Emily Jashinsky

the Democratic Party is becoming the party of the affluent, which will benefit them in midterm elections.

And historically, the party in power struggles in midterm elections, period.

So the structural conditions in 2026 are as rough for Republicans as they were in that record bruising 2018 midterm cycle.

So again, structural conditions, not super favorable to Republicans.

But

But there are ways for Republicans to perhaps prevent the blue wave from becoming the blue tsunami and tying Democrats to the anti-Minaj perspective on this, tying Democrats to

total, complete and total nonchalance about what happened with the immigration system, whether it's Somalia or whether it's the Biden administration.

There are a whole lot of Democrats on the ballot who supported that and voted for that and are on the record chastising Republicans for that.

So do I think Republicans should be nervous?

Yes.

But I do think we see examples also of Democrats still clinging foolishly to identity politics and not fully appreciating how powerful, how powerful what Nicki Minaj now sees in the left, how powerfully that can be turned against Democrats.

I think Minaj's comments were the everyman comments.

And I do just want to play a little bit here of Hunter Biden

Hunter Biden on Sean Ryan.

This dropped right before we went to air, so I didn't have a chance to watch the full thing yet, but this is one of the interesting clips that popped from the interview.

This is Hunter Biden on his father's immigration policies.

We can roll it.

Right.

Sure.

He sounds like James Tallarico when he went on Jubilee and said the Biden administration's immigration policy was a failure.