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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

President Donald Trump's anger is mounting over last week's crushing GOP losses.

In a series of rants, he vented at Democrats over what he called the affordability con job. He claimed he doesn't want to talk about affordability at all, and he snapped at a reporter who brought up facts that contradicted

what he was saying about prices. All this comes as two new analyses show that the GOP losses

might have been worse than we thought,

particularly in terms of what they say about the fragility of the MAGA coalition.

So we've been wondering, what do vulnerable House Republicans think when they hear Trump go into

denial about what happened? What do Republicans do if they're not allowed to tell the truth about the unpopularity of

Trump's policies? We're talking about all this with Joe Perticokeone, who covers Congress for

the bulwark and has a good piece exploring the deep roots of GOP denial about their losses.

Joe, thanks for coming on. Glad to be on. So Trump has taken talking about Walmart, which just announced

that its promotional Thanksgiving dinner is cheaper than last years. He says this actually

shows that prices are down, not up, and that that in turn shows Democrats' message was a lie. Listen to

this. So I just heard this yesterday that Walmart said that the Thanksgiving was 25 more expensive, 25% more expensive under Biden.

That's a big to me.

That's a big number because Walmart's respected.

I mean, Walmart is Walmart.

And, you know, they're giving you prices.

So that would mean that the whole series of pricing and costs, you know, the groceries and everything

else, it was a con job. It was a con job. Affordability, they call it, was a con job by the Democrats.

So the whole Walmart thing is nonsense. This year's Thanksgiving

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