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Hello, and welcome to Need to Know. I'm David Rothkopf, your host in this week.

Like every week, we're going to talk about something we think you need to know about.

And this month, like we do about once a month, we're going to do it with our friends,

the wise, insightful, and well-informed Tara McGowan of Courier Newsrooms and Simon Rosenberg of the Hopium Global Worldwide Empire.

How are you guys doing?

It's Friday.

It is Friday, and it's warm today, but it's going to get cold over the week.

Anyway, let's kind of cut to the chase.

Yeah, no, let's talk about the weather longer. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, okay, okay. So here's a question,

because I read a couple stories this week. And it was like this. Trump's terrible. Trump is

failing. The Republicans are terrible. The Republicans are failing.

The problem is everybody hates the Democrats. And I'm like, is that really true? I mean,

is that what polls say, Simon, do polls say everybody hates the Democrats? No. I mean,

I think that the proof in the pudding is

what's happening in these elections where if there was this mass repudiation of the Democratic Party,

we wouldn't continue to be overperforming in special elections and in elections of all kinds

all across the country. Even just this week, we had this election,

New Jersey, where our candidate in New Jersey 11 overperformed Trump's numbers there by more than

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