Live From Studio 6B - Thursday, March 26 2026

Summary

Live From Studio 6B – March 26, 2026

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Episode Air Date: March 27, 2026

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Episode Overview

On this episode of Live From Studio 6B, the hosts dive deep into the state of American politics in the lead-up to the critical 2026 midterm elections. With Real America’s Voice occupied with CPAC live coverage, the crew brings an unfiltered panel conversation straight to their app audience.
The show features regular hosts Erin, Aaron, Slickster, and special guest Matt Midori—a seasoned pollster and political editor—joined briefly by Vinnie Mac, reporting live from the CPAC floor.
This episode’s focus is the dynamic landscape of the midterms: what challenges both parties face, how the so-called “normies” are responding, and whether historical trends can be broken. Candid, irreverent, and unapologetically conservative, the panel delivers data, blunt opinions, and spirited debate combined with headline sports coverage and live updates.

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Main Theme

The 2026 Midterms: Reality Check or Republican Reckoning?

How do the GOP and Democrats stack up as the nation approaches a pivotal midterm moment? With mainstream narratives predicting Republican doom and Democratic resurgence, the hosts challenge the idea that the country’s fate is sealed—arguing that the GOP’s main obstacle is itself.

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Key Segments & Insights

1. Opening Monologue: The State of Political Disarray

Timestamp: 04:19 – 12:09

• Erin torches the mainstream “GOP meltdown” narrative, painting Democrats as “a traveling circus of angry, malignant clowns” and arguing that the party is anti-American and devoid of accountability.
• Laments the failures of Democratic-led cities and major urban crime, blaming border policy and law enforcement antagonism.
• Asserts that midterms are less about a Democratic mandate and more about GOP underachievement.
  Notable Quote:

“The Democrats don't win elections anymore. They wait for the other side to fumble. Their entire coalition is held together by spite, subsidies and coastal condensations.” – Erin (10:55)

Insight:
The view isn’t just that the GOP faces external opposition—it’s that Republican complacency is what could hand victory to Democrats.

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2. Panel Reactions: Identity Crisis in Both Parties

Timestamp: 12:09 – 15:40

• Aaron and Slickster echo disappointment with both parties: the GOP for missing their moment, the Democrats for being reactionary and opposition-centric since Trump’s rise.
• Observations that both parties are trapped in “identity crises,” obsessed with winning seats but not substance.
• Populist frustrations are bipartisan; nobody feels adequately represented.
• Memorable Exchange:

“If Republicans do lose the midterms, it won’t be because Democrats won them... It’ll be because Republicans lost them.” – Erin (12:36)
“We don’t stand as united as they are... that’s the edge they always have. Right. They stick together. They're thick as thieves. We don't.” – Slickster (12:37)

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3. Political Memory and Party Motivation

Timestamp: 19:26 – 22:54

• Topic: Does anything happening right now matter for the midterms?
• Panel discusses American voters’ short memory spans—polled issues like gas prices and war will matter either intensely or be forgotten, depending on how things look come June.
• Aaron: “People are gonna remember I was paying $4 a gallon come springtime. Maybe it goes even higher…People have short memories… but as that middle grows, that's where it's important.” (20:01)
• Seasonality of public opinion: The biggest impacts will come closer to the actual vote.

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4. Sports Interlude

Timestamp: 23:50 – 29:04, 66:12 – 70:23, 88:30 – 92:06, 102:51 – 106:51

• NCAA Sweet 16 live updates, MLB openers, and the much-discussed botched Star-Spangled Banner at the Mets’ home opener.
• NFL news: Tom Brady’s thwarted comeback as a Raiders’ owner, RGIII’s Olympic flag football invite.
• IOC’s ban on transwomen from women’s Olympic events.
• Noted for the irreverent, fast-paced banter breaking up the political content.

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5. American Greatness Article Discussion: "Can Republicans Defy History in 2026?"

Timestamp: 33:30 – 56:45

Factors that could sway the midterms:

1. Economy

   • The impact of tax season, inflation, and wage increases.
   • “Is tax season enough for people to carry that through to November, though?” – Erin (39:12)
   • Aaron: “If these tax returns are as big as promised, people…might change their minds a little bit.” (39:16)

2. Housing

   • The affordability crisis; barriers for first-time buyers are at historic highs.
   • “The American Dream is simply a nightmare…We don't have the means to execute it,” – Aaron (43:03)
   • The panel agrees reform is unlikely to come federally and should be localized, but sees no quick fix.

3. Immigration

   • Trump’s immigration crackdowns celebrated but criticized for lack of perceived results.
   • White House mixed messaging and high-profile CBP incidents create image problems.
   • “Definitely a liability because this was the only thing that he was really getting positive marks on for a while.” – Aaron (46:49)

4. Foreign Policy

   • Iran conflict now a major GOP liability; MAGA base deeply frustrated by “new wars.”
   • “The war in Iran...is what's pushing people over, especially in Trump's base…No more new wars, no regime change,” – Aaron (55:06)

5. Redistricting and Structural Advantages

   • Discussion of state-level gerrymandering; whether Republican attempts will backfire due to legal challenges and shrinking competitive map.
   • Aaron: "I don't see this paying off in any way, shape or form." (73:57)

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6. Redistricting & The Electoral Map

Timestamp: 73:57 – 84:45

• The panel digs into rapidly shifting battlegrounds, especially after Texas/Ohio/Florida’s map rebalance.
• Insight: Mid-decade GOP redistricting may neutralize itself as Democrats fight back—resulting in a political arms race rather than decisive advantage.
• Supreme Court challenges (e.g. Calais v. Louisiana) could shift up to 9 House seats by ruling on majority-minority districts.
• "This is supposed to be a decennial process. It only happens mid-decade when there's a court order… I don't see this paying off." – Aaron (77:00)

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7. Senate & Gubernatorial Races: Key Takeaways

Timestamp: 92:50 – 109:57

• Matt Midori shares his latest House forecast: Democrats at 216, Republicans at 208, with 11 tossups—"Democrats just need two to get the gavel." (92:50)
• Senate forecast: Republicans hold a 53-seat majority, but several “maverick” members (Collins, Murkowski, Tillis, etc.) often side with Democrats.
• Gubernatorial outlook: Only real likely flip is Kansas (to GOP), but Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona all in play.
• Notable New York note: Bruce Blakeman (Nassau County Exec) seen as a strong GOP candidate, but facing tough odds and an enormous Hochul war chest.

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8. Audience & Messaging: “Normies” and Echo Chambers

Timestamp: 65:17 – 65:57

• Erin cautions about dismissing nuanced political analysis: “If you actually care about President Trump's agenda…these are the discussions you need to have because this is what's going on. …Normies is where these things are won or lost. Not by us.”

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9. Closing: Polling & the Post-Iran Environment

Timestamp: 108:44 – End

• If the White House can end the war in Iran, will the public forgive and forget?
  • “I think people are gonna be paying more attention to their primaries to see who would not be in support of these types of foreign wars on both the Democratic and the Republican side.” – Aaron (109:28)
• Final Senate take: Even with GOP nominally in control (53), key defectors make effective power distribution far less robust—“It's not 53, it's 90-10 Democrats on everything,” – Erin (109:28)
• Betting markets have moved Republicans from 80% sure of holding the Senate to 50-50 since the Iran war.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Erin:
  “The modern Democratic Party isn’t a political party anymore. It’s a traveling circus of unmitigated, angry, malignant clowns…Who in their right mind would vote for that?” (05:19 – 10:55)
• Aaron:
  “Both parties are so obsessed with winning elections and raking in the donor money that they're not actually governing.” (14:08)
• Slickster:
  “We don’t stand as united as they are... that’s the edge they always have. Right. They stick together. They're thick as thieves. We don't.” (12:37)
• Aaron:
  “People have short memories… but as that middle grows, that's where it's important.” (20:01)
• Matt Midori:
  (On redistricting) “The real winner of the ’22 midterms was Lee Zeldin…The New York GOP was basically ground zero for helping Republicans retain the House.” (73:57)
• On Blakeman v. Hochul:
  “He can't even get matching funds seemingly...I don't know why he doesn't want to talk to the voters of New York on this show, but that's another story.” – Erin (97:41)
• On foreign policy blowback:
  “America First has kind of lost its meaning with a lot of people, especially on the right. That's where a lot of the contention is right now. How does this benefit us?” – Aaron (58:08)

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Important Timestamps & Segments

• Monologue/Show Start: 04:19
• Panel on Party Disunity/Identity: 12:09 – 15:40
• ‘What Matters in Midterms’ Memory Discussion: 19:26 – 22:54
• Sports & Anthem Botch: 23:50 – 29:04
• American Greatness Article, "Can Republicans Defy History?”: 33:30 – 56:45
• Redistricting Discussion: 73:57 – 84:45
• Sports Segments/Recaps: 66:12; 88:30; 102:51
• Senate & Gubernatorial Breakdown: 92:50 – 109:57
• Polls & Foreign Policy Closing: 108:44 – End

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Tone & Style

• Brash, direct, and often irreverent.
• Deep skepticism toward both Republican and Democratic establishments.
• Populist, patriot-tinged, concerned with “real American issues” and unfiltered analysis.
• Frequent use of humor and digressions (sports, music, live reactions).
• Blend of data-driven commentary (Matt Midori’s maps) and strong editorial opinions.

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Conclusion

This episode provides a clear, gritty snapshot of the conservative grassroots outlook heading into a pivotal midterm contest. The hosts don’t hide their frustrations with both parties, worry openly about electoral and policy drift, and stress that final outcomes may depend less on Democratic strength than on Republican mistakes, memory, and midyear developments.
Through wonky data, sweeping rhetoric, and locker room asides, they send a clear message: GOP, don't blow this—and for the listeners, stay engaged in the battle for “Real America.”

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For further analysis with polling, maps, or segment-specific details, see timestamps noted above.

Transcript

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If your TV sounds funny in the evening, you're watching live from Studio 6B on Real America's Voice.

[Erin]

All right. Live from Studio 6B. Not on Real America's Voice right now because Real America's voice is covering CPAC. So we are live on the Live from Studio 6B app and not even on socials because the music licensing, we'd be getting strikes left and right with all the music that's going on. And so we're not. The network's gonna be. They've got music, they've got comedy, they've got a bunch of stuff coming up on the network. So we're not sure when they are going to. Thank you, slick. When they are gonna get to us. But we're live. We're gonna be live here on the app. We're gonna do our regular show.

[Slickster]

Why not?

[Erin]

Slickster's here. He's gonna do some sports. Matt Midori joins us tonight. Matt was at the warehouse a few months ago and he's back. And as we get closer to the midterms, he will be a familiar face on this show. Will be. I don't know. We're going to call you the official pollster of live from Studios 6B.

[Slickster]

He's a very own Harry Anton.

[Erin]

Yeah, whatever.

[Aaron]

He helps both of us sleep at night. You Know that. Then that's what we'll do.

