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3 Martini Lunch

Michigan's Demented Democrat Senate Candidates

3 Martini Lunch

Radio America

News, Government, News Commentary

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Join Jim and Greg for the Monday 3 Martini Lunch as they break down growing tensions on the right following a heated Turning Point USA event, Rep. Elise Stefanik’s abrupt exit from the New York governor’s race, and a Michigan U.S. Senate candidate fantasizing about assaulting U.S. Supreme Court justices.

First, they react to Ben Shapiro’s speech on how politics and journalism should be conducted, including his sharp criticism of Tucker Carlson for platforming figures like Nick Fuentes without challenging their views. Carlson then returned verbal fire and accused his critics of trying to divide people. Jim says the right is not well-served by tolerating conspiracy theories and playing footsie with anti-Semitism.

Next, they dig into why New York Rep. Elise Stefanik decided to pull the plug on her campaign for governor. They also examine how the year started with President Trump choosing Stefanik to be his ambassador to the United Nations and ended with Trump refusing to endorse her run for governor.

Finally, they get a glimpse of another unhinged Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Michigan, as State Senator Mallory McMorrow says she heard Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh attended a tailgate at her alma mater of Notre Dame University. McMorrow suggests she would have thrown beer in their faces. But the rest of the Democrats running are also really bad.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the three martini lunch.

0:04.8

Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

0:10.6

Three martini's coming up.

0:13.0

Very glad you're with us for the Monday edition of the three martini lunch.

0:17.4

We should tell you that this is the last normal format three martini lunch of the year.

0:22.2

Tomorrow, Jim and I begin our prestigious year-end, three martini lunch awards. Six different

0:28.4

installments of those, everything from overrated and most underrated political figures to best

0:33.4

ideas, worst ideas, best and worst political theater, most overreported and underreported

0:38.1

stories, person of the year, turn code of the year, and even all the way up through the end

0:42.5

and next week are predictions for 2026. So we've put a lot of thought, a lot of work into those,

0:48.4

hopefully enjoy those special episodes. But today, we're not going to finish on a light note.

0:53.5

We've got a real clown car of

0:55.7

insanity in the Democratic field for the U.S. Senate in Michigan. We've talked about Abu El-S.

1:00.7

Ayyed, the Bernie Sanders acolyte and a guy who wants socialized medicine and, of course,

1:06.2

hates Israel and demonizes the police. There's other psychos in this race, too, and you're

1:10.8

going to hear about that today.

1:12.3

We're also going to be talking about the curious case of Elise Stefanik, the longtime Congresswoman,

1:19.5

who was long planning a run for governor, finally announced it, and now she's not running for governor.

1:24.7

So we'll dig into that.

1:26.0

But in a moment, we're going to be talking about what happened at Turning Point USA's Amfest over the weekend,

1:32.6

and specifically the dust up between Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson.

1:36.0

So let's start with Amfest, Jim, because this is out in Phoenix.

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