‘Cataclysmic change’: MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace floored by Dem election results
MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) had a broad conversation about the special elections on Tuesday, and the firehose of news is drowning out its importance.
“I think it has really been a significant 24 hours,” said Whitehouse. He began mentioning the 25-hour filibuster by Sen. Corey Booker (D-NJ), and the win in the Wisconsin state Supreme Court seat was great, but the turnout was more important, he said.
“Wisconsin’s voting was a big, big, big, big thing, particularly after that clown [Elon] Musk went up there and jumped around on stage with his cheesehead on and made himself the center of attention. So he has really disabled himself as a credible entity among Republicans, because they’re the ones who are going to have to face a whole bigger crew of voters in November of ’26.”
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He said the more the GOP is linked to Musk “and his cruel and stupid antics, the more trouble that they’re going to be in.”
The 16-17 point shift in the districts in Florida was also notable, he said, drawing excitement from Nicolle.
“Yeah! Yeah! I mean, I made the point earlier,” she said. “If there weren’t such a fire hose of news, we would all be fixated on that margin in Florida. Right? Two races that Democrats lost, but where they had the margin. There’d be maps all over the place, and this is our error, right? We should have these maps up of exactly that category of people. People who won by 14 points or less, because they’re all now target races.”
She said she believes “the entire political landscape in the country for the midterms has cataclysmically changed for the Republican Party.”
“And they know it!” Whitehouse chimed in.
Wallace asked how Democrats keep their respective feed on all of the pedals.
Whitehouse said that the messaging they’ve had the most success with is about “chaos and incompetence.” The Signal scandal is another example of that, he said. The rest is about costs continuing to go up after President Donald Trump promised he’d bring them down.
Wallace agreed that the special elections appear to be evidence of that.
See the conversation below or at the link here.
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