Tim Miller: I Still Have Election Night PTSD!
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🗓️ 4 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Tim over from the bulwark here. I was just on with Nicole talking about election day. |
| 0:04.8 | And I want to give you guys something that you can watch here about what I'm looking for as you guys are engaging in election night viewing. |
| 0:13.3 | And kind of revising extend remarks like I like to do. She gave me a great question. What am I looking for tonight? |
| 0:19.1 | I should have been ready for that one. That's a standard TV question. |
| 0:21.6 | For whatever reason, I was like, I don't know. |
| 0:23.0 | I was in my head. |
| 0:24.2 | And so I've learned out some answers, which I still agree with. |
| 0:33.6 | The Hispanic vote very important. What's happening in Virginia, very important. You can stick around for it. Why? One thing I didn't say that I wish I would have Is I'm looking forward to seeing Zoran Mandani's speech tonight |
| 0:36.7 | Because there's going to be a big |
| 0:39.0 | efforts to define his victory, his likely victory, after in democratic world. What does it mean? |
| 0:46.3 | What did he focus on? What did he do? And this will be his moment to define it for himself. |
| 0:50.3 | Like he doesn't, you know, as being a not a naturalized citizen in America, it's not like he can be president someday or whatever. |
| 0:55.6 | So I'm not looking at it for that reason. |
| 0:56.7 | But it'll be interesting to see how he explains why he was able to galvanize a following tonight, rather than hearing other people project onto him what they want people to think about that election. |
| 1:12.2 | So I'll be watching Zoran Mondani's victory speech tonight, which I expect will happen. |
| 1:17.7 | I also joked with Nicole, I swear to God, I don't know about you all, but I have PTSD on election nights from these Trump victories. |
| 1:25.3 | I'm sweating. I'm physically sweating. I'm never sweating. I don't get nervous on TV anymore. I'm on TV a lot. Humble wreck, I guess. I didn't mean to sound like that. But I don't get nervous on TV. And my body is just overtaking me with nerves. And it's, it's, it's PTSD.cd so FYI I'm dealing with that |
| 1:47.0 | I still haven't quite maybe I need a therapist |
| 1:49.3 | check out better help I still haven't quite |
| 1:51.6 | used the board code so I haven't quite processed |
| 1:55.0 | you know how those other election nights have gone |
| 1:59.1 | so anyway much more on everything you know about how those other election nights have gone. So, anyway, much more on everything you know |
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