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00:00:24a and good
00:00:28evening,
00:00:28it is prime time here in the... United States, thanks for watching America Now, I'm Ben
00:00:32Swan. Tonight we continue our special coverage
00:00:34of the US mid-term
00:00:37a of elections, because tonight, America has spoken, the votes have come in,
00:00:40and what
00:00:41of we have seen is nothing
00:00:42a short of a political earthquake. Some are calling it a blue wave, others
00:00:46a blue tsunami, whatever you want to call it, the result is the same,
00:00:50democrats have taken control of both the house and the senate as well as
00:00:54governors mansions across the country, and they've done it by breaking
00:00:58through in states that Republicans have. counted on for decades, this
00:01:02was not just a bad night for the GOP, it could go down
00:01:05as the party's worst election night since
00:01:09watergate, and to understand just how big this shift is,
00:01:12look at where things changed. Democrats
00:01:16of actually flip seats in Texas and in North Carolina and
00:01:20in South
00:01:20of Carolina, and in
00:01:21of Ohio, in and Kansas and Iowa and Maine. They also won governorships and made
00:01:26of major gains in states that have been Republican strongholds for years.
00:01:30but two results stand out above the rest, South
00:01:33Carolina and Texas. Let's start out in South Carolina. This is a state
00:01:37that Donald Trump carried by nearly 18 points just two years ago, and
00:01:40Republicans have won every single US senate election there since
00:01:441998. That streak is now over. Democrat
00:01:48Annie Andrews, pediatrician with no previous elected office. She defeated
00:01:52Republican Darline Graham, the sister
00:01:56of of the late Senator Lindsaygram, who was appointed to fill his seat after his death. And this
00:02:00wasn't just another senate pickup. President Trump backed Graham.
00:02:04Republican group spent millions trying to hold to that seat, and still voters
00:02:08chose democrat in one
00:02:09of the reddest states in the
00:02:11of country. Andrews also makes history as the first woman elected to represent South
00:02:15Carolina in the United States Senate.
00:02:19You have shown the nation what is
00:02:21possible.
00:02:25You have shown the nation that in
00:02:28a this
00:02:29of era of partisan. divides, vitrial and name
00:02:32calling,
00:02:34of in a politics dominated by billionaires and special interest groups
00:02:38and insiders in Washington DC that we will
00:02:41of not bow down. But if South Carolina was a
00:02:45shock, what happened in Texas was a political collapse for
00:02:49the Republican Party. Look, for more than three decades, Republicans have dominated
00:02:53state-wide politics in Texas. No Democrat had won a statewide election there since
00:02:571994, the last democrat to
00:02:59in win tex. his senate election did so in
00:03:021988 and the last democrat
00:03:04of elected governor, that was Ann Richards back in 1990. That's more than
00:03:08three and a half decades of Republican control, and in one
00:03:12election democrats actually broke through James Talorico defeating
00:03:16Republican Kin
00:03:17of of Paxton for that US senate seat. Also Gina Inosa defeated the
00:03:21three-term governor Greg Abbot to become the first democratic governor of Texas
00:03:25in more than 30 years and again it didn't stop there.
00:03:28a Democrats swept the major state wide. races in Texas including Lieutenant
00:03:31Governor, the attorney general, they made gains in congressional and local
00:03:35races. To be clear, this was not a close call, it
00:03:39was
00:03:39a rejection of a political machine that had controlled Texas for
00:03:43a generation. In this race, we
00:03:47went up against our own
00:03:51of Goliaths. The richest man in the
00:03:55world, the most powerful
00:03:57of man in the world, and the entire Washington. DC
00:04:00establishment, David, David
00:04:04wasn't as big or as strong as Goliath, he didn't have
00:04:08as many weapons, but he
00:04:10of had hope, he had faith, and he
00:04:13had
00:04:15of slingshot, of you
00:04:17of were of my slingshot, and look, Texas matters
00:04:21for another reason, republicans have long counted on that state as the
00:04:25foundation
00:04:26of their
00:04:26of national electoral strategy. Keep in mind, this is one
00:04:29of the biggest state. in the country, it is major source of republican votes in
00:04:33presidential elections where the electoral college comes into play. It's
00:04:37been a place where the GoP could expect, and they knew they
00:04:40could, every time to win statewide. That
00:04:44of assumption is now in question, and the consequences here
00:04:46in go of well beyond the governor seat or a Senate seat. Texas and South Carolina
00:04:50though, they're not alone. Democrats also picked up senate seats in Kansas, in
00:04:54Iowa, in Ohio, in North
00:04:56a Carolina and in Maine. Across the country Republicans, they lost.
