November 7, 2025 • 20 mins
Ashley Brasfield of The Daily Caller joins to break down the government shutdown, this week’s elections, and the rise of New York’s “Hot Girls for Zohran” movement. She shares updates from Capitol Hill, insight on D.C. safety, and what Congress could still get done before year’s end.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Ashley Brassfield of The Daily Caller joins us to talk
about the elections this week. About the shutdown, she covers
a lot of Capitol Hill in DC lives in our
nation's capital. Let's start with this, governments still shut down.
What are the people on the Hill saying? Like? We
got air traffic controllers that are now going to get
(00:42):
cut down to like ten percent of them or something,
aren't going to be showing up because they're not getting paid.
We got chaos at the airports DC. What's happening?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, what I'm hearing just from today.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
I was just at lunch and then with a bunch
of staffers and honestly, they don't even know, they don't
know when it's opening, is what I'm hearing. And so
I don't know what type of I guess energy that expects.
But you know, a bunch of Democrat senators are actually
expecting to meet tonight, so maybe there's a plan there
to come. Of course, we saw the Rose Garden meeting
President Trump. We're talking about filibuster and nuking that. So
(01:13):
that's part of the conversation happening right now, But it
doesn't sound like as of you know, three o'clock to day,
there's a lot of movement currently.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
That's kind of wild because I think the belief on
from a lot of places was that as soon as
the election's over, like this was all a game to
get people upset, do more turnout. For Northern Virginia, a
lot of government bureaucrats and contractors and such live there.
They'll be ticked off, they'll show up and vote. But
(01:40):
now we can all stop, right, But it sounds like
there isn't some imminent go back to the government as
usual strategy, Like where where is this? Where does this
send up?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
You think, well, remember the first marker was these no
Kings protests that were happening back in October with Chuck Schumer.
We were guessing maybe that was going to be the
thing that you know, set it in motion to where
they'd start coming to the table with Democrats to negotiate.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And now we had the elections.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
That's the second marker, right, And now here we have
Thanksgiving coming up, and nothing seemed to be happening right now.
So I wonder a lot of the time how much
the American people I actually believe who's winning the pr
stalemate that's going on right now between Republicans and Democrats.
It seems like Democrats are starting to be able to
hold out. You're starting to wonder, Okay, well, are these
Senate staffers going to be paid or the congressional staffer
(02:27):
is going to be paid, And that's going to be
the thing that really, you know, twists their arm to
open the government here. But I mean, I've always thought
in my mind, when it starts affecting the American people,
say Thanksgiving, travel, when you're missing flights, when you're not
able to you know, do things and widespread That's my
thought is when it starts affecting the American people, which
I still think right now. Honestly, a lot of American people,
I think they're no, that's starting to have an effect
(02:50):
that they do know there is a shutdown occurring a
little bit, but it's now just starting when it comes
to what they believe is happening.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Speaking of DC, you know, I was down there. Gosh,
I can't remember. I got back from Taiwan and I
went right to DC. And it was Depentagon and it was,
but I just remember it in that order because the
streets were the shutdown was going on, and it had
just started, and the streets were nice and clear, and
(03:17):
I could get anywhere in DC in five minutes. And
it also did feel safer to me. And I don't
know if that's just because Trump is saying it and
I believe Big Papa Trump or I don't know, but
how is that going, Like the safety component of DC
with that whole National Guard and all the Trump stuff,
has that borne fruit?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I do think so. I think crime has definitely gone down.
I mean the presence. I live in Navy Yard in DC,
and that's been one of the higher youth crime rate
areas in DC.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Specifically, I always.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
See National Guard when I'm getting off the subway in
the metro system there, and as a girl that's twenty
five years old walking around single, you know, I feel
safe that the National Guard's there.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Their presence is definitely a deterrence.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I would say on Halloween you might have seen videos
go viral there was kind of a brawl taking place
in Navy Yard, but guess what National Guard was there
to handle it? Police presence is very heavy there. So
I think it shows that there is this is a
reoccurring theme and they can't prosecute much of these juveniles still.
