Dave Weigel

We can't allow their violence to win.

And you saw a little bit of this hangover today of Ron DeSantis, a Republican, saying, well, I guess this election means that Democrats embrace violence.

And you're starting to see, I think, the separation from the epistemic

bubble that Republicans get their news from and what voters who just kind of turn up for elections and are worried about costs live from.

Actually, it was funny.

I was at Curtis Lee was a final rally in New York, not because I thought he'd win.

I just wanted to get some Republican voters.

And I heard some people there talking about if I can paraphrase the conversation.

Hey, did you see that that picture of all the teachers making fun of Charlie Kirk assassination?

And they're referring to there are these teachers in Arizona who had a shirt that was a bloody Halloween shirt that said Problem Solved.

That was a math joke, which they've worn in the past.

It was a joke about math problems really hard.

And we beat it.

Look at this blood on me.

I kind of get it.

I'm not sure if I'd wear that shirt.

Right.

And their assumption was, well, everyone must know that when people see that, they think of Charlie Kirk.

And I thought, with no disrespect to Charlie Kirk, who I liked personally, did not deserve to be murdered.

That's not what the country was thinking about.