it is going to be very hard to get any of these entities, the fbi, the department of homeland security, to take a strong stand against him. and that is fundamentally what we are up against. but i don t think there is any kind of a whitewash going on. i think it is just a very complicated story and people should read into it and make a judgment for themselves. yeah, i would just note that i think the 2022 elections and the aftermath of it to give some credence to the notion that they were for donald trump himself. we didn t see anything like this when he was out of the picture, we had a few people kind of wine and said they lost, kari lake in arizona. but by and large the normal functioning of democracy happened in the absence of this candidate. i want to ask about your role as the new ranking member of house oversight which is gonna be chair machine it s already gonna be the hunter biden show over and oversight. how do you see your role? what do you expect that committee to look
get any of these entities, the fbi, the department of homeland security, to take a strong stand against him. and that is fundamentally what we are up against. but i don t think there is any kind of a whitewash going on. i think it is just a very complicated story and people should read into it and make a judgment for themselves. yeah, i would just note that i think the 2022 elections and the aftermath of it to give some credence to the notion that they were for donald trump himself. we didn t see anything like this when he was out of the picture, we had a few people kind of wine and said they lost, kari lake in arizona. but by and large the normal functioning of democracy happened in the absence of this candidate. i want to ask about your role as the new ranking member of house oversight which is gonna be chair machine it s already gonna be the hunter biden show over and oversight. how do you see your role? what do you expect that committee to look like under a republican gavel i
saying. they re saying our top priority is to investigate hunter biden s laptop. i think the more and more they try to get these frivolous matters out there and say this is what we want to talk about, meritless matters for that matter, it s only going to make biden s approval numbers going up. he is delivering for the american people, and that is what people signed up for in the 2022 midterms. now it s hunter and everybody else. do you remember their obsession, we have to get rid of obamacare and they had nothing. they had no alternative. they bring nothing. you can t beat something with nothing unless you re running against kari lake in arizona, and then you don t have to campaign. thank god for that. i say that as an american that loves democracy. she won. she won. that s fine. but usually you can t beat something with nothing. and to talk about just how lost
warnock is taking this different path. and it isn t necessarily the same path that every democrat in washington is taking. yeah. look, to distill it down to just these were trump endorsed candidates and that s why they lost is an oversimplification. because to your point, kasie, a lot of the candidates that lost, whether we re talking about kari lake in arizona, walkner georgia, blake masters in arizona, tudor dixon in michigan even, even though you could maybe argument was a little tiny bit more moderate than the others i listed out. maybe. but they all still ran trumpian campaigns. they all embraced the vast majority of his talking points. they all cast doubt on the 2020 election. and they ran full-on towards trump. and they weren t the only ones that did it. so they had agency there. they decided to do that. and then they lost their races for it. i think that when paul was talking about what democrats can learn from warnock, to me it
michigan, twitter dixon and the arizona republican for governor and secretary of state, kari lake, mark finchem. out of all of them, kari lake in arizona came the closest. she is a longtime local news anchor, the most charismatic at the bunch. also, i think the most dangerous. she ran a very trumpy campaign, filled with lies, threats and conspiracies. she told the press that she would teach them how to do their jobs when she got elected, but she did lose, which brings us to the other main concern around these midterms. after the 2020 election, donald trump annihilated the norm in american politics, loser concedes after an election defeat. that s an important ritual, it signals functionally the end of the campaign. it s looking for legitimacy more so than any quorum initiated process. the ex president never conceded in 2020, he still has not. i assume he never will. so this time around, people were concerned that those