Everything that's going on in our politics right now is actually geared to one goal. Do you know what that is? Because I'm about to tell you.

I'm Chris Cuomo. Welcome to the Chris Cuomo Project. The Midterms. It's all about the midterms. That's what everything you see happening

within the Trump administration and everything that the Democrats are trying right now to get

traction is about the midterms. The Democrats are making a bet that what beat them is now what

they will use to beat what beat them,

meaning an angry populist movement

that is pissed off about real things, okay, affordability,

the yawning chasm between those who have too much

and those who don't have enough,

and how the practices of success

in our society are getting very, very hard to access, okay?

That's all real, just as it was with MAGA, okay?

But the remedies and the rationale is where it gets dicey. On the right, we know that whole story of what the plus minus is on MAGA. But we're seeing that on the left. Socialism, really? Embracing Islamism and far left radical agendas? Really? So you really are going to prove the MAGA people right with their white

replacement theory, which I don't believe at all. But now you're going to give a suggestion

of that by taking, you know, the Palestinian side over the American and the Israeli side or

Iran or any of these fractious issues. So what matters? I'm telling you it's all about the midterms, but here's the weird thing. What we're obsessed with right now is nothing that traditionally midterms have been about. Why do presidents usually get beat up in their first midterm after they're elected? Because it's usually a referendum on the state of play that they were lying about to get elected and now they got to own it, the status quo, right? So when you look

at what your top issues are, economy, health care, crime, safety, right, education, and then

four deep, you start to get into what I call the culture wars, reproductive rights, okay?

Immigration.

There's a security issue to that also, but there's also a culture war issue to it in terms of how you discuss it, right?

Then there's all the presidential power, presidential approval, election security, all that stuff that is really more

hype than it is anything that is productive. So what will make a difference in the midterms? Because

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