00:05:02a
00:05:05of
00:05:12with all of my distinguished colleagues in
00:05:15leadership right after this
00:05:19stunning rebuke of mega extremism
00:05:23and a great night for the American people. Mike
00:05:26Johnson was correct. The
00:05:30polls were wrong. It
00:05:33wasn't simply a blue wave, it was an
00:05:37American tsunami. You know, calling
00:05:41it a blue tsunami. an understatement, it brings us though to the bigger question
00:05:44of what happens now, because this election doesn't just change the
00:05:48color the map, it changes who has power in Washington and in
00:05:52state legislatures and in governor's mansions again across the
00:05:56nation. Democrats, they are going to control both chambers of Congress at this point, and
00:06:00that means they can block much of President Trump's legislative
00:06:03agenda, they can control the committee process, they can hold hearings, they can
00:06:07investigate the administration, and they can put real pressure on the White House, and
00:06:11tonight, the President knows it, just congratulations
00:06:15to the democrats, they did a good job, they've been looking for this one for
00:06:1911 years and they finally got it, but I don't view it
00:06:22as a hit on me, I think we've done a we've had the greatest two
00:06:26years in the history the presidency, okay,
00:06:30president is saying that it's not a hit on him, maybe that's true because
00:06:34technically his name wasn't on the ballot, but let's be honest here,
00:06:38he made this election about him, and the election was about him, we've told you for...
00:06:42that he campaign across the country, endorsing candidates, he told republicans to
00:06:46vote as if he were on the ballot, and now when the results are in, he
00:06:50says, this really wasn't a defeat for him, remember he was doing that, and
00:06:54as he was doing it, he ignored what voters were most concerned
00:06:58about, the economy, the cost of living, gas prices,
00:07:01grocery prices, the war with Iran, and now the
00:07:05Democrats have control of Congress, but remember the president still has the power the
00:07:09veto, he still has broad authority over foreign policy. we're going
00:07:13to talk more about that coming up in our next hour, but regardless, right now,
00:07:16trump says, maybe everybody can hold hands and get along, with the
00:07:20democrats, unless they want to be destructive, but they have the power the veto,
00:07:24so if we don't like what they're doing or the they've already called and they want
00:07:28to talk about things and that's fine, and look, only time will
00:07:32tell if that is true, but what is a certainty tonight is that Trump is going to
00:07:36face much more hostile congress for the next two years and
00:07:39the democrats now have responsibility their own se "they ran on
00:07:43affordability and healthcare and accountability and checking the power
00:07:47the White House,
00:07:48and now it's time to show the voters that they can deliver on those
00:07:51promises. All right, let's continue our coverage these results that are
00:07:55coming in with reports coming out of Texas, American House, Rachel Blevins was there for that
00:07:59historic upset last night, and she filed this report for us from the
00:08:03ground. The 2026 mid-term
00:08:06elections have concluded, and here in the state of Texas democrats
00:08:10have seen the blue wave that they..." have been pushing for for
00:08:14years now, for the first time in nearly 40 years, the state of
00:08:18Texas will have democratic senator, that is of
00:08:22course James Talorico, he was previously a state representative here
00:08:26in Texas, and he went up against attorney general Ken
00:08:30Paxton, and he won, that's despite polls in recent
00:08:34weeks showing raisor thin margins between the two candidates, but
00:08:38Texans, they got out and they voted, specifically in the
00:08:42early... election, we saw a Texas State Record
00:08:45broken with 7.7 million ballots cast
00:08:49before we had even made it to election day. I'm so
00:08:53grateful for that opportunity, I'm so grateful for
00:08:56the support I've had, the friendships I've developed, this is a great state, it has,
00:08:59it has the greatest people, and I've been so blessed
00:09:03to be a part of that and to have the opportunity to try to do the
00:09:07best I could to do good for
00:09:09Texas. We were the... dogs
00:09:12in this race, we went up against nearly 40 years
00:09:16of doubt and disillusionment, we went up against
00:09:20more than $300 million dollars, more than any senate campaign
00:09:24in American history. We went up
00:09:28against all the negative ads, smear campaigns, foreign bots and AI
00:09:31deep fakes that money can buy, those those
00:09:35attacks were the final hows of
00:09:38dying establishment, and it wasn't just the...