[Erin]

Okay, very good. So Matt's here tonight. We're going to go over a bunch of stuff. What we're looking at the midterms, what we've been seeing, and maybe these special. I don't exactly know what Matt wants to do. Cover, but that's. Whatever it is. It's fine. We've been talking about all of it. We'll get to sports with Slick, we'll get to news. Vinnie Mac might even try to join us. Aaron, if we can get Vinnie Mac the zoom link, maybe we can get him in here as well. But we could do that after we do tonight's first word. Well, everywhere you look in American politics today, you're being fed a narrative. A narrative pushed mainstream media, some pollsters and the so called experts telling you that the maga movement is well finished, that the Democrats are surging and that the midterms are already decided. That's what they want you to believe. But then you step back and look at the reality and the reality tells a very different story. And let's start here. Let's get one thing straight right out of the gate. The modern Democratic Party isn't a political party anymore. It's a traveling circus of unmitigated, angry, malignant clowns, permanently aggrieved, terminally online and pathologically incapable of governing anything larger than maybe a college safe space. They seethe, they shriek, they lecture, they cry threat to democracy while they sue, censor lawfare and impeach their way through every election that they don't like. They burn down cities in the name of mostly peaceful protest and they clutch their pearls when someone points out the body count. They open the border like it's a welcome mat for the entire third world. Then act shocked, shocked when fentanyl gang members, military aged Chinese men start showing up in record numbers. They defund the police, empty the jails, and then they blame systemic racism. When your car gets stolen for the third time this year. These are the same people who tell you that men can get pregnant, that biological males belong in your daughter's locker room. And that questioning any of it makes you a bigot worthy of cancel, cancel, cancelation, doxing or losing your job cancellation. They print money like it's confetti. They inflate away your savings, then call you greedy for noticing the price of groceries tripled. They worship at the altar of climate hysteria. They ban gas stoves, plastic straws all the time. China's building a new coal plant every week. And their private jets keep the tarmac warm. And through it all, the one constant is their visceral, seething hatred for the country as it actually exists. They apologize for America's existence. They tear down statues, rewrite history and teach kids that the land of the freedom is irredeemably evil. They cheer when the flag burns. They kneel for the anthem. They side with our enemies abroad and treat their fellow citizens like domestic terrorists for wanting secure borders, safe streets and colorblind merit. Who in their right mind would vote for that? Nobody with a functioning brain and a love of this country, that's who. Let's take a look at the news. Recently In Chicago, an 18 year old young woman just beginning her life is murdered, Shot in the back. And the individual responsible? Well, someone who should have never been in this country in the first place. Someone who was caught, processed and released again and again. Failure layered upon failure until it ends in irreversible tragedy. And what do we get from the modern day left? Excuses, deflection, silence where there should be outrage. This is what happens when government abandons its most basic responsibility, protecting its own citizens. You look at Democrat leadership in major cities, people entrusted with enormous power, and what do you see? Mismanagement, embarrassment, a complete lack of seriousness. Whether it's misconduct, incompetence or ideological extremism, the pattern is the same. No accountability, no discipline, no results, and basically financial ruin for all. Then you turn to Washington and what do you find? Political games, manufactured crises, disruptions that affect everyday Americans. Long lines, missed flights, unnecessary chaos. All because the people in charge would rather posture than actually govern. This is not negotiation. This is dysfunction by design. So if Republicans do lose the midterms, and make no mistake, it can happen, it won't be because Democrats won the midterms. It won't be some grand national embrace of socialism, open borders and gender ideology. No, it'll be because Republicans lost them. Because they got complacent. Because they failed to deliver. Because they let the machine run on autopilot while the clowns kept screaming and the media kept covering for them. The Democrats don't win elections anymore. They wait for the other side to fumble. Their entire coalition is held together by spite, subsidies and coastal condensations. Their voters aren't choosing a better future. They're choosing revenge against the America that dares to exist. Outside their Twitter feeds and faculty lounges, real Americans know better. We've seen what their governance looks like. Crime spiking, inflation spikes, chaos spikes competence and free fall. We've watched them turn Cities into war zone, schools into indoctrination camps, and the southern border into a sieve. No one voted for that. This isn't a choice between two visions. It's a choice between sanity and spectacle, between loving the country and loathing the country, between adults in the room and angry, malignant clowns who couldn't manage a lemonade stand without calling it systemic oppression. Republicans, don't blow this. The country isn't begging for more Democrats disasters. It's begging you not to hand the keys back to the people who hate the car, hate the road, and hate everyone riding in the car. The midterms aren't a referendum on how much America loves the left. They're a test of whether the right still has the will to fight for a nation worth saving. Don't lose it. Because if you do, we all pay the price. And that's tonight's first word. All right. Live from Studio 6B, eight minutes past the hour. And I wanted to start on that because I've got a thing coming up on the midterms, and I knew Matt was gonna be here, and we were gonna talk about what he sees, but any comment on that? What I just said.

[Aaron]

Great opening monologue. Couldn't have written it better myself. And I think it shows, too, that this isn't just dogmatic with one side or the other. Two things can be true at the same time. Yes, the Republican administration has let a lot of people down. That's what I'm hearing here in Suffolk county, the largest suburban county in the nation. We're a pretty good microcosm overall. People are very disappointed, but it doesn't necessarily mean that the other side has what it takes to lead. And I think you pointed that out very succinctly.

[Erin]

Yeah. Slickster.

[Slickster]

Yeah. Not like stayed in the obvious big D. I mean, obviously, that's apparent how they react. But, you know, it's just a shame. It really is. I mean, we don't. We don't stand as united as they are. And that's the edge that they always have. Right. They stick together. They're thick as thieves. We don't. And I think that's really the problem. And, yeah, I am concerned as well about the midterms. I really am. But, yeah, it's typical. It's chaos. It's disorder. You know, we saw it right. With the. With the summer of summer.

[Erin]

Of love.

[Slickster]

Of love.

[Erin]

Jazz.

[Slickster]

Jazz. And, yeah, just, you know, this is what happens.

[Erin]

Yeah. Yeah. But I think the idea of the Republicans will lose the midterms, but the but the Democrats won't necessarily win them. I mean. I mean, that makes it sound stupid. I know, but if. You know. You know what? You know what I mean?

[Slickster]

They back in that. They back in.

[Erin]

Like, nobody in their right mind looks at what the Democrats stand for. And I think it's. I don't even think you can argue what they stand for. I argue that it's a pretty anti American party at this point.

[Vinnie Mac]

Sure.

[Erin]

And I don't. I mean, I don't even think that can really be argued that strongly. Maybe there's a few standouts that don't, but I think for the majority of them, look at the way they're acting now as we have troops overseas, the president in the middle of all these very serious discussions and decisions he has to make, and they're just out there rooting against him, rooting for the country to fail, rooting for something to go wrong, rooting for something to happen with our men and women overseas so they can go, ah, I'll save this guy. That's not how you care for the country.

[Aaron]

And if I could just jump in on that.

[Erin]

Yeah, jump in. Of course.

[Aaron]

I think both parties are learning a real lesson right now. Because when Trump entered this, really, the populist age in the United States began with Obama. That was his whole 2008 hope and change campaign. It won in a landslide. He sold out to the establishment. It was underwhelming. In 2012, anybody, I think, could have predicted someone like Trump would have come up. On the right, it was Trump. On the left, it was Bernie. And at this point, we've gone through two elections of Trump, Biden in 2020, and now with both parties winning their respective midterms. 1822, we're all kind of getting what we want here. We're winning elections, but we have nothing to show for it. I think both parties are so obsessed with winning elections and raking in the donor money that they're not actually governing. They're focusing on, let's just capture the seats and get the majority, get the gavel, get the committees. Okay, what are you gonna do with it? Yeah, and that's the problem that both parties are had. They're both in a massive identity crisis. I think Democrats are on the losing end of the identity crisis going forward post Trump, because at least the gop, they have the issues, the real issues I think they went on, the social issues the Democrats tend to win on. But that doesn't. That doesn't pan out throughout the years, especially if a lot of these are Just considered fads. So the Democrats are gonna have to figure out how to be opposition, not for the sake of opposition, which is what they've been since Trump first came on the scene. And the GOP is gonna need a new ambassador and I think somebody who can embody that populist overtone that Trump struck without caving to the establishment.

[Erin]

I'm gonna get back to that on a second. Live from Studio 6B, 11 minutes past the hour. If you're watching us, you're probably watching on the 6B app. That's the only place we're live right now with CPAC coverage going on in the network in other places. We're going to just be here for right now until we get on the network. Let's see, can we get Vin on Fran, if we have time to send him the zoom link, maybe we can get him in here too. And then, Aaron, we'll just stay, we'll just stay here until they join us. We don't need to take break. Okay. We don't need to take breaks. We can just, we'll just keep going. So, Matt, back to, so back to that. God, I lost my train of thought now thinking about that, what you were just going to say. Oh, I'll tell you, I'll tell you what. It was the identity crisis thing. But, and you're saying people disappointed in. So you got the advantage. You got the, you know, you got control. But what did you do with it? You said something to that fact. I listened to Mike Johnson and you would think that they've gotten all this stuff done. Every time I talks in front of a microphone, he's up there saying, oh, this is the most historic. This, we got the most historic that. This is the most historic. Yeah, maybe for the President, it's been a historic year in two months and he's, he's gotten a lot of stuff done by the executive pen and other things, but what the hell? What the hell have they done?

[Aaron]

Yeah, and it seems that Trump has kind of given up on that too. I think he's probably just tired of it in some way. No disrespect to the President, obviously, but I just think that he seems like he's sort of given, oh, we got the big beautiful bill passed. That was the big thing that we were going to do. That was the flagship legislation, helped us in Suffolk, at least with the salt deduction. That was a huge issue and other high property taxed areas. But after that, Doge is, we haven't heard a thing about Doge in About a year. And that was a concept that the populist left and the populist right were really united around. And I remember in the week or so after Trump won the election, I saw on Twitter Elon Musk, Bernie Sanders, Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks, and I believe Don Jr. I think it was Don Jr. In a Twitter thread talking about how the Pentagon has failed eight consecutive audits. And they haven't looked at that. And they were all kind of singing the same tune. I was really optimistic. I thought we could really be on the verge of something here. Trump could really defy expectations on both sides of the aisle here. But we haven't heard anything about Doge Musk left after the 180 days or whatever. I think they're still doing stuff in the background, but they found all this fraud. Okay. But nothing happens. Laws and discovery are only as good as the enforcement. So it's just business as usual in Washington, and it's what's burning everyone out. And I've been seeing, throughout the last couple years, you've been seeing Republicans throughout the states that track voter registration by party. You've seen them take the lead in a lot of important states and counties. Pennsylvania was a huge one, especially going into 24. You're seeing them surge in certain key suburban counties that I think were tantamount to Trump's win there. But now you're starting to see in some places where that's starting to damper and more people are going to the middle. So it's not that everyone's racing back to the left. And it's like a pendulum. People are just. They're tired of being tired with both sides. And I'm seeing that. I cover local elections and politics here, but all politics is local and people couldn't be more fed.

[Erin]

Well, I want to get into a lot of stuff with you tonight about what you see as the positive for both parties going in. What are the biggest negatives going into the midterms? And one of the things I want to ask you first, because I argue with Rick Delgado on this show about all the time. So Delgado, who's not here. I know. We think he's in Area 54.

[Slickster]

Yeah, we do.

[Erin]

What's the area is it called? I always say the number wrong. Area 51. We think he's there. Remember when they raided us on vacation?

[Slickster]

But he might be in Area 54. Who knows? You never know.

[Aaron]

What was it in 2019? They. The raid, the raid on Area 51. Do you remember that?

[Erin]

No.

[Aaron]

You Remember that?

[Erin]

I can't even call the whole Internet. I got to remember it was just in.

[Slickster]

Delgado probably did it on the show. We don't remember.

[Aaron]

It's a total aside. But I just. It was before COVID and the world changed, but it was, it was a fun little light hearted thing. They raided Area 51, so.

[Erin]

So we argue on the show. His contention is that nothing matters right now. None of this matters. Midterms haven't gotten started, none of it matters. It's only going to matter come. I mean, I don't want to put words in his mouth, but maybe May, June, and he thinks at that point, you know, things will be back to normal. Gas will be back down, mortgages will be 3%, everything's going to be hunky dory and then we can worry about the midterms. Nothing right now matters. So what would you say to him if he was here and not at Area 54, 51?

[Aaron]

So he's got it right? I think that it doesn't matter because people have incredibly short memories and it's getting even worse and worse and worse. I think the problem is, is the juice really worth the squeeze in what we're doing here? Especially as far as Iran goes, because I just filled up my tank today and gas was $3.89 a gallon in Farmingville, New York. Dead center, working class, Long island, blue collar. This is rock solid Long Island. People are not going to forget that because going into 22, yeah, the gas prices stabilized. They were hovering around the high twos, low threes. Not great, but palatable. Certainly not the $1.60, 70 cents I was paying when Trump was president the first time. People are gonna remember I was paying $4 a gallon come springtime. And maybe it goes even higher if they don't figure out what's going on in the Strait of Hormuz. So yeah, people have short memories. They're not gonna remember all the little things. And who says what in this legislation? Who were the mavericks on this? They're gonna vote party line at the end of the day for the most part. But as that middle grows, that's where it's important. But looking at these gas prices, no new wars now we're seeing possibly boots on the ground. A lot of Mag is fed up and you're certainly not gonna swing any leftist voters on that. And a lot of the middle intrinsically, usually libertarian, small government people, especially those people, I should say, they're definitely not into this either. So he's got it right that it doesn't matter after a point. And he's also got it right. I think as far as the calendar goes, I've been saying that by June 2026, the economy needs to be good, foreign policy needs to be good. Trump needs to get at least decent marks on everything in order for the GOP to maybe have an okay midterm or have a midterm for the Democrats. That 2022 was to the GOP. Yeah, they got the House, but it was completely underwhelming when it should have been a wave. I think at worst, Republicans would take that. That I don't think is materializing. I don't know if it'll be a huge blowout, but I think that ship has sailed because again, we're creeping up on June here. All those things you said, 3%, mortgage rates, lower gas prices. He's got to wave a magic wand and get this done when this should have been getting done over the last two years or so. And to his point, to Delgado's point, most of the midterm calendar, the ballot, rather, is materialized by them. We're already seeing primaries. We had a big one in Texas. There's a lot there. But June is when a lot more of the primaries come in. And some states go later into the autumn. But usually we start to get a good idea. People are picking their candidates, they're going through their primaries. Who do the state committees want? Who got petitions? That's when the electorate really starts to make their decisions of who represents them in the general. But usually the party line vote at this point is a foregone conclusion. So as the ticket develops, yeah, things will change, the calculus will change, but it's developing in response to what's happening right now. So that's where I think Delgado, to his credit, gets it wrong.

