Jessica Tarlov

I'm a glass half full kind of gal.

I'm struggling.

They still come back to help us, though.

They come back every time.

Absolutely.

I mean, you know, a component of this that we have to focus on is what the opposition is doing with all of this material.

And Democrats are largely unified in their messaging about, you know, an unauthorized regime change war.

This is a war of choice, etc.,

How big of a factor do you think what's going on now is going to be in the midterms?

And how do you think how would you rate the Democratic response?

Yeah, it's been interesting to see that—

the change on that, even from people, I guess, getting five or six hours of online reaction to being open to the idea of more funding.

And I do think that we all need a big reminder that the DOD has been funded to the tune of over a trillion dollars anyway, between the budget and the reconciliation bill.

And to your point about how lame this lame duck is going to become,

after the midterms, if it goes well for Democrats.

Mike Johnson is already scuttling to get another reconciliation bill done because there haven't been enough tax breaks, I guess, for the wealthy.

And he's like, I won't be able to starve any more children in the last two years of Donald Trump's administration.

I totally agree about Nancy Pelosi.

I think Hakeem Jeffries has had a lot of big wins.

They're just not as visible as they were or amplified in the same way as Nancy Pelosi.