00:09:42Tala Rico race, it was also notably the race for the
00:09:46governor of Texas, as you had governor Greg Abbot, who
00:09:50was fighting for fourth term going up against State
00:09:54Representative, Democrat, Gina Ina Hosa. She
00:09:57notably also won a resounding victory
00:10:01for the Democrats and she will be the first Democratic
00:10:04governor in the state of Texas in 32
00:10:08years. The voters have delivered a mandate for
00:10:12change. and it is changed they
00:10:15will
00:10:16yes.
00:10:27We will lead with a politics of courage, not
00:10:30convenience. Progress will not be halted by
00:10:34partisanship, and Texas will bow down to no
00:10:38one. Now, President Trump came out on social media, and he said
00:10:41that if he was the one on the ballot, then it would be a landslide
00:10:45victory for the Republicans, but this race was in many ways
00:10:49an indictment of Trump and his second term in office,
00:10:53as you had people like the... Republicans, Ken Paxton, the attorney
00:10:57general, and Greg Abbot, the governor of Texas. They have been very
00:11:01closely tied with Trump. They had his endorsement in
00:11:05this race, and they fell short as result of
00:11:08it. Reporting in Dallas, Texas, for American now, I'm
00:11:12Richel Blovens. All right, moving across the country now to the state of
00:11:16Michigan where we saw major political shift take place there as well.
00:11:19Democrat Abdul Al- Saied has defeated Republican Mike Rogers,
00:11:23becoming the first ever Muslim American elected to the US senate.
00:11:27American House Jalissa Dugro has more on those results from Detroit and
00:11:31also news from race out of Florida. Ben the
00:11:35results are in and we can project that Democrat Abdullah Said has
00:11:39won Michigan's open US senate seat. Defeating a Republican
00:11:42Mike Rogers and race watched closely for control the chamber
00:11:46asides victory keeps this open seat in the Democratic column
00:11:50after one the most expensive and intensively watched senate
00:11:53contests in the... so to get here, Ellisid had to overcome
00:11:57immense obstacles from within his own party and across the
00:12:01aisle, defending his progressive healthcare and environmental agenda
00:12:05against intense criticism, surviving late race intraparty divisions
00:12:09and mobilizing a massive grassroots ground operation to
00:12:12drive critical turnout in Wayne, Oakland and Washington Counties.
00:12:16Here's Abdull after his win. My
00:12:18name is Abdul Rahman
00:12:22Muhammad.
00:12:29"and I am so proud and honored to stand
00:12:32here as your senator elect from the great state of
00:12:35Michigan. So the wind caps two very different paths to
00:12:39November. El Saiad battled his way through a bruising multi-million
00:12:42dollar Democratic primary against Representative Haley Stevens and State
00:12:46Senator Mallary Mcmarrow narrowly edging out Stevens by a single
00:12:50point in August before immediately pivoting to unify the
00:12:54coalition." Rogers, on the other hand, secured the GoP
00:12:57nomination unopposed with President Donald Trump's backing, allowing him to
00:13:01bank valuable resources quite early, but ultimately facing the headwinds
00:13:05of sagging White House approval, ratings down the stretch
00:13:08overall. A decisive victory tonight in Michigan for sure that
00:13:12provides major lift for senate democrats
00:13:14nationwide. And we can project
00:13:18that Republican Byron Donald has won Florida's Gouber National Race,
00:13:22defeating Democrat David Jolly a... has closely watched
00:13:26as a barometer for the sunshine states political future. Donald's
00:13:29victory keeps the governor's mention firmly in Republican hands as he
00:13:33succeeds term-limited governor Ron desantes. while making
00:13:37history as lord is first black governor, and he wasn't the only republican
00:13:41celebrating at the top the ticket tonight, incumbent Republican US
00:13:44senator. Ashley Moody also won her race, turning back a challenge
00:13:48from Democrat Angie Nixon to retain her seat to get
00:13:52here. Donald's had to navigate a tumolt. path induring
00:13:56bitter personal attacks and primary challenges from within the
00:14:00conservative ranks confronting intense scrutiny over
00:14:03skyrocking property insurance and housing costs and
00:14:06mobilizing a massive base turnout across southwest florida
00:14:10and the pan handle and to fed off jolly's
00:14:13coalition. here's Byron Donalds after his historic win. the
00:14:17second call that I received tonight
00:14:21was from the President the United States Donald J. Trump.
