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It is a Verdict with Center, Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you, and this may be one of the most complicated shows we've ever done.

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We had done the show and now we are doing a new update to the show.

I just got off a plane from Israel and we're going to talk about that in next week's episodes because we have so much breaking news to talk about right now and Center this is all going to be about the shutdown, but also the elections that took place in New York City and around the country as well.

Where are we and what are we going to be covering with a shutdown today?

Well, that's exactly right.

We're going to let you know exactly where we are on the government reopening, on negotiations, the shutdown continues, We're going to tell you where things stand.

That's why we're doing this this episode at eleven fifty am on Friday, just to get the latest breaking news.

We're also going to talk in particular about flight delays and what's going on at the FAA and how that impacts you if you or your family are traveling and then we're going to do a deep dive into the election, in particular in New York City, Comrade Montdami and what it means, what it says, who voted for him, what the numbers show, and it actually reveals a lot about what's happening in New York and what's happening all across the country.

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All right, Senator, So we're sitting here Friday mid morning.

Where are we with this government shutdown?

Because it's just insane.

This is the longest shutdown ever and there's Democrats that are celebrating this right now, let's be clear about that as well.

Yeah, Unfortunately, there's been a whole lot of hurry up and wait.

We are expected sometime today, sometime on Friday, to vote yet again on another bill to reopen the government.

The plan is to have a vote that has three appropriations bills, has the ag appropriation bills that also includes food stamps, a bill that is the Military Construction Appropriation Bill, and the Veterans Administration and the Led Branch Appropriation bills.

Those are three appropriation bills that passed with big bipartisan majorities out of the Appropriations Committee.

The plan is to put that on the floor of the Senate today along with a continuing resolution that would extend the rest of government and vote on it.

And the amazing thing is this was the Democrats.

They're asked they wanted to do this.

Now, I think there's a very real possibility the Democrats will vote it down later today, we don't know.

The Democrats are having a vigorous battle within their conference.

At lunch yesterday they were apparently going at it.

And there's a chunk of Democrats who recognize that this is really hurting a lot of people.

This is hurting.

It's now been over a month.

You've got federal workers who are not getting paid.

You've got Border patrol agents who are not getting paid.

You've got ICE agents who are not getting paid.

You've got FBI agents who are not getting paid.

You have TSA were agents who are not getting paid.

You ever traffic controllers who are not getting paid.

And and this keeps going and going and going.

And so there are about a dozen Democrats who keep talking to the Republicans and saying, Okay, we're getting ready to be ready to open the government.

Here's the problem.

Tuesday was a horrible election for America.

But if you're a left wing radical, it was a great election.

For you, and the left wing radicals are now energized.

So you've got the crazies in the Democrat Party are standing up to their colleagues saying this shutdown is fantastic.

Let's keep the government shut down more because the crazies are winning.

And so that battle.

I don't know how that battle will shake out, but.

It's a battle, by the way, the Democrats are having right now.

That's why we had to updig this show.

They're fighting right now.

There's a significant group of donors, supporters, political operatives that are calling and saying, do not open this government.

Guys, we believe this is good for us in hurting Donald Trump in the White House, and be damned, who hurts of the American people.

Look and in hearings, I mean, I had multiple Democrats yesterday who would say their talking point.

They say, well, Republicans have the White House, Republicans control the Senate, Republicans control the House.

This is your fault.

That's their talking point.

And as I responded to Ben ray Luhan, Democrat from New Mexico, said that, I said, you know, every witness when they go and testify in a court of law, they're required to take an oath and an oath to testify to the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

And what mister Luhan said each of the pieces was accurate.

He told the truth, but he failed in the second of those, the whole truth, because he omitted the central issue.

And the central issue is this, in order to pass a government funding bill under the Senate rules, you need sixty votes now yep, Senator Luhan, and every Democrat knows that we only have fifty three Republicans.

That means we need at least seven Democrats to open the government again.

They know that the reason the government is shut down fourteen different times, the Republicans we have voted to open the government fourteen separate times.

The Democrats have voted to keep it shut down.

They are filibustering right now funding the government.

They know that, and they just omit the facts.

They say, Wow, Republicans are in charge and there's a shutdown, so it's your fault, haha.