[Erin]

So we're kind of both right a little bit, you're saying.

[Vinnie Mac]

Yeah, you're both right.

[Erin]

Yeah. What's happening? New matters, but maybe still time to turn it around and really matter come June, maybe.

[Slickster]

But around the corner.

[Aaron]

June's right around the corner. That's the thing. And again, this is a tough thing to walk away from. This isn't just a pr, you know, PR problem. This is. This is an electoral nightmare because people are having flashbacks to George W. Bush in Iraq right now.

[Erin]

All right, 19 past the hour. We got a lot to cover with with Matt tonight. We'll get into even some stuff that's going on in here in New York, because as we've been talking about Bruce Blakeman, now, I start to See, maybe it's because my computer and social media is listening to me and spying on me, and now it's serving me up a lot of Bruce Blakeman stuff. But as we've been talking about what's going on in New York, all of a sudden my feed is filled with what's going on in New York. So we'll talk a little bit about with Matt, maybe about that, but 19 past the hour. Let's do some sports. Sports is brought to you by Mike Lindell. LFS XP is the promo code to use. Slickster. What's going on?

[Slickster]

Big D? We got the NCAA tournament sweet 16 tips off tonight at 7:10. We got the west and south regions going at it right now. Number two, Purdue leads Texas. Number 11, Texas 3935 at the half, Nebraska 4643 over number nine, Iowa. That's also at the half. We have number four, Arkansas taking on number one Arizona at 945. And then at 10:05 the Nightcap game, Illinois and Houston number three versus number two. So keep an eye on that Big D Sweet 16 as we get our way down to the Final Four. Just weeks away. And then Major League Baseball had a busy day today. All the teams were out. Yankees obviously had the official opening night last night. They had a big win over the Giants in San Francisco, but the rest of the teams, they hit the mound today. These games are all in the books. Finals Big D Brewers 142 over the White Sox. Real pitchers duel there. Nationals 10 to 4 over the Cubbies. Orioles nipped the Twins 2 to 1, Red Sox 3 nothing over the Reds. The Reds Angels 3 nothing over the Astros. Tigers topped the Padres 8 to 2. Phillies over the Rangers 5 3, Cardinals 97 over the Rays. Diamondbacks are taking on the Dodgers at 8:30 and then the Mets in Citi Field. Big D they had a big day 117 over the Pittsburgh Pirates and boy was it a doozy the way that game started out. And we got to talk about this Big D. This was the national anthem to take all national anthems as Hamilton Star botches the anthem before Mets Pirates opening day game Dylan Gwynne at Breitbart the Mets and Pirates haven't had much success in recent years, so most fans likely tuned into Thursday's opening day game matchup expecting to see some mistakes. However, they probably weren't expecting to see the mistakes during the national anthem. Christopher Jackson, one of the stars of the Broadway hit Hamilton, handled the anthem singing duties and all started well. But that would change. So Aaron, I'm Just going to have you roll cut one. Let Big D, the music major, hear it. And Big D, you tell me what you think about here, Mr. Jackson.

[Erin]

Oh, say can you see by the

[Aaron]

dawn's early what so proudly we hail at the twilight's last gleaming Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous

[Slickster]

fight what so proudly we hail Were so gallantly. He has a nice voice.

[Erin]

Got it back.

[Aaron]

And the rocket's red glare

[Slickster]

the bombs burst in air Gave proof through the

[Aaron]

night that our flag was still there

[Erin]

O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet.

[Aaron]

Wait,

[Slickster]

it was a little rough there,

[Erin]

Big D. O' er the land of

[Aaron]

the free and the home of the br.

[Slickster]

All right, so, George Washington,

[Erin]

listen, the Star Spangled Banner is extremely hard song to sing.

[Slickster]

Who's saying that?

[Erin]

And I mean, he just, just met. Missed the words there. He did get it back. I mean, nice voice. A little pitchy on the last couple notes there. Yeah, but I mean, I've heard.

[Slickster]

I heard some doozies.

[Erin]

I've heard some doozies.

[Slickster]

Wow.

[Erin]

So, I mean, forgetting the words is tough on your national anthem, but it is a hard. Anybody who really sings will tell you it is a hard song to sing

[Slickster]

and it's nerve wracking as well. I thought they used to put the lyrics up on the scoreboard. That would have helped. Right now he's trying to get his cadence down and everything. And one more just. Dodgers Stadium gets an unexpected change. How about this one? Larry Brown sports reporting. Darren Albert, the back to back defending World Series championship will be playing at a new home, at least in name. Los Angeles Dodgers announced on Wednesday that their home field of Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California is getting a name change. The new name of the stadium will be Uniqlo Field at Dodger Stadium. Uniqlo. Uniqlo Field at Dodger Stadium. The unexpected name change is part of a new naming rights partnership between the Dodgers and Uniqlo, a Japanese apparel retailer. In a joint release, the Dodgers and Uniqlo stated that the retailer will have the naming displays in various stadium locations including above the batter's eye and center field, on the facade beat the press box and on the grass along the baselines as part of their agreement. So I guess that, you know, everybody's doing this now with their names right. We have you Bailey Score arena, where the Islanders play, right? UBS United bank of Switzerland. So pretty cool. But the Dodgers have changed their name and it's big news because they are the defending back to back world champions, so. But they've sold out Big D. Was it always Dodgers Stadium? I mean, come on. Yeah, that's a wrap.

[Erin]

The other thing about singing in those stadiums like that guy is it's, I mean the in ear monitors have got to work really well because the, the, you know, you're hearing yourself for about seconds later.

[Aaron]

Oh.

[Erin]

Than when you're actually singing it.

[Slickster]

That might have been what got him.

[Erin]

So it's very tough.

[Slickster]

I could have been.

[Erin]

That can make you forget where you are. So I, I feel for the guy.

[Slickster]

So he stumbled a little bit. Initially I thought it was going to be a lot worse.

[Erin]

No, it wasn't. No. I mean, and it's bad to forget the words, but it's, it was, you know, I've heard way worse. Way worse.

[Aaron]

So Fergie, the Fergie one from a few years ago.

[Erin]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Slickster]

Well, how about Roseanne? How about Roseanne? Let's not forget Roseanne.

[Erin]

That was a little more purposeful, I think.

[Slickster]

Yeah, I think so.

[Erin]

To 25 past the hour. Live from Studio 6B on a Thursday night. Slicks here. Matt Madori is joining us tonight to talk about the midterms, what he's seeing in some of these races, what's going on in New York. I don't know if I should do this article now before we jump into some of this stuff because then I actually, I don't know where I have it. I think it's farther down here, Aaron, if I jump around. Okay, very good. The network's going to join us here in a little bit. Yeah, it's, it's actually my last article, but let me jump to it since Matt's here. We're gonna, we're gonna get into and see what this is by Arthur, Arthur Schapper in the In American Greatness. It's entitled Can Republicans defy history in 2026. 2026 will decide whether Trump's agenda is locked into law or erased overnight by a hostile Congress and a next president. And so you'll probably appreciate this, Matt. I'd like to know what you think about this. He says election 26 never, never has a midterm been so important, so seminal with so much riding on its outcome. President Trump has unleashed one of the most consequential presidencies in American history. He has resisted the moderation of previous leaders, enacting a bold, aggressive agenda, recognizing the unique opportunities of a second term president who can enact an aggressive policy change with the considerable support from the people. He has nothing to lose, much to gain. And yet our Republican fundamentals have not changed for the better by the way, and therefore President Trump depends on the support of an effective Congress willing to codify his order, his visions and his agenda. The big beautiful bill got much of the work done, at least for the short term. The Border Patrol apparatus has the funding to enforce our immigration laws, the wall is getting built, the tax code is more generous to the working man and the conservatives in blue states will enjoy a greater financial reprieve from the IRS tax man, while at the same time red states will not have to pick up the slack for over taxing blue states. But where is the legislation to reform legal immigration? What about the laws to protect children from all kinds of abuse and indoctrination in public schools? Congress has to codify the collapse of the Department of Education as well. Until Congress officially pulls the plug, the next president, God forbid a liberal, progressive or communist worse than can reinstate the Department of Education and engage in a rushed rehiring of all the bureaucratic hires. If Congress doesn't put Trump's orders, actions and pronouncements into law, this will get wiped away with the stroke of a pen by the next administration. So the future of MAGA rests on Congress. Will there be a friendly GOP majority House to keep supporting the President? Or will Democrats take over and engage in a revenge tour of subpoenas, impeachment hearings and fiscal anarchy to frustrate the remaining two years of Trump 2.0. History suggests that the in power Republicans will face a backlash, if not a wipeout from the voters in the midterms. They lost 40 seats in 2018 and the party that holds the White House consistently loses seats in the midterms. It's the nature of the two party majority politics, I suppose. Let's look at the most recent election that resisted that trend. 2002. George W. Bush was riding an incredible wave of popular sentiment. Obviously he had taken a strong resolute stance against Islamic terror. The country had never been more united than after 9 11. Obviously Bush convinced the public that the Republican Party had the courage and the wisdom to lead the country in dealing with terrorism and promoting public safety. The Democrat Party gave off then as now that they were soft on crime, hard on law, hard on the law abiding and didn't care what was best for the country. Can Trump replicate those trends to propel the GOP to another record shattering win for the midterms? He says it all depends on the following factors. So before I get to the factors, what do you think so far?

[Aaron]

Wishful thinking I'm afraid history is a guide for a reason. But I also think history is meant to be defied and streaks are meant to be broken. The Brookings Institution has found that since the end of The Civil War, 93% of the time, the President's party has lost seats in the House in the midterm. Very rare exceptions. 1934, FDR's first midterm. He swept Herbert Hoover out of office. Democrats had monumental control of Capitol Hill. I mean, Republicans are basically an afterthought. 2002, as you pointed out, post 9 11, Republicans made a net gain of eight seats in the House. And 1998, when Republicans overplayed their hand and tried to go for Bill Clinton over Monica Lewinsky, everybody thought, you guys are working together. It was economic populism. Newt Gingrich in the House with the purse strings. Bill Clinton, two moderates working together. But Republicans did what they do where they go too far. They don't see the forest for the trees. And they ended up. Democrats ended up with a net gain of 5 in the house that year. So it's incredibly rare. As far as a Congress that would be friendly to him, to Trump, for his last two terms, not only would he need a Republican majority, but he'd need one bigger than what we have now. Yeah, because Republicans won in 2024. They won 220 seats in the House. You need 218 for a majority with three vacancies. And now one Republican from California, Kevin Kiely, is now an independent. Republicans are technically at 217. Kylie with the 1, gives them a nominal 218 majority. So both of them are. Both parties are just two seats away, three seats away, basically from a majority. Even if it's a tiny blue ripple, conventional wisdom, political wisdom, says Democrats will benefit from that. I just don't see anything in the numbers right now to indicate that Republicans will walk away with that majority and grow it. And also the possibility of mavericks who tank legislation. I mean, we have the mavericks in the Senate like Susan Collins, John Fetterman Murkowski, Joe Manchin when he was in the Senate. There's a few of them in the House, but the Republicans are losing some of them. Don Bacon in Nebraska, Jared Goldin is a Democrat from Maine. He's one of the most conservative Democrats in the House. He's not running for reelection. So whoever ends up getting the majority, I think it will be the Democrats. Even if the overall House landscape has shrunk, as you said, they flipped 40 seats in 2018. This is when the House Districts had a much more elastic battleground and partisan tensions were high, but not as high as they are now. Right now on my map, which we'll jump into in a little bit, there's 11 seats that I think are considered toss ups. And give or take, the other forecasters will have similar amounts. But the conventional wisdom is there are far fewer seats to pick from. So they got to run the table here like never before to try and defend it. That's going to be a tall order because splitting the toss ups down the middle is usually a good starting point. How many break with one side, what's your majority? Minority after that. But when you're splitting 10, 11, 12 seats and you need three to flip a majority, you can kind of see where the writing on the wall is here. And one more thing before you read out those reasons. In Trump's first term at this point, the end of March 2018, his approval rating according to the Real Clear Politics average was minus 10.4% net. Right now, it's underwater 15.4. So it's 5 points worse at this point in his second term than it was in his first. And the generic ballot, as of right now, Real Clear Politics average has Democrats leading the generic congressional vote by 5.8%. This point in 2018, 5.4. So last time it was on the show, we were at the warehouse, we were talking about the one poll, I think it was the Marist poll that had Democrats up 14 points. Clearly an outlier. And there's still some polls that come out like that. But the numbers relative to 2017 weren't as bad as they are now. So now we're not like we were talking about before, waiting till June, waiting till maybe nothing is happening that people want to see in Washington. And the numbers are not reflecting it either.

