Glenn Beck

So Jonathan Martin at Politico came after me the other day and he said, how can one spend decades in and around American politics and not understand the basic macro politics of midterm elections?

He was taking me on because I said it would be the death of the republic and it might be the death of the republicans if if they don't take this up and pass it.

And.

My producer, Ricky, you know, tried to answer some of his questions, you know.

because sometimes people care more about principles than politics.

And he seemed to miss the point entirely when he replied.

He said, midterms are historically difficult for the party in power.

It has nothing to do whether a voter ID passes six months before the election.

Stop with the apocalyptic nonsense and learn some basic history.

I'm not sure what history he's looking for other than

Yeah, midterms are tough for the party that's in, but he seems to miss that.

I really believe the voters that go out and actually vote the base of your party that care are tired of this.

back-and-forth political nonsense, and they're saying, here's a principle that you have the chance to actually pass, that everybody in America is for.

Mike, tell me, is anybody in the Senate concerned

that maybe by not doing these things, you will lose your base and people are not going to go out and fight and even fight the traffic to go out and vote for you people.

And I'm sorry to lump you in on that, but the GOP, they're not going to go out and vote for you because you don't stand for anything.

This is the biggest clear victory I have ever seen in

And the GOP is not going to take advantage of it.

And they won't tell us why.

And they don't even want to be on record on which ones vote for it, which ones vote against.