kevin mccarthy has no chance to control his caucus. none. my only question, quite frankly, is how many speakers in the house are gonna be in this congress? to? three? for it s possible. i think it s a great point and i don t even think it s guaranteed. but the final question, i think, is, when clinton ran in 96, everyone thought clinton was dead in 94. new greenwich becomes an incredible foil and i need six in that reelection which he trounces bob dole. at the pure level of politics, how much does a house caucus bowed to its most extreme member s help the opposite party incumbent president? the most important factor in 24 will be who the nominees are. that s broadway. but there will be a sense of voters they just said we had better remember yes the democrats did a lot of important things in the last congress but that was more a vote against the republicans than the democrats, what we saw last week. and so they said, we don t want the craziest of the crazy. that s pretty clear.
at the five swing states where the most maga candidates were, that the election deniers, democracy deniers as i call them, they were all defeated. the lincoln project was right on that because we recognize that those states needed to make sure that the maga election deniers did not get into positions of power or you would have a constitutional crisis in 2024. you re not the only only when it stood out to, chris. that s why there is an international more fair starting in the republican party about who to blame. two words, donald trump. the key thing to me here, stewart, is independents. and again. there s a lot of structural changes that are happening to the american electorate overtime, more polarization, a lot more straight ticket voting than we used to. but there are still swing voters. there are still ticket
party incumbent president? the most important factor in 24 will be who the nominees are. that s broadway. but there will be a sense of voters they just said we had better remember yes the democrats did a lot of important things in the last congress but that was more a vote against the republicans than the democrats, what we saw last week. and so they said, we don t want the craziest of the crazy. that s pretty clear. all they re gonna see is well the republicans are gradient if we give them a republican cree president they ll be crazier. let s look at new york. first of all the new democratic leaders from new york. helpful if you want to win back four seats just lost to new york. these are all gonna be occurring in a presidential year. right now kevin mccarthy and all the republicans, they don t act like it. you know, i think the majority is on borrowed time. they just gained it. and so i don t think he s gonna be able to control this at all. he has made his decision. people are
donations for the mega rich. according to new york times, of the 25 top, donors 18 our republican, according to open secrets, and they have outspent democrats by $200 million. billionaires make up 20% of the total republican donations compared with 14. 5% of democratic donations. like peter thiel, the billionaire republican megadonor who spent over $32 million in the senate races of just two of his former employees, j. d. vance and blake masters. the three billionaires who shelled out nearly $20 million for wisconsin republican senate ron johnson s reelection campaign. supreme court citizens united, which paved the way for groups to spend limit lets amounts of money on elections have basically met the billionaires can give as much as they want, often in secret. they can spend until the playing field in the democratic elections in there s not much people can do about. at one person s been trying to take action on this is sheldon whitehouse, democrat from rhode island, and author of the
of the election when scott brown long won and lost her 60 senate. we re here in the west wing is about as far from the west wing show as you can get. but that night he basically said listen, if we give up now it ll be 25 or 30 years before we get health care. and you pointed out there was opposition to that decision in the white house, a lot of senate in the white house. the person most was nancy pelosi. at the end of the day she realized even though we re in a financial crisis, even though it s clear democrats are gonna have a horrible election, we just had to enroll, so even in a neutral environment we re gonna give a lot back. she saw this was an opportunity, really, once in a generation.