27: Split Decision: Inside This Week's Primaries

I don't know that the Democrats are fine.

We had a bit of a split decision this week between the progressive socialist wing, the Democrat Party, and the establishment wing, especially when we're looking at Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Kurt? What say you? Is the party moving left or are Democratic voters drawing a line?

First of all, I say, phew, dodged a bullet there in Wisconsin.

Holy cow, that was looking bad.

Wisconsin, because of its prominence in the 2028 general election map, that is not one if you are the Democratic Party, you want to lose power.

You want to have the reins of that state, if at all humanly possible.

So I think relief is what Democrats, frankly, are feeling based on the results of what we saw in Wisconsin, particularly.

I think we're seeing split decisions cut a couple different ways, right? We're seeing one, even in Michigan, it was close with Syed and Stevens.

I mean, that's as close as you can get, less than 1%.

Obviously, in Wisconsin, it was still relatively close.

If anything, I am calling into question the polling data experts who kept predicting blowouts left and right when that was hardly the case from what we saw.

And then the one blowout that happened, which I know we'll talk about a little bit, but like Mike Lindell in Minnesota, it's like that wasn't as forecasted either polling wise.

So.

If anything, I think that the people who work in the voodoo magic that is polling, which I'm I'm certain is just a dartboard with numbers and a monkey throwing darts at it.

And that's what they report that that I think that that's the story of of the primaries more than right, left, center, left, far right, far left.

I think that the story is more that people are still buying the vibes game versus anything else.

The media is kind of trying to give itself a self-fulfilling prophecy about these insurgent, commanding, lead socialist Democrats.

And then it comes out, whoopsie poopsie, actually, it's under a percent for both of those races, whether it was Michigan for El Sayed or Wisconsin for...

For Hong here, my question is, is this showing now that Democrats, if they stand up, the establishment stands up and puts money in and puts the fight in to stop the socialists, can they actually do it? And do Democrats want to do that? Because that is an enthused base.

That enthused socialist base, however, is splitting the Democrat base because Black voters are turning historically away.

What do you think?

Yeah, I think this is something that Rahm Emanuel actually has recently been talking about how the black vote is the vote that we need to be looking at and watching how they have moved.

And this progressive socialist fever that has captured parts of the Democratic Party, they're missing the boat on that.

It's one thing to call yourself a socialist when you're a Ph.D. grad at Columbia.