And it is profoundly dishonest.

And understand they know they're being dishonest.

But you know who also knows they're being dishonest.

ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, CNN, MSNBC.

And none of them are covered us.

Yeah, they're like, well, the Republicans shut the government down, and they just they know their lying, and they're doing it nonetheless because they think it gives political benefits to the Democrats.

Yeah, and it's facts be damned.

Let me ask you this question as well.

Do you believe that the American people are now at the point where they're so frustrated that this becomes a political liability for the presidency because of what the media is doing.

And we'll explain more about that after the break, but I want your initial thoughts on that.

Look, I think people are very frustrated, and it's about to get much much worse because flight delays are about to step get dramatically worse.

And in just a moment, I'm going to tell you about a conversation I had with the administrator of the FAA as to why flight delays are going to get so much worse and how it's going to impact you or your family if you're flying anywhere, if you're flying for vacation, if you're flying for work, this is going to impact you in a big, big way.

And I hope that will finally pressure the Democrats to do the right thing and let us reopen the government.

Democrats have clearly orchestrated this to inflict pain now.

I was flying Thursday night into Friday internationally, coming into two major reports, one from Tel Aviv into Newark and then Newark to ih Houston.

The problems you could see as soon as.

We land in New York.

We landed there about three am, and the lines were outside and there were people that were crying when we were changing your bags.

You grab your bags from nationally, you go back and recheck them in for domestic people that had been there overnight.

People were sleeping in a lot of the corridors of the airport.

That was very clear there was a breakdown.

There was starting to be a breakdown.

The lines were insanely long as well when you're going through security, and you can see Democrats are cheering this, thinking this will be a breaking point for the American people.

When I arrived in Houston, it was also turning into what I refer to is that holidays type chaos.

You've ever flown at Thanksgiving or or Christmas, New Year's You know what I'm talking about.

That is the feel that you're starting to get in the airports.

I think in a lot of places nationwide.

This is all by designed by the Democrats, hoping you'll just throw your hands up, say enough, make a deal Republicans, and just give into whatever they want so I can go back to my normal life.

So let me give it.

Give you some facts and hard data behind that.

There are roughly fifty thousand TSA agents.

Many of them are going into work every day.

They're not being paid.

They missed their last paycheck.

They're not being paid.

That means that they're trying to figure out how to pay their mortgage, how to pay their rent, how to feed their kids, how to pay their basic bills.

They're roughly fourteen thousand air traffic controllers across the country.

Many of them are going into work as well.

They're not being paid, they missed their last paycheck.

The consequence we've seen thousands upon thousands of flights canceled.

We've seen many more flights delayed, And just this week, the FAA announced a mandatory ten percent reduction on air traffic in the forty largest airports in America.

Now, yesterday I did a call with the administra of the FAA and he gave some more details.

So the forty airports in Texas.

That includes Bush Airport in Huge Houston, it includes Hobby Airport in Houston, it includes DFW Airport in Dallas, and it includes Dallas love Field.

So those are the four Texas airports.

But it's forty biggest airports in the country.

Now here's what the FAA told us.

And this was a call with me with Maria Cantwell, who's the ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee that the senior Democrat, and then the same two the top Republican and Democrat in the House committee that has jurisdiction over the FAA administrator.

Bedford said the safety data started to get worse last week.

Last Friday, which was Halloween, half of the busiest thirty air traffic control facilities were short staffed.

That included New York, Austin, Newark, Phoenix, Washington, Nashville, Dallas, and Denver.

Listened to this statistic, nearly eighty percent eight zero percent of the air traffic controllers in New York City called out, in other words, they didn't show up to work.

This is Chuck Schumer's home jurisdiction.

Nearly eighty percent of the controllers did not come into work.

Delays were dramatic as a result.

Here's the aggregate data.

This is the whole national airspace system.

The aggregate data looked okay, but de aggregated data so when they broke it down at the top forty airports painted a different picture.

Here's a stat that is very concerning.

Pilots filed more than five hundred voluntary safety reports about air traffic control problems they were encountering the fare hundred more than five hundred.

The FAA continually tracks data, and they did the right thing by identifying a trend.

And the controllers they are overworked, they are fatigued.

You have many fewer controllers who are responsible for keeping people safe.

