What's

a good case there? I think, again, to the Senate point, it's completely true.

The Senate almost certainly will still be Democratic after 2028 because of how bad this – how big the margin was in this cycle and because this is the most Republican-friendly cycle.

So that's totally true.

Setting that aside, just bigger picture.

The – and I guess I shouldn't say that I'm optimistic per se, but I can – I'm open to there being a positive outcome or at least not a worst-case scenario outcome because, again, the operative word is can.

I do not necessarily have faith in the entire current Republican political class that they could turn this around.

I guess my question is, Do you think Republicans did this to themselves, or do you think this was just inevitably how this cycle was going to play out given Trump's popularity, the war in Iran, the emerging Democratic consensus around these radical candidates, and just kind of the way that politics and the media works these days?

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Yeah.

A anti-Semitic whistle.

Um, and yeah, he ran this very online, you know, targeted at these very young men, streamer-watching, uh, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, anti-APAC folks, and gained a lot of attention on the internet as a result.

Uh, over the course of his campaign, he kind of shifted somewhat.

He still maintained a lot of that base, but he also started running in a more traditional kind of populist manner, I would say.

He was talking a lot about data centers.

Sure.

So, uh, the piece is, and I encourage everyone to go read this as always on dailywire.com, is titled, "Since When Has a Little Anointing Ever Hurt Anyone?" Subtitle, "A lot of times, actually." So Dylan, why don't you just start by telling us what was the argument that you were making in this, uh, wonderful column?

Yeah.

I noticed in the last, let's say six weeks, four to six weeks, J.D. Vance, our vice president, he's been getting a lot more attention.

Uh, usually vice presidents, we don't really think too much about them.

We don't pay that much attention to what they're doing.

But ever since the Iran negotiation, you know, MOU situation really kicked into high gear, which is, you know, a couple months ago or so, he's really been in the spotlight a lot.

He had the MOU where he was the face of it, and he was out there selling it to everyone.

Like what is, what is it specifically?

That's not what happened that night, correct?

Yeah.

That's why I wanted to go down there, is there's been this online energy around these types of candidates.

There's been a handful of them that have run for certain offices this cycle, but he was really the main one that had seemingly the best organization behind him, the most energy.

He went on Tucker Carlson.

He got endorsed by Nick Fuentes.

He had a real campaign operation.

Yeah

Can you explain for us why?

You might recall a few months back, there was this big kind of online controversy about an amnesty bill that was in Congress that a handful of Republicans had signaled some support for.

It wasn't really going anywhere.

It was kind of an old bill that kind of flashed up again out of nowhere for some reason.

But people got really mad about it at the time.

Salazar is one of the people behind that push.

She has pushed what people would call amnesty, what critics would call amnesty.

Do any of them have a chance of winning some of these primaries tonight?

To me like that, wha- wha- what do you think about that?

The, well, the, what, well, who, who gets to decide what a mass shooting is? You know, there, there's the, there's various databases that track these things and, you know, is a gang shooting where, you know, one gang shoots another and there's, you know, three fatalities or two people get hit, is that a mass shooting? Uh, there, there's no set definition.

I think when people use the term mass shooting, and especially people i- in the mainstream media often use the term mass shooting, they're invoking a, an certain imagery that we all think of as Americans of someone going to a school or going to a big event, shooting, you know, trying to kill dozens of people.

And so, you know, when you have these people that cite these statistics that say, "Oh, there's a mass shooting every single day in America," maybe by certain metrics that might be true, but by the, the imagery that we think of when we think mass shootings, I, I don't think that's accurate.

And so when you look at those types of shootings, um, you know, I think there is a trend that there have been several recently, p- political assassinations in the case of the Kirk shooting, that can be connected to the trans ideology in some way.

Uh, I don't, I wouldn't necessarily paint a massive trend out of it or say it's definitive, but it's certainly worth asking about at this point in time, I think.

Do you?

So my thought on this actually is that I'm not really...