Today, we're going to talk about Trump getting rebuked and not once, but twice after trying

to put his finger on the scales.

I interview Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut about his thoughts on the number of Republicans

testifying for the January 6th Committee, including Trump, Kevin McCarthy, and Jim Jordan,

had a past voting rights legislation despite Manchin's opposition to the Philbuster in

the Senate, and his introduction of the National Security Powers Act to finally put the power

back into Congress's hands to declare war.

And West Virginia's Richard O'Jeta joins to talk about the best way to deal with his fellow

West Virginia and Joe Manchin, how Democrats can get elected in red districts and states,

and his response as an army vet to conservative pundits mocking law enforcement officials

after January 6th.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie.

Now I don't talk about Donald Trump much at all anymore, and that's very much on purpose,

but I wanted to make an exception here, and that's because in two separate instances this

past week, Trump inserted himself into the narrative, and both times got fully rebuked

by Republicans.

The first is that in a special election in Texas's six congressional district, and all

Republican race, voters elected State rep Jake Elzy over the Trump and Dorses Susan Wright.

And that was after he held a tele-rally for her, after he recorded robocalls for her,

after his PAC secured a $100,000 TV ad buy, and of course, Republicans are all falling

over themselves now to convince everyone that Trump's star isn't fading, with even

Trump himself coming out afterwards and saying, quote, I don't want to claim it's a loss,

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