[Erin]

All right, well, let's go through what he thinks that the Republicans can try to do. Can Trump replicate those trends to propel the GOP? It all depends on the following factors. So, number one, obviously, I think we all would agree the economy 100%. Right? The big, beautiful bill must bring a big, beautiful boon. If the cuts and grants work in the general public's favorite and they can find that they're taking home more pay, voters will see that Republicans have kept their promise to turn the economy around. Trump has at least four months ahead of him, including the upcoming tax season with the big, beautiful tax reforms to show the voters that he has their back economically. Let's hope the affordability problems dissipate quickly. Let's talk about that obviously, I mean, I don't think you have to argue with people too hard for them to know. The Republicans are much better. I mean, I say that and I almost chuckle because they're not much better with the spending.

[Aaron]

But, but as far as fiscal conservative goes, classical fiscal conservatism, that's what we'd want. Yeah, they, they gen, they genuinely, they tend to generally, excuse me, have the, the upper hand in that.

[Erin]

Is tax season enough for people to carry that through to November, though, to remember?

[Aaron]

That's a good point. And that's something I should have touched on before because to Delgado's credit, that's one other thing we're waiting on here. If these tax returns are as big as promised, people that might change their minds a little bit. But again, what have you done for me lately? This is April, this is now November, we're still in Iran. The gas is over $4 a gallon. It's not gonna matter. It's actually gonna, the money's gonna go away quicker. So people might like that quick booster shot. Now, if that can be advertised politically as a norm going forward, something to protect, then you might get people's ears. But again, when people are seeing the crises that are going on right now, they're having flashbacks of political time they'd rather forget. But I do think tax season. I'm interested to see what the numbers look like after April, the polling numbers, to see if there's any dips and to see if there's any correlation. I think there could very well be.

[Erin]

All right, number two, and again, we've almost already talked about this, but obviously is housing. If the housing costs decline, if the Fed lowers interest rates, I think the problem for Kevin Warsh is with everything going on around the globe, cutting rates, I just don't even see how that's on the menu. And if Congress can get some of the spending under control, wishful thinking, then the inflation problems will deflate. If middle income and entry level workers find that finding a place to rent or own is not as difficult as it was four years ago, Trump and Republicans can take credit and campaign on this win. And see, I think this is a huge problem.

[Aaron]

Problem.

[Erin]

And, and sometimes I think the White House is not even thinking about this. Right. Because I hear President Trump and I know what he means when he says this, but, you know, he says we want to keep, we want to keep housing prices high for those who already own a house. And I get what he, I get the sentiment behind that, of course. And as a homeowner, you Go. Yeah, okay, let's do it.

[Aaron]

More equity. Yeah, absolutely.

[Erin]

But the bigger side of this is that first time home buyers, I think the national age right now is about 50 or 41. It's much higher than it was when I was trying to buy a first house.

[Slickster]

It's closer to 40.

[Erin]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't see how Kevin Warsh can lower interest rates given what's going on as much as the president wants him at zero. I mean, I mean really, I mean, in his first term, I can remember him cutting and thinking, well, we, we can't, we're going to go below zero. We have to get off of zero at some point. This is what started the whole inflation problem in the first place. But the housing thing I think is really an uphill battle.

[Aaron]

Could not be a bigger issue. And especially in Suffolk county, our 20, 25 local elections, we just had the key theme from Huntington to Shelter island was development, or over development for that matter, to figure out how to deal with the housing issue. Because this is the other problem on the grassroots level and all politics is local. So the parties need to understand how to communicate with the public in the grassroots and of course to be honest with them, not tell them what they want to hear. But you want to protect your suburban quality of life. That's a common theme in a lot of states. Or you want a better urban quality of life. I know people in New York City are fed up with the garbage lately, from what I've been hearing. I haven't been in, I gotta go check it out myself. But that's what people have been telling me.

[Erin]

But are you referring to the mayor or the bags in the grill

[Slickster]

tripping over?

[Aaron]

That was good.

[Erin]

Just curious.

[Aaron]

That was good. So it's a ubiquitous issue. I mean, it's salient everywhere. And that to Your point again, 40, 50 years old is the average home buyer, first time home buyer age. That tells a lot of people that the American dream is simply a nightmare. And you can talk about American dream all you want. Yeah, it's still a great concept, it's a great thing, but we don't have the means to execute it. And now when you get into home values, Trump is in that, you know, damned if you do, damned if you don't. Yeah, home values come down well now people don't have the freedom of mobility they had in here in New York. That's a big thing in Suffolk County. Here I know folks who bought the house when the bubble burst back in 0708 quarter million dollars if that for a two story Dutch colonial, nice part of town. Now they can get a million dollars for it and someone from the city is gonna come out and offer 50, $100,000 cash on top of asking. How can you say no to that? So of course you wanna protect the equity, but with that comes the added barrier to entry for everybody else. But dealing with housing should not, I don't think should be a federal issue. I think it should be a state and local issue. And new Kathy Hochul, the governor, had this as a huge problem bipartisanly panned in 2022. Her plan to increase the housing stock was to basically put in these deadlines and these percentage thresholds that the certain municipalities had to hit. But it overrode local zoning control, local character. The communities know what fits their communities best. The local elect is the local people. That should be where it starts. Of course, then the issue is money. And then there's unfunded mandates from the state. It's a whole mess. It's a giant, giant mess. And it's almost like it's so bad, how do you even begin fixing it? You might as well just let the bubble burst and pick up the pieces from there. Because I don't think there's any quick way to really solve this issue. The reality is it needs to stay on the state and local level. And people want to balance what their communities want with what's actually needed. And they don't want to pay four grand a month for a studio apartment, of course, not for no equity, for no return, for maybe a pool and a gym. And you live by a train station. Good, great. But who actually wants that? What definition of success does that meet in this country?

[Slickster]

I was at an economic development symposium earlier today in Hotpot, and they had Ed Smith from the town of Huntington. Yeah, town of Huntington. He was speaking and that's exactly what you said. It's all local. And people, they want to stay local. But $4,000 a month is just. That's what it is because the demand is there.

[Aaron]

The demand is there.

[Slickster]

And so they're trying to find alternate ways. Then you get into affordable housing, which is a whole nother McGillicause. The community doesn't want it.

[Aaron]

Correct.

[Slickster]

So, you know, yeah, it's. So that's the challenge that they're dealing with. Of course, mixed use is a big thing now, you know, with retail on the base and they're building a lot of these apartments like Shawgate and Bayshore. But yet to your point, to the T, what you're Talking about is what they were discussing today, the leaders you had, Dan Panico from Brookhaven. And solid waste is obviously an issue too, on Long Island.

[Aaron]

Absolutely.

[Slickster]

I'm not talking about Delgado coming back either.

[Erin]

Number three, and you would think this one is a big plus in the President's column, and that's immigration. President needs to deport as many illegal aliens as he can between now and November. The drastic reduction of human demand on goods and services will continue driving down costs, provide higher paying jobs and decrease crime and corruption throughout the country. This is a, this policy is a win, win, win. And Trump needs to capitalize on this without haste. He must focus on increasing purchasing power of all Americans and not get caught up in identifying identity politics like the lowest levels of black unemployment on record. Since no one cares. Those statistics. Obviously the President's done a lot on immigration. Closed the border, crime numbers are down, Fentanyl deaths are down. There's a lot of stuff he can point to there. I don't know why Vin is like, calling me while we're on the show. Aaron. I have no idea what's going on. But, you know, you've heard some mixed messaging out of the White House. Maybe we went a little too far. Maybe we need to scale it back. Maybe we need to take some different tactics. Their guy Bovino, who was in charge, is now walking away. He had some kind of harsh criticism for the White House as he was leaving on kind of, you know, they didn't really take the hand. They tried to handcuff me towards the end and I couldn't really do the job as effectively. Is immigration a win for the President or a liability going into November at this point?

[Aaron]

Definitely a liability because this was the only thing.

[Erin]

Well, because people don't think he's living up to the idea of this is going to be the greatest deportation in history.

[Aaron]

In part. The other part is the sensationalism around what's going on in Minnesota. Now, obviously there's a lot of nuance there. You gotta look at these videos. I think as far as the nurse, his name is escaping me now. The second one who I feel disrespectful forgetting his name, but I saw the video. I think Customs and Border Patrol went absolutely way too far on that. But it does beg the question, these people are out kicking tail lights and whatever. Obviously doesn't mean they need to be shot. It doesn't mean they're domestic terrorists. I mean, come on. But state and local authorities were. They would at a time cooperate with the federal government. So the States are really controlling the public perception around it by being this obtuse and whipping up the resistance as they have. As far as Trump's borderline border immigration policy, excuse me, that was the only thing that he was really getting positive marks on for a while. Nobody really thought that having the border open and as porous as it was and just taking on tens of millions of immigrants, no country can sustain that. And there used to be periods in this country where for decades immigration was a faucet. It would turn off. Calvin Coolidge when he was president in the 20s, turned off virtually all immigration for about, I think, 30 or 40 years, if I remember correctly. And it was never this big stigma, it was never this xenophobic and all these buzzwords. And that's where everyone goes to. Now. The mainstream media is of no help to Trump, but Trump is more of his own worst enemy now than I think he ever has been in his first term. I remember him being able to kind of get around the media and he would kind of play them in certain ways and he would get them to cover something, but he was gonna say something else over it. And they have to have it. Cause the camera's wrong now it just seems like he doesn't care. And the media is 10 steps ahead of him every step of the way. And controlling the rhetoric around Minnesota, as tragic as it's been, that is what's sticking in people's minds. And of course, people are getting shot and killed over it. That would obviously take precedence over. Then the borders got shut down. Yeah, we all agreed that that was a good thing. He did a good job on that. But what about this? So I think that both are important to address, but I think there's some lack of seeing the forest for the trees in certain ways. But I think just the public perception around it, that cbp, ice, they're a bunch of thugs, they're coming around, they're shooting people, they're hunting you down. No, that's not what they're doing. But has everyone been perfect? No, far from it. And Trump is gonna have to own that. I think he's already owning that. Having given Kristi Noem the boot from dhs, I think it's gonna be kind of a jump wall. Obviously people don't wanna go back to the Biden era immigration policies, but I think a lot of them are thinking we can do this better than how Trump is. Is the reality is you can have a Democrat or Republican in office pledging the mass deportation efforts that Trump is. If the state and local authorities dig in their heels or they cannot, under threat of some other prosecution or retaliation, you're gonna continue to see the chaos in the streets. So. I don't know.

[Erin]

I don't think many people on the right would agree with your assessment of Minnesota given. I mean, certainly nobody wants to see anybody killed. But, I mean, I think it was pretty obvious that this lunatic in the car who got shot was. I mean, the.

[Aaron]

Renee Good. Yeah. That she. I think there was a bit more of that one kind of leaned more in her. You know, maybe the guy tried to

[Erin]

run the guy over.

[Aaron]

Oh, very. I absolutely think so. But then the. I can't forget his. I can't remember his name and I feel bad. The nurse, the VA nurse.

[Erin]

Alex Preddy.

[Aaron]

Alex Preddy. Thank you. That one was. I saw the videos on. That was a little harder to defend the feds on, I think. Cause he was already on the ground. Yeah. The pistol he had was prone to discharges. Maybe it spooked someone, freak accident. But the guy's on the ground, he's disarmed, his back is to you. You're putting six bullets into him. I mean, come on. Listen, you're gonna have people who mess up. I don't think that should be emblematic of the policy overall. But in today's world.

[Erin]

You think the video of him the day before throwing and kicking the automobiles.

[Aaron]

Listen, he was an agitator. Absolutely.

[Slickster]

No question.

[Erin]

Carrying a weapon.

[Aaron]

Carrying a weapon. Then there's the whole two way debate there.

[Erin]

Going to a place where he knows. I mean, probably not. Great idea on his part.

