he says, about Iran and the nuclear weapon, he said,
[00:22:41] honestly, I, I don't even care if Iran has nuclear weapon, I would
[00:22:45] rather Iran have nuclear weapon than communists
[00:22:49] control the government.
[00:22:50] in the United States and I was like, okay, first of all, I don't know how long Matt Walls will be allowed to
[00:22:53] state the Daily Wire, but assuming that he that he
[00:22:57] does, there are a lot of Americans who feel that way, lot of
[00:23:01] Americans who say, we would rather uh, turn
[00:23:05] this country over to people here who maybe should not be in in these
[00:23:08] positions of power, then to continue this kind of nonsense, because it's
[00:23:12] nonsense, this war with Iran is fake war based a
[00:23:16] nuclear weapon that did not exist, and the president keeps doubling down, but got
[00:23:20] to stop him and I do it again because it's important, history will prove that I was
[00:23:24] right, it won't prove you were right, you were fantastically wrong, and you've got to
[00:23:28] accept that you were wrong and realize that that what has shifted in
[00:23:31] states like Texas and Georgia and South Carolina and all over the
[00:23:35] political map, this is devastating for Republicans if they
[00:23:39] do not repent and change
[00:23:41] course, and that right there, and maybe I'm I'm an optimist on
[00:23:45] this spin, but I think that right there, it was almost guaranteed,
[00:23:50] that the Republicans are going to lose the White House in 2028, that that path we were on
[00:23:54] it. This right here
[00:23:55] I think gives Republicans the chance to course correct
[00:23:58] and savage and salvage 2028, if they don't
[00:24:02] course correct, I mean here's one demographic, yesterday, the Republicans
[00:24:06] lost the white males, white males, not only the older ones,
[00:24:10] but the younger generation, those are crucial, that is demographic
[00:24:14] that for sure gets out and votes, when you lose the white male as
[00:24:18] republican, you know that. you are on the wrong, the wrong path,
[00:24:22] and it took something as dramatic as yesterday to sit here and
[00:24:26] make Mike Johnson say, I'm not going to run as a minority leader, I'm going to let Jim Jordan
[00:24:30] take over. We are seeing the shift at the people that have given bad
[00:24:33] advice step - to the side, um, and you're starting to see the
[00:24:37] dominant voices, the more sane voices, the what do they call them pantakins,
[00:24:41] um, the panikins were right, and and they tried to warn, but this was, like
[00:24:45] I said, this was the Hail Mary, while this will affect these states like Texas for generations
[00:24:49] in their local leg. 's that that switched over, I think overall in
[00:24:52] 2028
[00:24:53] this was the best opportunity the Republicans have to be able to hold to
[00:24:57] 2028 in the overall office
[00:24:58] and obviously Jim, I mean a lot these states could bounce back and all of sudden in the next
[00:25:02] election cycle you could see republicans take back some of this stuff, but not
[00:25:06] if they remain the party the neocon, and maybe there
[00:25:09] is one really beautiful silver lining to all this, which is
[00:25:13] that 2026 may be the date on the tombstone the neocon
[00:25:17] where you officially say if you are ne on, you can't win anymore,
[00:25:21] because to your point, Scotty, you're you've lost white males, if
[00:25:25] you've lost young white males, the only thing you have left or maybe some
[00:25:28] boomers, that's about it, and they're all dying off anyways, so you
[00:25:32] you know each election cycle, there are fewer and fewer them, um,
[00:25:36] but maybe you can't win anymore like this, and if that's the
[00:25:39] case, that gives me some hope for the future, because it
[00:25:42] requires that the Republican party, it requires that it
[00:25:46] become different party as we were promised it was becoming, the
[00:25:50] last couple of election cycles, absolutely, and
[00:25:53] hopefully this is the deathnell the neocons. i am agreement with you on
[00:25:57] that 150% if that's even humanly possible, however
[00:26:01] i will give them some credit. "they've managed to kind of infiltrate and sneak
[00:26:05] around and stay relevant