It is already an incredible high stress job.

And the way the reductions are going to work, airlines will incrementally reduce flights.

So they're reducing flights by four percent today, by six percent on Tuesday, by eight percent on Thursday, and then ten percent reductions on Friday.

So what is that?

What does that mean?

Math Wise?

There are roughly forty five thousand commercial flights a day, and that means nearly five thousand flights are going to be canceled every single day.

If the shutdown extends now.

The Department of Transportation is requiring the airlines to give full refunds.

But five thousand flights a day, that's going to impact if you assume one hundred people on each flight, and many many flights have more than one hundred people.

But if you assume one hundred people on each flight, that is five hundred thousand people a day who.

Are going I think that's probably a low number.

I'm sure, sure it's a low number.

But it's easy math.

I'm a lawyer, not a mathematician.

Five hundred thousand people a day are going to have their flights canceled because Chuck Schumer and the Democrats refuse to pay the salaries of the air traffic controllers and listen, a senior Democrat aid told Politico that the Democrats will keep the government shut down until quote until planes start falling from the sky.

This shutdown is dangerous.

That's not funny, that's not a good thing to joke about.

We did see one plane crash already of a ups plane, and god forbid that Democrat staffer's projection comes true.

But the Democrats are playing with fire.

They are gambling with people's lives.

And we need to pay the damn air traffic controllers.

And the American people are paying the price of this petulant politically.

To be clear, you guys have had the abilit Democrats said yes to pay them and keep them working.

Correct.

Yeah, we actually had a separate vote.

So Ron Johnson had a bill that said pay essential workers.

It was very simple.

It said everyone who has to come into work, and that includes air traffic controllers, they should get paid.

We should not freeze their paycheck.

And you know what happened.

The Democrats party line voted against it, said nope, we're not going to pay the federal workers that were making come into work.

We're not going to pay the air traffic controllers.

And the reason they do that is because they know the press will lie for them and just blame it all on Trump.

It's a straight up vote.

The Republicans are voting to open the government, the Democrats are voting to shut it down, and yet they're lying with the media's happy complicity.

All right, so let's break down the election.

It was a quote disaster.

The media was just thrilled of what happened on election night.

Mandani is the one though that I want to really focus on for a second.

He is a communist.

He's a proud communist.

He went back to his core beliefs in his victory speech, basically yelling at Donald Trump and saying, we are at communist city.

The red Apple literally now is red apple of communism.

Breaking this down.

This seems to be a point where Democrats are actually almost doubling down on this type of extremism in the party.

I think this is actually going to grow between now and the midterms.

And I want your reaction to what we learned.

Well, Comrade Mundami is the face of the Democrat party now.

And I got to say the election results this week, they were a disaster.

That they were an absolute blowout.

What is striking as several things.

Number one, turnout was exceptionally high among the left wing base, and that's a real warning sign for next year for the midterms.

The left showed up in massive numbers.

They're pissed, they hate Donald Trump, and that anger is dangerous, that anger is motivating, and too many folks on the right, too many kind of in the common sense middle stayed home.

And I will tell you if you look historically, all right, let's go back to two thousand and eight.

Two thousand and eight, Barack Obama's elected.

As a result, a lot of folks on the right, you and me included, were really unhappy.

We didn't like Barack Obama's policies.

We were pissed off.

Twenty ten was a massive title wave year.

It was the Tea Party wave, and it was in large part because those on the right were particularly energized and angry.

Fast forward to twenty twelve.

Twenty twelve, Barack Obama's re elected president and the reaction again.

Twenty fourteen was another wave election, a huge election.

We won nine Senate seats, We retired Harry Reid as majority leader.

We won the biggest majority in the House since nineteen twenty eight.

And it was because, again, those on the right were angry.

They were energized, they were contributing money, they volunteered, and those on the left were complacent.

By the way.

Fast forward to twenty eighteen.

Donald Trump had just been elected in twenty sixteen.

Twenty eighteen was a very good Democrat year.

We lost a bunch of seats.

Why because the left was really energized and folks on the right were a little bit complacent.

This week's election day suggests that we're in real danger of that happening again in twenty twenty six.

That the left, I'll tell you on fundraising, the left is out raising the right anywhere between three to one and four to one.

