Oct 2, 2026 · 54 min · 22 segments
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Gregory WrightstoneGuestAnyway, so we have this past week, there's been this hullabaloo because Democrats need to try and gin up interest for the feminists out there to get out and vote because Democrats have been losing interest in their party this year.
So much so that, as I've repeatedly stated, when it comes to the various races that Democrats have won over the past 365 days, starting with the Virginia election last year, It has and the Mamdani election, too.
It hasn't been so much that mainstream Democrats are voters are turning out in huge numbers.
And they are just slightly more than slightly more enthused than everyone else.
How he won is that he just got all these radical leftists to come out and vote for him.
And the average Democrat out there who was going to go for a more moderate candidate, they just didn't show up.
Like 800,000 people sat out that election compared to who voted in the presidential races.
So we saw that in the Virginia race, too, in the Virginia election last year, last November, where the Democrat governor won, but a third or a sixth of Democrat voters compared to the previous year stayed home.
And that margin was enough that if Republicans turned out the way they had for President Trump, then the Democrats would have lost Virginia.
And like earlier this year, there were various primaries, special elections where, not primaries really, there were special elections earlier this year, some in deep red districts where the Democrats won.
There was one district in Texas where like compared to previous, not previous presidential elections, but previous elections for that very seat, only half Republicans showed up.
No, only a quarter of Republicans showed up and Democrats won because only half of them showed up.
compared to who usually shows up for that seat, not even for a general election for president, but for that particular seat.
Democrats only won with half their manpower because Republicans only showed up with a quarter of theirs.
And now as the year has progressed, Republicans are getting more and more interested, more and more engaged, more and more enthusiastic about the votes.
And now we're seeing Democrats and Republicans tied in the polls coming into the midterms.
Anyway, so we have this past week, there's been this hullabaloo because Democrats need to try and gin up interest for the feminists out there to get out and vote because Democrats have been losing interest in their party this year.
So much so that, as I've repeatedly stated, when it comes to the various races that Democrats have won over the past 365 days, starting with the Virginia election last year, It has and the Mamdani election, too.
It hasn't been so much that mainstream Democrats are voters are turning out in huge numbers.
And they are just slightly more than slightly more enthused than everyone else.
How he won is that he just got all these radical leftists to come out and vote for him.
And the average Democrat out there who was going to go for a more moderate candidate, they just didn't show up.
Like 800,000 people sat out that election compared to who voted in the presidential races.
So we saw that in the Virginia race, too, in the Virginia election last year, last November, where the Democrat governor won, but a third or a sixth of Democrat voters compared to the previous year stayed home.
And that margin was enough that if Republicans turned out the way they had for President Trump, then the Democrats would have lost Virginia.
And like earlier this year, there were various primaries, special elections where, not primaries really, there were special elections earlier this year, some in deep red districts where the Democrats won.
There was one district in Texas where like compared to previous, not previous presidential elections, but previous elections for that very seat, only half Republicans showed up.
No, only a quarter of Republicans showed up and Democrats won because only half of them showed up.
compared to who usually shows up for that seat, not even for a general election for president, but for that particular seat.
Democrats only won with half their manpower because Republicans only showed up with a quarter of theirs.
And now as the year has progressed, Republicans are getting more and more interested, more and more engaged, more and more enthusiastic about the votes.
And now we're seeing Democrats and Republicans tied in the polls coming into the midterms.
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