00:01:30.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:42.000Hey guys, you guys have heard me talk with my friend Kelly Shackelford before.
00:01:47.000Kelly Shackelford from First Liberty is a good person.
00:01:50.000Look, we've talked about court packing.
00:01:52.000It's the tool of left-wing authoritarians.
00:01:54.000Hugo Chavez packed Venezuela's Supreme Court with his socialist cronies and paved the way for his tyrannical regime.
00:02:00.000But now Joe Biden and American socialist radicals want to pack our Supreme Court with four new liberal justices.
00:02:07.000Court packing isn't some policy idea to improve our courts.
00:02:10.000It's a coup, a coup to take away your constitutional freedoms and turn America into a socialist country.
00:02:16.000That's why First Liberty Institute, the largest legal organization in the nation dedicated to defending religious liberty in America, is doing something about it.
00:02:23.000First Liberty recently launched supremecou.com.
00:02:27.000That's supremecou.com to serve as a one-stop shop in the fight against court packing and help patriots like you learn the truth about what's happening in the courts.
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00:04:15.000So, the Congress becomes sort of a megaphone for PR.
00:04:21.000We believe that the political process is sort of stuck.
00:04:27.000It's in Schumer and Pelosi's hands, in Biden's hands.
00:04:30.000And so, if you're a Republican right now, the only way to effectuate real change is to inspire the grassroots, get everybody knowledgeable about what's going on, and push back at a grassroots local level.
00:04:44.000However, and by the way, I want to just give us a little hot tip to Charlie and the show here.
00:04:50.000We've been at the front of the critical race theory, the school boards discussion, and so many different areas.
00:04:58.000We have been out front in vaccine, mandatory vaccines.
00:05:02.000We've pushed back where and how we can.
00:05:04.000And frankly, we've been having a tremendous amount of success.
00:05:07.000And the conservative movement is coalescing behind these initiatives in a way that we haven't seen in quite some time, since really the Tea Party movement of 2010.
00:05:15.000So, lots of good news to report in the face of tremendous odds.
00:05:19.000Things are trending well towards 2022.
00:05:22.000But the question then becomes: what happens in between now and then?
00:05:28.000Now, we have avoided this whole sort of infrastructure versus American families plan discussion that's going on in Washington a little bit just because, frankly, it's going to take place one way or the other.
00:05:43.000Now, we do want to push back on certain aspects of it.
00:05:47.000Of course, it's not to say it's not important.
00:05:49.000It's not to say that there isn't aspects within this plan that are tremendously important, but frankly, a lot of it gets lost in this nuance of Washington bickering, of Washington positioning and posturing.
00:06:03.000And really, the front lines of the culture war is the culture war.
00:06:06.000It's what's happening in cities and towns and schools across the country.
00:06:11.000But nevertheless, this particular piece caught our eye yesterday, and we've got lots to talk about.
00:06:17.000The NSA spying on Tucker Carlson, we're going to get there.
00:06:19.000We're going to talk about all of that.
00:06:21.000We're going to talk about the laws that were enacted at various places within the last 40, 50 years that made that something that was possible in the first place.
00:06:30.000We're going to talk a little bit about immigration.
00:06:32.000We're going to talk about Miss USA, Paget, Nevada.
00:06:58.000He's good friends of the show, good friends with Charlie.
00:07:01.000The guy is up there out front taking the slings and arrows for all of us, telling the truth at the tip of the spear, making it easier for all of us around the country and people like us that have shows and platforms like this to also tell the truth.
00:07:15.000Because remember, folks, when one person tells the truth, it gets easier for all of us to tell the truth.
00:07:22.000So we have to keep telling the truthly, proudly, boldly, and without fear or reservation.
00:07:27.000Because if we keep speaking the truth, the censors will not win.
00:08:00.000And now, what we're having is the blight, this urban blight is setting in because of the defund the police movement, because of the Democrats' incessant attack on the rule of law in California.
00:08:12.000You can steal up to $1,000 at a local CVS or a grocery store and basically walk out unaccosted.
00:08:19.000It's a misdemeanor that is not worth the paperwork for the police to even file.
00:08:23.000And it's, by the way, this sort of petty theft is happening at record numbers in cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles.
