Just a quick heads up before we start today's episode.

There's some language in today's show.

All right, here it is.

It's primary night in Rome, Georgia,

and for an experienced political reporter, Greg Bluestin,

victory parties are an obligatory stop in any race he covers.

I've covered Georgia politics for about 20 years now in some form or fashion, and plenty of

candidate victory parties for winners and losers.

The race? A Republican runoff.

The favorite, Marjorie Taylor Green, has just won.

And he's at her party.

So just kind of walked right in there and sat, and I knew some people, so nodded at them,

and sat in the back and started a very cramped hotel room.

I think I was the hotel conference room.

I think I was the only one wearing a mask.

But I started kind of live tweeting what she was saying.

Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution quickly realized this wasn't the boilerplate victory speech.

You know, thanking your opponent for a tough race.

Now, let's all unify and win in November kind of thing.

There was no water under the bridge moment here.

There was no conciliatory, like, hey, let's all make up.

This was like a napalm bomb that went off in Rome, Georgia.

...