Rahm Emanuel

Ready?

I want to do the phone call for you.

Yeah.

This is, and Johnson, no, not exactly what I say is a profound courage.

You're going to need a Mike Pence courage, and I'm not sure Speaker Johnson has that.

Yeah.

I don't, you know, I did it somewhere.

So you asked me, I get it.

Why, you know, I don't, I understand why Governor Newsom would say what he said.

Yeah, and I'm not, like, I think it's a bit alarmist.

But in the, you know, the joke, you know the joke, John, even paranoid people have enemies.

So in the business of having paranoia, mine is on January 3rd, not on November 6th.

Look, I, well, I kind of, let me take a step back and tell you how I kind of view this.

I see 2026 and 2028 as a compendium elections.

Yes.

So two things that are underappreciated and I don't see out in the bloodstream.

We went in 06, 30 seats, but we use 07 to set up 08.

In the same way that George Mitchell, going back to 91, and the government budget forces George Bush to sign the tax increase, break his pledge, and sets up Bill Clinton in 92.

Yep.

Oh, so two things that I think are really, really important.