You know, we have Janine Piro in charge, but there's
not this essence that they can still go and you know,
(04:20):
it has to be a violent crime in order for
them to be prosecuted in any way, or you know,
there's no parents involved, So what's the consequence here for
them doing this?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So there is a there.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Is It's okay, have you met Judge Janin yet?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I have not, but I'd love to.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I was going to say, you have you interviewed her?
She's she's great. She's a sassy lady. Let me tell
you yeah, yeah, yeah, she's she's got some spunk. For sure,
you would not you would not want to be a
criminal on the wrong side of prosecutor Judge Janine. I
can tell you that.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah. Well, I think she's also is she's shown frustration.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I can tell this in interviews of not being able
to prosecut all these people. I mean, you saw, you know,
the Doje guy big Balls, has all these you know,
youth go and attack him and there's hardly any prosecutions.
They're getting let off still, so there is still that
aspect that's being battled back against. But like the National
Guard things, it has been a huge deterrence in my opinion,
especially where I live, and this is a it's a
(05:14):
major Republican area, and you still have this issue in
the city that a lot of Republicans live in the
Navy Yard.
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right across the river actually from Virginia. I know you
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know that, but just a situation, Just a situation. So
just in case you're unaware, you live very close to Virginia. Yeah,
you can actually take the metro to Virginia if you
want to. And the Virginia race was I think the
one that we weren't expecting that Republicans were at least
I wasn't expecting that Republicans were going to win it,
but I did think it would be closer, and particularly
(06:45):
the AG side be closer. What is your what's kind
of your after action report on what went wrong for
the GOP ticket in Virginia.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
So, I think when it comes down to the arguments
being made right now, they talk a lot about the
cultural issues. It was too much a shift on the
cultural issues with you know, transgenderism being playing that major factor.
We saw this in twenty twenty one, the debate moment
with Terry mccauliffe against Glenn Younkin. You got to remember it.
During that time period, we were coming out of COVID.
A lot of parents were angry at these school board meetings.
So I think just setting that up alone kind of
(07:18):
shows the difference culturally what was going on in the moment.
I think there was a lot of focus still there,
and I think people do care about it. But also
I think this government shut down probably played a factor.
There was multiple things, but I think you're right about
the ag race. I think we were all very shocked
about that. I covered it extensively, and I was I
guess I had concern about how many.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Voters were actually aware of what was going on.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
And there was a scene an exit poll that I
found very fascinating. It was a fifty five percent of
women voted in favor of Jay Jones in Virginia. And so,
you know, you put a lot of thought into that
after the reckless driving charge, a special prosecutor being put
on him, as well as the violent text, and that
came right after Charlie Kirk's assassination, So I questioned how
(08:00):
much the message actually got out you have the factor
that a lot of people don't show up for midterms,
low provinsity voters showing up within the state, as well
as early voting and that taking place. Kind of it
was an October surprise came in October first and October third,
those two kind of reports dropped and there were still
early voting already occurring. So I think it is a broad,
complex picture of what actually happened there.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I do think it was a GOP.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Failure due to the fact that we took back the
state in twenty twenty one, and we could have fought
harder for it in this election specifically.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Was there a sense that the Winsome Sears campaign was
underperforming what the GOP expectations were for Virginia or was
it essentially what was thought to be possible, Like, how
would you gauge how that one ended up.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I'll be completely honest. I think the excitement behind the
candidate was lacking. I think there was a push on
the from the presidential side to give an endorsement with Mierez.
Sears came later. He didn't name her. It was in
a gaggle on Air Force one that that came. It
was only about two or three weeks before the election happened.
So I think that those two things played a factor.
