Thom Tillis

All right.

Because you still got Tom Tillis and John Cronin going to be in their seats going this.

okay oh yeah by the way trump blaming what's going on with ken paxton on john cronin is rich that's rich okay um after you after you primary him i mean it's going to be chaotic because he's going to be cuckoo for cocoa puffs because he's going to be shitty in his diaper more than ever because he's contemplating whatever's going on.

And trust me, the Democrats are going to be laying out plans.

Maybe they'll send us in to ban all abortion across the country or do this and that.

It won't get to the Senate, okay? All right, because a lot of senators who are lame ducks are going to do this, all right, because you've still got Tom Tillis and John Cronin who will be in those seats going this.

okay oh yeah by the way trump blaming what's going on with ken paxton on john cronin is rich that's rich okay um after you after you primary him i mean it's going to be chaotic because he's going to be cuckoo for cocoa puffs Because he's going to be shitty in his diaper more than ever because he's contemplating whatever's going on.

And trust me, the Democrats are going to be laying out plans.

Most polls show his major party opponents.

Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan and Republican State House Speaker Tom Tillis separated by just one or two points.

And that's why Haw is making people nervous.

At one point in the race, suddenly we started seeing TV ads supporting Sean Hall, which is really makes you do a double take because libertarians do not have the kind of money it takes to run a TV commercial.

Do you know

who paid for those ads?

So we found out – you look at the tiny little disclaimer at the very end of the TV ad and it's paid for by the American Future Fund, which is this conservative dark money group that basically thought that if they could convince young voters who were maybe in support of legal marijuana and were upset about wars overseas to – instead of voting for Kay Hagan, the Democrat, they would vote for Sean Haw, the libertarian, then that might be just what it would take to get Republican Tom Tillis across the finish line.

And a lot of these, I think the sort of like deciding pushback factor is that people in the president's own party push back on them.

So the, you know, the slush fund, obviously you had a couple senators, Tillis and Cornyn or whatever, who were eventually satisfied, but they were powerful Republican senators who said no.

If you had, and I think there wasn't really like rampant mainstream Republican support for it, but if, if there had been, maybe it would have kind of like, okay, now we're actually paying off, you know, political allies or whatever.

Um, and the, the live streamed execution that just got like round condemnation from the entire country, including all political leaders.

Yeah, I got a Senate question for Josh.

You know, looking at the current situation, you know, you got Tillis, McConnell, Cornyn, Cassidy, potentially Collins, who could all be gone next Congress and replaced either by Democrats or by Trumpier Republicans.

So regardless, if Republicans are in the majority or the minority in the Senate, it is going to be a way Trumpier Senate heading into 2027.

How do you see that dynamic kind of playing out on energy issues?

So, of the 35 Republicans races the senate races that are happening here in this country between now and election day nine of them are solid democrats so that would move the number of democrat seats from 34 to 43 there are two that are likely democrat That would include Georgia with John Ossoff and an open seat in North Carolina, which is currently a seat held by Republicans.

Now, that's Tom Tillis.

Now, if in fact that happens to be the case and they win that, that's a flip.

So that is a net gain for Democrats.

We need to teach them a lesson.

I'm just like Tom Tillis.

I think that the Republicans need to lose in the midterms so that they learn a lesson about embracing the wrong policies.

I don't care if your proposed replacement policies may be different than the Bush family.

If it were my mother speaking badly about me, you'd be making it the number one story in the news.

Even before midterm ballots are counted, retiring Republican Senator Tom Tillis says the MAGA coalition won't last.

After many drafted eulogies for the Trump agenda, DNC chairman Ken Martin today warned his Democrats against being overly confident about the midterm.

So what's in store as we enter the final stretch? Let's bring in a former Obama policy advisor, Lori Watkins, and White House correspondent for The Daily Wire, Mary Margaret Olihan.