That is really really dangerous.

And the turnout.

The turnout in Virginia, the left showed up in much bigger numbers.

The turnout in New Jersey, the left showed up in much bigger numbers.

The turnout in New York City, the left turned out in much bigger numbers.

Now, Ben, I'll tell you one of the most interesting do you know what demographic was dominated by the radical left wing on election day?

This is shocking because you and I we geek out on the political stuff and dad after elections, young people in the Democratic Party were really ready to go vote.

Yeah, but let me be more precise, young women, and let me give you some stats.

In New York City, among young women eighteen to twenty nine, eighty one percent, eighty one percent voted for Comrade Mandani.

In New Jersey eighteen to twenty nine, Wow.

In New Jersey, among young women, eighty percent voted for mikey Cheryl the Democrat.

In New Jersey of young women.

In Virginia, seventy eight percent of young women voted for Abigail Spanberger.

It was dominant.

And by the way, to give you a comparison, because yes, young people went left, but there was there was a big gender gap.

So young women in New York eighty one percent for Mondamie, young men sixty four percent for Mondammie, so almost a twenty point gender gap.

How about New Jersey young women eighty percent for Mikey Cheryl, fifty four percent of young men, so a twenty five twenty six percent gender gap in New Jersey.

How about Virginia, seventy eight percent for span Berger of young women, just fifty six percent of young men in Virginia.

So we saw that this was a race where the single most overwhelming demographic was young women, which was so overwhelmingly lopsided that it helped drive the results on election day.

When you think about this, and then it goes back to, Okay, what was the messaging that was connecting with young women to have them come out in these numbers or was it not so much of a message?

And this is part of the breakdown of trying to figure out what you learn from election to make sure before the midterms we can either we can course correct it.

Or was it just that the left and women in the Democratic Party were so motivated compared to conservative women.

I call it the Trump sump.

You feel like your party's in power.

You feel like they're doing the things that you asked them to do in places Donald Trump is putting in complacency, but you feel comfortable because you're like, we just won an election.

Yeah, things are great.

Donald Trump's doing what he said he was going to do.

So when you look at it, was it issue base based on data we've seen, or was it more just the other side was so angry that Donald Trump won and they wanted to win so badly to send a middle finger to the president that they showed up in these record numbers and they voted for their candidate.

Yeah, we don't have that data yet.

There will be time to break that out, but we don't have it right now.

But I'll give you another aspect.

In New York City, so there was a massive difference based on whether you were a longtime New Yorker or you were new to the city.

So if you're a New York voter and you had been in New York City.

You lived in New York City less than five years.

What percent of the people who lived in New York City less than five years do you think voted for comrade Mundani?

Got to be overwhelmingly high?

Eighty three percent?

All right, how about five to ten years?

What do you think five to ten years.

I would say it's probably still fairly high, but not as high as that first group.

Seventy six percent.

Okay, let's go ten years or more, but not born in New York City.

What do you think the percentage.

Is above fifty percent?

Fifty four?

So it drops from seventy six five to ten years to fifty four.

How about I was born in New York City, which, by the way, is forty seven percent of the voters were born in New York City.

What do you think what percent of the vote do you think Mondanni got a people born in New York City.

I'm going to guess below fifty percent.

Thirty four percent.

Coulomo got forty five percent.

So Cuomo beat Mondanni by eleven points among people born in New York, but among people who lived in New York less than five years, Mondanni beat him eighty three percent to fifteen percent, So it is overwhelmingly Look yeah, yeah, clear.

Was aquil ralling cry from Mandanni, and he did this in his campaigning.

He did it, by the way, in his victory speech, he said that New York City is a city of immigrants.

In other words, if you came here recently, I'm your guy, the establishment, the old school, the American citizen, You're not a priority in New York City anymore.

This reminds me an awful lot of what we were talking about ten years ago in major cities in the UK.

We are seeing a lot of those same type of results now in New York City.

Yeah.

And by the way, there's also a significant educational differential.

All right, So if you're in New York and you had an advanced degree, what percent of the vote do you think Mandani.

Got advanced degree?

I would say maybe around fifty percent or below.

Fifty seven percent.

Advanced degree fifty seven percent.

