Hey, everybody, it's Tim. Just a couple scheduling notes. And then I want to deliver a little rant about

the state of play for the Democrats in some of these states across the country and why I thought it was so

important to have Dan Osborne on the pod today. So you'll be getting Dan who's this independent

candidate running in Nebraska. Somebody I've been wanting to talk to for a while. I ran a really close race.

I guess not that close.

He lost by six and a half points to Deb Fisher, but in the same state where Donald Trump won by 1920 points.

And so, you know, whether there are lessons to learn there is something that we can talk about.

A bunch of other stuff in the news.

If you had it over the board, take speed. I grabbed my boy Pablo Torre, and we talked about Trump's Sport Council, which I have some issues with. Sam Stein, we talked about Donald Trump's renovation, $200 million renovation. He needs a new fancy ballroom. Here's the thing. I get this a little bit with Dan. It's like the vanguard of the working man, you know, the man that is going to go out there and fight for the forgotten man all across the country. It seems like his top priority at this moment is basically interior design for the White House. It was ensuring he got a big tax break for his rich friends. It's protecting people that were at some level involved in a child sex trafficking ring who are likely very elite and very wealthy.

I'm not really seeing the passion for helping the working man out from Donald Trump.

Translating that to working class voters, though, is a real challenge. I talked about that with Dan a little bit today. I think that Dan's model is an interesting one. He is clearly kind of left progressive on a lot of economic issues, which is maybe the right path forward. He really wants to focus and talk about those issues. I'll be interested to see,

you know, how that turns out this time in Nebraska. I think that there is another path that

a lot of progressives bristle at, which is finding people who have more cultural affinity

with the Trump voters and maybe they can deliver a message about Trump's hypocrisy on working

class issues about how Trump

is a fucking charlatan and a phony more effectively than, you know, people that code more

as social left or in league with whatever the kind of elite, you know, the culture or the dominant

elite culture. I think that that's possible too. But the thing

that is most important about all this that I just really want to get across is like, this is an

urgent crisis and it really matters that Democrats are so unable to compete across big swaths America.

And it's a crisis in part because of the Senate and how unfair the Senate is and how

undemocratic the Senate is.

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