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The Nazi tattoo guy has just secured the nomination for the Maine Senate race. Fighting words are escalating between Hakeem Jeffries and Ron DeSantis over congressional maps. And as a major Friday special, we have Dana Perino joining 10 Minute Drill today. All of that and more on 10 Minute Drill. Everybody, get up. Get up. The story of America is the story of an adventure. I can hear you.
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Yesterday, Maine Governor Janet Mills announced that she was dropping out of the Maine Senate race. While I have the drive and passion, commitment and experience, and above all else, the fight to continue on, I very simply do not have the one thing that political campaigns unfortunately require today. The financial resources. So with Mills stepping aside, Nazi tattoo Graham Platner will be the Democrat nominee in the main Senate race. Now, this is a huge deal, but first, a little bit about that money issue for Janet Mills. Janet Mills is the Schumer handpicked candidate. We know from extensive reporting Schumer recruited her, talked her into running, because she fits an archetype of what Chuck Schumer thinks makes a good candidate. Old, white, established, and potentially able to raise money. But the challenge for Mills is while Schumer had supported her, endorsed her, he spent all his money not promoting Mills, but he using all of it to attack Susan Collins in ways that didn't help her sort of break ahead or raise more small dollar. And the problem for that then is that Graham Platner, Nazi tattoo radical who's aligned with Bernie Sanders. Let's show that tweet, Bernie, congratulating Graham Platner. And Graham Platner saying, would not be here without you. Which is incredible fodder for Republicans to use because Maine is not a far radical left state, even if the Democrat primary and Democrat base is a little bit further out there. But Janet Mills might have had Schumer's support, but Schumer's support ended up being more of an anchor because nobody really wants to stand with Chuck Schumer in the Democrat Party right now. And he didn't use the money behind her to actually support her in the race. He used it simply to attack Susan Collins. And Graham Platner was able to channel off of that. Another interesting anecdote here is Janet Mills, in her desperation, did things like give out stimulus payments to the people of Maine. And people actually wrote letters saying they used their government stimulus check to give campaign donations to Graham Platner. So the writing was on the wall for this in the beginning. But Maine Democrats have a real problem on their hands. Graham Platner is an absolutely terrible candidate. And the Nazi tattoos, the terrible Reddit posts, the comments he's made about how rape is a woman's fault are just the beginning of it. There's lots more to come on this. And one thing that's important to understand is most of the opposition research you've seen on Platner up to this point has actually come from Democrats. There are treasure troves, more highlighting how unfit he is to be a candidate that go far beyond his lack of intelligence, far beyond his simple rubbing shoulders with Nazis. And if it sounds crazy to you that there could be things worse than that, buckle up. Yesterday we talked about the major Supreme Court decision on redistricting, the Louisiana congressional map and the future of the Voting Rights act and the fact that the Supreme Court has now outlawed racial gerrymandering. As you'd expect, the fallout from Democrats has been quite incredible. Here's Hakeem Jeffries. And now we're at a point where affirmative action is gone, diversity is gone, equity gone, inclusion gone, racial tolerance gone. So Kim Jeffries is going through the fact that essentially DEI has been rooted out of the gerrymandering, the election map development process, which is a very good thing for everybody. And we're going to talk a little bit more over the next several weeks about why that is. But Hakeem also took it a step further in another video. The Supreme Court is a disgrace. And Ben, in the new Congress, we're going to have to do something about this Supreme Court. And let me be very clear, everything is on the table. Now as you watch that video and what he's talking about there, all options are on the table. Democrats have already threatened to blow up the Supreme Court to try and impeach justices, to try and create new rules that completely violate the separation of powers in an effort to try and box in and penalize the Supreme Court court. They're saying all options are on the table. Meanwhile, literally last week, Hakeem Jeffries and his super PAC spent more than $30 million on the Virginia congressional map, which explicitly diluted black votes across Virginia, literally got rid of majority minority districts in an effort to help Democrats. He right now is saying we're gonna blow up the entire system over this decision, even though this the maps that he has supported do the exact same thing. It's a little bit extreme. And people in Virginia complained about that issue. This in the Virginia Mercury, which is a left wing publication the proposed redistricting map may help Democrats, but what does it do for black Virginians? Now, this is from Philip Thompson, the executive director of the national black nonpartisan Redistricting Organization. Now, Thompson goes through these maps in Virginia that Hakeem Jeffries spent $30 million that Barack Obama was the face of and points out all the different ways black votes have been diluted into several different districts when if they had kept them compact as black majority minority districts, they could have had as many as three black new congressmen for Virginia through those districts. Instead, Virginia Democrats led by Hakeem Jeffries and Barack Obama diluted those votes across the state to give Democrats more power. But if you look at the candidates for those districts that they've diluted them into right now, if you, it's predominantly going to be white candidates, according to this article. So again, take Hakeem Jeffries and his selective outrage with a massive grain of salt. Meanwhile, down In Florida, Ron DeSantis In Florida, Republicans have already passed in a very rapid two day period their new maps, which will take away four seats from Democrats as a response to what they've done in Virginia. So again, this is a lot of tit for tat arms race going on, but it's, it is far from over. And we will see if other states go back to the drawing board after the Supreme Court decision to get rid of their current majority minority districts that have just been essentially outlawed by the Supreme Court. We have a very, very special treat for you. Most of you know the fact that the 10 minute drill was a project that was essentially thought up by Dana Perino. And so she's been sort of a spiritual leader of this from afar for a very long time. Most of you who know about 10 minute drone might know about it because she has said nice things about it in her podcast on her shows, things like that. I'm so grateful that she's joining us today to talk about her book Purple State and her life and her experience. And we're gonna fit it into two segments today and another one that's gonna come next week. But we're so glad to have her today. Dana. We are so excited to have Dana here. As we have discussed, Dana is the sort of spiritual inspiration for this because she is the one who gave us the idea to do a political notes type of podcast. So having her in here is such a huge honor. A longtime friend and mentor of mine. First off, sometimes when we talk about this, we have different versions of the story of how we met. And I feel like it's sort of, like, iterated over time. But, like, your version of it, I always think is kind of funny to hear because sometimes it's not always right.