00:14:30"Mr. President, I want you to hear from Florida that we
00:14:34are still red. Back to you, Ben. All right,
00:14:38and moving to Georgia, because Georgia also made history last night.
00:14:42Democrat Keisha Lansbottoms defeat of Republican Rick Jackson to become the
00:14:45first black woman elected governor, not just in Georgia, in
00:14:49the entire United States and the first Democrat to win the governor's race in
00:14:53Georgia since 19'. '98, the history doesn't stop there.
00:14:57Democrat John has also won re-election securing another term in the US
00:15:01senate. American house Olivia Flynn has more tonight from
00:15:04Atlanta. We're here in
00:15:07Atlanta, Georgia, we where we have been covering one the closest watch senate
00:15:11races during this election period, and here in Atlanta
00:15:15it has been John Ossof for the Democratic side versus Mike
00:15:19Collins on the Republican side, and although John Asof has had a strong
00:15:23lead over 10 points in the polls'. that that is what transpired in the votes
00:15:27as well, we have seen tonight that he has won the Senate
00:15:31seat um again here for Georgia, whereas Mike Collins was
00:15:35hoping to flip that seat for the Republicans. um and following
00:15:38that blue wave we also have Keisha Lance bottoms who has won the governor
00:15:42seat for Georgia, so it has been what has turned in here at the high
00:15:46regions where we have been all night from a watch party into a victory
00:15:50party for lot of Georgiance, tonight in Georgia, we've
00:15:53proven not just that unity is possible, but that
00:15:57we can overcome division without sacrificing clarity of
00:16:00purpose. In every corner of Georgia, this
00:16:04campaign urged the necessity of banning corporate and money from
00:16:08politics, of American leadership for peace and human rights around
00:16:12the world, and of guaranteeing health care for every
00:16:15single American. And to wrap up the evening here with
00:16:19a win for Kisha Lance Bottoms, the first female
00:16:23black governor of Georgia and the first black governor in general in
00:16:26general for Georgia, so this is not only a win for the Democrats on that side, but
00:16:30this is a historic moment as well, and she aligns fully with what John
00:16:34Osaf has pushed with healthcare and affordability. and
00:16:38trying to push back on what the Trump administration has wanted
00:16:42and really giving the life that Georgian's want here, but again,
00:16:46this is on
00:16:47the democratic side for what they have been pushing, but this is a win and this is what she had to say
00:16:50about that, but I vividly recall those rare
00:16:54days when my grandmother didn't ride the bus home from her job
00:16:58at Davidson's department store in Linux Square mall
00:17:02and the excitement I had when my mother would pick her up from
00:17:05work and the most... exciting part of that
00:17:09drive for me was passing the governor's
00:17:11mansion. i remember looking at it as we
00:17:15drove by and saying i want to go in there one
00:17:18day.