(09:08):
I don't know how much that would have gained for her,
but I do think as a candidate, the excitement and
then you know, like I said before, the Terry mcculloff
moment really was that push over the edge for Younkin
to take the lead there in the final days of
that election in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
And that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Though we saw a debate performance with Abigail Spamber and
when some Seers and I mean when some Seers dominated
Spamber and that debate performance, it's just I think the
question is that early voting and low profensity voter aspect
in that state that was very interesting. I think it
differed a lot from the New Jersey in New York City,
Mary Or elections, and I think that's the one that
we Republicans really need to take a hard look at.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I would say, well, that's perfect because I want to
ask because you're twenty five and you're a woman, and
yet my senses, as you work at the Daily Caller,
you are not a huge zoron person. So we need
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(10:03):
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Speaker 1 (10:04):
Cow girls for Zoront Girls.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Was there really a thing called hot girls for Zoron?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah? The Hawkrols resor On shirts built a Plausio was
wearing one.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
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(11:15):
for Zoron? How did this happen?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I know, we got to get you a shirt obviously
for that, Like Deblasio, you know this. I think it's
part of the greater social media campaign that Zoron was
running with TikTok. He kind of did pull from that
Trump aspect a little bit. They're obviously completely different in
certain ways. But I think it's really interesting with the selection.
What we have to look at was who was voting
for him, specifically in New York City, and it's the
(11:39):
highly educated women, highly educated men, and then kind of
transplants and immigrants really that came into the city in
the last ten years, and so I.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Think we have to kind of break that down. How
did we lose that?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
You know, do they not believe in the capitalist system
to where the now voting for socialist policy? So I
think it is like not a one answer solution here.
I think you have to take a hard look in
how that was successful. And then also the battle of
happening right now between the Democrat Party with the establishment
and I would say more progressive wing Bernie Sanders, the
Grand Planters in Maine right now, Mam Donnie AOC. So
(12:15):
I think it is more of a complex issue and
how do we actually approach those voters as a Republican party,
because I do think there is a sense that Republicans
need to get ready for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Do you have any of your peers who have taken
like a two bedroom in Murray Hill in New York
and split it five ways and are going through that
whole process, Because I do think one of the one
of the challenges of being a young person. So I've
been a young person in DC and a young person
in New York, DC, just you know way better in
terms of affordability, so you're very you're in a much
(12:46):
better situation there. I felt like I was living in
a palace in DC and then paying a lot more
rent for a lot less in New York City. But
there's also I think an argument where people need to
look at this like not everyone can live in the
trendiest neighborhoods or their favorite places in the most expensive
city in America, and Zoron telling them that he's going
(13:08):
to manage this. You know, when Zora talking about building
more affordable housing, a lot the people who are voting
for Zoran, like this yuppie demographic that we're talking about here,
they don't want to live where the affordable housing is
being built. I don't think they understand that.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
No, exactly.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
And I think you have these people that are once
again highly educated, but are getting these degrees that really
aren't applicable that you can get a job. You're probably
going to go get a job at somewhere in Brooklyn
at a coffee shop, right, and you still have you know,
these highly educated, over decorated You have to.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Have a lot of tattoos, male or female at the
Brooklyn coffee shop. I don't know how much you know Brooklyn,
but like little they like to get little tattoos on
their wrists now too, like little tiny ones.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yeah, it's like a doodle all over their body.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, I really going on, but you know that's what
the cool kids are doing that and you Also, I'm
gonna tell you something now, I'm gonna get very get
off my lawn, but I need you to. I need
you to spread the word to to your generation.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
For me.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Here the big genes on the ladies. I've tweeted about this.
This is sad. This is a disaster. Okay, all these
girls are gonna hate every photo that they are taking.
The hot girls for Zoron everybody else. Every photo they
take in jeans that are they look like the mc
(14:23):
hammer pants from the nineties, Like they're giant, They're oversized.
It looks horrible. They might as well be wearing a burka.
