Hey y'all. It's Eugene Daniels. And Simone Sanders Townsend. We're the host of a brand new podcast. MS now presents Clockit.

We're starting this show because over our years in D.C., me on campaigns and working in the White House.

And me covering it all, plus running the White House Correspondents Association. We've learned to see through political machinations and maneuvering, whatever that is, right, Eugene?

Uh-huh, because right now we're watching the Trump administration try to legitimize itself by hijacking the arts, sports, basically the culture.

See slapping Trump's name on the Kennedy Center, dispatching ice to the Super Bowl, uploading TikTok set to Nikki Minaj songs.

It looks trivial, but this stuff

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No state's race, though, I think right about now is more interesting and more, you know, popping up in my group chats than what's going on in Texas in the Democratic primary between Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett and state representative.

James Talarico.

The thing that I think is most interesting about this primary for Democrats is that the split in the party is no longer ideological, right?

Yeah.

The actual split is whether you want to fight or not.

And I think these two people show how different groups in the Democratic Party want to fight, right?

Like James Telerico, he's much more, you know,

his demeanor. I got into this because of my students. I got into the classroom in the fall of

2011, right after the state legislature, cut $5 billion from our schools. I had 45 kids in one classroom.

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