political sooth sayers were predicting? if last night s primary results were any indication, we might have some clues that, look, that may not hit so hard after all. here s the first clue. have we been watching a little news coverage on the on the edge of our seat? i i i honestly can t believe it. i cannot believe it. well, that s democrat pat ryan. he apparently surprised himself that he won a special election against a republican in a new york swing district that many expected to swing toward the gop. after all, biden only won the district by what a point and a half in 2020? when it all comes to midterm elections, if past is prologue, the party in the oval office doesn t really get the benefit of the spoils. and that leads us to number two clue number two. i ll let pat ryan explain that one too. and i think these supreme court decisions especially, on both guns and on roe, struck a real nerve that s much deeper than some of the other issues people are expe
i feel like merrick garland is so in over his head on this. they failed to predict what the outcome was going to be. he gave his hostage video statement. they haven t really answered any direct questions. they haven t leaked though. i want to say when we talk about this let s be fair though. i don t think he s in over his head in the sense of be inept. i think he really is a man of credentials. i also think a lot of the statements we re talking about, we have to in part all ourselves out in the media and pundit ri and social media that tries to get ahead of it and fill in the gaps. doj didn t make the points we re talking about. i don t think it s all coming from doj to suggest that it s nuclear documents, acceptance of the classified documents. they haven t put that out. that s part of your point. merrick garland, attorney general, former federal judge, the guy who handled the oklahoma city bombing, he s not incompetent. he knows what he s doing. he s an old washington hand. i t
connected nights one and two and across most of the candidates and e pet mipitomized elizabeth there was a critique of the trump economy, which i thought was interesting because so often in the pundit ri it s concedeed as a strength. i think her mastery of policy is extraordinary and that was an extraordinary speech that she gave, and it has resonance with the american people. the problem that she has is people would much rather talk about the food fight that was going on the next night than they would about elizabeth warren s policies. nonetheless, i think elizabeth is going to be one of the top candidates going into the convention most likely unless there s a major stumble. i think there s probably room for four or five people to go well past the first four states. and she ll most likely be one of them. i thought the economic story telling was sort of interesting and central because you could tell that they all understand how key that is. like there s that old carl rove
thought that this campaign would be fought on totally different ground on that subject. in his book and his previous sort of pundit ri, romney was arguing for not getting tough with china. was arguing against efforts by the previous administration and the obama administration to confront china on trade issues. now he s saying, this is a door mat. i m the one who will be tough. that was romney 2.0. that s clear that s the case. one of the specific cases that romney criticized the president on was the tire dumping case, which has resulted in jobs in cooper tire and finley, ohio. mitt romney just senses an opportunity here. there s no real there s been no real interest in his career in standing up to china. the president is doing the right thing. i urged him to be a bit more aggressive. he needs to move more aggressive