00:17:24so as you can see it has been a wave of blue tonight
00:17:28here in Atlanta Georgia and it'll be really interesting to see how this
00:17:32advances the national policies, the agenda within
00:17:36the administration and how... This is going to change really the narrative not only
00:17:40in Georgia but throughout America, so here in Atlanta
00:17:43Georgia for America now. All right, to break all this
00:17:47down, I'm joined now tonight by panel of guests, we have the host of America first, Scottiannel
00:17:51Hues joining us from Washington DC tonight and former US Marine and
00:17:55host of Jim Web pod podcast, excuse me, Jim Web, great to have
00:17:59you guys here uh,
00:18:00so already today, I'm sure you guys have been all over X and seeing all the responses
00:18:04right, everyone's blaming everyone else lot of finger. pointing, but let's start Scotty
00:18:08with, let's start with what the president said and the Vice President JD Vance, I mean today I think there was
00:18:12at least level of honesty from JD Vance who came out and said, the biggest thing is
00:18:16Iran, the the war with Iran is the biggest reason we lost this uh,
00:18:20it was a failure on our part in terms of recognizing that the American
00:18:24people were not being listened to and felt
00:18:27like too many resources went to that, and later on Trump said, yeah I
00:18:31agree with it, but then he also doubled down and said, but I'd do
00:18:34it again if I had to do it again.
00:18:38Ben, whether it was self-preservation or true honesty and caring for the future the
00:18:42Republican Party, J.D. Vance hit the nail on this the head this morning
00:18:46seven hours ago when he released what I consider to be a Jerry Maguire moment
00:18:50and where he was fully transparent and very honest uh now
00:18:53there was a couple things that he left out I think that also might have been factors that people thought
00:18:57about uh when they went into that election booth, but the reality of
00:18:59it is he broke it down very simply, four reasons why
00:19:03Republicans lost last night and that was in the war was number one, two, focus
00:19:07on of living inflation, three, put America first, and four,
00:19:10change our relationship to Israel, and in the last seven hours you have
00:19:14watched jay literally be torn to shred by the
00:19:18neocons have easily identified themselves, the ones that uh, I
00:19:22actually put the blame on for this this blue wave that happened, the ones that helped
00:19:26get John McCain and Mitt Romney as the political leadership the Republican
00:19:29Party 10 years ago, and so you are seeing them trying
00:19:33because this transparency is so rare in Washington DC, you are
00:19:37seeing them tried to literally tear Jay Vance apart for this, but I think this
00:19:41right here will be a changing moment, defining moment with this document, with this
00:19:44x-post uh by JD Vance, yeah, I think it's very interesting that he put that
00:19:48out, Jim, one the things that I have seen across kind
00:19:52the, I guess Twitter sphere, or I guess it's X-sphere, now it's not even
00:19:56Twitter, but across that sphere, whatever it is, uh, there
00:20:00is also a neocon wing that they're claiming,
00:20:04no, no, no, the real reason that Republicans last night last night is because Trump
00:20:08didn't go far enough, if he had finished the
00:20:11job then Americans would have been happy. I don't even think that's
00:20:15a level of tone deafness, that's almost just trying to project, we just
00:20:19want to keep this thing going, and we're unwilling to accept
00:20:23defeat on this particular issue, the issue that actually cost these
00:20:27historic wins. Yeah, absolutely, and I've been digging into the
00:20:30data on this, and when you take a look at who voted, how they
00:20:34voted, and the rational behind it, 74%. voters called it a
00:20:38crucial Iran that is crucial or major factor
00:20:42in casting their vote and Democrats won approximately 62%
00:20:46of those who said it was major and 70%
00:20:50of those who said it was crucial and within that 62% of
00:20:53people said that using force against Iran was the
00:20:57absolute wrong decision and this shows up all over the place now there's
00:21:01a couple different ways you can break this down the most obvious one within this election
00:21:05cycle is the voting patterns or are the voting patterns outside
00:21:09of US military installations if you go to Riley County Kansas uh
00:21:13which was considered to be reach in terms
00:21:16of who was going to come out of that that went overwhelmingly blue
00:21:20Colorado's fifth district, which is where Fort Carson is, it's the headquarters the Air
00:21:24Force Academy of Norrad, once again, reach and
00:21:28that shows democrat leading with more than 70% the votes in,
00:21:32also look no further than places where the locations
00:21:36of Fort Brag, North Carolina are, Camp Lee, Hampton Roads
00:21:39area of Virginia, these places in North Carolina for the first time that I
00:21:43can remember, aren't called yet for Republicans and there's only a couple of districts in
00:21:47North Carolina that are are called and they are
00:21:51democrat owned districts, and you can't understate the
00:21:55impact of this. One thing I do find amusing though is the sudden
00:21:59scramble by J.D. Vance to own the terrain
00:22:03of being against this war when he's been on the inside the entire time. He was on the
00:22:07inside the entire time, though there have been reports, I don't know if it's true reports
00:22:11that he was one the few people who was actually pushing against it, so much so they
00:22:15didn't allow him to be at Marilago the night when those uh
00:22:18attacks were first launched. Suzy Wiles had him stay in in DC with Telsey
00:22:22Gabbard where he wouldn't be able to influence a president, not sure how all that shakes out, and
00:22:26maybe he is just positioning as well. Matt Walsh,
00:22:30Scotty, last night during the coverage over on the Daily Wire, I got to
00:22:33mention he said something that that's getting lot of play this morning,
00:22:37um, he says, about Iran and the nuclear weapon, he said,
00:22:41honestly, I, I don't even care if Iran has nuclear weapon, I would
00:22:45rather Iran have nuclear weapon than communists
00:22:49control the government.
