Reagan Democrat

It looks that way.

Why? Because more seats keep appearing on the Democrats' radar screen.

The chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Susan DelBene, joins us.

Chris Sununu is not running for the Senate in New Hampshire.

That's not new in politics.

But this situation there speaks to something I think that's important that's not being discussed much.

Why did Democrats think they needed a candidate with the same last name as incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan to win? Did they think Alaska voters were so unfocused, so confusable, as to fall for the other Sullivan, a political cipher in this campaign who appears nowhere and says nothing? Did they not think a campaign about ideas might be better? Ideas like, I don't know, the war in Iran, developing energy resources in Alaska, health care, corruption, President Trump.

In this generally negative atmosphere for the Republican Party and with a well-regarded former House Democrat, Mary Peltola, running, did they not think that was enough? Did they think genuinely that they needed a two-bit scam, that they then tried to hide the scam? By the way, it's relatively small potatoes, and it is legal.

Egberto, we know that Lula trailed Bolsonaro in the first round of their election.

And I guess from your perspective, what explains that comeback? And is there something that perhaps American Democrats could learn from this?

I am so glad you asked that.

Let me just tell you.

Yeah.

Look, I want Paris to be better explained to people because Fox News is using what's occurring in Paris.

if you elect Democrats left-wingers you're going to get what's happening in Paris without really realizing that no what we have is Trump and if Trump's policies come completely to fruition likely what you're seeing in Paris is coming here but they already expect what's happening in Paris to be here how do I know that because those gulags that Trump is building that we're no longer paying attention to.

You notice the media is not talking about all those lockup places.

Yeah, it's informative, but not definitive.

I mean, you have to say the data right now looks orgasmic for Democrats pretty much across the map with really no exceptions, right? I mean, you're seeing...

just huge numbers of latinos voting particularly like democrat latinos are voting so much more than republican latinos somebody posted a chart this morning of like youth turnout in north carolina and it's like You know, young Dems are voting like almost as much as they did in twenty twenty four.

But young Republicans are voting like twelve percent as much like it's really it.

Like, I feel like I'm missing something.

You know, I do think that even among prediction market traders, as we get closer to Election Day, like, you know, partisan beliefs are revealed.

And so I see a I see great signs for Democrats in some places.

I see good signs for them in other places.

Right.

When there was such unity, in fact, they even even had they used to call Democrats that voted for Ronald Reagan, the Reagan Democrats.

Right.

Like there were groups of people like they threw party out the window and people got behind one person.

There is a reason that group after group is coming to our campaign.

Democrats are openly supporting Rogers for Senate.

Jewish Democrats who are afraid for their children when their daughters can't wear their Star of David walking across Michigan's campus.

These are real.

My opponent's rhetoric, his vitriol, is having consequences.

So I agree with him that this is a litmus test as a proxy battle, if you will, for a greater fight.

But we don't see I think the danger is in choosing him, actually.

And as far as the issue about Jewish Democrats worried about their kids at Michigan.

And, you know, exactly where he stands at the end of the day.

Independent voters like people that actually stand strong on principle, even if they don't necessarily agree with the principle.

That was the secret to Reagan Democrats.

Democrats are like, I'm a Democrat.

I don't like this Ronald Reagan guy, but I'll tell you what.

Republican Governor Mike DeWine is denouncing Vivek Ramaswamy.

the Republican who wants to replace him over the new ad featuring Democrat Amy Acton's estranged mother.

Listen to what DeWine said just moments ago.

The ad on its face is deeply, deeply troubling.

We're going to have much more on this in a moment.

Now to Michigan, where loyalty was a major topic in the final debate of the crucial Senate race.

Democrat Abdul El-Sayed accused Republican Mike Rogers of standing, quote, hip to hip with President Trump, while Rogers is not letting up on his accusation that El-Sayed has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

If you are going to go to the United States Senate, we need to know, are you for America or are you for these terrorist groups overseas? To

Yes.

And so to me, though, then to your core question, if Democrats don't deliver change, they will not have won and the Republicans will have lost.

But if you want to win, you've got to raise the minimum wage.

You've got to pass an ethics package.

Can I do one other point? Sure.

Okay.

I really believe the McCain Romney Republicans for the Democrats will be as historic a shift in a coalition building that in 1980, the Reagan Democrats were in Macomb County, Michigan.

It has all

You know why Gen Zs have to pay what they're paying for college? Because we refuse the tax corporation and we refuse to tax those who are making the amount of money that they should.

Okay? It is shameful what we did from the inception of the Reagan Democrats.

You remember those? Remember that? The Reagan Democrats? They are responsible for all of this crap and indirectly then responsible for Donald Trump.

Because as things went south, people throw their hands up in the air and say, let me try anything.

Let me try anything.