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Hey everybody, it's Joe Trippy and welcome back to That Trippy show with my co-host, Alex Sashlow.

This week, we explain why Democrats really can win in a lot of places that we weren't thinking about in 2026.

I'll explain why. And Alex has a theory of his own to explain.

Yeah. So excited. Trump. Let's let's let's about Trump and let's at least hear him out folks.

Plus as we start to wrap up 2025, we get to more of your questions. Alex, where do you want to get started so over the

years you'll drop something on this show and then like we'll get a lot of questions

we'll get a lot of responses from listeners over the years it's happened a couple

times you brought up the number 258 a couple weeks ago, and that got us more emails,

more comments on YouTube, more reviews on iTunes. You can do all those things, by the way,

still, if you want us to pick up your questions. They wanted to know is 258 really in play?

And more to the point, can Democrats really win everywhere next year, Joe?

Well, look, I'm based all this on the, you know, what we're seeing in the, in the exit

polls and the actual vote results as these elections come in, you know, as the, you know,

each state goes through their 2025 elections.

And so far, here are the basic facts.

In Virginia, Democrats outperformed the, you know, what was expected, the generic vote,

what Democrats were supposed to get by seven points.

And when they did it, when they exceeded that by seven points in Virginia that resulted in the Democrats sweeping the

House of Delegates 64 out of a hundred seats were won by

Democrats. In, in New Jersey, similar kind of numbers. But when you look at now a ruby red

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