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Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast.

Today is Wednesday, March 25th, 2026.

I'm John Pudhorst, the editor of Commentary Magazine.

With me, as always, executive editor, Abe Greenwald.

Hi, Abe.

Hi, John. And Washington Free Beacon

editor Eliana Johnson. Hi, Eliana. Hi, John. So, uh, more midterm news that doesn't sound good

for Republicans in Florida, a special election saw the unexpected victory of in a

Florida, in a Florida House district, Emily Gregory, Democrat in the Mara Lago district, upsets Trump-backed GOP candidate John Maples.

Okay, I'm bringing this up not to have a conversation about how the midterms are shaping up badly for Republicans, but because of a specific thing relating to Emily Gregory that brings up a very interesting piece that was published last week in the bulwark by Lauren Egan.

And Lauren Egan proposes that what Democrats really need to do is nominate good-looking people for House and Senate seats

because all available evidence suggests that people like to vote for hot people.

And she induces evidence. She quotes people. She talks about things that are said on

podcasts and all of that. And it's a,

it's an amusing piece. And it's, there's a lot to it. Because of course, in one sense, when we say,

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