Speaker 1: And now for a moment of clarity.
Speaker 2: Some of these fights are all primary races that we're
seeing tonight. Some of them are about electability and about
making strategy about who you who you think is the
best person for your party to carry the day in
November when it's going to be tight. But a lot
of these are not that very safe seats, and these
very safe seats, it's not about electability. It's about values.
Speaker 1: It is a lot about all of that, and I'm
so excited all of it. Where is my where's my corn?
Speaker 2: Oh? We have popcorn. I have jersey. I have jerky though,
so you I'm a jerky god.
Speaker 1: Okay, Oh yes, oh see I.
Speaker 2: Found somebody to share my jery.
Speaker 1: This is good. So you know, I look at this
from I have a very interesting perch because I had
the perch here with my colleagues here at MS NOW
to sort of look at this and listen to the analysis.
And then of course there's the person that Nicole and
I share and Jim shares from the political perspective, and
what this boils down from me tonight in the beginning
of this election season, given everything that we've seen, everything
we've heard from this president, to disrupt, to break up,
to dissuade, to make this feel unimportant to the American people.
Don't worry. I played over and over the day clips
in my head of Donald Trump saying, Hey, we'll get
to the point where you don't never have to vote again. Right.
What we saw in these three primaries, especially in Texas,
a little bit in North Carolina, is the American people saying, oh, no, no, no,
we're ready to play. We're ready to come out, We're
ready to turn out, We're ready to let you know
what we think about what this administration is doing was
happening in our own backyard with the local leadership that
we've elected. And so they're going to speak, and they're
going to speak in a profound way. You know. I
want to set this up as between the old school
versus the new school, as we were just talking about,
with incumbents who've been there since nineteen ten versus folks
who want to come into the door. Now, that's a
good thing, that's a healthy thing. Yeah, that is saying.
Speaker 2: That's a live party.
Speaker 1: Right on the Republican side, we'd just like to now
sit down, wait to her turn. That's why women aren't
leading in the Republican Party. That's why young men of
color aren't leading in the Republican Party despite Wesley's Hunts effort. Tonight.
It's nice to have you on the ballot, but we
really don't need you. The Democrats are leaning into that,
which kind of takes me back final point to very
interesting moments in the twenty ten cycle, which I said,
this cycle is a combination meal of two thousand and
six and twenty ten, neither one. While twenty ten was
good for Republicans, this time they're playing the role of
the Democrats in this cycle. And what's interesting when you're
looking at you just referenced the most candidate we can
talk about on Mondomini here, Mndonni here in New York.
The progressives have found a voice that connects with the
American people in the way that I think Republicans didn't anticipate.
Donald Trump likes the mayor of New York right all
right now, no matter what you say and how you
want to use that. That says a lot about Donald
Trump's cleaning in cluing into what's happening right now, which
is a thread in this let.
Speaker 2: That's right, they're trying to use the progressive alliance between
somebody like an AOC or a Mumdani or something as
some sort of kiss of death, and it's not necessarily
playing that way everywhere they're trying it.
Speaker 1: It's bringing the jerky. That's Michael Steele on the weeknight,
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