How about bachelor's degree?

Oh gosh, I'm going to go maybe even lower.

Fifty seven percent, So advanced in bachelor's both tied a fifty seven How about associate's degree?

I don't I would say I would say higher.

Forty five percent.

By the way, Cuomo got forty eight So if you had an associate's degree, Mandanni lost.

How about some college, so you don't have an associate's.

Degree, Mandannie, I would my gut is it way to go even higher?

But you're saying I'm wrong.

You're wrong some college Mandanni forty percent, Cuomo forty eight percent.

How about high school graduate?

See, I would have thought high school graduated be seventy plus percent from Mondonni.

Nope, you're telling me that's wrong.

This is donnie go, this is breaking the normal model game of.

High school graduates.

Mandanni got thirty nine percent, Cuomo got forty seven percent.

And finally, no high school degree, so didn't even graduate high school.

I mean clearly based on the trend.

Now, the majority vote against Mandani that didn't have a high school degree, so.

No high school degree, forty percent voted from Mandani, forty nine percent for Cuoma.

So Cuomo beat Mandanni by nine points.

So who elected comrade mndann?

It is the smarty pants college educated advanced degrees.

It is the rich who elected Mandani.

By the way, working class, look, if you've got a ged, if you've got a high school degree, they're like we don't want a socialist.

These people are nuts and it is the rich New Yorkers who Look, I'm not an armchair psychologist, but.

That is the elected.

This is the Sorouses.

It is the soros Is.

By the way, the same comrade Mondonne who said we should have no billionaires also happily tweeted out a picture.

Actually, Alex Soros tweeted out a picture so proud to be a New Yorker.

The American dream continues, Congrats Mayor with a picture of the two of them together.

This is the same guy who said no billionaire as well, except for the billionaires that funded the communist takeover of New York City.

One of the other things that we're looking at with this that pull data, and what we're witnessing is is that the demographics here made the difference in this election.

Dive into a couple more interesting points that you mentioned to me as well.

So look, one of the interesting things is the breakdown by religion.

So among Protestants or other Christians, what percent do you think Mondani got.

Among Protestants or Christians.

I would say it would be well below fifty percent.

Forty three percent and forty eight percent voted for Cuomo, So Protestants or other Christians, Cuomo beten.

How about among Catholics.

I would hope lower than fifty.

It was that it was actually lower than Protestants.

It was thirty three percent of Catholics voted for Mandani, fifty two percent voted for Cuomo.

So Catholics, which is twenty seven percent of the vote in New York went by nineteen points for Cuomo.

How about Jewish voters, this is a fascinating one.

So being an israel all week long and this was something that was talked about everywhere went in Israel.

They couldn't believe that anybody that's Jewish would vote for a jihadis ab kid in Maundani.

And yet the shocking pulling data, I'm guessing is going to show that there were a quote significant amount of Jewish people that voted for Maundani and it has blown the minds of everybody in Israel.

This week, thirty two percent of Jewish voters in New York City voted for an open jahadist who says globalized the Infantah.

Sixty four percent voted for Cuomo, but thirty two percent of Jewish voters voted for Mondani.

How about other and other?

I suspect is overwhelmingly Muslim, maybe some Hindu, but predominantly Muslim.

What percentage I'm assuming it's going to be very high voting for Mundani.

Seventy one percent, twenty four percent voted for Cuomo.

Now of the total New York voters, that's fourteen percent of the electorate, but seventy one percent of other voted forman How about none, so you don't have any religion?

I would say, also very high.

Then seventy six percent for Mandani, twenty percent Cuomo.

So it was the other which is going to be predominantly Muslim, and the atheists and agnostics who elect to him.

Now, family income, this is fascinating.

Under thirty thousand dollars a year total family income, what do you think the breakdown was?

See, I would have guessed that that would have been a very high number for Mandanni.

But based on what you said earlier, I'm actually going to go to the opposite direction and say they actually did not vote for this guy.

You are right.

People making under thirty thousand dollars family income, forty two percent voter from Mandani.

Forty eight percent voted for Cuomo, so Mandani lost.

The people under thirty t.

Take down for half a second, Mandani being, Hey, everything's going to be free.

The government's going to fix all your problems.

