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David French

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1977 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?

He's just a guy watching on CNN like the rest of us.

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Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?

And yes, he has ICE.

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Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?

He has his little private army.

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Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?

ICE on paper has 22,000 people.

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Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?

Looking at Minnesota right now, Minneapolis, they've committed more than 10% of their on-paper agents to try to pacify the 46th largest city in the country, 45th, 46th, and they can't do it.

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Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?

You know, obstinate Midwestern, middle-aged Midwesterners have essentially stopped ICE from operating in Minneapolis in a meaningful way.

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Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?

So I just feel like saying, I feel it's necessary to say that there's a lot of fear-mongering and scare-mongering about what the president can do with regards to the midterms.

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Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?

He's demanding voter rolls and the courts are like, no, none of this is your business.

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Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?

So for Trump to try to cancel an election in Virginia, for example, like Abigail Spanberger would have to be like, okay, sure, right?

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Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?

Yeah, that's going to happen.

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Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?

How is Donald Trump going to stop Gavin Newsom?

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Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?

How is he going to stop Kathy Hochul?

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Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?

You have to think in practical terms.

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Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?

And I understand the temptation to latch on to worst-case scenarios and fantasies.

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Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?

It makes a lot of sense in the moment.

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Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?

But you have to temper that stuff with sort of like, okay, how does the practical โ€“

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Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?

operation of government to actually work.

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Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?

That's all.

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Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?

I've never seen a second of Stranger Things in my life, and I don't intend to change that.

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Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?

It's literally never going to happen.