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00:00:00.000Democrats go down to flaming defeat in Virginia, Minnesota defund the police implodes, and a Democratic Socialist loses to a write-in candidate in Buffalo.
00:02:23.000It's about who shows up, who turns out.
00:02:27.000And granted, I did win by a large margin.
00:02:30.000But the point of the matter is that I think that this is going to be, we all knew from the beginning, this is going to be a tight race.
00:02:38.000Okay, we didn't all know that from the beginning.
00:02:40.000If you look at the polls, Glenn Youngkin was down like double digits at the beginning of this race, and then he won last night by a fairly solid margin.
00:02:46.000According to the New York Times, Republicans claimed the governorship of Virginia for the first time in more than a decade on Wednesday, electing businessman Glenn Youngkin and presenting their party with a formula for how to exploit President Biden's vulnerabilities and evade the shadow of Donald Trump in Democratic-leaning states.
00:03:00.000Youngkin 54, a wealthy former private equity executive making his first run for office, elevated education and taxes while projecting a suburban dad demeanor to demonstrate he was different from Trump without saying so.
00:03:09.000Outright, he defeated former Governor Terry McCullough, a Democrat who, with Trump out of office, struggled to generate enthusiasm among liberals at a moment when conservatives are energized in opposition to Mr. Biden.
00:03:20.000This race was called pretty much off the bat.
00:03:22.000By fairly early last night, people knew that Youngkin was going to win.
00:03:26.000And it wasn't just that Republicans won with Youngkin at the top of the ticket.
00:03:30.000They also won the Lieutenant Governor's race in Virginia.
00:03:32.000They won the Attorney General's race in Virginia.
00:03:34.000And in fact, they elected the first black female Lieutenant Governor in the history of the state of Virginia.
00:03:42.000I believe the first Hispanic AG in the history of the state of Virginia, which means, as we'll see, that the Republicans, again, demonstrating their vicious, brutal white supremacy in the oddest of ways by electing a very diverse slate of candidates to higher office.
00:03:55.000Meanwhile, by the way, over in New Jersey, in New Jersey, it is a dead heat right now between the Republican gubernatorial candidate, Jack Schiarelli, who no one knew who he was or knows who he is today.
00:04:07.000Against Phil Murphy, who is the widely touted governor of New Jersey, who's Captain COVID over there.
00:04:12.000He locked down pretty much everything, and he was supposed to run away with that race.
00:04:16.000The polls showed that he was up by near double digits, not like months ago, like McAuliffe was, and then the race tightened.
00:04:21.000He was up double digits pretty much a week ago.
00:04:23.000He was up eight in the RealClearPolitics polling average yesterday.
00:04:27.000And now that race is so deadlocked, it's going to go to recount.
00:04:31.000According to the New York Times, no less bracing for Democrats was a second gubernatorial election unfolding in New Jersey.
00:04:36.000The incumbent governor, Philip Murphy, was narrowly trailing a relatively obscure Republican challenger, Jack Schuetterelli, deep into the night.
00:04:43.000A mainstream liberal with ties to the White House, Murphy was staking his hopes for a comeback on a strong performance in several solidly Democratic areas where votes were slow to report.
00:04:51.000Again, about 98% of the vote in at this point, and it's pretty much dead heat.
00:04:56.000The unexpected closeness of the race underscored the overall vulnerability of the Democratic Party.
00:05:00.000Much like Mr. Youngkin in Virginia, Mr. Seattarelli appeared to benefit from robust turnout in rural and conservative-leaning areas of the state while making inroads in denser areas such as Bergen County, the populous suburb of New York City.
00:05:12.000Unlike Youngkin, Schiattarelli, a former state legislator, had no vast personal fortune to spend on his candidacy.
00:05:18.000National Republicans looked at his campaign as an extreme long shot.
00:05:22.000Even if Murphy were to prevail, it's going to be by a minute fraction.
00:05:26.000Remember, Joe Biden won the state of New Jersey by 16 points.
00:06:00.000There was a 19 point swing to the GOP in Loudoun County.
00:06:04.000And here I must give a shout out to the Daily Wire's own reporter, Luke Rosiak, who's been doing unbelievable reporting from on the ground in Loudoun County.
00:06:10.000And he is the person who uncovered this massive scandal where in the school board of Loudoun County was essentially covering up the rape of a student in their bathroom while promoting a transgender bathroom bill.