00:08:31.000It's an absolute assault on law-abiding Americans, on the rule of law, on businesses.
00:08:36.000Urban blight is coming, unfortunately.
00:08:39.000One of our friends, Jack Posobiec, always likes to say: if you are in the cities, get out.
00:08:43.000Now, New York City is a wonderful place in so many ways.
00:08:55.000This assault on the suburbs that Tucker exposed last night, which is part of this infrastructure bill, which again, there's 11 Republicans that are working with the Biden administration and the Democrats in the Senate to get this passed.
00:09:09.000They are maybe knowingly or unknowingly contributing to the potential destruction of the American suburbs.
00:09:17.000Play clip 27, talking about Westchester, New York.
00:09:20.000In early 2009, more than 12 years ago, the Obama administration made a surprisingly, probably unprecedented accusation against Westchester County, New York, a pretty liberal place.
00:09:33.000According to the Obama administration, Westchester was an instrument of white supremacy.
00:09:37.000The problem was the buildings they lived in.
00:09:41.000All those single-family homes, row upon leafy row, set back from the street, well-tended lawns, mailboxes.
00:09:48.000Those are all examples of racism, literally structural racism.
00:09:54.000And the only solution the Obama people announced was much greater density, more subsidized housing complexes in Westchester, more high-rise apartment buildings.
00:10:04.000Row upon leafy row of suburban single-family homes lined up beautifully with the backdrop upon them in the city driving distance away, but in a relatively ideal location.
00:10:18.000You know, I'm sort of reminded now that we're talking about New York of a friends episode at the end where they're all sort of moving out of the city and they're having kids and they just put an offer on a house and outside of the city.
00:10:31.000I don't remember if that was in Westchester, New York, but nevertheless, this is something that is sort of built into the American idea, this American dream.
00:11:48.000In the midst of inflationary pressures on the economy, that's right.
00:11:52.000Going to, in a bipartisan fashion, spend another $1.2 trillion.
00:11:57.000And by the way, this is, there's some debate on whether or not it's tied to the American Families Plan Act, which we will get to later in this hour.
00:12:04.000Nevertheless, let's keep going down this path.
00:12:06.000I think it's important that we really build this out.
00:12:09.000So, Tucker makes the point that the target on the suburbans, the suburban America's back is because suburbs tend to vote purple, meaning that they are a toss-up zone.
00:12:31.000So, when you are making an argument for negotiating in good faith with the Democrats, as some Senate Republicans like Mitt Romney are apt to do, we always must remember that their ultimate goal is to strip all power from conservatives, to eliminate things like local control of your own neighborhoods and your zoning, not to mention your own voting rights, and to put that into the federal hands, where guess what?
00:12:59.000The Democrats will be waiting with open hands and open arms to enact the type of radical policies pushed by AOC and other radical Democrats in Washington.
00:13:12.000Now, I think it does, it is worth mentioning who these Republicans are, right?
00:13:17.000Because in order to beat the filibuster, you need 60 in the Senate.
00:13:22.000So, you've got Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, no surprise, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah, the gem Mitt Romney, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, the weather vane Lindsey Graham, Todd Young of Indiana, and Tom Tillis of North Carolina, Senator Jerry Morgan of Kansas added his support later Wednesday, but he is an outlier.
00:13:49.000He's basically saying you can't tie this to a reconciliation plan with American Families Plan and get his support.
00:14:32.000So you have to remember that when Democrats look at the suburbs, they look at a vestige of racialized America.
00:14:40.000They think that because of redlining, because of these different things in our nation's past, which were not good, which were amended in the 1968 Fair Housing Act, by the way, it's always, since 1968, it's been illegal to discriminate renters or homeowners based on their ethnicity.
00:14:57.000But nevertheless, they have to work to undo this.
00:15:01.000They're working overtime to undo this systemic oppression that black and brown families, they believe, can't afford homes in the suburbs.
00:15:24.000And so this is a line from the USA Today piece, which I just think is just horrific.
00:15:33.000Biden's proposal would award grants and tax credits to cities that change zoning laws to bolster more, here's the word, equitable access to affordable housing.
00:15:42.000A house with a white picket fence and a big backyard for a 4th of July barbecue may be a staple of the American dream.
