Jamelle Bouie

But there was a bit of a blue wave in the 2025 off-cycle races.

Are there lessons that you guys think the Democrats should be taking forward from those?

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So I have a question for you, Jamel, related to that, which is that, so the attorney general candidate in Virginia was who he was, but Abigail Spanberger, Mikey Sherrill,

premier races for governor in New Jersey and Virginia, they weren't milquetoast, but they were very pragmatic in their approach.

Do you think that there's a way to blend those two things, which is that I'm a fighter, I'm going to fight for you, but I'll work across the aisle with people who are reasonable as well?

How do you see that kind of reconciling?

Although I think you have to be very careful calling for that because one of the things Trump is doing going into the midterms is whining that if Democrats retake the House, they're going to impeach him again.

And he's using this as like, they're out to get me.

It's another witch hunt.

I mean, he is the master of victimhood.

Boo hoo, poor me.

But you have to be really careful with that.

Well, I think the party, I think the Republican Party in general has...

gotten bitten by that lately I mean Marjorie Taylor Greene she basically learned her own lesson and got you know decided that it was time to leave the house when all of that venom got turned on her so

So can I make a take that might age very poorly?

Well, please do.

Please do.

Oh, my God.

I can't wait till that phrase is dead.