00:06:22.000And turns out there are all sorts of other issues with malfeasance by the school board in that district.
00:06:27.000And that county swung 19 percentage points toward Republicans in this election cycle.
00:06:41.000Also, shout out to Christopher Rufo, who did an unbelievable job covering critical race theory across the country, as well, specifically in Virginia.
00:06:49.000As we will see, Democrats, their plan is just to deny that they are radical at all, and then to call everyone who notices a racist.
00:06:58.000Also, McAuliffe, according to Sahil Kapoor, who's a national political reporter at NBC News, McAuliffe, the Democrat, he ran a bit ahead of Biden among the non-white voters in Virginia.
00:07:09.000He ran ahead of Biden among those voters.
00:07:12.000He got absolutely clocked by white women.
00:08:02.000It says that when you have someone who is not quite as offensive at the top of a particular ticket, that you can win back all of those suburban white women.
00:08:09.000You can hold the Trump coalition, which is what Youngkin did.
00:08:12.000He didn't spend the campaign crapping on Trump instead.
00:08:15.000He said he appreciated a lot of things about Trump.
00:08:17.000But he also didn't humor a lot of Trump's more absurd contentions.
00:08:20.000And then he made the issues not about Trump.
00:08:22.000He just avoided making the election about Trump.
00:08:24.000And he swamped Terry McAuliffe, particularly with white women.
00:08:28.000We'll get to more of the poll analysis in just one second because it's really fascinating and it does spell a way forward for Republicans moving forward first.
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00:10:14.000And if Republicans don't hold on to that, if they don't point out, I've been saying this literally since I began my career, the indoctrination of children in public schools is a disaster area for the country.
00:10:23.000If Republicans run on the curriculum, they are going to win because parents don't actually know what kids are being taught.
00:10:28.000Okay, so on the economy and jobs, Youngkin outpaces McCall of 63 to 36.
00:10:32.000On education, he outpaces McCall of 71 to 29.
00:10:37.000On coronavirus, McAuliffe wins 78 to 22, but no one cares about that anymore because basically this is all over.
00:10:43.000Among people who said racism was their number one issue, unsurprisingly, McAuliffe won 84 to 15.
00:10:48.000On abortion, only 5% of people said it was their top issue, but 56% of those people actually voted for Junkin.
00:10:54.000So all of the anti-choice, he's an anti-choice radical who's gonna stop abortion, that actually cut in Junkin's favor.
00:11:01.000On immigration, 94% to 5 in favor of Junkin.
00:11:05.000You can see exactly why Junkin won right here.
00:11:09.000How bad were the exit polls for Democrats here?
00:11:23.000Among men aged 45 plus, 58 to 42 for Junkin.
00:11:28.000Among Latinos and Hispanics, In Virginia, Youngkin won outright, 54 to 45.
00:11:34.000He also won 13% of the black vote and 58% of the white vote.
00:11:39.000Devastating numbers for the Democrats.
00:11:41.000Plus, as Nate Cohn points out over at the New York Times, Biden has nearly the worst approval ratings of any president on record at this stage of his presidency.
00:11:49.000The worst approval ratings of any president on record at this stage of his presidency.
00:11:56.000Okay, number one, it turns out that telling your voters to vote is actually a better strategy than telling your voters not to vote.
00:12:02.000Republicans in those Georgia Senate races at the beginning of this year, they basically told their voters your vote doesn't matter and then people didn't show up and then Republicans lost in what is a red state.
00:12:11.000Okay, Virginia is a very blue state and Republicans said you should show up and you should vote and your vote counts.
00:12:16.000And whether or not you are concerned about voter fraud, the best way to win is to go and vote.
00:12:22.000And focusing in on, are they gonna steal it?
00:13:12.000He went out there like a fool and he said parents should not be in control of their children's education and then he kept doubling down on that while campaigning with Randy Weingarten.
00:13:19.000He kept telling parents that they are racist if they mention the phrase critical race theory.
00:13:23.000He kept saying over and over and over again that parents should not determine whether or not they are indoctrinated.
00:13:28.000Their kids are indoctrinated with LGBTQ propaganda in schools.
00:13:56.000Republicans should not shy away from the culture wars.
00:13:58.000So I know that there's the smart set in Republican politics who are constantly saying that the culture wars are a dummies, it's a dummies game.
00:14:17.000But I can tell you, how my kids are educated in school matters one million times more than that.
