Saagar

The electability argument in this case isn't a close call.

All right, so that is a very explicit claim that Rohan Patel is making.

The district that Torek holds was held by a Republican who Josh defeated.

Rohan Patel was at Tesla.

He's a technocrat.

These are the smart people.

You and I, Sagar, are the kind of populist idiots.

We're filled with rage, but we don't really understand how the system works.

These are the quants.

These are the people who have run the numbers and they're gonna calculate our way into prosperity and abundance.

That's their entire pitch.

Now, the problem here,

is it's just actually not true.

But Rohan isn't the only one who got this wrong, put up these next elements, at least three different

major profiles of Turek said that he flipped a red district.

Here's one correction that The Atlantic had to run.

This article originally misstated the nature of Turek's previous electoral victories.

Here's a correction in NBC News.

A previous version of this article mischaracterized Turek's electoral record.

He won a state legislative district that was redrawn to be more Republican-leaning, but he didn't flip a Republican district.