Emily Jashinsky

Hakim Jeffries got asked about the Somali investigation and here's S6 how Minority Leader Jeffries responded.

A malignant clown.

That's actually not a bad turn of phrase there from Jeffries, but it's his inability to just say yes.

Just say yes.

This is a serious, serious investigation.

Just say, yes, you politically, I'm talking politically, you take it away from Republicans if you just say, sure, we are happy to open the books, have them come in.

If Tim Walz did something wrong, Tim Walz did something wrong, we should get to the bottom of this.

to respond by calling Comer a malignant clown rather than addressing any of the substance at all.

Jeffries is lucky that's going to get buried in the pre-Christmas news cycle because again, they are genuinely struggling here.

to come up with a coherent, substantive response to some of Republicans' best, most powerful talking points.

Now, 2026 is a midterm year, as we've been discussing, and that's tough for the Republican Party.

When Donald Trump is not on the ballot, and this goes without saying,

The Trump coalition does not historically turn out for other Republicans.

We have 10 years of data, basically, at this point.

We're looking at a decade of information at this point.

Remember, those 2018 midterm elections were bruising for Republicans.

At the time, Harry Enten said it wasn't a blue wave, it was a blue tsunami.

And not without reason.

It actually really was.

Record high turnout levels.