Speaker 1: And now for a moment of clarity.
Speaker 2: He raised some of the questions, and I think this
is an interesting discussion about what Democrats should be doing
in the chamber and actually also for people who are
watching who are running for office. You've run the R
and C before, how should they be watching this speech
and what do you think they should try to pull
from what could be a lengthy rambling at times bananas speech.
Speaker 1: Oh well, first off, they should probably have a very
very tall drink with them as they're watching.
Speaker 2: Coffee of coffee. You can't do that, coffee.
Speaker 1: Very tall drink of coffee with you before you go
into the chamber, since they can't do that. But no,
I think people, look, there are two types of folks
that are going to be in the crosshairs here, particularly
on my side of the aisle. They're the folks who
are in the room, who have the office, who have
the title of the position, who have given countenance to
all of this. They put their personal impromater on everything
that's happened since January of last year, and so now
they are coming to a moment where they have to
confront real time what they've wrought. Then there are the
people sitting outside the chamber, who can have that tall
drink with them who are sitting there calculating very much
to Chris's earlier point, What the hell am I going
to do with this? How the hell am I going
to run a race when this guy is putting kids
in jail, using them as bait, when he's out here
saying all these things. You look at the map of
this country. Yes, you can see a lot of red
on top, but the veins coursing right through it now
are blue. How do we know that? Because Republicans have
lost every race they've been in since Donald Trump has
gotten back into office. And if I'm a county chairman,
which I was, if I'm a state chairman, which I was,
and certainly if I'm the national chairman, looking at this landscape,
I'm looking at a combo meal of two thousand and
six and twenty ten. Ooh yeah, and that is that
is not a good day at the office. And so
candidate's running right now, which we'll kick it all off
right here at this network next Tuesday night, right primaries
unfold and the races begin. We're talking about Congress of
Massey's race in a couple of months for his reelection.
He gonna be fine because the reality of it is,
there's still this group of emerging Republican voices inside the party.
I've had enough, and they're going to be outcome determinative.
I think in a lot of primary elections coming up
over the next few months because of what people will
see tonight and the nervousness that's already beginning to fester
inside the ranks of the Republican Party.
Speaker 2: You know the sign Congressman Massey thinks he's going to
be okay. He's bringing his wife because Trump has criticized
his wife as his guest to the State of the Union.
Or that tells me something.
Speaker 1: Catch Michael Steele on the weeknight Monday through Friday at
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