00:14:22.000When Republicans abandon the social issues, when they pretend the social issues don't matter, or they are a distraction from the main issues, this is sort of how Romney ran his campaign in 2012.
00:14:39.000The way that you win is by pointing out the social radicalism of your political opponents and presenting a good economic plan, which is what Youngkin did.
00:14:48.000Also, this race made clear that Republicans can indeed keep together the Trump coalition and they don't have to have all of the bad tweets to go along with it.
00:14:58.000Kristen Soltis-Anderson, who's a pollster for the Washington, she has a piece for the Washington Examiner.
00:15:02.000She points out, Youngkin got all the upside of Trump, but none of the downside.
00:15:06.000She says, there's little doubt Trump will try to take credit for Youngkin's victory.
00:15:09.000To be clear, Trump quite literally phoned it in at the last minute for Youngkin after enough polls showed victory was in sight.
00:15:14.000Youngkin and Trump did not donate to each other.
00:15:16.000Youngkin said the bare minimum about Trump necessary to survive the primary process.
00:15:20.000What Trump did do over the last five years was engage many formerly disconnected voters and turn them into more habitual voters for the GOP.
00:15:28.000He continues to have an impact on politics by turning out the vote in rural areas, just by having activated people who are now used to voting.
00:16:00.000I'm gonna give you some results from other areas of the country that really cut against the Democratic Party.
00:16:06.0002022 is looking like an absolute wipeout for the Democrats.
00:16:10.000I would not be surprised if Republicans pick up 40 to 50 seats in the House.
00:16:14.000I certainly would not be surprised in this environment if Democrats lose the Senate outright.
00:16:17.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:18:01.000The appellate courts were up for election, and all of them went Republican.
00:18:05.000That's in Pennsylvania, again, which is a purple state at best.
00:18:09.000Meanwhile, How bad was New Jersey for the Democrats last night?
00:18:13.000New Jersey was so bad last night that the state senate president lost, apparently, to a guy who had a $200 budget and no campaign.
00:18:25.000That's how bad it was for Democrats last night.
00:18:28.000I mean, for God's sake, Democrats got wiped out in Long Island.
00:18:33.000A red tide swept over Long Island, according to the New York Post, with the Republican candidates for district attorney in both Nassau and Suffolk counties winning their races in stunning landslides on Tuesday, turning the campaigns into referenda on New York's controversial bail reform law.
00:18:46.000In Nassau, career local prosecutor Ann Donnelly upset Democratic State Senator Todd Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor who voted for a 2019 law eliminating cash bail.
00:18:55.000Donnelly, who is deputy chief of the Nassau DA's Organized Crime and Rackets Bureau, won 60% to 40% for Kaminsky.
00:19:20.000So again, look for a lot of Democratic retirements coming up, guys.
00:19:24.000This is a bad, bad night for Democrats all the way across the country.
00:19:29.000Meanwhile in Minneapolis, you remember that time that defund the police was the big thing in Minneapolis because of George Floyd and Derek Chauvin?
00:19:36.000Well, that was on the ballot last night and it went down to flaming defeat.
00:19:40.000According to the New York Times, Minneapolis residents rejected an amendment on Tuesday that called for replacing the city's long troubled police department with a new Department of Public Safety.
00:19:48.000The ballot item emerged from anger after a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd last year, galvanizing residents who saw the policing system as irredeemably broken.
00:19:58.000But the amendment's failure showed that even in a liberal city where skepticism of the police runs deep, many Americans are not prepared to get rid of the cops.
00:20:06.000So, even in Minneapolis, people are like, nope, we are not going to do that.
00:20:11.000In Buffalo, New York, there's a lot of talk about this particular mayoral race.
00:20:17.000There's a lot of talk about this race because India Walton had been nominated as the actual Democratic candidate.
00:21:51.000When they don't have Trump to unify their party, they got nothing.
00:21:54.000Because this party doesn't know whether it wants to run down the giant government path trod by LBJ and Joe Biden or whether it wants to go the racial radical route that is pursued by the Squad.
00:22:04.000They really don't know whether they want to be Clintonian or whether they want to be more along the lines of Obama.
00:22:10.000Barack Obama coined a new strategy in 2012.
00:22:14.000It was mobilize a bunch of quote-unquote dispossessed populations and aggregate those people together against the supposedly evil white majority.
00:22:24.000That then he won in 2012 and Democrats ever since have been pursuing that model.
