Eric Swalwell
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So this is not benefiting anybody in Israel.
So even the idea that we had to do this for Israel, it's clearly not panning out for any of the neocons who supported it.
This is a terrible, disastrous conflict, and it needs to end now, like right now.
Right, and now we're diminishing the heir apparent, J.D.
Vance, with these failed negotiations, and there's a lot of political fallback from that.
So we're already damaging the likely next heir apparent as well for 28.
I would just say I live in Florida.
There were two special elections in the last month, one of which for the Mar-a-Lago district.
The Republicans were supposed to win that.
They lost significantly, and the reason they lost had nothing to do with anything other than the fact that there are โ
Double the amount of Republican or just about double the amount of Republican registered voters here than there are Democrats in the state of Florida.
And yet the Democrats outvoted the Republicans.
They're having presidential turnout levels in their primaries, in their special elections so far.
And the Republicans are I think the Republicans are heartbroken right now.
I think the Republicans really are hurt.
emotionally they are trying to process psychologically and that is having a dispiriting effect on demoralizing the vote and that's why you're not seeing the turnout even in solidly red states like my own state of florida uh megan they're and this is going to keep playing out the longer the economy collapses and the harder things get for average americans because a lot of maga voters are looking around going what did we do it all for and not only that
You have the fact that this MAGA movement has been with us for 10 years.
So it's been a decade since Trump first came down the golden escalator and was the guy for the Republican Party.
So there's already the movement getting a little long in the tooth.
You've got to constantly reinvigorate it.