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One of the questions we've been talking about since Trump won the popular vote

and romped to 312 electoral college votes since Republicans won the Senate and the House

is how would Democrats handle the red tsunami sweeping over them? I mentioned it is true that

Kamala Harris became the first presidential candidate. This is 1932 not to flip a single county.

Think about how crazy that is.

She got worse in all 50 states,

but there's not even a county that was a red voting county in 2020

that flipped to blue in 2024.

Unprecedented.

How would Democrats respond?

Would they rationally look in the mirror and say,

hey, we got our ass kicked because we had a poor candidate who ran on issues by and large that the American public did not feel addressed the vast majority of the challenges that they

were facing? Or would they decide that they weren't left-wing enough

and that the real reason was racism,

sexism, identity politics working against them?

And would they in any way try to embrace the truth

or would they continue to spread lies?

So far, Buck, the spread lies choice has won.

CNN and MSNBC's ratings are tanking, and they're now defending the decision on CNN,

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