I don't know what else to say. I need you
to help spread the word. This is madness.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I know that's not fashion. Unfortunately. You know, I think
another point I want to make too. You know, zama
on Mom Donnie's wife is already being made into a celebrity.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
She's kind of got a certain look to her.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
But that's kind of what all the females in New
York City that are voting for Zamora on Mom Donnie
look like. So there is that translation happening there in
my opinion, Whereas on the right we have people like
Malania Trump, and they're just complete opposites in my opinion.
So when you come to the cultural factor with Zorn,
what's happening in New York. You know, he's this cultural phenomenon.
They're using the TikTok, he's young, you know, immigrant coming in.
(15:07):
So I think, yeah, it's it's they have to be
able to Republicans go out to that demographic and talk
to them specifically with even in these blue cities, and
be like, hey, we have the solution, maybe we can
give it, do you know, help you out rather than
voting for a Democrat at this point, but I think
Republicans have to get gritty in order to get there.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I'm gonna give you something a little crazy but true.
I if you looked at my bookshelf here, I have
a lot of stuff on different totalitarian regimes, Soviet it's
MAOIs China. Uh. And that's just like a fascination of mine.
Dressing women in ways that effectively nullifies or neutralizes their
(15:46):
gender and attractiveness and and female sensuality. This is the truth.
Is a thing the Communists did. They wanted to you know,
you you were supposed to like if you were in
the MAOIs revolution. You're supposed to dress in a very
basically male, like, very plain, boxy way, and I'm I
think that these boxy genes are like a Zoron plot
(16:07):
to make all chicks ugly. I think this is horrible.
So I'm just telling you this is very big.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, no, it is bad.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
But I'm glad you brought up those books because I
think that's another factor. None of my generation, when I
was in college or high school, went out of the
ways to read those books.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
It's kind of you have to find that on your own.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
You know, I'm not nobody's giving you duff Tevski to
read to talk about the Gulags and Socialist Russia USSR
at the time.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
So it is this idea that the education system is
also failing us.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
You know, I have an MBA, I have a bachelor's
degree myself. I was never given any of that stuff
to talk about, so it's I had to go find
that on my own or I was raised by people
that would give it to me.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
So that's where we're also failing.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
It's just education system of these areas like socialist Russia,
Cuba and all these failed states that have had socialism
could be put into place, so that, I mean, we
talk about that all the time in conservative politics, but
that's also the message we have to re look at
the education of these things.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
In my opinion as.
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Speaker 1 (17:40):
Which they don't do versus actually working.
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So what happens here till the end of it? We
got Thanksgiving coming up Christmas. No one's going to pay
attention to what's going on in politics after that or
leading up to that. Really, when does this Congress finish up?
And are they going to do anything worthwhile? Assuming the
government gets turned back on which I guess is going
to happen soon. Let's assume the government is back. What
happens then what are they trying to do before the
(19:05):
end of the year.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
You know, I think their appropriations bills has been something
that they've touched on a lot little bit, but of
course that comes down to whether the government opens back up.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
You know.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I did an exclusive piece to Day with Joani Ernst,
and she put forth a package looking at a bill
that would cut a bunch of COVID relief that's still
being spent uselessly, really, and I think it's seven times
more than what the recision package was that they originally
put through. I think it was about nine billion dollars,
so seven times that. So that's something I think that
would be necessary considering COVID was years ago at this point.
(19:35):
So that's a good step forward in my opinion. And
so with the president after this election, I keep hearing
this buzzword, which is affordability. So I think the concentration
should really be on that. It seems like the administration
understands that from this election that Americans need to have
something that's palpable where they see those costs lowering. When
you go into the grocery store, you're not seeing those
astronomical prices. And I think that I would say that's
(19:59):
probably one of the main policy goals you're going to
see from the administration, pushing on Congress and vice versa.