[Aaron]

Probably not. Probably not. But I think at the juncture point at that confrontation, I think a lot of people were in the wrong there. But again.

[Erin]

All right, hold on. All right, we're gonna. You want me to. All right. Live from Studio 6B, Real America's Voice. Thirteen till the hour. Those of you who are joining us from watching all the great covers down at cpac, welcome on. Slick Ricks here is doing sports. Matt Maduri is joining us tonight. We're going over midterms. What the. Who's got the advantages going in. So Matt's here. We're going to go over all of the. All the races. What he sees, what he doesn't see. We've been doing a little bit of it already. We got news, we got sports. We may try to get hooked up with Vinnie Mack who might join us from Texas. He's been down there at CPAC for a couple days. We'll try to get him in here. As well. So glad you're in, everybody. Hope you enjoyed all the great coverage at cpac. Now, day one, official full day one of cpac. Obviously, we saw some things there yesterday, but full day one. And of course, make sure you keep it tuned to Real America's Voice Friday, Saturday and Sunday as they take you through all the great speeches from the stage and all the great stuff that's happening at the Real America's Voice booth. You've got comedy, you've got music, you've got news, you've got shows, you've got it all. And it was a great day one and obviously day two tomorrow, all day long, starting with the morning show, I believe. So make sure you lock it into Real America's Voice then as well. So welcome joining us. Glad you're here. So we're talking about the midterms and obviously the Republicans having an uphill battle just because obviously the party in control and what history, the numbers and everything tells us. And so we've been going through some, some of the things that could either, you know, are they positives, negatives going into the midterms where we're at? And we're focused right now on an article by Arthur Schaper in the American Greatness. It's entitled can Republicans defy history in 2026? And going through some of the things that can be positives for President Trump if certain things happen. And we're up to number four for those of you just joining us, foreign policy. And obviously this is of the time because of what's obviously going on. And he says Trump's international foray should make a direct impact on the voters or he needs to make the case and show the results clearly, like the sudden drop in drug overdoses, gas prices and crime rates. Foreign policy with domestic impact can win the vote. So let's just deal with that small one here. Obviously, what's going on here. And obviously, I think the answer to this, we all agree, is going to be what happens in the next couple weeks with these talks. If there are talks in Iran, are we getting out of there? Are we getting deeper in? Is this now not four weeks? Is it eight weeks? Is it 12 weeks? You know, I hear other right wing conservative podcasters now trying to set the table for, hey, well, you have to remember this was 76 days. This was 96 days. This one was 43 days. So, you know, here we are. The president has always kind of put that four week, you know, give or take a couple weeks on either side. Do you agree? It really all comes down to what, what does. I heard this talk at CPAC a lot today, like, what does victory look like for the President? I think he's in a very tough position to find victory here. I think the Iranian side, it's much easier for them in the propaganda wing and media to find a. Find victory, even though they're getting decimated, clearly. But what does victory look like here? And what do the next. How many more weeks does he have with this before. It's a really, really big liability going into the midterms, if it's not already.

[Aaron]

I think it's already. I think we're well past that point, because people I talked to, the Republicans, even the MAGA ones, they were pretty keen on Trump, especially with what he was when he campaigned in 24. They were all in, even if they were kind of ambivalent. Clearly this guy's going for change. He did a pretty good job the first time and, you know, you gotta give him a good year to settle in on the economy and really start to see some things change. But now that we're past that point, people are getting impatient and they're not seeing the big changes that they thought they would see. Granted, we're in a post Covid world, a post Covid economy. Still, Trump wasn't inherited nearly as big. Trump wasn't handed nearly as big a mess in 2016 as he was this time, to his credit. But now this war in Iran, this is what's pushing people over, especially in Trump's base. And even though I'm looking at polls and the legacy media will say, well, 90% of MAGA agrees with the war in Iran, sure, there are definitely some. I talk to them, they are obtuse. They think this is exactly what we need to be doing. But the populist edge, and a lot of people in MAGA are furious with Trump, and of course the Democrats are gonna be furious no matter what. But with Trump at least. But the fact that the Republican base, the cora, his base, the Marjorie Taylor Greenes, people like that, they don't want nothing to do with this, that's a huge liability. Now you're risking any enthusiasm you had in the midterm coming up, where people are just gonna go, what does it even matter? I have no enthusiasm to go out and vote for this party. Who said they weren't going to do this. No more new wars, no regime change, no protracted events in the Middle East.

[Erin]

Are those people ever asked in any polling that whether you're doing or any of these pollsters Richard Barris is pretty much agrees with you. He's pretty much. I mean, the way he talks, you would think he's completely done with the party and this administration, the way he talks. And obviously he's a pollster. He's sure. His job is to tell us what the masses, I guess, what the masses out there are thinking. But I just sometimes wonder for people who think like that, like, are they ever asked, like what? The President of the United States doesn't have the luxury as the leader of the free world to sit back and just say, well, you know, I said I wasn't gonna. I mean, these people never asked, okay, are you okay with which one? Are you more okay with a 50 cent higher gas for, let's say, two months, or a nuclear weapon on the end of an ICBM headed towards, if not New York, some other place? I mean, I don't understand what these people, you know, it's so easy from the cheap seats to just say, well, they said we were never going to do this. It's like they're never asked, well, what, what would you, what is he supposed to do with the information he has? Which you don't have, I don't have. None of us know. We can listen to Steve Witkoff, who was at the table with them, we can listen to the intelligence communities. And I know they've misled us, I get it. But what is he supposed to do? He doesn't have the luxury to just sit back and say, well, you know, let Israel deal with it if they drop a nuke into, into Jerusalem. What, what is he supposed to do?

[Aaron]

Fair point. Absolutely. Again, I'm, I'm saying what people are saying to me, and this is what I'm hearing. The other thing, though, this is the common retort that I hear, and I think there's some weight to it, is people go, well, why were we in Iran last summer for the 12 day war, decimating their nuclear program? And now it's just as apparent. And then there's the back and forth between Rubio and Trump. Well, it was a preemptive strike. Well, we were gonna get attacked anyway or Israel was gonna attack. The story seems to change and people don't know how to make heads or tails of it. So, of course, any person would like the luxury of being able to promise everything and deliver on everything, especially in a role as complex as president, in a time as this. So if Trump's hand is really being forced here and the masses aren't seeing it, unfortunately, that's the course of doing business, I think in politics. But a lot of people just simply do not feel that way. They don't think that the juice is worth the squeeze, especially when it was supposed to be America First. That's their big thing now. America first has kind of lost its meaning with a lot of people, especially on the right. That's where a lot of the contention is right now. How does this benefit us? Sure, we're protecting an ally. At least that's the stated reasons. The tensions with Israel there and Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, the whole thing's a mess. But people want to see what have you done for me lately? You know, you closed the border, good. You passed some tax cuts good. But this has to continue. This can't just be a phase where you do it for one term and then someone else comes and undoes it, and then someone else comes and undoes that. They're just fed up with both parties. I think regardless of who would be in the White House right now, people would be diametrically.

[Erin]

All right, let's take a break live from Studio 6B, hour two. Coming up on a Thursday night, Slick will do some sports. We'll try to track down Vinnie Mac. Matt Midori is going to hang with us for the next hour. We'll talk more about the midterms, what the Republicans have to do to try to get it done. We're back right after this.

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Visual baby. All right, Snoop, thank you very much. Nine o' clock on the East Coast. Real America's Voice, our two slickster is going to do some sports. Matt Midori's here talking about the midterms. We're going to get into some redistricting. What the map, what he's brought with him. We haven't even gotten to the stuff he brought because I've just been yapping to him about the stuff I'm interested in. And it's great stuff. And if you're so close minded that you can't even have this discussion. I'm not really sure what to tell you. I really don't. If you think every, if you believe Mike Johnson, then God bless. If you listen to Mike Johnson and you think everything is just hunky dory and this is the most effective Congress and this has been the most effective and the most glorious and the most outstanding in the historic Congress and Senate, then you know, okay, and here's, And I know you're going to be the first person on November 5, the day after to just yell fraud because that's the only fallback you're going to have. So that's fine.

[Aaron]

And that's.

[Erin]

If that's what you do, that's what you do. But if you don't think these, these discussions are worth having and looking at the facts on the ground and what the real uphill battle is, I mean, if you actually care about President Trump's agenda and you're not just a drone who just goes, yup, okay, everything is great, then these are the discussions you need to have because this is what's going on. You know, there's a lot of people who don't sit here on X all day long. They're working, they're doing, and they live in a different political reality than most of us do who, who live and breathe it all day long. And that's where the normies is, where these things are won or lost. Not by us.

[Vinnie Mac]

Right?

[Erin]

So I mean, just please, with that. All right. One minute past the hour. We didn't do sports the whole hour except for once. So let's do, let's do some sports. To kick off our two sports is brought to you by Mike Lindell. LFSXP is the promo code to use. Slickster. What's going on?

[Slickster]

A busy night. Big D on the scoreboard here. NHL action. Let's get to the ice now. Wild 2 nothing over the Panthers. That's beginning the third period there. Also beginning of the third. Canadian and Blue Jackets tied at one. Penguins and Senators tied at two. And we got the Kraken Lightning tied at three. Boy, a lot of ties. More ties than the Trump in Macy's. And we got the Islanders two nothing over the Stars. Islanders with a much needed win there. They could pick up 15 to go there in the third. So plenty of time there for the Stars to bounce back. Flyers 5 to 1 over the Blackhawks. End of 2, middle of the second period, we got the Devils over the Predators 1 nothing. Avalanche and jets tied at 1 going into the second, Capitals taking on the Mammoth at 9:00'. Clock. Ducks at the Flames. Oil is the Golden Knights and the Kings at the Canucks. Full slate in the NHL. How about the NCAA? Big deal. You got two fantastic Sweet 16 games going on right now. Number 11, Texas is leading. Number two Purdue, 6766 by one with 533 to go in the second half. Boy, that's setting up to be a fantastic finish there in the west region. And the great state of Iowa right now trailing number four in Nebraska. So. So number nine and number four doing battle. Nebraska up by 1, 58, 57, 943 to go there in the second, we have Arkansas taking on Arizona. That'll be a 9:45, maybe 10 o' clock tip off on CBS. And then we have the Illinois and number two Houston. That's three versus two at 10:05 as well. We got to get a little. We haven't gotten in enough rodeo. Big D. I got to get a little more rodeo. And we got Rodeo Austin now, right? Rodeo Houston's in the books now. We're on to Austin. Bouncing around Austin, Texas. Texas. Travis County Expo Center Bareback riding Semifinals. Cade Sonia on wild and out, 86 and a half points. Steer wrestling. Second round. Cash Rob, 3.4 seconds. That can't be his real name. Cash Rob. No parent would name that kid that. Second lead is in team roping.

[Erin]

I wish it was reversed. We sound much better. Rob Cash.

[Slickster]

Yeah.

[Erin]

Rob Cash Rob some cash. Yeah.

[Slickster]

Dustin Exquisite and JC Flake, 2.9 seconds. Raining in there. Saddle Bronx Semifinals. Brody CREST ON Bartender, 84 points. Tie down. We got second round leaders. Riley Pruitt, 7.1 seconds. Bull riding. We got no barrel racing, unfortunately. That's disappointing. Marco Jarez on High train, 87 and a half points. How about this, Big D? Tom Brady thinking about making a comeback. Pump the brakes there. Tom Brady says he's inquiring about playing again as an owner. NFL has said no. Dylan Gwynne at Breitbart. When Tom Brady became a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders, the topic of whether Brady could play again as an owner was such disgust. Brady himself ruminated on the subject, as it turns out through the league, gave him an answer he didn't want. He got an answer he absolutely didn't want. And that's on cut two. Aaron, could you roll cut to with Tom Brady?

[Erin]

I'm not gonna ask you if you're preparing a comeback. I'm not gonna go down that road. All I'm gonna ask you is if you have looked into the NFL rules of a minority owner temporarily coming back, say week 14 or something like, like, have you at least inquired, if that's allowed?

[Vinnie Mac]

Funny enough, you ask. I actually have inquired and they don't

[Aaron]

like that idea very much.

[Slickster]

So I'm going to leave it at that.

[Aaron]

We explored a lot of different things and I'm very happily retired. Let me just say that too. So.

[Slickster]

Okay. Well, yeah, Tom Brady, I think he's getting a little Philip Rivers big day. He might think, you know, Philip came back there and maybe he thinks Brady can come back and lead his team, but they're not going to allow that. Could you imagine an NFL owner playing for his own team? I mean, this is not, you know, George Hallis back in the 1940s with the, you know, Chicago Bears. Right. Big D. So, yeah, he ain't coming back. Maybe he'll play a Little Flag Football. RG3 might be in the mix for that. We'll talk about that.

