Nov 4, 2026 · 27 min · 10 segments
Democrats have won bigly and they’ve won everywhere. From Kansas to South Carolina, the MAGA blowout is near total. But what exactly does it mean about how the electorate has changed and how American…
Norm OrnsteinGuest
David RothkopfHost
Riley FesslerHost
um i was uh ecstatic um but also did you show that did you like drink and i often uh jumped up and down as i saw particular results coming in and you know at my age
careful jumping up and down you know i i limit it to three inches uh you know of elevation um Anyhow, but I was also deeply relieved, and I was relieved first because as we have done so often on our podcast, we were raising the specter of violence, voter intimidation, horrible things happening, and we were raising those not because we were imagining them, But because we saw what Todd Blanch was already doing in California, in Alaska, we saw that Mark Wayne Mullen had said he was not going to rule out sending ICE to polling places, illegal though that may be.
We know that they have threatened, using the FBI, and Kash Patel did not pour cold water on this notion, to claim foreign interference and seize ballot boxes and voting machines.
Can you imagine Todd Blanche and Mark Wayne Mullen in the cages they keep them in, like growling and having like slobber coming out of their mouths because they weren't let loose?
Maybe she can no longer fly on the private jets with the FBI entourage to her singing performances or
But, you know, let's face it, part of the reason is because what you and I did to warn of these possibilities.
that this was going to be a blowout, and that if it had been an election at the margins, if we had looked at the possibility of Democrats winning the House by three, four, or five seats, just as the Republicans have it now, of a Senate on the cusp of 50-50, 51-49, they would have done all of those things, including post-election stuff.
Knowing that it was going to be so large, I think they realized that it would be a losing strategy.
If only he had realized that about Iran before he went in, we might have had a much closer election.
But that all of these seats went... with one glaring exception, which was Florida.
And I do have to recount the tweet of the day, which is, if you're living in Florida, you're like the kid in the orphanage watching every other kid be adopted by a loving family.
um i was uh ecstatic um but also did you show that did you like drink and i often uh jumped up and down as i saw particular results coming in and you know at my age
careful jumping up and down you know i i limit it to three inches uh you know of elevation um Anyhow, but I was also deeply relieved, and I was relieved first because as we have done so often on our podcast, we were raising the specter of violence, voter intimidation, horrible things happening, and we were raising those not because we were imagining them, But because we saw what Todd Blanch was already doing in California, in Alaska, we saw that Mark Wayne Mullen had said he was not going to rule out sending ICE to polling places, illegal though that may be.
We know that they have threatened, using the FBI, and Kash Patel did not pour cold water on this notion, to claim foreign interference and seize ballot boxes and voting machines.
Can you imagine Todd Blanche and Mark Wayne Mullen in the cages they keep them in, like growling and having like slobber coming out of their mouths because they weren't let loose?
Maybe she can no longer fly on the private jets with the FBI entourage to her singing performances or
But, you know, let's face it, part of the reason is because what you and I did to warn of these possibilities.
that this was going to be a blowout, and that if it had been an election at the margins, if we had looked at the possibility of Democrats winning the House by three, four, or five seats, just as the Republicans have it now, of a Senate on the cusp of 50-50, 51-49, they would have done all of those things, including post-election stuff.
Knowing that it was going to be so large, I think they realized that it would be a losing strategy.
If only he had realized that about Iran before he went in, we might have had a much closer election.
But that all of these seats went... with one glaring exception, which was Florida.
And I do have to recount the tweet of the day, which is, if you're living in Florida, you're like the kid in the orphanage watching every other kid be adopted by a loving family.
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