00:15:48.000But experts and local politicians, that's that word again, experts.
00:15:51.000If you see the word experts in an article, probably is that there's an agenda behind it.
00:15:57.000Say multifamily zoning is key to combating climate change, racial injustice, and the nation's growing affordable housing crisis.
00:16:05.000So what they want to do, folks, instead of fixing your city, instead of getting rid of crime, they want to ruin your suburbs.
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00:17:21.000As always, Donald Trump was right about something that everybody mocked him for and told him he was a giant liar about.
00:17:30.000So Trump during the election brought this up all the time that Joe Biden wants to destroy the suburbs.
00:17:38.000And it sounded sort of crazy and right.
00:17:40.000It's like, oh, come on, you're being hyperbolic, aren't you, President Trump?
00:17:53.000The Democrats in D.C. have been and want to, at a much higher level, abolish our beautiful and successful suburbs by placing far-left Washington bureaucrats in charge of local zoning decisions.
00:18:07.000They're absolutely determined to eliminate single-family zoning, destroy the value of houses and communities already built.
00:18:16.000Joe Biden and his bosses from the radical left want to significantly multiply what they're doing now.
00:18:25.000And what will be the end result is you will totally destroy the beautiful suburbs.
00:18:54.000Look what he's doing now, the president.
00:18:57.000He's trying to scare because an awful lot of suburbanites are now deciding they're going to vote for me, at least the polling data suggests, as opposed to him.
00:19:05.000And he's talking about, you know, Biden's going to, what he's going to do, he's going to send all these folks out to suburbia.
00:19:11.000They're going to end up with houses out in suburbian, apartments in suburbian.
00:19:15.000Oh, look, he's trying to scare everybody.
00:19:19.000Never forget, folks, that this R-word is the most effective word in the English language, especially in America.
00:19:26.000What they do is they weaponize the racial resentments in this country and some of our past sins.
00:19:31.000Nobody's denying that there was past sins, but what they do is they try and scare us by calling us racist again and again and again.
00:19:38.000Trump's a racist for supporting the suburbs, for people that paid their hard-earned money to buy a piece of land at much expense to support the lifestyle that they seek, the jobs that they work diligently for, hour after hour, day after day, to pay the mortgage and to support their family.
00:19:58.000Oftentimes, remember, the family is what the suburbs support.
00:20:02.000The family is what draws so many to the suburbs.
00:20:06.000And so instead of fixing the problems in the city, they want to destroy your suburbs, folks.
00:20:16.000And they tell you that, you know, why this infrastructure plan that is getting bipartisan support, let's go back to that fact.
00:20:22.000We need to raise the alarm bells and tell these Republicans they need to stop working in good faith with Joe Biden because he is not working in good faith with them.
00:20:31.000And we'll get into that in just one second, but I want to play one more.
00:20:34.000So if you're sitting there wondering, how on earth is infrastructure tied to this concept of equity, which again is just Marxism by another word?
00:20:44.000It's redistributive policies from on high Washington.
00:20:50.000So if you're asking yourself, how on earth is infrastructure and racial equity and all this nonsense that they're spewing out of Washington, how is that connected?
00:21:03.000Just ask Budige, our wonderful Secretary of Transportation.
00:21:11.000Butigej essentially says that the highway system, which was from Eisenhower, right, in the 1950s, was actually designed to separate communities of color from their white counterparts.
00:21:25.000And we also have Ianna Presley saying essentially the same thing, clip 30, that infrastructure and housing justice are all interconnected.
00:21:49.000Transit, public transit justice is infrastructure.
00:21:53.000And so these bold investments must be made to support workers and families in order for us to have a just, equitable, and robust recovery from this pandemic.
00:22:06.000Democrats like to play word games in order to confuse us, in order to scare us into not passing common sense legislation and not fighting against obviously bad policy, like destroying the suburbs.
00:23:36.000And so, of course, your roads are racist.
00:23:38.000Now, why is this actually all tied in?
00:23:40.000Because what they are doing is Washington is going to tie federal grants for your roadways to whether or not you get rid of these restrictive zoning laws.
00:23:54.000Now, zoning has always been one of the most local decisions that you could make.
00:23:58.000It is up to a town to make these decisions.
00:24:01.000If a town wants to create a spread out community, that's up to the town.