00:22:50in the United States and I was like, okay, first of all, I don't know how long Matt Walls will be allowed to
00:22:53state the Daily Wire, but assuming that he that he
00:22:57does, there are a lot of Americans who feel that way, lot of
00:23:01Americans who say, we would rather uh, turn
00:23:05this country over to people here who maybe should not be in in these
00:23:08positions of power, then to continue this kind of nonsense, because it's
00:23:12nonsense, this war with Iran is fake war based a
00:23:16nuclear weapon that did not exist, and the president keeps doubling down, but got
00:23:20to stop him and I do it again because it's important, history will prove that I was
00:23:24right, it won't prove you were right, you were fantastically wrong, and you've got to
00:23:28accept that you were wrong and realize that that what has shifted in
00:23:31states like Texas and Georgia and South Carolina and all over the
00:23:35political map, this is devastating for Republicans if they
00:23:39do not repent and change
00:23:41course, and that right there, and maybe I'm I'm an optimist on
00:23:45this spin, but I think that right there, it was almost guaranteed,
00:23:50that the Republicans are going to lose the White House in 2028, that that path we were on
00:23:54it. This right here
00:23:55I think gives Republicans the chance to course correct
00:23:58and savage and salvage 2028, if they don't
00:24:02course correct, I mean here's one demographic, yesterday, the Republicans
00:24:06lost the white males, white males, not only the older ones,
00:24:10but the younger generation, those are crucial, that is demographic
00:24:14that for sure gets out and votes, when you lose the white male as
00:24:18republican, you know that. you are on the wrong, the wrong path,
00:24:22and it took something as dramatic as yesterday to sit here and
00:24:26make Mike Johnson say, I'm not going to run as a minority leader, I'm going to let Jim Jordan
00:24:30take over. We are seeing the shift at the people that have given bad
00:24:33advice step - to the side, um, and you're starting to see the
00:24:37dominant voices, the more sane voices, the what do they call them pantakins,
00:24:41um, the panikins were right, and and they tried to warn, but this was, like
00:24:45I said, this was the Hail Mary, while this will affect these states like Texas for generations
00:24:49in their local leg. 's that that switched over, I think overall in
00:24:522028
00:24:53this was the best opportunity the Republicans have to be able to hold to
00:24:572028 in the overall office
00:24:58and obviously Jim, I mean a lot these states could bounce back and all of sudden in the next
00:25:02election cycle you could see republicans take back some of this stuff, but not
00:25:06if they remain the party the neocon, and maybe there
00:25:09is one really beautiful silver lining to all this, which is
00:25:13that 2026 may be the date on the tombstone the neocon
00:25:17where you officially say if you are ne on, you can't win anymore,
00:25:21because to your point, Scotty, you're you've lost white males, if
00:25:25you've lost young white males, the only thing you have left or maybe some
00:25:28boomers, that's about it, and they're all dying off anyways, so you
00:25:32you know each election cycle, there are fewer and fewer them, um,
00:25:36but maybe you can't win anymore like this, and if that's the
00:25:39case, that gives me some hope for the future, because it
00:25:42requires that the Republican party, it requires that it
00:25:46become different party as we were promised it was becoming, the
00:25:50last couple of election cycles, absolutely, and
00:25:53hopefully this is the deathnell the neocons. i am agreement with you on
00:25:57that 150% if that's even humanly possible, however
00:26:01i will give them some credit. "they've managed to kind of infiltrate and sneak
00:26:05around and stay relevant
00:26:06for very, very long time, but one the uh misnumers I think
