This was supposed to be a big Republican wave, it didn't happen.

A trickle, more like.

Now, magas and porters are not happy. Let's just have a little listen.

We can see the fraud.

We can see the fraud in the machines, Draza. We can see it. We can see it.

Very sad, very emotional.

Now, I was delighted to be joined by David Sorota, who's a former speech writer to Bernie Sanders,

and amongst many other things, the acclaimed writer of Don't Look Up.

And I started by asking him just how bad they sexually was for the Republicans.

I mean, it's a huge missed opportunity for them, certainly.

They didn't capitalize on a favorable terrain for them.

I think that is in part due to two things, in my view. One, the exit polling shows that

there was a substantial opposition to Trump. A lot of voters saw the election through the

prism of Trump and a lot of voters wanted to reject Trump and Trumpism, which is actually

the most exciting part of the election results last night, I think.

I also think that the Republicans never really offered a program about what they would do

about inflation, what they would do about the economy. I think they relied on just saying

the economy sucks or inflation is bad, and they didn't actually put forward an actual agenda of

what they would do. So it seems that the country, speaking broadly here, didn't necessarily have

the confidence in the Republicans to deal with the economic issues that the country knows are a

problem. So I think moving forward, it's not that the election happened, everything's fine.

It's that it kind of was writ large, the country saying the economy is not fine,

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