Mike Pesca

The cracks are showing now.

They're not just cracks anymore, right?

They're chasms in some cases.

I think you're going to see more of this.

I think what we saw at Heritage, this is going to show itself up more in 28 than it is in 26.

I think you'll see some hints of this divide inside the right in the Texas Senate primary.

You'll see some of this.

perhaps in the Georgia Senate primary.

But for the most part, Republicans have avoided, they're going to avoid some messy primaries.

So most of this infighting is going to continue to take place online, continue to take place in podcasts, and really start to ramp up as the presidential candidates of 28.

start to rise, whether it's Cruz, Pence, Paul, all three of them very much sort of coming at the MAGA coalition in different ways, each wanting a piece of it, but very critical to some parts of it, right?

And how that continues to splinter, I think is going to be an animating force inside the Republican Party for the next, easily for the next two years.

And I do think you see

That the online MAGA world, this world of Eric Kirk, Megyn Kelly, Ben Shapiro, some of you that listen to this podcast, these names are familiar.

You may see them online.

It strikes me as this is, as I said in an earlier podcast, that this is the rights version of the groups, right?

You have Democratic politicians who are afraid to sort of connect with voters in the middle because they didn't want to alienate certain groups.

I think it's pretty clear the Biden White House in the first two years totally mismanaged the border, put restraints on Ali Mayorkas and DHS from being able to do their job the way they did it.

Mayorkas did with Jay Johnson during the second Obama term because they didn't want to offend the groups when the voters were the ones that were making this decision, quote unquote, not the groups, right?

Well, I think now you're seeing something similar happen in MAGA world where you have Republicans seem to be more concerned about what's being said online, who's saying it online, appeasing some online activists rather than actually talking to the voters.