Now, as promised, my good friend and lead pollster in America and head pollster for Rasmussen

reports, the great Mark Mitchell.

Mark, as always, it's a delight to see you.

It's a delight to talk with you.

Let's start with what happened over the weekend.

I was trying to enjoy my birthday, relax a little bit, take like two days off, and then shit hit the fan.

All of a sudden, piles of bricks and cinder blocks were appearing on street corners.

And I said, hold on a second.

I got to get to work because I've been talking about this for two months.

What's going on. What a weekend. And happy birthday. I didn't know to work because I've been talking about this for two months. What's going on.

What a weekend. And happy birthday. I didn't know it was your birthday. Congratulations. One year

closer to death, as they would say. But yeah, it was crazy. I spent all weekend on Twitter as well,

mostly making jokes about how ridiculous all of this is. I mean, just the idea of all

these pallets of bricks laying around with a big sign, like protecting democracy brand bricks,

you know, a little TM. I think it's hilarious. But man, what's weird to me is just how it defies

all logic. And like to be a Democrat must be really horrifying to live with all that cognitive dissonance.

Because these are people who spent the last four years essentially cheapening the word insurrection.

Basically anything's inter-insurrection now and now they find themselves on the opposite end of it.

And it's like, hold up. But this was kind of super predictable, and it shows what a weird situation we're in,

is that all of this stuff that Democrats are doing right now is politically not viable. Like,

they're supporting 30, 35 percent positions. People overwhelmingly support our law enforcement. They support deportation of

illegal aliens. And here you have Gavin Newsom standing up there and essentially making this

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