[Erin]

I think Brady could still cook on Sundays, honestly.

[Slickster]

Oh, sure.

[Erin]

I still think he could.

[Slickster]

Yeah, he could.

[Erin]

The flag football thing the other day, I mean, not. It's flag football, I get, but the movie put on that fourth down and then threw the bullet to the corner for the.

[Aaron]

It was incredible.

[Slickster]

It was a beeline.

[Erin]

I mean, he could still cook on Sundays. You'd never. You can't tell me. He can't.

[Aaron]

He was in the NFL right now. I think he would still be top five out of every quarterback player.

[Erin]

I agree.

[Slickster]

Aaron would take him on the Jets. Would you take him on the Jets, Aaron?

[Aaron]

I. I'll take him now.

[Erin]

They're going to win the super bowl, she said during the pre show, which almost fell off my chair right here. I mean.

[Aaron]

Oh, yeah, they're going to win the Super Bowl. They're going to win the World Series. They're going to win the Stanley Cup. They're going to win everything.

[Erin]

That is crazier talk than the no arm, no leg cornhole champion last night. Oh, that's more crazy than that.

[Vinnie Mac]

Yeah.

[Erin]

Well, it might be.

[Slickster]

Yeah.

[Erin]

Oh, it 100% is.

[Slickster]

Well, they told. Well, it happened.

[Erin]

Story has no legs.

[Slickster]

Well, what happened?

[Vinnie Mac]

Right.

[Slickster]

No, what happened? The reason why that all precipitated was the guy who actually got murdered said that he got murdered. He was upset with the other guy because he thought they had a handshake agreement.

[Erin]

We're not starting this. We are not starting this again. We are not starting this again. You can save it for ot.

[Slickster]

We're not walking down that road turns out it wasn't even an arm's length.

[Erin]

We're not doing it, Slick. We're not doing it. Six minutes. Seven minutes. Now just you be quiet. Seven minutes past. Out. Can I talk? Seven minutes past the hour, live.

[Slickster]

Yes, you can.

[Erin]

6B. Let's get back to the midterms. And I want to get into what stuff that Matt brought. But a couple more things I want to cover from this article because I know you. I'm assuming you know that. Well, you have Vin. All right, let's bring him on. Please welcome Vinnie Mac back to the show. I think the last time I was on, about nine months ago. Hey, Vin.

[Vinnie Mac]

Just drafting a letter to the fcc, and I. That story has no legs. Wanna make sure I quote you guys accurately. Handshake was different. Not at arm's length. So, yeah, I think I got the three. And I believe the FCC is here at cpac, ladies and gentlemen. So I'm gonna have a nice conversation with them about some of these things.

[Slickster]

How are you guys?

[Vinnie Mac]

Man, I missed you all.

[Erin]

How was your first full day at cpac?

[Vinnie Mac]

You know, all I can tell you is we have the greatest audience on the planet here at 6p. So many people came and said hello. Of course, they all wanted to know about Slick's outfits and shoes. Just FYI. Slick. So, you know, I had to do a lot of fashion consultation and verify your wardrobe. Your wardrobe is real. So a lot of questions about that. But it's crazy, so many people watch this show. They love the show. They love Damon. They love all of us. It's great to. Great to.

[Erin]

I mean, snapshot that right there, please. Let's just snapshot that right there. That look that. I did not know that, Vin.

[Slickster]

And then I did not.

[Aaron]

That's like one of those Facebook reactions. Hold on.

[Erin]

He's back. I mean, Vin, your service is like. You got it from Johnny's meatball place down.

[Slickster]

He looks like a poser.

[Erin]

I mean, I don't know where you're connected to, but, I mean, just get him off, Aaron, until it gets better. We can't.

[Aaron]

He's a. I mean, that is the face of a very scared Republican Party going into this midterm.

[Erin]

Exactly.

[Slickster]

It looks like a poser.

[Erin]

Oh, my God. So anyways. Well, if we get him back, you can bring him back on. So anyways, redistricting. Let's talk about redistricting. Because the next part of this article is in addition to the domestic policy changes on the ground, redistricting efforts. He says. The author here says are beginning to pay dividends. Texas redistricting effort has shifted some seats in their direction In Ohio and North Carolina have also joined the effort. Florida is working on reducing their seats to yield three to five more Republican seats for the conference. This move will not be the first time that Florida saved the GOP majority since the four new GOP seats that DeSantis had drawn up in 2022 certainly helped achieve the slim four seat majority of the GOP in 2022. So tell me what you know. What do you think? Is redistricting going to end up being a just we're going to cancel each other out or is it going to benefit one or the other party?

[Aaron]

One quick thing before I answer that question. The real winner of the 22 midterms was Lee Zeldin when he ran for governor here in New York that the coattails he had almost winning here that flipped several seats. I think they flipped four seats that year and held a couple other ones. That was the New York gop and right here in Suffolk was basically ground zero for helping Republicans retain the House. In my humble opinion. Maybe I'm biased to my location as far as whether it's a liability. Hundred percent liability, not just for this election, but for both parties, for all Americans going forward. The redistricting, the mid decade redistricting has been probably the worst political gamble that Trump has taken that I have seen since I've been watching politics, maybe only behind this war in Iran and we were talking before, we'll see how it pays off this, the redistricting. I don't see this paying off in any way, shape or form. So every 10 years when the census is conducted, that's when the states redistrict. Some states lose districts and gain districts. Those tie into electoral college votes. They have to account for population shifts, demographics, et cetera. It's a whole process. Each state does it a little differently. Most are controlled by the partisan legislature and the governors. I think what we need is what Arizona, Michigan, Colorado have independent redistricting commissions that have produced some of the fairest and most competitive maps in the country. You can't do that with every state. Idaho is solidly red. They have two districts. How can you draw a Democratic one or a competitive one? Sometimes it's nature of the beast East. But redistricting mid decade voluntarily. We haven't seen this level of changes in that way since the 1950s or 60s when the civil rights, the 60s when the civil rights legislation came on and a lot of states had to redraw to account for section 2 of the Voting Rights act, which is on the Supreme Court's desk. That will be a huge development.

[Erin]

Yeah, that's the. Is that the. Well, okay, so, so let me just jump back in because the author says the conference has a two seat majority now, which is. I don't know if it's two or

[Aaron]

two to one, give or take, but

[Erin]

they can flip some marginal districts with the Democrat incumbents. Now, a positive ruling from SCOTUS on Calais v. Louisiana will strike down the force majority minority districts which have given the Democrats nine seats in the House. Imagine if those legislatures could redraw their districts yet again, providing a further cushion for the GOP majority. So when I read that and then I listen to you, you sound like you're much more down on this for Republicans. But this sounds like there may be some hope. What's the difference?

[Aaron]

So they're hopeful is because they're just looking at again the next election. How do we win the next election? The VRA. They say about nine seats. I've seen as high as 12 seats across the Deep south, maybe even more. The problem with. And the VRA really isn't. That's really not the issue. The whole thing is seeing the forest for the trees. As far as redistricting goes, this is supposed to be a decennial process. It only happens mid decade when there's a court order, which we saw in Ohio, which we saw in Utah. That's when it's supposed to happen. One minute left.

[Erin]

All right, let's take the break. We'll get back to this. We'll see if we can get Vinnie Mac back as well. Live from Studio 6B on a Thursday night. We're back right after. Seventeen past the hour. Live from Studio 6B on a Thursday night, March 26th. Real America's voice. Glad you're in, everybody. Wherever you're watching and listening, make sure you follow us on social media at LFS6B. We'll be back on socials probably tomorrow night. Although if CPAC blends in, we probably maybe not. I don't know. Vinnie Mac is back. Vinnie Mac, you're. You're not frozen. So while you're not frozen, let me give you the floor. How is CPAC?

[Vinnie Mac]

CPAC's been amazing. You know, the 6B fans are out in strong numbers, which is great as I think I don't know when I got cut off, but they're coming by and saying hello, want to take pictures, asking about everybody, asking about Slick and his outfits and his shoes and all the Important things there. Yes, of course, but it's been great. You know, we just had Rob Schneider on. I don't know if you saw the clip I sent you. Rob did a great comedy bit and when Natasha Owens on and some great shows. Bannon did a great show with Eric Bolling and a few others. So it's been exciting. Big crowd at our booth, by the way. Big crowd. The biggest crowd of anywhere.

[Erin]

Yeah.

[Vinnie Mac]

By the way, did you watch.

[Erin]

Did you watch Bannon and bowling? I watched a little bit of it. I didn't know what exactly they were espousing. Bomb everything or bomb their. The. The roadways. They're this, they're that. I couldn't figure out. Out what. Explain what you heard there or not. It's another good one. Oh, there you go.

[Vinnie Mac]

It was.

[Erin]

Yeah. I mean, this is just. I mean, come on. I mean, it's like. It's like the wireless by Joey's Pizza. What is this wireless he's on? This is the feed from Hunger Gaylords wireless.

[Aaron]

I mean, he's got that ACME router.

[Erin]

Yeah, go ahead, Vin.

[Vinnie Mac]

Yes, it's the ACME router. It's the Wiley Coyote WI fi.

[Slickster]

Yes, tnt. I was.

[Vinnie Mac]

I was confused by it, too. Yeah.

[Slickster]

I've never seen big tongue tied like that.

[Erin]

All right. I mean. Yeah. I mean, do you have anything else other than you were confused or that's it?

[Vinnie Mac]

No, I can't tell if I. I can't tell if the signals going through, but I was confused by their entire narrative, frankly. Should we bomb everything and send in troops? Should we not? Should we do this? Should we do that? I didn't agree with half of it, by the way, and. And I couldn't follow what they were saying either. So they were asking people their opinion, but they were framing this thing, I thought, in a terrible way. So I wasn't big on any. Any of that particular part of the show, let's put it that way.

[Aaron]

Way.

[Erin]

Well, what do you think?

[Vinnie Mac]

I think I've been clear ever since I've been on talking about Iran. I. I am very much in favor of us finishing the job there. I don't want to see troops on the ground, but I want to see the entire leadership there change. I want to see a free society there. To me, it's not done until we have a free society there, meaning the mullahs are no longer in power.

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[Vinnie Mac]

And they elect someone that is. And. And we've just 100% dismantled Iran. To me, that's when it ends. I don't think we need boots on the ground to do that. I think Trump's just sending, sending boots because this is the right thing to do, to let them know we might use that if we have to.

[Erin]

I mean, some would argue with you that the year end is not achievable without it, that it's going to be very hard to achieve that without, without somehow going in. And Steve's point was, why is it American boys who have to be the first ones in, why don't we make them Saudi Arabia guys or so I guess that's what I think that's what he was saying. But, but just to the point of saying that most people will say that you can't achieve victory continuing to just do what we're doing. How do you get a change in the regime by just sticking with what we've doing so far, as effective as it has been. What do you say to that?

[Slickster]

That.

[Vinnie Mac]

I do think what we're doing is going to eventually work. So I don't agree with any of that. I don't agree that we have to have boots on the ground. I do agree that if there are boots on the ground, perhaps they should be Israeli and others that maybe not ours, but for me, the end result. The end result. I want to see no American casualties, but I want to see the regime change. So I think we can achieve it with what we're doing, I really do. So I'm not giving up on that idea. We've done so much damage to start this thing off. I think we're going to finish the job that way too, without having to use boots. I think they're ready to cave.

[Erin]

Frank, personally, any other highlights from cpac, VIN or anything coming up this week that we should stay tuned for?

[Vinnie Mac]

You know, there's Dr. Oz is going to be on and it's a little disappointing that the administration hasn't, frankly, that's, that's. Everyone's disappointed with that. You know, from a CPAC standpoint, it's not been their biggest turnout and for some reason big part of the administration's not here, so. But the enthusiasm's here and the people are out. So I don't know of any highlights that are happening tomorrow. It's just kind of great to be in this environment, frankly, being with more patriots, being with folks that understand what Mag is all about, and hearing from some of the leaders, not all the leaders, but some of the leaders. I think that's been helpful. But nothing big tomorrow other than, you know, the same kind of thing we saw today. Which by the way, I thought was great okay day for our channel, particularly Real America's Voice. And, and I see a lot of unison amongst the, amongst the audience and the people that I've talked to. I talked to a lot of people today, probably Talked to about 200 people today, frankly that came through and that we're at our booth and a lot of enthusiasm as to what's going on.

