MAGA Loses Their Minds Over Taylor Swift

The Next Level

The Bulwark

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Biden is still down in the polls, but is it still too soon to take them seriously? Sarah has thoughts on which of the swing states Biden has to win, and she disagrees with JVL's thoughts on Nikki Haley finally going after Trump. Plus, the Trump endorsements are really starting to get to Tim, and MAGA rages against Taylor Swift for being a successful, popular liberal.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone welcome to the next level I'm J. V. L. here with my best friends
0:09.9	Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller of the Bulwark.
0:13.3	So guys, great news, morning consult poll out today of swing states showing North Carolina,
0:19.6	Trump Plus 10, Nevada Trump Plus 8 Georgia, Trump plus 8, Wisconsin, Trump plus 5, Michigan,
0:27.2	Trump plus 5. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you.
0:31.2	Sarah, would you like to go first?
0:34.7	I'll give you my optimistic pitch on these numbers,
0:38.0	which is the first is I don't really believe them.
0:40.6	I think a 15 point swing among voters in Michigan from the last election there
0:46.7	where Gretchen Whitmer, the Democrat, won by 10 points over a Trumpy alternative.
0:53.0	So I'm just like a little skeptical on this front.
0:56.6	And also Morning Consul has always
0:58.0	been a particularly Trump-friendly kind of outlet,
1:01.5	a polling outfit, which does not mean that they are pro-Trump, just that maybe
1:05.4	they over-ample on the Trump side.
1:08.0	So I'm not going to lose my stuff about it.
1:11.7	I will say the other thing, if you look at the states and this is
1:14.7	going to be true and as we get into the more into the general election I'm sure I'll
1:17.8	talk about this a lot. So they have six swing states in the mix, maybe seven actually because they include North Carolina, which I would say
1:26.3	North Carolina should not be considered a swing state.
1:28.0	Yeah, but they don't have Arizona in it, right.
1:31.0	Arizona is another swing state.
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