happy new year, jen. i think you and speaker pelosi just launched a thousand memes. there will now be toys that when you activate them, they say, in nancy pelosi s voice, just win, baby. that is now going to be a thing from here on out. we re waiting. marketing people out there, order them. order them. exactly. we ll sell them on the show. just win, baby. just win, baby. thanks, jen. much appreciated. thank you. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. so, we have two major parties in our country. a week from today we re going to have the first votes in one of those parties, in the republican party, to decide who the winner will be of their contested primary for the republican party s presidential nominating contest this year. and you know all that. but it s worth just, sort of, going back to brass tacks, i think, for a second. in a two-party system, each party is important, right? in a two-party system, the relative strength, the relative skill, the orga
his election denier supporters when she ran in 2022 to become michigan secretary of state. she lost very badly. she lost by 14 points. i should tell you that she denies the existence of that election result as well. she refuses to admit that she lost, let alone by that huge margin. after nevertheless losing that race, she was elected to take over the state republican party and become its chair. under her leadership, the party fell hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt. i m not sure whether that hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt includes the more than $100,000 that the party, under her ldership, agreed to pay to the qanon promoting hollywood actor, jim ka veezal, to make a speech at a recent michigan republican party event. over $100,000 for jim when the republican party is bankrupt in that state. or at least deeply in debt. there have also been multiple physical confrontations, fights and stuff, at official michigan