00:24:05.000If the town wants dense and urban living environments, that's up to the town.
00:24:12.000But they want to take away local ownership.
00:24:15.000They want to take away your right to decide your own community and how it's built and how it's comprised and how it's constituted.
00:24:22.000And the reason, again, is all about power.
00:24:25.000Now, I want to talk about something called the tragedy of the commons.
00:24:30.000The tragedy of the commons is what happens in our major cities.
00:24:34.000When no one owns anything, we get the tragedy of the commons.
00:24:39.000And what it is, it's essentially the mass consumption of a scarce resource really, really quickly, because if you don't get it quick, nobody will get it.
00:24:51.000Now, the tragedy of the commons was actually established, this concept, in a 1968 peer-reviewed journal, Science, by a guy named Garrett Hardin, who was an evolutionary biologist.
00:25:03.000So he was actually looking at grazing issues in England because certain grazable pasture lands had been given to cooperatives and had been made public.
00:25:14.000And what's interesting about this is that Garrett Hardin, Garrett Hardin, in 1968 actually advocated that the solution to the tragedy of the commons is private ownership.
00:25:26.000Because he noticed that grazing lands held as private property will see their use limited by the prudence of the landholder in order to preserve the value of the land and health of the herd.
00:25:39.000Let me say that again, that private property will see the use of what is limited and controlled and protected by the prudence of the landholder in order to preserve the value of the land and the health of the herd.
00:25:54.000So some of you might have seen this story that was coming out about BlackRock.
00:25:58.000This is a massive, massive, massive firm, trillions under assets that they control.
00:26:04.000And they're buying up single-family homes in order to create rental properties out of them.
00:26:12.000When you have people that rent, they don't own a stake in the community that they live in, not at least in the same way that somebody who would own.
00:26:19.000Now, if you own a property, you are consumed by local political movements, by different policies that might come forward.
00:26:28.000You are invested in that piece of property, in that community, in a way like somebody who'd rent could not be emotionally, viscerally.
00:26:36.000If your private wealth is tied up in a piece of property, in a single-family home, and your local municipality is trying to destroy the zoning that protects the value of your property, you're going to fight back.
00:26:52.000Tucker Carlson started off his monologue in Westchester, New York, and he finished it by saying that Westchester, New York is an affluent area.
00:27:00.000They had great lawyers, and they ultimately beat the Obama administration, which was trying to remove their zoning restrictions.
00:27:07.000But other places around the country in Oregon and Arizona were not able to beat these rezoning.
00:27:16.000That was just because of grants under HUD, housing and urban development.
00:27:20.000What Biden is planning to do is expand those grants to your roadways.
00:27:26.000Now, you pay your federal taxes, you send money to the federal government, you expect to get certain benefits from the federal government because you fund it.
00:27:35.000And what they're going to do is they're going to hold that back if you want to do the racist, bigoted thing of actually having single-family home zoning.
00:29:27.000I'm not the radical left that, you know, Fox News wants to say that I am.
00:29:31.000And the Charlie Kirk show wants to say I am not beholden to AOC and Ayana Presley and the squad and Corey Bush and all these radical apparatchiks.
00:29:41.000I'm trying to reach out and go across the aisle.
00:29:43.000So what happened, however, is that Joe Biden reaches this deal.
00:29:47.000He brings in all of the moderates in front of the White House.
00:29:56.000Then he says, well, actually, next comes Speaker Pelosi saying, I'm not going to even deal with that infrastructure bill unless it's tied to reconciliation bill that needs zero Republican support, which is the American Families Plan, which is give or take $1.8 trillion is probably going to go way up because it's going to be their one chance to do it.
00:30:19.000Now, there's certain rules that are connected to reconciliation.
00:30:22.000You're supposed to be able to offset all the costs and all this stuff.
00:31:31.000Issued this statement basically saying, you know, since we passed this, or since we announced that we'd reached a deal, the primary focus in Washington has not been about the plan scope scale or provisions, but rather how it relates to the other legislation before Congress, my American Families Plan, which would make historic investment in education, health care, childcare, and tax cuts for families, coupled with other investments in care for our seniors, housing, and clean energy.
