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00:02:53.980Some Democrats heading into the midterms increasingly convinced that the path back to power requires candidates who are angrier, more confrontational, and considerably further to the left.
00:03:04.580A string of recent primary victories giving the party's Democratic Socialist wing new momentum while raising a far more consequential question.
00:03:11.880Can the movement that is thriving in some of America's bluest districts actually win the competitive races that will determine control of Congress and key state governments?
00:03:21.380New York City's Socialist Mayor Zoram Mamdani, in a recent interview with ABC News, pointing to the success of several congressional candidates he endorsed as evidence voters are embracing the movement's message.
00:03:31.980When we're talking about these incredible congressional candidates, they won their races and they won their races with a vision of what politics should be and one that actually speaks to working people.
00:03:41.960And for a lot of people who ask themselves, what does democratic socialism mean? And you can tell them the answer at a theoretical level. It's the choice to extend democracy from the ballot box the rest of their lives.
00:03:52.760Those candidates, however, were running in heavily democratic districts where winning the primary essentially guarantees victory in November.
00:04:01.200The real test, coming in the races where Democrats still have to win over the middle.0.96
00:04:05.320In Wisconsin, Democratic Socialist State Representative Francesca Hong0.99
00:04:08.900competing for the Democrat nomination for governor,
00:04:11.900arguing that an unapologetically progressive economic agenda can succeed statewide.
00:04:17.520The New York Times reporting Hong's growing strength alarming more moderate Democrats,
00:04:21.720who fear a candidate embraced by the socialist left,
00:04:24.920may struggle to capture the political middle in one of the country's most closely divided states.
00:04:30.220Hong making opposition to new data centers a centerpiece of her campaign, an issue attracting0.98
00:04:35.660voters across traditional party lines. Her past positions, however, are fueling concerns
00:04:40.500about whether that appeal can survive a statewide general election. Hong previously called for
00:04:46.080defunding and eventually abolishing the police. Comments that have resurfaced as moderate Democrats
00:04:51.340question whether her brand of politics can win enough voters in the middle. Meanwhile, Democrats
00:04:55.960are already fighting over who should replace Senate nominee Graham Plattner, even before he
00:05:00.320has agreed to leave the race. Plattner, a far-left progressive, now facing calls to withdraw after a
00:05:06.580former girlfriend accused him of sexual assault, an allegation he categorically denies. Democrats
00:05:12.340are demanding he withdraw before a July 13th deadline that could allow the party to replace
00:05:17.440him on the ballot. The Times reporting the top Democrat super PAC now threatening to redirect
00:05:23.060$24 million in Maine advertising to other states if Plattner remains in the race.
00:05:28.820Now, many on the left insisting that party leaders cannot simply erase the result of a primary
00:05:33.740in which voters rejected the Moore establishment option and selected Plattner. Independent
00:05:38.820journalist Glenn Greenwald posting to X, quote, it would be anti-democratic in the extreme to
00:05:43.860nominate some establishment hack with Democrat governor Janet Mills's politics rather than the
00:05:48.900agenda, Maine voters ratified when nominating Plattner. The fight in Maine, adding to a broader
00:05:54.800Democratic struggle over whether the party's progressive energy can translate beyond safe
00:05:59.260blue territory. President Trump now working to make that question central to the midterms,
00:06:04.520repeatedly tying the Democratic Party's socialist wing to communism. Here, several recent speeches.
00:06:10.820Communism is very easy to sell. It destroys everything, but it's very easy. I mean, the
00:06:16.760The problem is, after two or three years, the country is a disaster area.
00:06:49.180Reform UK leader Nigel Farage resigning from Britain's parliament,
00:06:53.600only to immediately announce he will run for the same seat again,
00:06:56.620asking voters to settle the growing controversy surrounding millions of dollars in financial support he received before taking office.
00:07:04.140Farage, one of the principal architects of Brexit,
00:07:06.840spending more than two decades in the European parliament before finally winning his seat in Britain's House of Commons in 2024.
00:07:12.960His anti-mass immigration reform UK party has led or placed near the top of British opinion polling for much of the past year.
00:07:21.820Farage stepping down as the member of parliament representing Clacton yesterday, triggering a special election known in Britain as a by-election.
00:07:29.220The dramatic political gamble coming as Farage faces increasing scrutiny over gifts and other financial benefits that critics argue should have been disclosed.
00:07:38.340Parliament's Standards Commissioner, roughly the British equivalent of a congressional ethics watchdog,
00:07:43.200is investigating whether Farage improperly failed to declare a £5 million gift worth roughly $6.7 million
00:07:50.380from cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harbourn.
00:07:54.420Farage receiving the money in early 2024 when he was not serving in any elected office,
00:07:59.660making him, as he argues, a private citizen when he accepted the gift.
00:08:03.400Farage describing the money as an unconditional personal gift,
00:08:06.340insisting it had nothing to do with his subsequent candidacy or political work
00:08:10.400and did not violate any disclosure rules.
00:08:13.220The controversy expanding over the weekend,
00:08:15.600the Times reporting that Farage also received extensive support
00:08:18.480from longtime political ally George Cottrell.
00:08:21.860Cottrell previously serving eight months in an American prison
00:20:17.760Well, it now looks like the bulk of the costs are going to land with the claimants, which is absolutely terrifying, I imagine, for all seven of them.
00:20:27.560Especially for poor Simon Hughes. I can't imagine that the former lipped MMP has got that kind of cash.
00:20:33.000They all had some kind of special insurance that covered them to a certain extent.
00:20:37.480But whether it goes to this extent, we're yet to find out there's a cost hearing that's already been scheduled for July the 29th and 30th, where these issues are going to be thrashed out.
00:20:46.980but at a hearing a cost hearing last year the judge specifically warned that this case could
00:20:55.760spiral out of control and he expressed some concern about the the seven claimants and wanted
00:21:01.020to know whether they fully understood the risks because he was concerned they weren't fully
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