[Erin]

All right. Vinnie Mac live from Texas in the non wi fi bathroom closet there at the Gaylord, I guess, or whatever, wherever he is. So Vinny wants to hang and his connection stays. Good, we will. Because I would love to him for him to jump in on some of this midterm stuff we're talking about with Matt Midori. But I don't know how reliable this connection is going to be, but we'll try to keep Vin on. So anyways, back to. We were talking about redistricting and obviously where the Supreme Court and some of these rulings fit in. But you see the redistricting as being a liability for them. So let's change it up here. So going into the midterms right now, what's the biggest positive you see for the Republicans going their way right now? Is there one?

[Aaron]

It seems to me kind of a run of the mill midterm that you're just gonna end up losing. Maybe not by much, but I don't see a whole lot that's right going for them at least in the House. In the Senate they're getting a couple of breaks and we can talk about that. Cuz I have more on the Senate and that the gubernatorial races are always kind of a mixed bag. It's kind of each state does their own thing, it's their own environment. The national environment matters, but not as much as the House and Senate. The bigger thing about redistricting, the way Trump has done it though, I think it flies in the face of a lot of the populist overs, tones that have been struck with both parties, especially when he still insists that the 2020 election was stolen, whether or not you think it was or wasn't. Why does changing the goalposts and literally changing the lines in the middle of the decade, in the middle of the year, arbitrarily to put in these egregious gerrymanders because now the party is now going, the Republican Party is now gonna own that they're the party of gerrymandering. No party is really the party. They both do it. They've been doing it it since the age of the Republic.

[Erin]

What about the SAVE act, where does that play in as far as if they could get it passed, which it looks like they can't, But I don't

[Aaron]

know if this, I don't think the SAVE act, does it have anything about redistricting in there? I haven't been super up on it.

[Erin]

No, no, not redistricting, but just overall, overall election integrity.

[Aaron]

I think they're in a real constitutional quagmire on that because as great as the ideas are, the problem is, I shouldn't say it's a problem. It's actually a good feature of our government is that the states have their own rights to administer their own elections and set the guidelines and the gutters,

[Erin]

time and place, I think, is the exact wording.

[Aaron]

They have the right and they should have the right to do that. So the fact that Trump is putting his thumbs on these loyalists in the state legislatures, and he's been doing this since August, it started off in Texas, then it went to Missouri, then North Carolina. They tried it in Indiana. It didn't work. He tried it in Kansas, it didn't work. Florida maybe. Maybe they have the conversation in Kansas again. But then I don't understand. I don't think that this was a crazy reaction to expect that the Democrats were going to do things their own way. Prop 50 in California, now you're seeing possible movement in Virginia, Maryland. They're kind of at a deadlock. But again, people are standing on, I think, the correct principle of that this needs to be a state thing and not, not arbitrarily used to gain seats.

[Erin]

All right, 26 past the hour. Live from Studio 6B on a Thursday night. More to do. We'll see if we can keep Vinnie Mac, Matt Midori's here. We'll do some more sports with Slick coming back right after this.

[Slickster]

Sam.

[Erin]

All right, 30 minutes past the hour. Live from Studio 6B on a Thursday night real America's Voice. Glad you're in Slickstune Sports. Matt Midori is with us going over midterm stuff and the maps. We're going to go to some of the stuff that he brought with him, which we haven't gotten to any of it because I won't shut up about these other things. But it's the stuff that interests me. And so, so it is your show. It is great stuff. So Slick, let's do some sports. Then we'll get into what Matt brought with them, what's going on in sports.

[Slickster]

All right. Well, sweet 16, big D, and it's all over the great state of Iowa has defeated Nebraska, number nine, upsetting number four. 77, 71. People are saying the Hawkeyes could make a run. Big day. And obviously they are now. All right, they're going into the look at this.

[Erin]

Texas.

[Slickster]

Texas just tied it up with Texas is unbelievable, too. They just tied it up.

[Aaron]

Unbelievable.

[Erin]

They're playing team.

[Slickster]

I I know this is incredible. It's like it's historic if they could pull it off. But yeah, this is unbelievable. And that's an 11, 11 versus a 2. And we're all tied up. 11 seconds to go here. Big D. Unbelievable. So. And let's get to the well, we got Major League Baseball, big day today. Obviously, we talked about the the Mets with that national anthem, but the Mets had a good win, 11 to 7 in Citi Field. Right now, the Diamondbacks over the Dodgers, two nothing, middle of the fourth. The rest of these games are final. We got the brewers over the White Sox 14 2, Nationals over the Cubs 10 to 4. I gave you most of these scores. I'm going to skim through them. Angels blank, the Astros three zero zip rays fell to the Cardinals nine to seven. Gardens and Mariners coming up at 10. 10 out in Seattle. That will be the first pitch. Big D. So how about RG3? Now, flag football we know is going to become obviously a big thing, right, Big D? We've got the Olympics coming up in 2028, and they're starting to qualify the different teams. And Robert Griffin III has now been invited to try out for the club. So we'll see. Here we go. Associated Press Robert Griffin III is heading to another training camp, this time for flag football. Now, he's no kid, either. The Heisman Trophy winner and former NFL quarterback received an invitation from USA Football to 2 training camps starting next month in Chula Vista, California. This is Griffin is in his first running for a spot on the 2026 flag football team squad that will take part in the World Championships later this summer in Germany. If all goes well, he might be in the mix for a spot when the sport makes its Olympic debut at the 2028 LA Games. Griffin obviously won the Heisman bet with Baylor back in 2011 and was a number two overall pick by Washington. Obviously, that career didn't go super well, but that'd be pretty interesting, Big D, to see that happen with Griffin, right? I mean, what do you think, Brady, you said the other day you saw him throwing a football.

[Erin]

No, you know, I didn't even listen to what you just said. Purdue won.

[Slickster]

Purdue has won. Okay. Yeah, that's kind of the norm. 70, 79, 77. Number 11. Texas is out. Although, man, they tried. They certainly tried their hearts out. Just one more big D, though. International Olympics Committee bans trans athletes from women's events. Warner Todd Hewson of Breitbart. The International Olympic Committee, known as the ioc, has now made it clear that men who identify as women are not eligible to compete in women's sporting events, which aligns the Olympics with President Donald Trump's executive order on sports ahead of the 2028 games in LA. Oh, common sense is coming into the Olympics now. What do you know? I'll see if this lasts. Eligibility for any female category event at the Olympics Games or any other IOC event, including individual and team sports, is now limited to biological females, the IOC said in a statement this week, according to the AP Press. Now we have a clip from the IOC president talking about this. Christy Coventry. Erin, if you could roll that cut three, please.

[Erin]

The scientific evidence is very clear. Male chromosomes give performance advantages in sports that rely on strength, power or endurance. At the Olympic Games, even the smallest margins can be the difference between victory and defeat. So it's absolutely clear that it would not be fair for biological males to compete in the female category degree. In addition, in some sports, it would simply not be safe.

[Slickster]

Common sense is that prevent water.

[Erin]

Water is wet. Exactly.

[Slickster]

Yep. And water polo will not have any men in the pool with the women's Games. And that's a wrap in sports. Big D, back to you.

[Erin]

All right, good slick. 34 past the hour. Live from Studio 6B. Make sure you follow us on all our social media. By the way, at LFS6B, make sure you download the Live from Studio 6B app. It's in both stores. If you're on Apple, there's an update available today. Make sure you update your app.

[Slickster]

App.

[Erin]

You can visit us online at LFSPP TV as well. Matt Midori is here and of course he's going to be a frequent guest on the show as we head towards the midterms to talk about what he's seeing on the ground, what the data says. Because in the end, I mean, the data is the only thing we can really rely on until we actually get the votes. And most of you don't trust the votes, so maybe you trust the. Don't trust the data either, I don't know. But you're gonna have to figure out a way to trust one of the two. So. So tell me what you brought with you, what you're really looking at. Focused on.

[Aaron]

So for map one. And if Erin would be so kind as to pull that up, that is the at least my House forecast. And this is published, this will be published soon in the newspaper I'm an editor for here in Suffolk county, the Messenger. So right there you have Republicans at 208 seats in the House, Democrats at 216. They need 218 for a majority. And I think there's 11 toss ups there. They just have to pick two and they get to 200 and 18, they get the gavel. And Hakeem Jeffries presumably is the speaker. And you can see the varying levels of safety for one party or the other based on how dark blue or red it is. And you can kind of see where the battlegrounds are. South Texas, big sprawling districts in the Mountain west and suburban working class seats throughout the Rustic belt and in the Northeast. But a lot of safe territory. It's a lot different from other midterm maps, especially 2018. There was a lot more in play. This includes the California Proposition 50 gerrymander, the court ordered redistricting in Utah and Ohio and the voluntary redistricting in Texas, North Carolina and Missouri, so forth. So this is the latest temperature check. But right now I have Democrats flipping close to a dozen seats. I think they'll flip at this point, close to a dozen seats, seats three in California due to the gerrymander, possibly a fourth. But you have a couple of mavericks out there where they could theoretically thread the needle. But I think three are virtually guaranteed for the Democrats in California, as is Colorado 8 suburban district north of Denver, about 40% Latino Republicans wanted an upset in 2024. I think this is one of those usual suspect seats that just ends up flipping back.

[Erin]

Do you have any data on the Payson, Arizona town council race? That would be one of our one of our long standing favorite viewers is running really in that and we interviewed him on the show and he's in the chat right now asking about if you have any data on his town council race.

[Aaron]

I do not. I can certainly look at it. But Arizona is an interesting spot. It's, it's such an even swing state. Republicans have very tenuous majorities in the state legislature and they have a Democratic Governor and Map 3, which we don't have to jump to necessarily right now, but if want to get through, what I brought is the gubernatorial forecast and I think Arizona right now is tilting Democratic. But for the rest of the House, it's suburban seats, it's Omaha, it's southeastern Iowa, the Illinois suburbs there, it's Virginia

[Erin]

beach, it's can we go to map three, Aaron? Do we have that or this is still one.

[Aaron]

That's three. There you go. At least those were for the House. So there's the governor's races right now, as far as I see it, the only state I think that either party can expect to flip right now is Kansas. It's intrinsically red state, but since the 50s, they tend to do this thing and a lot of states do it where they vote two parties on, two parties off. So a Democrat will win for two terms and then they'll do a Republican for two terms, and it just kind of keeps going back and forth like this. Laura Kelly, the Democratic governor is term limited. That's probably the only silver lining for Republicans right now, although there is a race in Michigan, there's a race in Wisconsin, but they have to defend Georgia. Getting through Arizona. To the gentleman you interviewed who's running for town council in Arizona, good luck to you, sir. But I think Katie Hobbs is benefiting from something that you could cynically call forced bipartisanship. She's dealing with the Republican legislature, very narrowly governed. The majorities are very narrow there, but both parties have to work with each other here. Same thing for Joe Lombardo in Nevada, a Republican, where Democrats control both both chambers of the state legislature. So you're seeing this kind of interoperability that people are craving now and whether or not they really do genuinely want to work together or they just have to get something done so they can get reelected, people like seeing that and they crave that type of nuance now. And I think Arizona being such an evenly divided swing state at this point, you'll probably see a Democrat get reelected there. And then who knows if that transcends down to two toss up seats, seats one in the Phoenix suburbs and one in Tucson. So just those two seats there can be enough to give Democrats the majority. Forget what happens elsewhere.

[Erin]

And obviously you have solid blue in New York for governor. And I don't want to spend a ton of time on it, but. Well, let's just talk about it for a second because Bruce Blakeman was supposed to be on this show last Thursday and his campaign called and said, well, he's too busy. Can you do the show at a different time? And I said, well, no, the show is 8 to 10 in prime time. We talked to most of New York and we are on the radio all over New York. So you don't I said to her, you're saying he doesn't have time to come do the show. And she said, yes. And I said, okay, duly noted. So what. I mean, is he a serious candidate or what? What. What do you. What have you heard so far?

[Aaron]

I think he's a serious candidate. Bruce Blakeman is.

[Erin]

We loved him, by the way. I talked about Bruce Blake. Yeah. What he was doing in Nassau county, no doubt, before the governor thing was even ever in play, he was. He was out in front on boys and women's sports. He was out on all of these things. I was totally brutal, and I still am. I don't know why he doesn't want to talk to the voters of New York on this show, but that's another story.

[Slickster]

He was like a DeSantis, you know, he was the same kind of.

