It's the Brian Laris show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. We're going to start with a specific

angle on the State of the Union address. I'll assume you either heard enough of it yourself

or have heard enough coverage this morning of the speech in. I'll assume you either heard enough of it yourself or have

heard enough coverage this morning of the speech in general. We're going to look at this as a big

national campaign kickoff speech for the 26 midterms and how it intersects with concerns that

Trump will be doing everything he can to suppress democratic votes.

Our central clip from the speech, funny enough, and we'll play it right now,

is where he references Zeran Mamdani in a mostly positive way,

as Trump is urging Congress to pass the so-called Save Act,

which would require proof of citizenship documents to register to vote,

and that's not just for immigrants, by the way, and then government IDs when you show up to vote,

and a nationwide ban on most mail-in ballots. Trump actually called this part of his hour and

47-minute speech, perhaps the most important part, so let's take

him seriously and add his word. Here's that clip. And no more crooked mail-in ballots except for

illness, disability, military, or travel. None. And this should be an easy one.

And by the way, it's polling at 89% including Democrats,

89%.

And even the new Communist mayor of New York City, I think he's a nice guy, actually.

Speak to him a lot.

Bad policy, but nice guy.

He just said they want people to shovel snow.

They got hit hard.

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