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Ashley Brassfield of The Daily Caller joins us to talk
about the elections this week. About the shutdown, she covers
a lot of Capitol Hill in DC lives in our
nation's capital. Let's start with this, governments still shut down.
What are the people on the Hill saying? Like? We
got air traffic controllers that are now going to get
(00:42):
cut down to like ten percent of them or something,
aren't going to be showing up because they're not getting paid.
We got chaos at the airports DC. What's happening?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, what I'm hearing just from today.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
I was just at lunch and then with a bunch
of staffers and honestly, they don't even know, they don't
know when it's opening, is what I'm hearing. And so
I don't know what type of I guess energy that expects.
But you know, a bunch of Democrat senators are actually
expecting to meet tonight, so maybe there's a plan there
to come. Of course, we saw the Rose Garden meeting
President Trump. We're talking about filibuster and nuking that. So
(01:13):
that's part of the conversation happening right now, But it
doesn't sound like as of you know, three o'clock to day,
there's a lot of movement currently.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
That's kind of wild because I think the belief on
from a lot of places was that as soon as
the election's over, like this was all a game to
get people upset, do more turnout. For Northern Virginia, a
lot of government bureaucrats and contractors and such live there.
They'll be ticked off, they'll show up and vote. But
(01:40):
now we can all stop, right, But it sounds like
there isn't some imminent go back to the government as
usual strategy, Like where where is this? Where does this
send up?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
You think, well, remember the first marker was these no
Kings protests that were happening back in October with Chuck Schumer.
We were guessing maybe that was going to be the
thing that you know, set it in motion to where
they'd start coming to the table with Democrats to negotiate.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And now we had the elections.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
That's the second marker, right, And now here we have
Thanksgiving coming up, and nothing seemed to be happening right now.
So I wonder a lot of the time how much
the American people I actually believe who's winning the pr
stalemate that's going on right now between Republicans and Democrats.
It seems like Democrats are starting to be able to
hold out. You're starting to wonder, Okay, well, are these
Senate staffers going to be paid or the congressional staffer
(02:27):
is going to be paid, And that's going to be
the thing that really, you know, twists their arm to
open the government here. But I mean, I've always thought
in my mind, when it starts affecting the American people,
say Thanksgiving, travel, when you're missing flights, when you're not
able to you know, do things and widespread That's my
thought is when it starts affecting the American people, which
I still think right now. Honestly, a lot of American people,
I think they're no, that's starting to have an effect
(02:50):
that they do know there is a shutdown occurring a
little bit, but it's now just starting when it comes
to what they believe is happening.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Speaking of DC, you know, I was down there. Gosh,
I can't remember. I got back from Taiwan and I
went right to DC. And it was Depentagon and it was,
but I just remember it in that order because the
streets were the shutdown was going on, and it had
just started, and the streets were nice and clear, and
(03:17):
I could get anywhere in DC in five minutes. And
it also did feel safer to me. And I don't
know if that's just because Trump is saying it and
I believe Big Papa Trump or I don't know, but
how is that going, Like the safety component of DC
with that whole National Guard and all the Trump stuff,
has that borne fruit?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I do think so. I think crime has definitely gone down.
I mean the presence. I live in Navy Yard in DC,
and that's been one of the higher youth crime rate
areas in DC.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Specifically, I always.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
See National Guard when I'm getting off the subway in
the metro system there, and as a girl that's twenty
five years old walking around single, you know, I feel
safe that the National Guard's there.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Their presence is definitely a deterrence.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I would say on Halloween you might have seen videos
go viral there was kind of a brawl taking place
in Navy Yard, but guess what National Guard was there
to handle it? Police presence is very heavy there. So
I think it shows that there is this is a
reoccurring theme and they can't prosecute much of these juveniles still.
You know, we have Janine Piro in charge, but there's
not this essence that they can still go and you know,
(04:20):
it has to be a violent crime in order for
them to be prosecuted in any way, or you know,
there's no parents involved, So what's the consequence here for
them doing this?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So there is a there.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Is It's okay, have you met Judge Janin yet?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I have not, but I'd love to.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I was going to say, you have you interviewed her?
She's she's great. She's a sassy lady. Let me tell
you yeah, yeah, yeah, she's she's got some spunk. For sure,
you would not you would not want to be a
criminal on the wrong side of prosecutor Judge Janine. I
can tell you that.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah. Well, I think she's also is she's shown frustration.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I can tell this in interviews of not being able
to prosecut all these people. I mean, you saw, you know,
the Doje guy big Balls, has all these you know,
youth go and attack him and there's hardly any prosecutions.
They're getting let off still, so there is still that
aspect that's being battled back against. But like the National
Guard things, it has been a huge deterrence in my opinion,
especially where I live, and this is a it's a
(05:14):
major Republican area, and you still have this issue in
the city that a lot of Republicans live in the
Navy Yard.
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want to. And the Virginia race was I think the
one that we weren't expecting that Republicans were at least
I wasn't expecting that Republicans were going to win it,
but I did think it would be closer, and particularly
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the AG side be closer. What is your what's kind
of your after action report on what went wrong for
the GOP ticket in Virginia.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
So, I think when it comes down to the arguments
being made right now, they talk a lot about the
cultural issues. It was too much a shift on the
cultural issues with you know, transgenderism being playing that major factor.
We saw this in twenty twenty one, the debate moment
with Terry mccauliffe against Glenn Younkin. You got to remember it.
During that time period, we were coming out of COVID.
A lot of parents were angry at these school board meetings.
So I think just setting that up alone kind of
(07:18):
shows the difference culturally what was going on in the moment.
I think there was a lot of focus still there,
and I think people do care about it. But also
I think this government shut down probably played a factor.
There was multiple things, but I think you're right about
the ag race. I think we were all very shocked
about that. I covered it extensively, and I was I
guess I had concern about how many.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Voters were actually aware of what was going on.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
And there was a scene an exit poll that I
found very fascinating. It was a fifty five percent of
women voted in favor of Jay Jones in Virginia. And so,
you know, you put a lot of thought into that
after the reckless driving charge, a special prosecutor being put
on him, as well as the violent text, and that
came right after Charlie Kirk's assassination, So I questioned how
(08:00):
much the message actually got out you have the factor
that a lot of people don't show up for midterms,
low provinsity voters showing up within the state, as well
as early voting and that taking place. Kind of it
was an October surprise came in October first and October third,
those two kind of reports dropped and there were still
early voting already occurring. So I think it is a broad,
complex picture of what actually happened there.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I do think it was a GOP.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Failure due to the fact that we took back the
state in twenty twenty one, and we could have fought
harder for it in this election specifically.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Was there a sense that the Winsome Sears campaign was
underperforming what the GOP expectations were for Virginia or was
it essentially what was thought to be possible, Like, how
would you gauge how that one ended up.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I'll be completely honest. I think the excitement behind the
candidate was lacking. I think there was a push on
the from the presidential side to give an endorsement with Mierez.
Sears came later. He didn't name her. It was in
a gaggle on Air Force one that that came. It
was only about two or three weeks before the election happened.
So I think that those two things played a factor.
(09:08):
I don't know how much that would have gained for her,
but I do think as a candidate, the excitement and
then you know, like I said before, the Terry mcculloff
moment really was that push over the edge for Younkin
to take the lead there in the final days of
that election in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
And that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Though we saw a debate performance with Abigail Spamber and
when some Seers and I mean when some Seers dominated
Spamber and that debate performance, it's just I think the
question is that early voting and low profensity voter aspect
in that state that was very interesting. I think it
differed a lot from the New Jersey in New York City,
Mary Or elections, and I think that's the one that
we Republicans really need to take a hard look at.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I would say, well, that's perfect because I want to
ask because you're twenty five and you're a woman, and
yet my senses, as you work at the Daily Caller,
you are not a huge zoron person. So we need
I'm going to need you. I'm going to need you
to speak for your demo in a moment here and
tell me about the Ladies for Zoron phenomenon to the
(10:03):
degree you can. We'll get there here.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Cow girls for Zoront Girls.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Was there really a thing called hot girls for Zoron?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah? The Hawkrols resor On shirts built a Plausio was
wearing one.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
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for Zoron? How did this happen?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I know, we got to get you a shirt obviously
for that, Like Deblasio, you know this. I think it's
part of the greater social media campaign that Zoron was
running with TikTok. He kind of did pull from that
Trump aspect a little bit. They're obviously completely different in
certain ways. But I think it's really interesting with the selection.
What we have to look at was who was voting
for him, specifically in New York City, and it's the
(11:39):
highly educated women, highly educated men, and then kind of
transplants and immigrants really that came into the city in
the last ten years, and so I.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Think we have to kind of break that down. How
did we lose that?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
You know, do they not believe in the capitalist system
to where the now voting for socialist policy? So I
think it is like not a one answer solution here.
I think you have to take a hard look in
how that was successful. And then also the battle of
happening right now between the Democrat Party with the establishment
and I would say more progressive wing Bernie Sanders, the
Grand Planters in Maine right now, Mam Donnie AOC. So
(12:15):
I think it is more of a complex issue and
how do we actually approach those voters as a Republican party,
because I do think there is a sense that Republicans
need to get ready for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Do you have any of your peers who have taken
like a two bedroom in Murray Hill in New York
and split it five ways and are going through that
whole process, Because I do think one of the one
of the challenges of being a young person. So I've
been a young person in DC and a young person
in New York, DC, just you know way better in
terms of affordability, so you're very you're in a much
(12:46):
better situation there. I felt like I was living in
a palace in DC and then paying a lot more
rent for a lot less in New York City. But
there's also I think an argument where people need to
look at this like not everyone can live in the
trendiest neighborhoods or their favorite places in the most expensive
city in America, and Zoron telling them that he's going
(13:08):
to manage this. You know, when Zora talking about building
more affordable housing, a lot the people who are voting
for Zoran, like this yuppie demographic that we're talking about here,
they don't want to live where the affordable housing is
being built. I don't think they understand that.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
No, exactly.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
And I think you have these people that are once
again highly educated, but are getting these degrees that really
aren't applicable that you can get a job. You're probably
going to go get a job at somewhere in Brooklyn
at a coffee shop, right, and you still have you know,
these highly educated, over decorated You have to.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Have a lot of tattoos, male or female at the
Brooklyn coffee shop. I don't know how much you know Brooklyn,
but like little they like to get little tattoos on
their wrists now too, like little tiny ones.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yeah, it's like a doodle all over their body.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, I really going on, but you know that's what
the cool kids are doing that and you Also, I'm
gonna tell you something now, I'm gonna get very get
off my lawn, but I need you to. I need
you to spread the word to to your generation.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
For me.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Here the big genes on the ladies. I've tweeted about this.
This is sad. This is a disaster. Okay, all these
girls are gonna hate every photo that they are taking.
The hot girls for Zoron everybody else. Every photo they
take in jeans that are they look like the mc
(14:23):
hammer pants from the nineties, Like they're giant, They're oversized.
It looks horrible. They might as well be wearing a burka.
I don't know what else to say. I need you
to help spread the word. This is madness.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I know that's not fashion. Unfortunately. You know, I think
another point I want to make too. You know, zama
on Mom Donnie's wife is already being made into a celebrity.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
She's kind of got a certain look to her.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
But that's kind of what all the females in New
York City that are voting for Zamora on Mom Donnie
look like. So there is that translation happening there in
my opinion, Whereas on the right we have people like
Malania Trump, and they're just complete opposites in my opinion.
