Welcome to the Bullwork Podcast. I'm Charlie Sykes. It is the morning after and I think I just

told AB Stoddard that this will be our first three and a half hour podcast because we have so much

to talk about and quite frankly to wallow in. So first of all, thanks for joining me on the morning

after a truly remarkable and rather unexpected election. Charlie, it's an honor to be invited to

join you. I was prepared for our drunken post-blood bath sub session and I girded myself. I prepared

for days and it's a very strange feeling that we might be able to only, only, only sometimes

have nice things. Well, that's right. I had actually planned certain post-mortems and everything,

but as I tweeted last night right before I fell asleep about one o'clock in the morning, I posted

something like conventional wisdom under construction, pardon any inconvenience here because we're all

throwing out our hot tags, all the conventional wisdom. The whole hive mind has to certainly like move

in a different direction and all of the detail will the Democrats learn the right lesson from this.

Okay, so let's we have a lot of big picture stuff to talk about. Let's start with highlights and

low lights. It's always more fun to start with the low light. So low light for you from last night's

election. Really disappointed that Tim Ryan lost the Senate race. I knew there were going to be

Ryan DeWine split ticket voters and Ohio, but it's a deeply red state and it was going to be

very hard for him to defy the odds and I'm really disappointed that Elaine Luria lost in Virginia.

Yeah, those are two good ones. I just say that, you know, GDVance going to the United States Senate is

is certainly one of them. Luria going down. The fact that I've said this over and over again,

the fact that Herschel Walker is even remotely close to the United States Senate continues to be a low

light. But highlight, can I go first with my highlight? Yeah, because I kind of I would get

spent the entire podcast talking about this. It looks like Lauren Bobert is going to lose her seat in

Colorado, which nobody saw. Lauren Bobert is going to go down. Now, it is possible because I don't

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