00:22:27.000And in 2020 it worked out for them because they were running against Donald Trump and the media were able to savage Trump and block stories about Trump and Trump kept stepping on rakes.
00:22:35.000And so they were able to win on that model, but they can't win on that model forever.
00:22:40.000Do they go back to the Clintonian third way or do they continue to prop up utopian electoral dreams of Barack Obama at the cost of actual power?
00:22:50.000That is a real battle going on inside the Democratic Party right now.
00:22:52.000And it seems as though the radicals are poised to win it, which is good news for the Republicans.
00:22:57.000If you're a Republican, you ought to be real happy with that.
00:22:58.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:25:07.000By more than ten points, he is underperforming.
00:25:13.000Meanwhile, Larry Sabato, who had declared pretty much that everybody who votes in favor of the Republicans is a white supremacist because they've been taken in and duped by the evil critical race theory narrative.
00:25:23.000He was like, yeah, I'm hearing from the call of campaign.
00:25:47.000And so far, everything we've seen pretty much falls along that line.
00:25:52.000And while we don't have complete figures, anything close to complete figures for the House of Delegates, you can guess based on what I've just said.
00:26:06.000Watching MSNBC was like watching several hours of just the last scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
00:26:13.000Just when they opened the Ark, and suddenly, thoughts So last night, MSNBC host, remember, Terry McAuliffe lost this race because he decided that a great campaign strategy was to say that if you're worried about your child's education, it's because you're a homophobe.
00:26:39.000Or if you're worried about critical race theory in schools, it's because you're a racist.
00:26:43.000Or, if you were against the American Federation of Teachers, it's because you were some sort of horrible bigot and school boards needed to be in charge of your children, not you.
00:26:51.000This was Terry McAuliffe's entire campaign.
00:26:53.000And so, the idiots over at MSNBC, apparently their strategy is to just keep schtuping that chicken.
00:27:52.000Yes, it's the Republicans who are the white supremacists, clearly.
00:27:55.000Here's MSNBC going with that narrative.
00:27:58.000The question for Democrats is going to be almost Rumsfeldian.
00:28:02.000Do you go on the campaign trail with the Republican Party you know you've got, that they lie, that they wander the Trump racism in fleece, that they have a propaganda network that reaches more people than any candidate's ads in any state election.
00:28:17.000Do you adjust with this new propaganda, disinformation, fairly veiled dog whistle race stuff?
00:28:24.000Or do you keep trying to fight on, you know, policy?
00:29:12.000We are not interested in being told that we are fools for wanting to know what our kids are being taught in school.
00:29:18.000See, one of the things that happened with Zoom School last year is that parents finally got to see what their kids were being taught in school and they weren't super happy about it.
00:29:26.000Meanwhile, on MSNBC, the meltdown continued.
00:29:28.000Steve Kornacki trying to inform the MSNBC panel.
00:29:32.000So the people who hosted this were Nicole Wallace, who's a hack, and Joy Reid, who's the biggest hack on television, and Rachel Maddow, who was the moderate on the panel.
00:29:41.000So Steve Kornacki trying to deliver the news.
00:29:44.000That Democrats were just getting walloped in Virginia and that New Jersey was close.
00:29:49.000You had to feel a little bit for Steve Kornacki because he was basically like the he's he was sort of like the Persian messenger in 300 who has to deliver the news to Leonidas that the hordes are coming.
00:30:34.000And so here's Rachel Maddow complaining that Fox kept talking about critical race theory.
00:30:38.000How could they talk about critical race theory?
00:30:40.000It's not like it was a major issue for people what their kids were being taught in schools.
00:30:44.000Here is Rachel Maddow doing this routine.
00:30:47.000To have the Fox News Channel, our friends at the Fox News Channel, building their programming, particularly their primetime programming around this for months, they're building a campaign platform for conservative candidates to run on it everywhere, even though it's not actually taught anywhere, even though it's not a real thing.
00:31:03.000I mean, there's nothing you could pay for in any campaign that would equal the kind of free help you'd get from that sort of conservative media.
00:32:45.000Remember, the entire Luke Rosiak story about Scott Smith, who is the parent, who was wrestled to the ground and called a domestic terrorist because he was angry that the school board had said that no one had been raped in a bathroom and he knew that his daughter had.
00:32:58.000Remember, the entire media just ran with the story that he was a domestic terrorist.
