Matt K. Lewis

Now, number four, a lot of this has to do with moderates.

So here's Matt Lewis saying, don't look now.

But not only are Democrats on the cusp of a big midterm night, they're on the verge of electing a bunch of moderate normies who can actually win in red states for months.

It's been widely assumed that the Democrats' progressive era is finally here.

Yes, Peggy Noonan is an establishment Republican.

But Matt Lewis, who was not ever in the quarter's power, but he's a younger movement conservative in his 40s, he wrote a similar column recently.

You know, he's a never-Trumper.

But what they're saying, Tom, is they don't want to bring back the party of George W. Bush.

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A million dollars for anybody that reports voter fraud results in a conviction.

You too, Matt Lewis, could win a million dollars if you find out that this election was fraudulent.

And, of course, we've had reports of ICE agents hanging around early voting locations, things like that, whether ICE could be deployed on Election Day.

So, yeah, there's a lot to be concerned about aside from the question over the polls.

No.

So, you know, what they do is they are throwing this stuff.

So do I agree with all of Al-Qaeda's, you know, politics? Is he associated with the Muslim Brotherhood? I mean, Matt, how many years do we have to deal with these guys to realize that the assumption is that almost everything they say is bullshit?

No, but there is something about his stepsister having tweeted that the mother was involved.

Where are we now?

So where are we now? You know, Matt, I've had a lot of time to think about this because I was telling you before we went on, I, in the last 24 hours, have traveled 6,000 miles by plane.

Literally, I flew to California.

I mean, I personally didn't fly.

That's where that is.

But it now exists because look.

Trump was in South Carolina yesterday, right, Matt? He's going to go to Mississippi.

They're spending money in both of those states.

But I think some of my Republican colleagues have got to come face to face with the fact that one of their chief propagandists, who's putting out this stuff to millions of their supporters every night, is effectively taking Russia's side.

In his column for the Daily Beast, conservative Matt Lewis laid into Republicans who have decided to take sides with Vladimir Putin against Ukraine, calling them posturing appeasers who are in the thrall of the Russian strongman.

He's not going into Ukraine, okay, just so you understand.

He's not gonna go into Ukraine.

We were told, you know, "Well, if you actually are a real conservative, you're going to support the Trump agenda, you're going to go along." How many conservative principles has he tread? I mean, I remember when conservatives believed that character that mattered, that the rule of law mattered, the Constitution mattered, when they were in favor of free trade, when we actually believed in American exceptionalism, when we actually believed in American leadership as the, as the leader of the free world.

And all of that has been trashed, and yet we still have these diehards going, "You, Matt Lewis and Charlie Sykes, you guys are traitors." Okay, by the way, I know in our limited time, can I tell you what I would have really wanted to ask you about this morning?

Let's do it.

You've been talking a lot about JD Vance.

You know, the fact that he end- You know, of, of all the really extraordinary things that happened this year, let, let's go back to Donald Trump's decision to endorse Ken Paxton down in Texas, and I'm, I'm doing this in, in, in the, in the context of '28, that knowing how powerful his endorsement will be, is he capable of endorsing somebody absolutely deplorable and horrible and inconceivable? And my answer would be he's already done that.

He's already endorsed Ken Paxton.

This is a man, by the way, can I just remind people that Donald Trump actually appointed Matt Gaetz to be the attorney general of the United States? Drop the mic there, and think about that.

What is he capable of doing? Does Donald Trump want...

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Joining us now, Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and MSNOW political analyst, and Matt K. Lewis, columnist for The Washington Sun.

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I would say.

Eugene Robinson and Matt K. Lewis are back with us.

Matt, I want to go to that question here is to what extent can J.D. Vance, the vice president, help these down ballot candidates at this point? And to what extent are these Senate and House candidates? You know, we can look at Donald Trump's approval ratings all we want, but are they safe from the consequences of the top of the executive branch?

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So where are we now? With Matt Lewis and Chris Cillizza.

So, Matt, 19 more days.

I'm crossing them off.

It's like when I was a kid and the build-up to Christmas.

I mean, he could just sit in the White House, but I want to talk to you about that.

Everywhere he goes, he says some version of pretend I'm on the ballot, pretend I'm on the ballot.

Is that a good, bad or neutral message for Republicans at this stage, Matt?

All right.

I'm Matt Lewis.

He is Charlie Sykes.

And Charlie, I'm psyched to see you, my friend.

And in many ways, maybe more powerful than nation state.

And it's happening right in front of us.

And here's my question for you, Matt, in which movie, in which scenario are they the good guys? In which scenario do people go like, yes, we need more Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos is with their penis rockets to rule the world.

And I think that's partly why, um, I don't know if you remember this, Charlie, but there was a big thing about a year or two ago on the right where they were sort of saying like, well, actually the hero of A Few Good Men was Jack Nicholson.