[Aaron]

I run into him fairly frequently at press conferences. They do a lot of Suffolk, Nassau, joint stuff. So I see him around. And when he won in 2021, that Nassau county executive race, this is a county that hadn't gone for a Republican presidential nominee since 1988. Trump won it in 2024. But this is a blue county, one of the wealthiest in the nation, wealthiest in the state. And Bruce Blakeman won that race in 2021. Polling had him down, I think, double digits earlier in that race. He ended up winning by less than a point in 2021. It was one of the biggest shockers of that cycle. And in 2025, he was reelected in a landslide. 11, 12.

[Erin]

And he should have been, and he

[Aaron]

absolutely should have been. And he swept everybody into office with him. The Republicans, the county legislature, they defended everything in Nassau.

[Slickster]

And I think clean house.

[Aaron]

The clean house. And I think what Blakeman brings to the table here is emblematic of what's going on in New York right now as it continues to kind of transition in its own way, as far as politically speaking, in a political bubble. He is the very first firewall between the immediate bedroom communities of New York City and Zoran Mandan. And it is emblematic, I think, of what we're saying on men and women's sports and a lot of the social issues that Democrats will win on for a little bit, and then they dig themselves into a hole where nothing else gets done. What about the economy? We've already talked about that. But Bruce Blakeman is, I think, one of the biggest candidates of this cycle, whether or not a race really does end up materializing in New York. And the numbers right now aren't super favorable. Hochul is at least moderately.

[Erin]

And she has a war chest, by the way.

[Aaron]

She has a war chest. She's moderately net positive, 32 million to 2.

[Erin]

He can't even get matching funds seemingly.

[Aaron]

And that's going to be, that's going to hurt him. That's going to hurt him tremendously. But I think people should pay him attention especially to what he's saying because he is right on the property line with Queens and Nassau and we're already seeing some of that, that from fallout from him.

[Erin]

So let's quickly get back to map, to whatever you brought. Let's go back to the second one. What's that?

[Aaron]

The Senate, Senate map.

[Erin]

Okay, talk to me about this.

[Aaron]

So this is the Senate map here.

[Erin]

President Trump endorsed, by the way, Susan Collins today. I'll just leave it at that. Cuz I don't know what else to say. Just in case you didn't know which.

[Aaron]

That might even have the opposite effect. In Maine, one of the most independent libertarian like states. You never bet against a moderate. In Maine you have Jared golden in the House as a Democrat. He's one of the most conservative. Susan Collins is a Republican. I think she's in her fifth term.

[Erin]

Hell she is.

[Aaron]

I think she's in her fifth term. But she's always been one of the Senate's most valuable mavericks. So Republicans have a 53 seat majority right now in the Senate.

[Erin]

Wait, wait, did you just say she was valuable to the disaster? A total and utter disaster.

[Aaron]

I should have rephrased that. As far as the mavericks and the independents in the Senate, she's been one of the most well known, I should have said for many years.

[Erin]

Yeah. So that's better.

[Aaron]

That is better.

[Erin]

Yeah. Let me just play this. Aaron, quickly before we go out, if you can, can you put this up? We have time. It's quick, quick.

[Slickster]

Collins and I won half of Maine.

[Erin]

You know, I win Maine, I win

[Slickster]

the lumberjacks and the fishermen. I win those big strong lumberjacks. They like Trump. But she wins the other part of Maine and I hope she wins because we have to. She's a good person actually. But we have.

[Erin]

Okay, so I mean. All right, we'll wrap it up for a Thursday night right after this.

[Slickster]

Foreign.

[Erin]

Studio 6p13 to the hour on a Thursday night. Real America's Voice. Glad you're in Slicks doing sports. Matt Maduri is here. We're talking about the midterms in the, in the maps and the what we see where we are going in. Matt's going to join us throughout the rest of this year as we head towards November as we really dig into this stuff. I love doing this too by the way. And you're great and the stuff you bring is great and I just think it's so important to look at all sides of this.

[Reynolds Kitchens Ad]

Yeah.

[Slickster]

May not be what everybody wants to hear, but.

[Erin]

No, I don't care. It's great stuff. So let's do one more thing. We'll do one more round of sports, then we'll get into whatever I want to get back to the Senate. Six there. What, what else is going on in sports?

[Slickster]

Well, once again, big D, sweet 16 tonight is the big news, obviously in the NCAA Division 1 men's basketball tournament. Here we got Purdue 79 over Texas. Moving on now to the elite eight. And we have Nebraska, who fell to the great state of Iowa as the President Trump used to always say. 77, 71. Illinois getting ready to take the court against Houston. Big D. The spreads a little tight for you, huh? You got your own upset.

[Erin]

I had Houston on upset alert tonight. That line makes me nervous. If I was a Houston fan.

[Slickster]

1005 tip off there and then the nightcap which is 10o, six minute later, Arizona, number one. Arizona who? A lot of people, if Arizona loses, that's going to probably bust half the brackets that there are out there there because they're, they're, they're huge favorites. NHL action right now. 3 3. Senators and Penguins. We got the Kraken 43 over to Lightning. That's at the end of OT there. Both of those games ended in OT. Devils and Predators tied at 2, end of 2. Avalanche and jets tied at 1, end of 2 in the middle of the first. Mammoth over the Caps, 2 to 1. Oilers and Golden Knights, no score there. Finals from earlier tonight, Wild over the Panthers 32 Canadians 2 to 1 over the blue Jackets. Islanders with a much needed win on the island. Two to one over the Stars. Stars. Flyers took care of business against the Blackhawks five to one. NBA Knicks fall tonight to Charlotte 114 103. Pistons dominate the Pelicans 129, 108 and Magic 121, 117 over the Kings. This NBA legend is trying to stop Kayla Williams from trademarking Iceman. Well, I can't call it. He can't take that name. Jared Dubbin of CBS Sports and NBA legend is attempting to see stop an NFL player who is just trying to build his own legend from landing a trademark name for their common nickname. Hall of Famer George Gervin, who throughout his 14 year NBA career with the Virginia Squires, though the old ABA San Antonio spurs and Chicago Bulls was known as the Iceman is fighting to keep Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams from trademarking the Iceman moniker that Williams himself acquired this past season due to his late game heroics and a celebration where he would hug his arms to his chest, his chest and make a burr motion as if he had ice in his veins. Williams recently filed four trademark applications related to the Iceman nickname, per the Chicago Sun Times, for the name, a logo and two silhouettes of Williams throwing a miracle. Pastor Rome Adunze this is the during the Bears playoff victory, that great throw against Green Bay, that Hail Mary pass there. Big D. Well, I don't know. I don't take that name from the Iceman. Big D. George Gervin is the man.

[Erin]

You kidding me?

[Slickster]

Don't. Don't even go there with, with me. And let's see, we got a little more time or we. We're good on time. What are we right now?

[Erin]

Well, what. What?

[Slickster]

I got one more.

[Erin]

Just whatever you want.

[Slickster]

We're going to wrap it up with

[Erin]

baseball and are going to leave. You take the rest of the six minutes.

[Slickster]

No, no, not necessary. Come on. Yeah, we go. But Netflix bungles the first ABS call and Major League Baseball history Dylan Gwynn of Breitbart Baseball is a sport known for marking its history with reverence and respect. But someone forgot to tell Netflix, the streaming giant tasked with bringing the first game of the 2026 MLB season to MLB season to viewers worldwide, failed to cover the first. First the first ABS challenge in the history of regular Major League Baseball history. Why? Because it was conducting an interview with the San Francisco's Giants manager, Tony Vitello at the time. Aaron, could you roll cut four show this now? They should be focusing on this qualia this challenge and roll it, Aaron.

[Aaron]

But also every one of their hitters is capable of doing damage and he's got good stuff.

[Erin]

So it's battle, you know, a battle

[Aaron]

that you're going to see each at bat.

[Slickster]

I see your guys talking after they face Max Free.

[Erin]

What are they sharing? What do they see?

[Slickster]

He's making an announcement here.

[Erin]

The shapes of the pitches are different

[Aaron]

than maybe in the past or some

[Erin]

things that they've seen.

[Slickster]

They got to cut the interview. They got to show this.

[Erin]

No way.

[Aaron]

Absolutely.

[Erin]

Appreciate it.

[Aaron]

Thank you so much.

[Erin]

Cut the interview to find out if the strike call was right.

[Slickster]

Well, sure. It was the first one in the history of the game. You don't like that ABS anyway. Big decent.

[Erin]

Let those unbiased call talk to the manager. We don't need to here. It's bald strikes from the fat umpire. Got it right. Who cares?

[Slickster]

All right, Big D, that's a curve from you, and I'm throwing it back to you. I'm going to toss it back to you.

[Erin]

All right, look. Very good. Sports brought to you by Mike Lindell, LFS6B. So, Matt, I'm looking at, I'm looking at Rich Barris, the people's pundit pollster. North Carolina is shaping up to be an interesting state. Republicans are down in every single statewide race right now in North Carolina. Michael Watley, by every account, is getting whooped up on by Cooper in every poll I've seen. We don't have to go state by state, but what do you see there?

[Aaron]

North Carolina is probably the surefire flip of this midterm. Democrats haven't won a Senate race there since 2008. Thom Tillis, who is vacating the seat, he was disaster. Two underdog races. He was, as far as an over performer goes, he was valuable in that regard, but again, in just winning the elections. So the GOP loses that in a hotly contested swing state with a slowly growing middle. And Roy Cooper twice elected governor when Trump was on the ballot and won North Carolina in both of those races. So this is someone who has, who is familiar, the voters are familiar with, who has been able to win and convince them to split their tickets for him and for President Trump. I think that this is definitely one of the races that flips this year in North Carolina.

[Erin]

Yeah, I want to get back to the whole idea on the Iran war because I see polls like, in questions from pollsters like which party do you trust more to keep the U.S. out of foreign wars and military conflicts? Democrat parties, 42% right now. Republican Party, 28.1%. Neither 22.7. So my question to you is not about those numbers, but if, if, if he finds a way to get us out of here here, let's say in the next, even another four weeks, eight weeks, whatever it is, does that kind of question still remain relevant come November?

[Aaron]

I think to a degree. I think to a degree. I think once the initial panic is gone, okay, there's no boots on the ground, the gas is right, everything's kind of back to normal. We got what we wanted. You know, let's just say we get everything we want and Israel gets everything they want. Our allies, you know, let's say everybody wins. And I still think people are going to be uncomfortable with the fact that that type of politicking materialized. And again, you touched on it before. We don't know what the president has, what the information he's dealing with, the intel. But I think people have felt a little bit cheated by both parties too many times. And I think people are at the point where it's fool me once, shame on you type thing. But I think a lot of people are gonna be paying more attention to their primaries to see who would not be in support of these types of foreign wars on both the Democratic and the Republican side side.

[Erin]

And back to the Senate just in the last minute that we have, we didn't really fully close that deal. I mean, my argument in the Senate has always been when people tell me it's 5347 Republicans right now, I say BS it's 9010 Democrats because you got Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, all these disasters, Tillis, McConnell, just absolute, total disasters for Republicans. So it's not 53, it's. It's 9010 Democrats on. On everything. But to be serious, what do you think the numbers end up being?

[Aaron]

I would say right now the Republicans end up taking the Senate, but they might. I think they're definitely gonna lose. North Carolina, Georgia, I don't think is gonna shape up for them. Michigan's a state where things are kind of going right for them as far as the individual party contests go. But it's a state that Democrats in this type of environment should be able to win. They have a key recruit in New Hampshire and a great namesake of a notable political dynasty. But again, in this type of year, New Hampshire's a state they should be able to win a Senate race. And we'll see whether or not Trump's endorsement of Collins does her favors or worse in Maine. At worst, he might have nationalized the race. Depends which Democrat wins the primary there. Here's an interesting statistic, though. The betting markets I'm taking with a larger grain of salt than the polls, the conventional polls. But From November of 24 until April of 25, the GOP on Kalshi had no less than an 80% chance of retaining control of the Senate. Right now, since this broke out, it is 50:50 on Kalshi since the war in Iran broke out.

[Erin]

And it sounds like you think it's gonna be about. I mean, you think if that.

[Aaron]

And we don't have enough time to discuss it, but next time I'm back, I'd love to talk about the Nebraska nightmare that could happen if an independent senator wins there.

[Erin]

Interesting. Great stuff from the great Matt Midori. He'll be back. Slick. Thanks for being here, Vinnie. Mac in the bathroom closet. Thanks for being here. Most of all, thank you to Live Studio 6B audience for being here. And of course, as always, we salute all of our military active and active emergency personnel. Aaron and Fran, great job as right all always. We'll see you ot on the app here in about 40 seconds. The recipe will see you tomorrow night live from Studio 6B from the America first warehouse. Look at those babies.

[Slickster]

Look out.

[Aaron]

This is an I heart podcast.

[Erin]

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