The government's going to take care of you.

This is communism.

The youngest, hardest working in New York weren't buying that.

Bs.

They were saying, we.

Don't believe you, and they voted against him because they said, we don't want that form of government.

That that is a very interesting takeaway here.

It is now the next several income bands, thirty thousand to fifty thousand, Mandanni got fifty three percent.

Fifty thousand to one hundred thousand, Mandanni got fifty six percent, one hundred thousand to two hundred thousand, Mandanni got fifty five percent.

Two hundred thousand to three hundred thousand, Mandanni got forty nine percent.

And so he won every income group between thirty thousand and three hundred thousand and then three hundred thousand or more.

Mundani got thirty three percent, and sixty two percent voted no.

So the people who voted against Mundanni.

That people that are really rich are evil.

Right.

That's part of what he said here is that we're going to tax you more.

We're going to take more of your money.

So if you're making three hundred thousand or more in New York, and there's a fair amount of people that make more than three hundred thousand New York because New York is so expensive to live there, he was basically saying, you are the enemy of me, of my government.

I'm coming for your money, I'm coming for your housing, I'm coming for your way of life.

He was unapologetic about that.

So they heard that warning and said, we're voting against you.

Look, the income mans that voted against Mundani were below thirty thousand and above three hundred thousand.

So below thirty thousand, you voted against Mundani.

Above three hundred thousand, you vote against Mandani.

And that entire wave, and the biggest income group that voted for Mondannie was fifty thousand to one hundred thousand, and that overlaps with the young people.

These are young, college educated.

They're disillusion they're angry, they're socialists, they've been weaned on socialism.

All right, I want to give you one more stat which is a fascinating one, which is are you gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender?

What percent of New York voters that are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender do you think voted for Mondanni?

Traditionally I would have said very high.

However, knowing what he's been saying, I'm going to go with maybe it's lower than I thought.

So thirty to forty percent.

Eighty one percent, wow, and fifteen percent voters.

For the in fact didn't didn't didn't pay attention to the fact this guy supports people that throw gays, lesbians, and transgenders off rooftops, and that's part of the people he supports.

That's that's truly unbelievable.

It is truly unbelievable given radical Islamists and they literally want to execute people who are homosexuals.

So, of the voters in New York, how many do you think are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender.

I honestly have no idea.

What is it?

Fourteen percent?

So fourteen percent of the voters the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender voted eighty one point fifteen for Mondani.

How about voters who are straight, which is eighty six percent of the voters, what do you think the breakdown was for Mondani?

For voters who are straight?

I'm going to guess it was fairly high as well, based on what you're saying.

It was actually basically a tie.

Forty six percent of heterosexual voters for voter for Mondani and forty five percent for Cuomo.

So understand who elected Mandani?

Young women and gays, lesbians and transgender.

That's what the exit polling shows, which is amazing given that as an Islamist, he believes in very limited rights for women, and he is supportive of views that oppress those who are gay and lesbian.

And it's an example of how ideology trumps anyone's self interest and ignorance.

I think ignorance drove a lot of the selection.

When you break this down and you do the takeaway, I'm going to dive into these numbers more.

A lot of people that run races around the country are going to look at these numbers as well, and they're gonna say how much this will.

Apply outside of New York.

I think you could certainly apply this outa to places like Chicago or Philadelphia or Boston, right, more of these kind of liberal elitist type cities, I say, on the left, but nationwide, I'll be very interesting.

See the break down and then This comes to the big question, the big takeaway.

Why hasn't a member of the media.

I haven't seen this, Grant, I've been in Israel all week, but I've been watching this very tightly.

Why is no one in the media, asked Mandanni.

The big question which I want to know is all right, well, are you running for president right now?

Because if this is the Democratic Party, he has to be on your short list right now?

Am I wrong?

Look?

I think right now Mamdanni and AOC are the heart of the Democrat Party.

And by the way, we saw all of these Democrats that are supposedly mainstream Democrats, although there are no mainstream Democrats left.

People like Kathy Hokeel, the governor New York, people like Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, rush down to endorse Comrade Mandani, and every one of the Democrats is terrified of the radical left because that's where all of the energy and passion is in the Democrat Party right now.

Truly incredible.

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