[00:26:06] for very, very long time, but one the uh misnumers I think
[00:26:10] about this is what they're saying is the death of maga. I've always considered
[00:26:14] it to be America first, first and foremost, um, and when you take a
[00:26:18] look at who has won elections going
[00:26:22] back to George Bush in 2000, it is always somebody out there
[00:26:26] with a populist message talking about, in his
[00:26:30] case, not being the world's policeman and..." in 2008 Barack Obama
[00:26:34] was going to bring the troops home, um, 2016, no more stupid
[00:26:37] wars, 2024, it was Camala Harris is
[00:26:41] going to bring us World War II, they don't want intervention, uh, they don't want their sons and
[00:26:45] daughters to continue to go and fight, these are the people who send their kids
[00:26:49] over and over again, and they are a very well-aligned
[00:26:53] block within whatever party they choose, and they fluctuate back
[00:26:57] and forth to the policies that benefit them, and to the people
[00:27:01] who seem like at least. said they're going to honor their promises and when they're
[00:27:04] betrayed as they were last night or or in this last two years
[00:27:08] they show up and they go the opposite direction and they can come back with the
[00:27:12] right message. well i think i think the hope Scotty very quickly is
[00:27:16] is that there is consequence and we haven't actually seen
[00:27:20] that at the ballot box a long time. we haven't seen Americans show up and say, "you know
[00:27:23] what, if you lie to us and you betray us, we're going to punish you." lot of
[00:27:27] times politicians get into this habit where they just get away with it, and last night you didn't get
[00:27:31] away with it. Well real quick, I've got to ask Ben buse you've watched these and I've
[00:27:35] got to ask the other panelist, what is different from the Democrats message that
[00:27:39] they sold on this campaign trail from what the Republicans sold in 2024? Tell me
[00:27:43] what issue that they said was different from what the Republican talking points
[00:27:47] were? all they did was regurritate them, can you think of anything? no,
[00:27:51] there's not a there's not a single issue that the democrats brought forward, in fact I would
[00:27:55] say they were less specific that the Republican message in 2024 was
[00:27:59] actually better message because it was very specific, the question is: is
[00:28:02] that will democrats be able to govern at all? i don't think
[00:28:06] they necessarily will be, we'll say how it plays out, unfortunately we're out of
[00:28:10] time, scotty huge and Jim Webb, thank you guys so much for coming on and talking about
[00:28:14] this, thank you, absolutely anyt. all right,
[00:28:18] now that is american out for now, i'm ben swan, for more stories, visit our website
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[00:28:28] everything.
[00:29:07] I've spent years in conversations beyond
[00:29:10] borders, some were
[00:29:13] formal, some tense, some
[00:29:16] difficult, but all them
[00:29:20] mattered, they chartered
[00:29:23] India's path and how the world
[00:29:27] responded, foreign policy isn't theory,
[00:29:31] it is lived. in arguments, in
[00:29:34] decisions and in their consequences.
[00:29:38] It's not an interview, it's a
[00:29:41] conversation. Let's
[00:29:43] talk.
[00:30:08] Hello and welcome to Crosstal, where all things are considered, I'm Peter
[00:30:11] Level. Do the people get the rulers they deserve? does
[00:30:15] democracy, as it is practiced in the west, truly represent
[00:30:19] the will the voters. Consider the issue of war and peace.
[00:30:23] Voters across the western world are most definitely against foreign
[00:30:27] conflicts. Nonetheless constant war is the
[00:30:30] norm.
[00:30:39] Crossocking Democracy, I'm joined by my guess Margaret Kimberly in New
[00:30:43] York, she's executive editor of Black Agenda Report, and in
[00:30:47] Alexandria we cross to Joe Loria, he is the editor and chief of
[00:30:50] consortiumnews.com. All right, crossstock rules and effect, that means you can jump any time
[00:30:54] you want, and I always appreciate it. Let me go to you first, Joe,
[00:30:58] and in my introduction I asked: