https://www.youtube.com/watch/QEN9n1Qvd24 Trump CRASHES the Midterms. Republicans Aren’t Happy About It.
Pete Hegseth, in an unconventional speech, announces that beardos, weirdos, and wimps are no longer welcome at the Department of War as his boss officially hit the road to campaign for Senate Republicans — whether they want him to or not. Jon and Dan react to Trump’s event with Ken Paxton in Texas, Trump proclaiming his love for data centers in a wide-ranging interview with TIME, and Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt’s embarrassing mix-up in a Judiciary Committee hearing with former Special Counsel Jack Smith. Then, Rev. Adam Hamilton, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Kansas, talks to Dan about what it’ll take to elect the state’s first Democratic senator in nearly 100 years, and why he considers himself both a liberal and a conservative.

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