8/27/25: GOP loses seat badly, Trump has soldiers picking up trash
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- Democrat Catelin Drey defeats Republican Christopher Prosch in an Iowa Senate special election flipping a Trump district and ending the GOP supermajority
-- Donald Trump deploys more than 2,200 National Guard troops from multiple states to collect trash in Washington DC as part of a beautification mission
-- The White House pushes back as questions mount over Donald Trump’s health after visible bruises, swelling, and cognitive slip-ups
-- Trump makes false claims about crime, autism, prescription drugs, and restaurants while Robert F Kennedy Jr rants about radioactive shrimp during a chaotic cabinet meeting
-- Cabinet officials and allies, including Tulsi Gabbard, Kristi Noem, Kelly Loeffler, and others, lavish praise on Donald Trump in an extraordinary display of flattery
-- Support among young men who backed Trump in 2024 collapses as economic struggles, immigration raids, and broken promises sour his appeal
-- California Governor Gavin Newsom publicly raises concerns about Trump’s mental fitness
-- Trump mocks Gavin Newsom’s hand movements while Newsom fires back online
-- Trump posts a series of late night Truth Social rants boasting about fundraising, crime, and attacking Seth Meyers
-- Charlie Kirk tells Taylor Swift to reject feminism and submit to her fiancé, Travis Kelce, in a bizarre rant about their engagement
-- On the Bonus Show: Trump signs an executive order against flag burning, Trump wants to change the Defense Department's name to the Department of War, US threatens to withhold funding from states over truck driver English proficiency rules, and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | We start today with some actually pretty good news for Democrats. |
| 0:12.0 | If you're thinking about 2026, Republicans have suffered a stunning upset and the political implications are significant. |
| 0:20.0 | What happened is that Democrats flipped a very red Iowa State Senate seat. |
| 0:26.3 | Now you might say, okay, one seat in the Iowa State Senate. |
| 0:30.3 | What difference does it make? |
| 0:31.7 | This has no national implications. |
| 0:33.5 | And you would be wrong if that was your belief because here's what happened. |
| 0:43.5 | This seat flipping, the details of which I'll give you in a moment, ends the three-year super majority of Republicans in the Iowa State Senate. |
| 0:47.7 | And it really could serve as an important warning shot for 2026 when you combine it with |
| 0:53.1 | some other elections that we've seen. So this particular |
| 0:55.9 | election is Caitlin Dre, a Democrat from Sioux City, Iowa, who defeated Republican Christopher |
| 1:03.7 | Prosh in yesterday's special election for Iowa Senate District number one. This is a district |
| 1:10.2 | that Trump carried by 11 points in 2024. |
| 1:13.9 | And the important sort of math of it is that Dre won by nine points. And that means it's a 20 point swing towards Democrats compared to last November. |
| 1:30.7 | Trump won by 11, what was it, nine months ago, Trump plus 11, nine months ago, Democrat |
| 1:38.0 | Caitlin Dre plus nine, nine months later. |
| 1:42.0 | That's a 20 point swing. This is similar is similar to you know when we think back to |
| 1:46.9 | election night 2024 um viewers of my live stream may remember that while i called nothing right we |
| 1:56.0 | waited for the networks to call at about 10 after 7 p.m maybe it was 20 after 7 p.m. Eastern on election day. |
| 2:04.1 | When I saw the results from Kentucky and from Indiana, states Trump won in 2020, states Trump |
| 2:12.0 | one in 2016. Trump was leading at 7.20 p.m. on election night, Kentucky and Indiana, by way more than he had won them in previous elections. |
| 2:22.9 | That's when I knew it wasn't looking good for Kamala Harris because we look at trends and we look at changes. |
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