David Pakman

It was sort of like a noise like that.

That was it is over.

He ended his primary race because of the scream.

Now, some argued he eventually would have lost anyway.

I think that's true, but it wouldn't have been immediate.

That seems impossible to imagine today.

The baseline today clips of, you know, Trump mixing up the names of leaders of countries, forgetting what city he's in.

And it's like, yeah, you know, whatever.

We're kind of used to it.

And we process these obvious contradictions now in such a different way.

Even the perception of candidates changing their mind.

I mean, think back again to 2004, where John Kerry had this unfortunate line, something like, well, I voted for it before I voted against it, referring to the authorization to let George Bush go to war with Iraq.

Um, it destroyed him.

It, uh, among a couple other things, it destroyed John Kerry's candidacy.

Now he's still almost won by the way, came down to like 140,000 votes in Ohio, but it really did hurt him.

Leaders now on the same, forget about on the same day, a couple of weeks ago in a span of 10 minutes.

Trump said the Iran war is over and it's not.

We want to cease fire and we don't.

I'm considering troops on the ground and I'm not.

And it doesn't matter.