Jon Ralston
speaker
269 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 19 Jan
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But the state has changed too, Rachel.
The Democrats used to have a very large registration lead.
That has evaporated, mostly because of a surge in nonpartisan registration.
And it's unclear whether
who all of these people are.
And I'm not sure that they've been able to pinpoint it.
And now you have for the first time a Republican governor, Joe Lombardo, who's up for reelection.
And this could be a litmus test in 2026, who has, the Republicans have copied what Reid did and they've set up their own machine.
And it's a pretty effective machine.
And I think that Rebecca Lamb and others who run the Democratic machine here see 2026 as an opportunity to say, we're still around.
It's not the Lombardo machine yet.
I think what he would first say, Rachel, and believe me, you know, I'm not I'm not I'm not obsequious at all.
But he would have listened to what you said at the beginning of this in the introduction of this.
And he would have agreed with every word that you said.
And he would have believed that this is an existential threat that this country is facing.
And he would have feared that there's going to be military in the cities, not just not just doing what they're doing now, but to intimidate people from voting.
He would be he would be speaking out about this every day.
He would use every minute that he had on the Senate floor to be telling people to wake up.
There's no room for being nice to Trump.
And he would have been speaking out in the most unvarnished terms about this.
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