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Donald Trump's week from hell just got worse. His aides are melting down on live TV. Governors are blaming dementia for his troop deployments. And even MAGA podcast bros like Joe Rogan and Theo Vaughn are suddenly sprinting away from Trump. Meanwhile, Attorney General Pam Bondi loses it when questioned by senators.
Farmers are turning on the administration and Republican mayors or get this conceding elections without claiming voter fraud. Isn't that refreshing? The cracks are showing everywhere. Let's get into it. Well, I have some sort of nice news to start with for a change. A Republican was brutally kicked to the curb by a Democrat in one of their Alaska strongholds. And that's good news already.
But the big shock is that the loser, David Prues, did not claim voter fraud. He did not blame Antifa or Antifa. He didn't file a lawsuit. He just conceded the race. Can you imagine? So this takes us to Fairbanks, Alaska, where Democrat Mindy O'Neill defeated the incumbent Republican Mayor David Prues. And this flips a conservative seat that Republicans have held. for nearly a decade.
Now, O'Neill got 54 percent of the vote. Pruse got just under 46 percent of the vote. The Republican didn't pretend it was close. He just conceded. He didn't whine. He didn't start talking about this was the biggest fraud until they did massive dumps. I was winning. And the conspiracy theories about Dominion voting machines didn't even come up. Just the race is over. The voters have spoken.
I wish Mindy the best. And that's really the shock here. As shocking as it is to see Democrats take a city. that they haven't had for a really long time. The real shock is a Republican simply accepted defeat and said someone else gets to now hold this office. I lost plain and simple.
And there was almost like a palpable nostalgia where, you know, I still remember John McCain's concession speech in 2008. It was a fine speech where he said, we've had a race. The voters have chosen my opponent, Barack Obama. Hold on. Do I have my Obama? They chose Barack Obama. And I want the country to do well and therefore I want the president to do well. And there were sort of it.
Nostalgia is the best way I can say it. A respectful, measured concession rooted in something that used to be called dignity. And I think it's respectable to say, hey, we would be better off if that's still the way that that it was today. Now, Pruse said he was proud to serve for as long as he did. He said low turnout was part of why he lost. He congratulated his opponent and now he's moving on.
Now, you are not going to get yourself a paid contributor gig on Fox News with that attitude. You know, in today's Republican Party of 2025, if you just say I lost, that's it. The voters selected somebody else. You're not going to be seen as fighting the fight.
that MAGA wants you to fight because the modern Republican Party has turned denial into really a requirement and a personality trait in some sense. And so the idea that you can just lose because more people wanted your opponent to win and more people voted for your opponent, it's not compatible
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