00:31:57.000If you have not listened to it, folks, we did a podcast called Joe Biden Wants to Raise Kids.
00:32:14.000What they want to do is they want to create another branch basic or another agency within the government to take care of your kids from the time they can walk till when they get into elementary school, which we already know is controlled by radical leftists and the teachers' unions and they're teaching critical race theory nonsense this way and that way.
00:32:30.000What they want to do is they want to start that even earlier.
00:32:32.000And that's part of the American Families Act, all in the name of equity.
00:32:35.000They want to create an army of woaxers raising your kids.
00:32:39.000And they want to say, I'm giving you all this free money to do it, spending ourselves into oblivion, causing rampant inflation, devaluing the dollar.
00:32:51.000Also, we can raise your kids and call it equity, which again, remember, equity is redistributive social justice agenda.
00:32:59.000Never let them get away with that word equity.
00:33:02.000They throw it in all these articles like it's a good thing.
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00:34:58.000The infrastructure plan that is being negotiated with Senate Republicans' help, in good faith, presumably, Joe Biden wants to tie it to his family's plan.
00:35:09.000Now, this is a classic example of wanting to get your cake and eat it too.
00:35:15.000And as a matter of fact, we have some sound from Tom Cotton, Clip 22, Senator Tom Cotton describing that it's a double cross of the first rate.
00:35:33.000Instead of it being $2 trillion, we've come down to $1.2 trillion, which I guess is supposed to be a good thing.
00:35:39.000And the Republicans can come home and say, hey, look, we limited Washington's runaway spending by only passing $1.2 trillion in infrastructure that, by the way, is also going to potentially destroy the suburbs and eliminate local municipalities' control over their own zoning laws.
00:35:56.000Gonna federalize everything, take everything to Washington and control your lives from unelected bureaucrats in the fourth branch of government known as the administrative state.
00:36:08.000Nevertheless, Tom Cotton says it right.
00:36:10.000Let's play cut 22, talking about the double crossing of the Republicans.
00:36:15.000Yeah, Harris, it was pretty remarkable last week.
00:36:18.000Washington is a place of a lot of bad faith and even double crossing, but I'm not sure I've ever seen someone double cross his negotiating partners in the span of just two hours when Joe Biden had one press conference with those Republican and Democratic senators to celebrate the deal.
00:36:31.000Then two hours later, said he wouldn't sign it unless he got a multi-trillion dollar blowout spending bill.
00:36:51.000Nevertheless, the Biden administration gets their win.
00:36:55.000They get their photo op and they get their cake and they get to eat it too because what they're going to do is attempt to pass this behemoth of a spending bill called the American Families Plan Act.
00:37:06.000Now, I'm trying to break this down in understandable terms for you all.
00:38:34.000But if they think in reconciliation, I'm going to throw caution to the wind and go to $5 trillion or $6 trillion when we can only afford $1 trillion or $1.5 trillion or maybe $2 trillion.
00:39:53.000Senator Bernie Sanders tweeted, let me be clear, there will not be a bipartisan infrastructure deal without a reconciliation bill that substantially improves the lives of working families and combats the existential threat of climate change.
00:40:54.000It took me all morning to figure it out.
00:40:56.000As a matter of fact, we've been studying this for weeks.
00:40:58.000$1.2 trillion is a bipartisan deal in good faith between the Senate Republicans and Joe Biden.
00:41:08.000Then you've got this other bill, the American Families Plan, which is connected to it.
00:41:16.000Joe Biden kind of put his bipartisan deal, his photo op deal, in jeopardy by saying it had to be tied to the American Families Plan through reconciliation, which means he needs Manchin and Cinema's support because they're the only ones standing in his way.
00:41:34.000He issues this long and windy statement saying, ah, well, they can attempt to defeat the bill in good faith, and I'm going to attempt to pass it.
00:41:41.000I've always been very clear about that.
00:41:48.000So if you're a Democrat, you're saying, okay, good news.
00:41:53.000We have Manchin's commitment to be in on a reconciliation bill.
00:41:58.000The bad news is that our progressive wing of the party is now going to be splintering because he's only willing to go up as high as $2 trillion.
00:42:05.000That doesn't get all of our wish list accomplished.
00:42:08.000So again, you got Sanders as low as five, but probably it's six.
