The Fifth Column (hosts collective: Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, Matt Welch) - primary speaker identity: Unknown
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The Fifth Column (hosts collective: Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, Matt Welch) - primary speaker identity: Unknown’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What'd you see?
You see plus three Democrats in 2025 in April.
You see plus three Democrats back in April of 2017.
Now jump over to this side of the screen.
What happens?
Well, the Democrats are no longer keeping pace with the pace that they were setting back in 2017, 2018.
You look back in 2017, you saw that the Democrats
had leaped up to an eight-point advantage.
I think a lot of folks like myself are looking at this, we're seeing, hey, wait a minute, those national polls, Democrats are not gaining the way that we expected.
Then you add in the fact that the state legislators are adding potentially more GOP seats like they've already done down in Texas, like they've done in Missouri, and then you add in the potential gutting of the VRA, and all of a sudden, it becomes much more difficult for Democrats to gain.
it's amazing to, um, be in the position that they're in right now and not having a huge structural advantages, right?
Like the president's always loses ground in the midterms.
It just, that's, it's unless you are bill Clinton and it's, uh, you're in the middle of an impeachment process in your second term, which sort of, uh, creates a boomerang effect.
It, and the averages are staggeringly high.
Donald Trump, um, is a divisive polarizing politician, um, who, uh,
His numbers never go too low, but they never go too high either.
And he's been around for a long time and there can be people who like him and they just have Trump fatigue enough already with all the craziness.
It's an incredibly favorable atmosphere for them to run and they're doing this not greatly.
I think it's incredibly damning of where Democrats are right now.
You've got Trump fatigue, but you've also got resistance fatigue.
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