00:33:01.000It took Lou Groziak to uncover the fact that he was actually just a rightly pissed-off parent.
00:33:06.000Hey, but, and this is the theme over at MSNBC, just keep schtupin' that chicken, man.
00:33:10.000Schtupin' until it's not frozen anymore.
00:33:12.000Here is Nicole Wallace again, saying critical race theory is fake.
00:33:38.000And some of it is just a question for Democrats now.
00:33:40.000Do you adjust to a terrain that is not fair, that is not just, that is all fact-based, but that tonight looks like it advantages Republicans?
00:33:52.000They're just going to keep denying it.
00:33:53.000They're just going to keep denying it, and then they'll tell you it's super important to follow it.
00:33:56.000Here's Joy Reid, who's the worst of the bunch over there.
00:33:59.000Joy Reid is just... The fact that she's on a nightly show is such an unbelievable joke, because I'm not sure that she's said a correct thing in several years at this point.
00:34:09.000So she says that when you say education in Virginia, what you really mean is white parents don't like teaching about race.
00:34:15.000When white people say education, what they really mean is white.
00:34:38.000And the exit polls showed that, which was interesting, that the coronavirus or that the virus was a very low salience to many of the voters there.
00:34:46.000It was education, which is code for white parents don't like the idea of teaching about race.
00:34:53.000And I mean, unfortunately, race is just the most palpable tool in the toolkit.
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00:40:58.000He's at about 42, 43 percent support in Virginia.
00:41:01.000If he were at 52 or 53 percent, I think that McAuliffe would have a much better chance of winning tonight.
00:41:07.000So McAuliffe, instead of having an asset in Joe Biden and his agenda, has, I think, kind of had to carry him like a weight tied to his ankle.
00:41:18.000Hey, according to Jonathan Martin over at the New York Times, even before the polls closed, Biden advisers recoiled at the Democratic governor's talking points, noting Biden's swoon in the polls.
00:41:28.000They say it's not Biden, it's just that Terry McAuliffe muffed it.
00:42:28.000For example, one of the reasons why I decided to talk about the need to deal with The operation and the gouging that occurs in some of the pricing of beef and chicken and other things is that that's why I think that's why I indicated to you we're going to look at whether or not there's a violation of antitrust laws and what they're doing.
00:44:53.000No evidence that Build Back Better would have fixed anything for Democrats in Virginia, or New Jersey, or Pennsylvania, or Long Island, or Minneapolis, or Buffalo.
00:45:01.000No evidence that it would have fixed anything for the Democrats in any of these areas.
00:45:13.000And then you have the squad and the squad are like, or you could do this.
00:45:15.000Spend even more money and also call Americans deeply racist at every available turn and talk about equity and how America's institutions are completely corrupt.
00:45:23.000If these are your two bifurcating paths as the Democratic Party, you got a lot of problems.
00:45:27.000So again, you got James Carville on the one end saying, let's spend more money.
00:45:30.000And then you have Joy Reid on the other end saying the future of the party is to spend even more money than the Democrats typically want to do and to racially pander in the process.
00:45:39.000It's the idea that the Build Back Better bill, which has got all the stuff for women and people of color, it's got all the stuff for environment, for young people, that that bill is seen as secondary to Democrats in Washington, and all they care about is the bill that in their mind will win them back, like, you know, white independent voters.
00:45:57.000Do you think that Democrats can take that lesson out of this, or do you think that they're just going to take the usual lesson and, you know, as Julian Castro just said, go find another centrist and try the same game again next time?
00:46:36.000You should think pretty seriously about it.
00:46:38.000It didn't stop in Joe Biden, because Biden, Biden, you know, normally you say that when somebody's playing chicken, they put a brick on the accelerator.
00:46:44.000The thing about Joe Biden is he is the brick on the accelerator.
00:46:46.000He's an inanimate object who's been placed on the accelerator, and he's just going to lie there.
00:46:50.000And what this means is that he has to keep doubling down.
00:46:53.000So Build Back Better is the plan, and they're going to keep pushing Build Back Better.
00:46:56.000So Joe Biden yesterday, he's out there making the case for Build Back Better, and just lying to you.
00:47:00.000He's saying that his spending plan is going to lower inflation.
00:47:12.000And Joe Biden's like, yeah, the best thing we can do right now is just force through a big spending bill that nobody seems to like very much.