00:42:50.000So the road ahead is unsure because, as the New York Times admits on Tuesday, this crumbling bipartisan infrastructure plan is exposing cracks in the Democrat coalition.
00:43:05.000The brewing fight, which pits progressives against moderates, more aligned with the president's tactics, is exposing cracks in the party's fragile strategy for enacting its economic plans, the Times wrote.
00:43:17.000President Joe Biden and Republicans struck a $1.2 trillion deal that excludes far-left wish list items that Republicans have rejected, such as universal preschool and community college access, a healthcare expansion, and a broad effort to combat climate change.
00:43:30.000Now, again, there's two buckets into which Democrats will justify anything.
00:43:36.000That's climate change and racism, systemic racism.
00:43:41.000So you just say, oh, we're combating climate change.
00:43:44.000They literally will say that single-family homes are the reason to unwind those from a zoning standpoint is because it's climate justice.
00:44:21.000But this is, and so, and then, by the way, is there Joe Biden walks it back?
00:44:24.000He's, ah, no, no, no, it's not tied to it.
00:44:26.000This is really frustrating the progressive wing of the Democrat Party.
00:44:31.000So you got to remember, this $1.2 trillion deal excludes wishlist items because the Republicans have rejected it, such as universal preschool and community college access, a healthcare expansion, and a broad effort to combat climate change.
00:44:45.000Now, the Republicans are saying, well, you've got to come up with ways to pay for this.
00:44:47.000So they have conceded $40 billion to enlarge the IRS.
00:44:52.000They're going to weaponize the IRS to find money that they think is out there and rightly due to the federal government.
00:45:00.000If anybody remembers the Obama administration, how the IRS was weaponized against Republicans and conservatives, you should be very, very afraid of that.
00:45:08.000And right on queue, President Trump has a statement calling out these Republicans.
00:45:14.000So sad to see certain rhino-Republican senators go back and forth to the White House and continually get nothing for infrastructure, anything else.
00:45:21.000When will they learn they are being played with and used by the radical left?
00:45:57.000I think we need to know our enemy, and I say this, our enemy in a political sense, but really, frankly, in an ideological sense, these are anti-American political radicals that are operating within the chambers of Congress.
00:46:17.000A socialist, a guy who has no idea about economics and what it means to pay a bill, is literally in charge of the budget committee.
00:46:24.000So, Representative Jaya Paul, Democrat from Washington, told the Times the president can say he's bipartisan.
00:46:30.000He can go out and support the deal, but at the end of the day, if he wants it, he's going to have to have the support to support our priorities, meaning the radical, the radical leftists.
00:46:39.000Ilhan Omar also explained that, quote, it's really important to know that nothing is going to get accomplished by doing that, namely this bipartisan deal.
00:46:47.000She said about Biden's efforts to promote the bipartisan plan across the country.
00:46:50.000It's clear a majority of the Democratic caucus, whether progressive or not, is interested in delivering and that delivery will only happen if progressives are on board.
00:47:00.000They're wielding their power as best they can.
00:47:02.000They understand that politics is a game of the Overton window.
00:47:07.000Expand the Overton window as far in your direction as you can to make the outrageous seem reasonable and ultimately the reasonable will be passed through Congress.
00:47:16.000However, there's a couple moderates pushing back, and these are the people to keep your eye on.
00:47:20.000Representative Tom Malinovsky, Democrat New Jersey, disagreed with his party members and told the Times the Democrats should not focus on the far left's priorities and pass a narrower bipartisan bill.
00:47:30.000We're going, quote, we're going to do what we should have done from the start, which is to try to pass a good bipartisan bill, and then Democrats as the majority party will try to legislate.
00:47:40.000Now, remember, this is all about 2022.
00:47:42.000The Democrats are not sure the best way to defend their very slim majority in the House.
00:47:47.000Is it to go moderate, get a bipartisan photo-op bill that doesn't accomplish their wish list items, or is it to go radical and say we delivered on the transformative policies we promised?
00:47:58.000That is the question facing the Democrat Party.
00:48:00.000It's not yet clear which direction they're going to go, but folks, it's still too close to call.
00:48:09.000Thanks so much, everybody, for listening.
00:48:11.000What a messed up little puzzle that was.