Amanda Carpenter

Now, you can like Tom Massey or hate him, but he's got some fight in him.

And he's the reason the Epstein files got released ultimately.

um but i don't know this i think the massey defeat is so interesting because you know we've gone through this where the media keeps wanting to like put this fight between maga and the moderates or maga and never trump that's like that was never quite it and tom massey's law shows that because he was trying to chart out this america first course right where he was with trump on everything did a lot of like kind of nasty stuff but broke with trump on two issues

Epstein and the Iran War.

You could put MTG in that category, probably Lauren Boebert.

And they were dismissed as treasonous.

Massey's race became the most expensive House primary in history because they just rained down dollars on him in support of this, you know, just MAGA kind of stooge candidate who says nothing but I'm with Trump, I'm with Trump, I'm with Trump.

And the idea that there's any kind of principal difference between

between Trump is just a farce.

He doesn't want anyone except for lackeys and people like Ken Paxton who are so ethically flawed and will do anything for him.

Like that's the ideal candidate.

That's always been what he wanted.

I think this sort of proves that the America first tightrope that people were trying to walk is a failure and you just have to oppose them.

And that's what I'm hoping Massey will do on a couple of key issues on his way out.

Most important thing on my mind right now is the wipeout of any remaining upstanding Republican candidates in Georgia and the implications that may have for 2028.

Brad Raffensperger, which is a name that I think most listeners of this podcast would recognize, he was running for governor, got defeated by an election denier named Burt Jones.

Raffensperger only got 15 points.

in the Republican primary.

It looks like there, I was reading Laura Egan's wonderful reporting about the potential governor's race shaping up.

It could be a case where you have Burt Jones running against Keisha Lance Bottoms.