Bacon Bids Bye-Bye

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordez.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
We will hear from Congressman Don Bacon as he's making
an announcement this morning about his political future. Spoiler alert.
He already told the Omaha World Harold yesterday he's not
seeking reelection, so that's not I unless he's changed his mind,
we're not going to have any news broken later this morning.

(00:23):
I am curious to hear his reasoning. I suspect that
more than anything else, the guy has wiped out. He's
battling every two years for reelection. He's battling the Republicans
in the primary. He's trying to then get the Republicans

(00:47):
who didn't like him and didn't want to vote for
him in the primary to support him in the general election.
The Democrats were told, can't stand this guy, but then
he goes on to win the Blue dot. Kamala Harris
got picked up Nebraska's second district and a lot of people,

(01:07):
a lot of people went out and voted for Kamala
Harris for President of the United States and my Congressman
Don Bacon Nebraska's second district. It makes no sense in
what we're told is a very hyper partisan political divide
in this country. How are there still some people who

(01:28):
are allowed to want to go vote for either the
Democrat on top of the ticket and then the Republican
in the congressional seat, or vice versa or whatever. I
thought we were all supposed to retreat to our camps
and then just sit here and hate each other all
the time. There are some people who've decided that experience

(01:48):
or maybe personality or whatever actually makes some bearing as
to whom they vote for. So I think number one,
he's gotta be just wiped out. It seems like every
single day everyone hates Don Bacon as he because all

(02:10):
I hear from Republicans is, Aye, he's a RHIGHTO. He's
a Republican and name only that guy. All he wants
to do is grand stand and fight Trump. We're gonna
get him out of there. And the Democrats are like
Don Bacon and wants to take food out of the
mouths of hungry children. And across Nebraska Second District, we're
tired of Don Bacon. Don Pacon hates old people, Don

(02:31):
Bacon hates puppies, and then somehow he wins. So I
think one, he's tired. Two I don't think he's going
to admit this in an hour from now when we
hear the congressman's announcement. But I don't think he wants

(02:52):
to lose. He doesn't want to go out a loser.
There's no guarantee that he loses, but I'm not surprised.
I would not be surprised to learn that Congressman Don
Bacon thinks that President Trump will lose in the midterm elections.
But Trump is not yet. He is that Trump is

(03:13):
always on the ballot and will be for decades to come.
In a midterm election, usually the party in power ends
up losing a bunch of seats and spots. Now, that
didn't happen in twenty eighteen. Don Bacon got elected. Then

(03:35):
I reelected at that point, so it didn't happen then.
But I think Congressman Bacon thinks, yeah, people can't stand
all this Trump stuff. They're just tired of. Every single
day is just one crisis after another. We've got Iran,
We've got Israel, We've got tariffs, we've got the Big

(03:57):
Beautiful Bill, and I think the American people are just
tired of all of it, and it's going to result
in me losing during the midterm election of twenty twenty six.
I'm not going on a loser. Someone else can do this.
First of all, it's not a given that what we're
seeing right now, whether it's the tariffs, whether it's what's

(04:20):
going on in the Middle East, whether it's immigration action
and all the rest of it, is not a given
that everything the media screams about every single day is
something that the American people are internalizing, are worried about.
I think that a lot of people are seeing through it.
And here's the track record. I'm not saying that everything

(04:43):
that President Trump or the Republicans, I'm not saying anything
and everything that they do is perfect. But my goodness,
how many times have we seen the timeline of something happens.
President Trump is either the middle of it or he
inserts himself into the middle of it. The media, in

(05:04):
the political left distinction without a difference, in some instances,
starts screaming, oh, this is it. This is when President
Trump gets us into World War three, and then it
doesn't happen. Well, this is it. The economy is going
to tank right now. Look at this. President Trump is
fighting with our friends in Canada and then he's trying

(05:28):
to provoke China. This is not going to end well
for the president. I'll tell you what. The market's going
to tank. Market's higher and it's ever been. Well, all
these jobs are going to go away, you know. The
president he starts deporting hard working immigrants and terrorizing immigrant
families in this country than ever say illegal immigrant. He

(05:50):
starts terrorizing immigrant communities and families, and no one's going
to come to work, and no one's going to be
able to work in this country. Places who have been
subject to immigration rates, including here in Omaha, have been
overwhelmed with people wanting to work there legally. I mean,
every time anything happens, you've got this drum beat of

(06:14):
voices saying, well, that's it, it's all over. And I
think Congressman Bacon certainly hears about it a lot, because
he's one of these rare creatures who will tell you
what he thinks. And he's been on this program a

(06:35):
billion times. This last time he was on was the
billionth time he was on. I'm not a great counter,
but I think it was a billion times. And the
times that he has supported President Trump, he has said so.
The times that he has had concerns, he has said so.
And he's constantly hit with this barrage of you're done

(06:57):
for we don't like you, I used to vote for you,
I'll never vote for you again. And then he sees that,
whether it's the media or history, he sees, yeah, we
stand the prospect of losing seats in Congress next year,

(07:18):
and I don't want to be one of those seats.
Who's going to beat him, by the way, if he
runs for reelection, and he's not going to. But should
he run for reelection, who's going to beat him? State
Senator John Cavanaugh? A pardon me if I seem underwhelmed

(07:38):
by State Senator John Cavanaugh. And there's a few others
who have already rushed to run against him as a Democrat.
Who's going to beat him in the Republican primary? And
there's a bigger question on that. I think that there
are some fine candidates who could beat him in a
Republican primary because they'll definitely get that trumpy Maga vote.

