Hey, everybody. It's me, Sam Stein, managing editor of the bulwark, joined by Andrew Egger.

Author Morning Shots, wear of a Washington commander's cap, loser franchise. Just kidding.

They're fine. My franchise is the, my franchise is the loser franchise, the New York Giants.

We're going to talk about Morning Shots for this, a bulwark takes episode.

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Andrew is in what we call the barrel.

The RNC Twitter handles are all going after him. You are apparently

scum, garbage, and one of the worst journalists ever to grace this profession. Why are they so

mad at you, Andrew? Yeah, I'm used to hearing all this from you, Sam. So it was a little bit of

shock to hear the RNC also express so many correct opinions. I'm not used to that from them. No, the reporting from this morning is about Joe Gruters, who is the chair of the RNC as of this summer. And he is kind of an interesting guy because he is not nearly as public facing as a lot of the RNC chairs

we've had in the past, most notably obviously like Ronna McDaniel, who has like more than

a million Twitter followers and stuff.

People don't pay a ton of attention to like his every utterance, right?

He's not, doesn't have this giant media operation.

So it was interesting to us when we learned this weekend or just a couple days ago that that

he has spent the last week kind of going

around to all these conservative talk shows and talking about the midterms in kind of wild ways.

I mean, he's really, really, really trying to set expectations very low.

Let's play a couple of them.

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