So when you come to the cultural factor with Zorn,
what's happening in New York. You know, he's this cultural phenomenon.
They're using the TikTok, he's young, you know, immigrant coming in.
(15:07):
So I think, yeah, it's it's they have to be
able to Republicans go out to that demographic and talk
to them specifically with even in these blue cities, and
be like, hey, we have the solution, maybe we can
give it, do you know, help you out rather than
voting for a Democrat at this point, but I think
Republicans have to get gritty in order to get there.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I'm gonna give you something a little crazy but true.
I if you looked at my bookshelf here, I have
a lot of stuff on different totalitarian regimes, Soviet it's
MAOIs China. Uh. And that's just like a fascination of mine.
Dressing women in ways that effectively nullifies or neutralizes their
(15:46):
gender and attractiveness and and female sensuality. This is the truth.
Is a thing the Communists did. They wanted to you know,
you you were supposed to like if you were in
the MAOIs revolution. You're supposed to dress in a very
basically male, like, very plain, boxy way, and I'm I
think that these boxy genes are like a Zoron plot
(16:07):
to make all chicks ugly. I think this is horrible.
So I'm just telling you this is very big.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, no, it is bad.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
But I'm glad you brought up those books because I
think that's another factor. None of my generation, when I
was in college or high school, went out of the
ways to read those books.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
It's kind of you have to find that on your own.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
You know, I'm not nobody's giving you duff Tevski to
read to talk about the Gulags and Socialist Russia USSR
at the time.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
So it is this idea that the education system is
also failing us.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
You know, I have an MBA, I have a bachelor's
degree myself. I was never given any of that stuff
to talk about, so it's I had to go find
that on my own or I was raised by people
that would give it to me.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
So that's where we're also failing.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
It's just education system of these areas like socialist Russia,
Cuba and all these failed states that have had socialism
could be put into place, so that, I mean, we
talk about that all the time in conservative politics, but
that's also the message we have to re look at
the education of these things.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
In my opinion as.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Well, Yeah, I think very few people know, very very
few people know that the greatest mass starvation slash mass
murder event of the twentieth century, forty to sixty million people,
was completely self imposed in China nineteen fifty eight nineteen
sixty two. I think that that's something that people should know,
(17:20):
especially as we're like, hey, China's the problems, Like, oh,
China's got big problems if you look at the CCP
and its history. But that's a whole nother podcast that
we'll have to do sometime. I want to ask you
about where things are going toward the end of the year,
end of the congressional, end of the congressional well, end
of this congress whatever they call it, when we're all
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Speaker 1 (17:40):
Which they don't do versus actually working.
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So what happens here till the end of it? We
got Thanksgiving coming up Christmas. No one's going to pay
attention to what's going on in politics after that or
leading up to that. Really, when does this Congress finish up?
And are they going to do anything worthwhile? Assuming the
government gets turned back on which I guess is going
to happen soon. Let's assume the government is back. What
happens then what are they trying to do before the
(19:05):
end of the year.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
You know, I think their appropriations bills has been something
that they've touched on a lot little bit, but of
course that comes down to whether the government opens back up.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
You know.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I did an exclusive piece to Day with Joani Ernst,
and she put forth a package looking at a bill
that would cut a bunch of COVID relief that's still
being spent uselessly, really, and I think it's seven times
more than what the recision package was that they originally
put through. I think it was about nine billion dollars,
so seven times that. So that's something I think that
would be necessary considering COVID was years ago at this point.
(19:35):
So that's a good step forward in my opinion. And
so with the president after this election, I keep hearing
this buzzword, which is affordability. So I think the concentration
should really be on that. It seems like the administration
understands that from this election that Americans need to have
something that's palpable where they see those costs lowering. When
you go into the grocery store, you're not seeing those
astronomical prices. And I think that I would say that's
(19:59):
probably one of the main policy goals you're going to
see from the administration, pushing on Congress and vice versa.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
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