00:26:10about this is what they're saying is the death of maga. I've always considered
00:26:14it to be America first, first and foremost, um, and when you take a
00:26:18look at who has won elections going
00:26:22back to George Bush in 2000, it is always somebody out there
00:26:26with a populist message talking about, in his
00:26:30case, not being the world's policeman and..." in 2008 Barack Obama
00:26:34was going to bring the troops home, um, 2016, no more stupid
00:26:37wars, 2024, it was Camala Harris is
00:26:41going to bring us World War II, they don't want intervention, uh, they don't want their sons and
00:26:45daughters to continue to go and fight, these are the people who send their kids
00:26:49over and over again, and they are a very well-aligned
00:26:53block within whatever party they choose, and they fluctuate back
00:26:57and forth to the policies that benefit them, and to the people
00:27:01who seem like at least. said they're going to honor their promises and when they're
00:27:04betrayed as they were last night or or in this last two years
00:27:08they show up and they go the opposite direction and they can come back with the
00:27:12right message. well i think i think the hope Scotty very quickly is
00:27:16is that there is consequence and we haven't actually seen
00:27:20that at the ballot box a long time. we haven't seen Americans show up and say, "you know
00:27:23what, if you lie to us and you betray us, we're going to punish you." lot of
00:27:27times politicians get into this habit where they just get away with it, and last night you didn't get
00:27:31away with it. Well real quick, I've got to ask Ben buse you've watched these and I've
00:27:35got to ask the other panelist, what is different from the Democrats message that
00:27:39they sold on this campaign trail from what the Republicans sold in 2024? Tell me
00:27:43what issue that they said was different from what the Republican talking points
00:27:47were? all they did was regurritate them, can you think of anything? no,
00:27:51there's not a there's not a single issue that the democrats brought forward, in fact I would
00:27:55say they were less specific that the Republican message in 2024 was
00:27:59actually better message because it was very specific, the question is: is
00:28:02that will democrats be able to govern at all? i don't think
00:28:06they necessarily will be, we'll say how it plays out, unfortunately we're out of
00:28:10time, scotty huge and Jim Webb, thank you guys so much for coming on and talking about
00:28:14this, thank you, absolutely anyt. all right,
00:28:18now that is american out for now, i'm ben swan, for more stories, visit our website
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00:28:28everything.
00:29:07I've spent years in conversations beyond
00:29:10borders, some were
00:29:13formal, some tense, some
00:29:16difficult, but all them
00:29:20mattered, they chartered
00:29:23India's path and how the world
00:29:27responded, foreign policy isn't theory,
00:29:31it is lived. in arguments, in
00:29:34decisions and in their consequences.
00:29:38It's not an interview, it's a
00:29:41conversation. Let's
00:29:43talk.
00:30:08Hello and welcome to Crosstal, where all things are considered, I'm Peter
00:30:11Level. Do the people get the rulers they deserve? does
00:30:15democracy, as it is practiced in the west, truly represent
00:30:19the will the voters. Consider the issue of war and peace.
00:30:23Voters across the western world are most definitely against foreign
00:30:27conflicts. Nonetheless constant war is the
00:30:30norm.
00:30:39Crossocking Democracy, I'm joined by my guess Margaret Kimberly in New
00:30:43York, she's executive editor of Black Agenda Report, and in
00:30:47Alexandria we cross to Joe Loria, he is the editor and chief of
00:30:50consortiumnews.com. All right, crossstock rules and effect, that means you can jump any time
00:30:54you want, and I always appreciate it. Let me go to you first, Joe,
00:30:58and in my introduction I asked: