Presidency of Bill Clinton

Sure, they're going to throw in a couple of liberals here and there, but they knew, Roger Ailes knew, that there was an audience for conservatives.

And don't forget, we're talking about the 90s, right? We're talking about the height of the Clinton era.

We're also talking about the height of the Clinton scandal.

But nonetheless, it's the height of the Clinton era.

It's the height of, you know, what was the political correctness? And then this upstart comes around and everybody says that they're not real.

They're lying to you.

This doesn't matter enough." So it's not just people who have Israel as top of mind.

It's a donor class that's very much been entrenched going back to the Clinton era, that's very much entrenched in ideas of we must be seen as strong on the world stage and militaristically strong relative to the Republicans.

We can't afford to be seen as, the narrative was very much abandoning our ally Israel in the face of Hamas and also increased barrages from Iran.

That misses, of course, growing anti-war sentiment that someone like a Donald Trump or JD Vance were actually speaking to.

I think there's a real, based on my ongoing reporting, there's a real fight among senior Democrats in the apparatus of the party, people who are in finance roles, fundraising, about whether Gaza will matter.

That's still not resolved.

And hope among a lot of figures who remain involved and who have had positions of power going back again to the Clinton era is to say this was a blip.

This didn't matter.

There are only about six to eight races that are genuinely in question, and the Democrats would need to win three or four of them in order to flip control.

As Clinton-era pollster Mark Penn put it this week, the Democrats simply don't have quality candidates in the most important races.

Two of those would be in Maine and Michigan, with the America-hating Muslim Abdul Al-Sayed in Michigan and the genuinely boneheaded socialist taking on Susan Collins in Maine.

Penn told Fox this week, if you look at all the polls, they're all within the margin of error.

But that doesn't mean they want to hand control of things back over to the Democrats.

I referenced Mark Penn.

He's a Clinton-era Democrat who hasn't run screaming to the left like all sorts of other Democrats have over the last 20 years.

And so Penn comes at this from a position of a more traditional or so-called moderate Democrat.

And, and specifically, this is the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, so it is a, a welfare kind of program.

The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, uh, actually went back to a Clinton-era opinion, and, uh, that back then it required that welfare programs had to report undocumented immigrants.

But they said, "We, we're, we're updating that." Uh, and actually, what's great, the Assistant Attorney General, uh, T.

Elliott Gaiser of the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel, he said, "Congress wrote this requirement plainly.