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  • Yeah, Here's the latest from the big old tabletop puzzle of disenfranchisement we call the electoral map.

  • Biden has picked up wins in Wisconsin Michigan and looked strong in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Nevada, getting Biden the center victory like it was Pantene wafting off a grandmother's scalp.

  • Med.

  • Does President Trump still have a chance of using Rudy Giuliani's strong litigation arm to touch these underage results?

  • Inappropriately, The the president still has a chance.

  • He has announced that he's going to bring litigation in three states, uh, to either stop voting or Thio issue a recount in the case of Wisconsin.

  • And there's still a path for him on the map.

  • But as it has been from the beginning of this campaign, and as it continues to be the day after the voting, his path is narrow.

  • Well, I'm sorry, but Giuliani doesn't have the muscle needed to take this on.

  • You gotta put me in, coach.

  • I even got the special kind of chemical castration that makes you less attracted to your cousins.

  • Don't make me go back to the Petco and get it reversed.

  • Please.

  • I could hardly sleep last night after worrying about the welfare of my family for generations.

  • And also, after doing this coffee enema I read about in glamour.

  • Thank you so much for sharing that Lila.

  • President Trump is insisting on his win with the misplaced self confidence of Nate Silver, reminding everyone that he came kind of close on Arizona.

  • He tweeted.

  • We have claimed for electoral vote purposes the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the state of Georgia and the state of North Carolina, each one of which has a big trump lead.

  • Additionally, we hereby claim the state of Michigan if in fact, there was a large number of secretly dumped ballots, as has been widely reported, any time a number turns into a different number, that's a huge red flag as far as I'm concerned.

  • Moving on Joe Biden address the nation Wednesday to urge patience and unity among Democrats and frothing armed Republicans.

  • And now, after a long night of county, it's clear that we're winning enough states to reach 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.

  • I'm not here.

  • Declare that we've won, but I am here to report well, the Countess finished.

  • We believe we will be the winners.

  • Nat does bite a need to act more presidential and give a slurry victory declaration.

  • No, I actually thought he had exactly the right tone, as he has in most of the campaign.

  • E thought Hey did.

  • He came out and he projected victory, made it clear he thought he won.

  • But he also took that opportunity to talk again, as he has in the past about being a president for the whole country, not a partisan president.

  • It's obviously a sharp contrast to the way that President Trump has governed and a message that he's sending to a lot of the voters who would be disappointed if if the outcome results in his being president.

  • You know, I think a lot of people out there might feel like we're in a new, intense chapter of our nation's history.

  • But there's actually historic precedence for ah, hotly contested challenge to leadership.

  • While scores of citizens are being treated.

  • A subhuman isn't that comforting?

  • Oh, yeah.

  • Now let's look at the Senate, where the Democrats maintain their brand as the party that fights for minorities by continuing to stay one themselves.

  • The latest, from The New York Times, has Democrats with 48 seats and Republicans with 48.

  • It appears the Senate will remain in Mitch McConnell's slowly liquefying hands, shocking a Leicester even remotely familiar with the Democratic Party.

  • Up in Maine, we can report that Susan Collins has defeated Sara Gideon in our radical win for spinelessness.

  • No, Matt.

  • Is there a silver lining here that had Democrats won the majority?

  • They would have had to play hardball like Mitch McConnell did before becoming the most effective politician in the country.

  • There's no silver lining here for Democrats.

  • They wanted the Senate.

  • They want to be able to pass an agenda.

  • If Joe Biden is, in fact the president Andrei way underperformed where they thought they were and where the polls were, there could be a silver lining for President Biden should he win, because when you control outright Congress, you have a little less negotiating room with your own caucus.

  • Onda having to deal with Republicans in some way sometimes gives you a little bit of an opportunity to, uh, t get closer to what you want to do and not give in to what everybody in your party is demanding.

  • You do.

  • Yeah, I'd say the perfect slogan for the Democrats actually is.

  • We lost.

  • So we want, uh, this really sucks.

  • If I had just donated 15 more dollars to Amy McGrath, she might have one.

  • Lila, honey, do not do this to yourself.

  • Yeah, of course, that would have made up the 20 point deficit, but that's it's in the past, Lila.

  • Just let it go past Lila because they're nothing if not consistent.

  • Democrats also surprised pollsters everywhere by underperforming in the house.

  • Yes, the latest projections for the House showed Democrats with 205 seats and Republicans with 190.

  • That's are expected to maintain majority control.

  • But Republicans netted a surprise six seats, all part of Queen Pelosi's three D chess strategy that always wanted her.

  • Sitting atop a pile of ashes in North Carolina, Madison Cawthorne sent a strong message to Nazi finishes everywhere that there was hope.

  • Matt, why do you think the House made a rightward shift when Democrats offered a clear vision of something or other?

  • Yeah, well, I I take your point.

  • I don't think the vision was especially clear.

  • It was mostly referendum on the trump years, and I don't know why those those house seats I mean, we're gonna be looking at this for a while.

  • I've certainly been through the exit polling.

  • Um, you know, Joe, Joe Biden did very well with Independence.

  • If you trust the exit polling, which I kind of dio hey was in double digits of Independence.

  • He was.

  • He ran well in the suburbs, but not as well, I think as they hoped.

  • And those candidates didn't run as well in the suburbs on.

  • It's not a crippling blow to Democrats in the House, but it's a warning sign, and I think there's gonna be a lot of post election analysis and a lot of a lot of thought about what went wrong.

  • I wish you were right.

  • But Nancy Pelosi believes introspection.

  • It's a horrific demon haunting the halls of Congress in Pelosi's defense, Republicans on Lee let a quarter million people die.

  • If Republicans had killed all but 10 people, I could have seen the Democrats getting some seeds.

  • Look, I think the Democrats one way or the other over these next couple of years, even if they've won the presidential election, there's going to have to be a generational change over of leadership.

  • If there's not a succession strategy and conversation going on.

  • Uh, there needs to be because obviously, speaker Policy, she is committed to stepping down at some point in the near future.

  • Uh, Vice President Biden, if he's elected, is, you know, gonna be 77 years old.

  • And so the party needs a generational transformation, and it needs it soon.

  • Yeah, absolutely.

  • I feel like they should go with someone much younger like Steny Hoyer.

  • Mhm.

Yeah, Here's the latest from the big old tabletop puzzle of disenfranchisement we call the electoral map.

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