Hey, everyone. It's me, Sam Stein. Managing out with the Bullwark, and I'm here with Sarah Longwell, our publisher.

We are going to be talking about the pretty dramatic loss last night of Senator Bill Cassidy in his primary in Louisiana.

The primary, you basically go to a runoff. Top two candidates make it. Bill Cassidy, the incumbent, two-term incumbent senator finished third.

Now, there's a couple of reasons why, but the main one is basically he voted to convict

Trump after Trump's impeachment in the House following January 6th, 2020.

Our constitution in our country is more important than any one person.

I voted to convict President Trump because he is guilty.

Yeah, that was enough.

Trump went off on him on truth social.

Beautiful.

I voted to convict President Trump because he is.

Oh my God.

And Cassidy lost pretty convincingly.

So I have a few takeaways here, but Sarah, what's your main takeaway?

A few things. One, if you listen to the focus group podcast that I did with Tim about a week ago, it was clear as day this is what was going to happen. The voters in the group were sort of anyone but Cassidy and how they were feeling about things. And their reasoning

was, yes, they saw him as a traitor to Donald Trump and the party. They also had complaints

about his role in COVID and masking and things like that. They don't like his stance on vaccines,

but it was very clear that it was really about seeing him as a

traitor to the party. My main takeaway, though, I've seen some things today in the results where

people say, you know, this is what happens if you cross Trump. You end up gone. And there's some

truth to that. Analytically, there's some truth to that.

Analytically, there's real truth to that, right? There's not a lot of people who have either voted to impeach Trump or voted, well, mainly voted to impeach him. But there's, in other ways,

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