Michael Knowles
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Can I have a can I have a sip of that?
I don't know which if you smoked something before this interview.
But, you know, he said he looked at me dead in the eye.
He says, I think we're going to grow the majority.
And I said, well, I like the enthusiasm.
I like the optimism.
But I don't know if I agree with that.
Now that we are looking, because of the Virginia Supreme Court decision, the U.S.
Supreme Court decision, redistricting going on around the country, we are looking at a potential gain of 14 congressional seats for Republicans.
I'm now thinking that House Speaker Mike Johnson is Babe Ruth calling his shot to center field.
If this actually works out for Republicans, it's a big if.
But if it does, that will be the greatest political call in the history of the U.S.
Congress.
are in the bottom third i mean they're just really bad yeah it's rough and especially just as a political reality we were talking about the iran war i mean that's the that's the big wild card but you know the the point that the democrats can make is that the president's poll numbers and the gop's poll numbers are quite bad right now the point the republicans can make is that's true but democrats are also historically unpopular right now uh which is how you might get i don't know the
People are talking about a potential upset in the L.A.
mayor's race.
I'm pretty skeptical of that.
But both parties are looking very, very bad.
And then you have the wild card of the Iran war, which is that if the war continues to drag on and we have a recession or we just have surging gas prices or we right now, housing is looking very shaky.
And obviously you get a lot of inflation the longer that the strait remains closed.