d.c. conventional wisdom. the summer beginning with democrats almost fatalistic about losing the house. here are today s headlines. a shift in trends showing democrats daring to dream, the times reported on the rebound. the post reporting democrats showing momentum in these recent special elections, which is hard data. the d.c. website axios reports on the democrats now stunning turnaround. now, first, this is classic washington a narrative zigs and zags. everything gets exaggerated. there s a lot of self-interested reasons that people need to make things so histrionic. i can also tell you tonight, the reason this is the top story here where we try not to be histrionic is because there is hard data showing democrats improving. and at this point they might start asking themselves, well, how did we get here? they may ask themselves, where does that midterm highway go? same as it ever was. that s of course how the talking heads and david byrne memorably put it. the numbers
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wild reaction. take a look. is joe biden let s put it exactly the way it is. is joe biden buying votes for $10,000 vote pell grants? it s absolutely outrageous. this is the autobiography of the american empire collapsing before our eyes. it would be like someone who s going through heroin, go through withdrawals, giving them another bump of heroin. my family paid for my education. they worked hard for their money. this is a giveaway, and it s disgusting. you come at this as a political expert, as well as someone involved in the american educational system, as well as the way it can be oppressively expensive. we talk about what s better or worse. i m not shout-out to the 1990s about everything people, but mathematically, the system was more affordable for a variety of reasons then as opposed to now. what do you see in this
difference. maybe we ll see where people are if they really believe this thing they re saying about well, as soon as we get fda approval, we ll get the vaccine. now we have it. what s your excuse now? well, they shouldn t have one. now, look, the only carveout is they didn t approve it for kids yet, right? that s because they don t have enough time and data and they have to follow the rules, which should be reminded to people when they say hey, i heard that the fda approval was shortcut. it wasn t. it wasn t short circuited. i told you that would happen. we had a conversation today stupid is always obvious. i m saying that the fda commissioner under trump was just on and says he doesn t believe that. so there is your boy saying that he doesn t accept that so then don t listen to it if that s u your inclination of kind of political prism. my point is this, this country is divided. it is the vaccinated and unvaccinated. the vaccinated are growing majority. they are republican, de