Mara Liasson
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I'm not exactly sure how Congress would do that.
He talked about the Stop Insider Trading Act, the Delilah Law, which he coined about
no commercial licenses for immigrants in the country without permanent legal status.
He said he wants a full and immediate restoration of funding for the Department of Homeland Security and to somehow have that help clean up snow, which is not part of Department of Homeland Security's budget.
And as Mara mentioned, the Save America Act, which is intended for all voters to have to show not just ID, but proof of citizenship before being able to vote.
You know, he left them, Democrats, an opportunity and an opening here because he didn't talk about the warts in the economy.
And that left it wide open for Abigail Spanberger to do what she did.
And essentially, talk about standard, reused her message from the campaign to
where she just won as governor in November, to talk about her message on the economy and to appear reasonable and normal, right?
That was sort of the entirety of her campaign.
But I have to say, when it comes to Democrats, the other part of this is that the Democratic response spans from Abigail Spanberger to the Al Greens and Ilhan Omars, and Al Green being Congressman Ilhan Omar's
congresswoman from Minnesota.
And they're far more boisterous when it comes to their response to Trump.
You know, Al Green holding up signs, Ilhan Omar tonight shouting at the president at different times.
And that's maybe not something Democrats are going to have to worry about in 2026 because it's still Trump's world for better or worse for him and the Republican Party.
But they are going to have to deal with it when it comes to primary voting in 2028.
And I think we heard a Republican message too.
It's the same one that Donald Trump has been running on except the inverse has happened with the economy, right?
He's not any longer the challenger who's saying prices are high and you need me to fix it.
He was continuing to talk about immigration, deporting criminals and talking about crime in the country, having been rampant and now being in his, you know, in the way that he talks about it fixed.