00:47:20.00017 Nobel laureates in economics said it's going to lower inflation, raise wages, increase competition, create two million jobs a year, etc.
00:47:31.000And so I think that I understand that Joe is looking for the precise detail to make sure nothing got slipped in in terms of the way in which the legislation got written that is different than he acknowledged he would agree to.
00:48:23.000So the new Democratic plan has in it a SALT deduction.
00:48:27.000They're putting back the SALT deduction.
00:48:28.000So all these tax-the-rich, eat-the-rich folks, they're actually creating a carve-out for rich Democrats in blue areas.
00:48:35.000According to the New York Times, Democrats were readying an agreement on Tuesday that would repeal a cap on the amount of state and local taxes homeowners can deduct as part of a broader $1.85 trillion spending bill, a move that could amount to a significant tax cut for wealthy Americans in liberal states.
00:48:48.000But some liberals quickly balked at the emerging agreement, which would suspend a $10,000 cap on the so-called SALT deduction for five years, removing a limit Republicans included in their 2017 tax package as a way to pay for cuts for corporations and the rich.
00:49:00.000I love how the New York Times poses this.
00:49:02.000That the SALT deduction elimination was designed as a way to pay for tax cuts for rich people.
00:49:07.000No, the SALT deduction elimination hit rich people.
00:49:11.000Because the SALT deduction elimination basically said that if you live in a blue state you can take your taxes for your state taxes and then deduct the state taxes against your federal taxes.
00:49:19.000It really helped rich people in blue states.
00:49:21.000It didn't help rich people in Florida or Texas where there's no state income tax.
00:49:31.000Republicans removed the SALT deduction because they said why exactly should voters in Florida or Texas Now Democrats want to put that back in.
00:49:45.000Here's Larry Summers, former Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, saying, In the way this bill is likely to pass, it's not completely clear yet, depending on what happens to state and local taxation, there will be a large number of people with incomes of say eight or nine million dollars who are going to see their taxes go down.
00:50:12.000And I'm not sure that this was a time when people in the top tenth of a percent of the income distribution, top hundredth of a percent of the income distribution, should be getting tax cuts.
00:50:28.000The infighting is going to get much worse.
00:50:29.000Bernie Sanders said yesterday, Just keep going to war with each other.
00:50:56.000Now the only question is whether they even get the infrastructure bill.
00:50:58.000The reason being, right now, there's enough Republican support for the infrastructure bill to get it over the top in the Senate, right?
00:51:04.000You got Mitt Romney, you got Susan Collins, you got a bunch of other Republicans on board with the infrastructure bill in the Senate.
00:51:09.000When it goes to the House, it's unclear how many House Republicans are actually going to vote for infrastructure.
00:51:13.000And Democrats right now do not have enough progressives on board to simply pass the infrastructure bill.
00:51:19.000Because the progressives have been saying, we need some sort of commitment from Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema to vote for Build Back Better.
00:51:25.000But now Manchin and Sinema ain't voting for Build Back Better.
00:51:28.000After the absolute drubbing that Democrats took in Virginia.
00:51:32.000Again, if you are a purple state Democrat or a red state Democrat, you can't look at that and think to yourself, man, I really need to move along with a big spending agenda most Americans are not on board with.
00:51:41.000Here's Mitch McConnell pointing out the obvious when it comes to Build Back Better.
00:51:45.000This is a bill America does not want and does not need.
00:51:49.000The ideal solution would be to not pass it.
00:51:53.000But if it's to pass, it'll be written by Manchin and or Sinema.
00:52:00.000Okay, and he is right about that, but here's the thing.
00:52:03.000Right now, I don't think Build Back Better gets done.
00:53:07.000So if you want the debt ceiling raised at that point, you're going to have to do so through the reconciliation process, which has all sorts of effects on how Democrats vote.
00:53:15.000Because in order to do it via reconciliation, you have to have essentially what's called a voterama, where everybody votes up or down on a bunch of popular or unpopular proposals.
00:53:23.000Democrats have been desperately attempting to avoid this.
00:53:25.000This is why they wanted a large consensus to push up the debt ceiling.
00:53:28.000So if you're a Democrat right now, you have so many conflicts on your hands, it makes your head swim.
00:53:32.000You got Joe Biden, deeply unpopular president, dragging you down because he is literally a human anchor.
00:53:39.000He is just a not animate object that is dragging you to the bottom of the political sea.