The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson joins host Molly Jong-Fast to react to a clip of Donald Trump boasting that the country is “making a fricking fortune” from oil while Americans struggle with high gas prices. He calls it classic Trump failing to read the room and jokes that Trump seems to be trying to lose. The two then dig into the state of the midterms: polls aren’t tightening the way they usually do before an election, Democrats hold steady leads in several states, and Republicans have poured enormous sums into Texas with little to show for Ken Paxton. They look at early voting among young, low-frequency Hispanic voters in Texas who are angry about the economy, immigration enforcement and ICE. Wilson argues that tariffs were the inflection point that drove away casual MAGA supporters, and the pair name tariffs, the Epstein files and the Middle East war as a “trifecta” that has damaged Trump’s coalition. They also mock Todd Blanche’s defense of the Justice Department wading into Alaska’s Senate race and compare this cycle to the wave elections of 1974, 1980, 1994 and 2006, stressing that voters can’t spin away gas and grocery prices. In the final stretch, Wilson urges Democrats not to grow complacent, to vote early and to stay focused on the economy and corruption, while predicting a last-minute stunt from Trump. The conversation closes with his scathing breakdown of Vivek Ramaswamy’s widely condemned ad about Amy Acton’s estranged mother, which he says has backfired so badly that it could hand Ohio a Democratic governor and haunt J.D. Vance, who defended it.
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Hi Guys, YoHo and a bottle of rum…
"In-art-tick-que-a-bull" 👀
The polls aren't tightening up this time, because the GOP has the market cornered on puckering….👈👀
We don't need a presidency!
Hi Guys, the crowd behind trump………..
Thank you for saying president Trump is a better president than Hillary Clinton 😊
I agree Molly….those of us who've been paying attention and were alarmed from the get-go, have lost a decade of our lives to this greatest political debacle and danger to our democracy we've ever faced. And even though it looks like this nightmare is FINALLY winding down, Trump & Co aren't finished with pursuing the suffering and punishment against the American people and his targeted enemies.
Trump's disinhibition isn't due to exhaustion. It's one of the symptoms of frontal temporal degeneracy.
All I know is that the democrats have won every special election that matters And that was even before this stupid war
If he loses, he has an excuse to never accomplish anything. He can just bitch for the rest of his miserable life.
But he stole 10 years of my life…….and I want a refund, I don’t have more than 30 years left
Price to fill my work van with regular gas now exceeds $300 NZD.
I will never buy another American product in my lifetime.
I will never step onto American soil ever again.
Donald Trump is stuck on stupidity He favorite line is they don’t have nuclear weapons. I’m so tired of him saying that over and over again every country has something to protect themselves He not a well man VOTE BLUE to save our country democracy
Great show!💙💙💙
I already early voted. “GO BLUE RICK”
He just believes he can say whatever he wants. And no one tells him the truth.
I wish I was as optimistic as Rick and Molly.
These people are cheering for the wrong things unless they own an oil company
You named the men responsible for this ad. Now that we know who they are this should end their political careers. Same goes for Vivek the Smarmy.
wants to lose so he can get a high draft choice in 27
Unfortunately Trump is reading the room because the sheep just laugh at him while he degrades them, steals from them, lies to them.
At the last Moments b4 Midterms I'm looking 4 The White House & Fox News 2 Spew Breaking News of a Trans-gender Bigfoot thats Been Found in the Appalachian Mountains with Red Dot Ballots & Polling Machines😮 !!! Lololol
At this point Trump is a Lost Dung Beetles Dung Ball,,after a Lizard came along & spotted the Beetle & ate him 😮 !!! Lolol as the Dung Ball Bakes in the Sahara Sun,,Which Explains the Overwhelming Tan.😢..Lolol
I cringe when I hear anyone comparing how voters reacted in 1994, 2000, etc etc to NOW. We are in categorically different territory.
"We all lost a decade to this man." #Truth not to mention lost family, friends, churches..
🎉 Molly and Rick 🎉
Vote early. It was awesome. Go team democracy! Let's get it done.
I don't know a single Dem who is complacent. We are motivated by FURY!
We are done with "High ground!"
Mark Elias needs a Nobel!
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Ignore all the polls..we thought Harris had it too…VOTE EARLY PEOPLE
No rest for the weary. Now, get back to work.
Lisa Murkowski lost the GOP primary in 2010 and still won the general as a write-in candidate. I'm pretty sure the Republicans fielded a Lisa Murdoch or Lisa Malkovich or something like that so that if a voter wrote "Lisa M" on their ballot it couldn't be counted. This happened in Alaska just 16 years ago. You can tell how shameless the GOP has become, hypocrisy just doesn't register anymore.
Hearing Rick Wilson talk about the Ramaswamy ad is poetry.
Texas is Blue Dog Democrat country 💙. And we need a strong strong 💪 dogs 🐕 to lead this country out of this mire we're in.
Marc Elias said Mary Peltola would be seated as Senator in Alaska and he would personally send a picture of it to Todd Blanche for him to hang in his office.
I’m gonna be 64 in a month. I know that I will not be needed nor fed as McCartney queried back in the day. I am totally exhausted and aghast every minute with this regime.
3:30 It pains me to say this but diesel fuel is hard to set on fire with matches so best stick to your gasoline. Top tip.
I’m 72 and all of this timeline has me absolutely exhausted and worried. My entire retirement has been Trump 24/7 . It wasn’t supposed to be like this at all. I had a stressful job in an ICU. I’m tough. I’m not invincible!
Early voting is very busy here in CT !!!