Hey, everybody, Mark Kalprin here.

Welcome to next up, our brand new show.

We're just getting started and glad to have you be part of it.

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those things to it. Today, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. I'm going to tell you

what smart Democrats and some disaffected former Democrats tell me is the real explanation of why the party

might be in big trouble. I'll also have a conversation with the Secretary of the Veterans Department.

Doug Collins, the gentleman from Georgia, will talk about his pledge that he's made about making

sure veterans are taken care of, even as Doge tries to make the department more efficient.

All of that, plus a look at Joe Biden here on this episode.

Again, grateful to have you with us.

So I'm going to start by telling you the honest truth that I've heard from conversations with people across the country, smart Democrats, some still Democrats, some disaffected Democrats,

who say that the party has to address some really tough questions.

I haven't heard anybody with a list like this, and it's a list that I put together getting

kind of the consensus view of a number of very smart people, some of whom have left the party,

as I said, but some of whom really want the

Democrats to be able to not just win the White House back, but to build the kind of a sustained

coalition or kind of movement that Donald Trump has built to try to figure out how things

have gone.

The real problem that these Democrats see is not that the party is weak in every way.

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