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The Byron York Show

Democrats' Jan. 6 Committee Problem

The Byron York Show

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Democrats planned to use the Jan. 6th Capital Riot as an issue in the midterm elections. But what they didn't plan for was how unimportant Jan. 6th would become as issues like inflation, COVID, the Russia/Ukraine conflict, and the border would rise on peoples hierarchy's of concerns. So Byron discusses the question, what if it doesn't work?

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Byron New York Show, the no-chit-chat podcast.

0:10.0

We'd like to get right into it and what we're going to get into today is the Democrats

0:14.8

January 6th Committee Problem.

0:18.2

It's a political problem.

0:20.1

Now, I'm going to start off with something that a Republican strategist told me not too

0:27.2

long ago, talking about issues in the midterms, and he said, people care about getting pissed

0:34.3

off every time they buy a tank of gas.

0:38.0

So he was referring, obviously, to the importance of inflation as an issue in the upcoming midterm

0:44.4

elections.

0:45.4

And then he continued, he said, you know what they don't care about?

0:48.9

January 6th.

0:50.4

Now, this person has done a lot of polling, focus groups, research, just campaigning

0:57.1

in a number of states and a number of elections, and just cannot find much interest in January

1:03.2

6th among voters out there, as far as the midterm elections are concerned.

1:08.3

And when he did that, we weren't talking about the January 6th Committee, but when he did

1:12.9

that, he really kind of succinctly pointed out the political problem that is facing House

1:18.4

Democrats.

1:19.7

They created a committee to investigate the January 6th Capitol riot in part, so they could

1:25.9

use it as an issue in the midterms.

1:28.7

So now the question is, what if it doesn't work?

1:31.6

Now, polls support what the Republican strategist said.

1:36.5

Americans just don't have a lot of interest in January 6th as a midterm issue.

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