Susan Glasser

House of Representatives for two months from mid-September to mid-November in the effort to block a vote that you then failed to block.

There's no script for this.

This has not happened in any remotely analogous way.

And so I don't want to understate that.

It does seem to be quite specific to this particular MAGA-based obsession with Epstein, with the files, with the idea that there's this conspiracy, that there's this cabal of deep state pedophiles that's being covered up.

And so does it translate?

We haven't seen that.

I mean, I would like to point out that Donald Trump, in the same week that he capitulated here –

has done a number of truly extraordinarily awful things, even by his own standards.

And I haven't heard, I might have missed it, but I haven't heard, you know, not even the old bleats of, you know, concern from, you know, the caucuses of the concerned on Capitol Hill.

And they don't even bother with that anymore.

So I think they're very unlikely to break with Trump on a major level.

foreign policy issue like the Russia sanctions, even if they were to start ebbing away on other things.

These people are going to start to get very scared for their political survival.

The ones who are in frontline districts or in competitive Senate races in 2026.

But they're going to care about things like the economy, which I could not believe.

Donald Trump's numbers on the economy are truly mind-blowingly bad right now, Tim.

You know, for a guy who

Arguably, that's what saved him from so many of the scandals and dysfunction and chaos of his first term was the perception that he was good for the economy.

Now, he's more underwater on the economy in his polls than he is on his overall approval rating.