Emily Jashinsky

that question saying she disagrees with the president respectfully, that Zoran Mamdani is a jihadist.

And I did a whole segment at the time explaining why I used my time questioning the president to ask that particular question.

I don't consider it punching right.

I would have asked that question of anybody who was so laughably inflating the definition of a term

like jihadist to include Zohra Mamdani, disagree with the man, think that he is an Islamist, if you want to call him, I don't agree with that, but you can call him all kinds of things, but to call him a jihadist completely numbs people to words like that.

And so whether you're calling him,

And whether you're calling him that, whether you're calling another person racist or bigoted or whatever it is, I just think we have to guard these definitions so jealously because we have rightfully stigmatized bigotry in this country with blood, sweat, and tears of people who have literally died or spent their lives, given their lives to the cause of trying to change American attitudes.

I mean, this country is incredible.

we should be so grateful as we go into Christmas for how we're able to coexist as harmoniously, even though it feels tough and divisive, but to have so many different people in one country and living in such close proximity, it's historically unparalleled.

Unparalleled.

And as tough as it is, and as, you know,

deeply as we need to make some, I think, changes in public policy and opinion, it's amazing what we're able to do in this country.

And we have to guard those definitions jealously, whether it's Republicans abusing them, weaponizing them for politics, or Democrats weaponizing them for politics, which is what most of the last 10 years was.

Democrats weaponizing them cynically for political purposes because their activist base wanted them to.

And, you know,

Elise Stefanik, I think, realized that this was not going to be a winning cycle.

I think that's pretty obvious.

I don't think she wants to have the stench of loss on her at this point in her career.

She actually ducked out of the house.

She said she wanted to spend more time with her family.