(08:00):
But then who beats Don Bacon in a Republican primary
and rolls Maga into a second district Nebraska win in
a midterm or even in a presidential year. I don't
see that happening here. There's a reason why we have
a stupid blue dot, which we've had that conversation over

(08:21):
and over again. But I don't say stupid blue dot
because of the people who tend to vote blue. I
say because Nebraska is fighting a losing battle saying, well,
everyone should do their electoral college votes this way, and
we're right, but we don't get to decide how the
game is played. As it turns out, people in New York, California,

(08:42):
and Texas, in Illinois, no one gives a rip what
Nebraska thinks we should do with our electoral college votes.
We're doing things the right way, but no one else
is playing that game. So we either stand over here
and go me, or we play the game that they're playing.
We've chosen to go me, and therefore we get this

(09:04):
blue dot of liberal leaning voters who I think probably
would not vote for a rabid MAGA Trump supporter who
emerges from a Republican primary. That's if Don Bacon runs
for reelection, and he's not. But if he did and
lost in the primary, I don't know that that candidate

(09:27):
would be able to gin up that support in this district,
which then brings us to of these Republicans who might
win or might run for Nebraska's second District congressional seat.
Can any of them emerge victorious, whether it's in this

(09:48):
upcoming midterm election in twenty twenty six or if they
just kind of dip their toe in. We get a
Democrat in the seat for two years, and then we
get a a moderate Republican in the seat. Remember that's
how we got Don Bacon. I'm not a moderate Republican. Yeah,
I know. Anyone who has ever once thought about voting

(10:10):
with the Democrat becomes a moderate Republican based on voting record,
because everyone's retreated into their political camps and they just
lob volleys at the other one. But Don Bacon, he's
a staunch conservative, but he becomes a more moderate Republican
because he has the nerve to occasionally call out President Trump,

(10:34):
and for that he's won reelection in Nebraska's second district.
Are there any of the people seemingly lining up to
want to be a member of Congress as a Republican
in this district who could do that? Brett Lenstrom was
on here a couple of hours ago with Gary Sattlemeyer

(10:54):
and Jim Rose. Brett Leinstrom, the former Nebraska state senator
out of Omaha has a hiss and siding with Democrats.
You might remember the picture in the Omaha World Herald
showing Ernie Chambers backslapping with Brett Linstrom after they shot
down the death penalty in Nebraska, until the people in

(11:14):
Nebraska said, that's as nine, we want a death penalty
in Nebraska, and they fired that right back at them,
which led to no one being executed in the state
because we can't agree on how to carry out a
death penalty. So whether we have one or don't, we don't.
But that vote and that palad around with Ernie Chambers
will be something that a lot of very trumpy Maga

(11:37):
Republicans will remind people of, is this really the candidate
you want to represent your interest in Nebraska's second district?
Picture of Brett Linstrom hanging out with Ernie Chambers. So
I think that would be a problem in the primary,
but I think that he stands a great chance of
winning in the general election. I'm not going to spend

(11:59):
every minute of this show today or in the next
year and a half trying to break down who's going
to do what in Nebraska's second district. But as this
is the News of the morning. Happy to start off
on that and bring to you live just after ten
o'clock this morning Congressman Don Bacon's comments on his political

(12:19):
future and really why he's not running for reelection. So
that's coming up just after ten o'clock. I want to
continue to talk a little bit of political stuff here
in just a moment because I used to comment a
few times in that opening diatribe that says we all

(12:40):
have to retreat to our political camps all the time
on every single thing. And there was one story that
came out over the weekend that bears that out that
just really really makes me sad and a little man.
We'll get to it next.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Scott Voice News Radio eleven ten.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
KFAB Dan emails says, maybe Don Bacon will come out
this morning and say now that he doesn't have to
try and get re elected, he's ditching the TDS Trump
Derangement syndrome and he's now going full forward with Trump
and his policies. I doubt it, but I appreciate that.

(13:21):
Email Dan Scott at KFAB dot com. We will hear
from Congressman Bacon just after ten o'clock this morning and
see what is reasoning what he says, his reasoning is
why he's not running for reelection and why he's making
that announcement. Now, there's still a billion years before the
Republican primary, but you've got to go and get all

(13:44):
of the support. If there are people right now who
are writing checks to Don Bacon's reelection campaign, they're not
going to give you whether you are previous primary challenger
Dan Fry. Brett Linstrom, the former state senator, was on
with Gary and Jim, saying that he's really taking a
good look at it. Bring her Herding. The Omaha City

(14:05):
councilman's name has come up there. What about Jean Stothard,
She didn't have much to do right now. No offense Congressman,
that doesn't make sense. Congresswoman congress Person Jean Stothard not likely,
but I bet she's thinking about it. So we'll see

(14:29):
what ends up happening. I understand the timing of it.
It's amazing that Congressman Bacon has survived so much in
while swimming around in this blue dot. Since everyone's got
to take every single thing they do and take a
look at it through the political prism that we've created

(14:51):
for ourselves. And I don't know that that does anyone
a whole heck of a lot of good. This is
the story I saw over the weekend that may be
sad and mad. It starts off saying anxiety, grief, anger, fear, helplessness. Well,

(15:13):
that's a heck of a way to start a news story.
It says that's the emotional toll of climate change, especially
for young people. And I immediately got all mad. And
the rest of the story is absolutely asinine. But I
got so mad, and what have we done to these kids?

(15:34):
We've got young people who are right now feeling the
crushing weight of anxiety, grief, fear, and helplessness because it's
hot during the summer. What the hell have we done
to these kids to make them think the weight of
the world is on their shoulders. It ain't that they're

(15:56):
gonna boil in a lake of fire.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
It ain't what climate.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
It ain't climate change.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
I think a lot of kids feel that way, but
they need something to blame it on.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Now, that could very well be the case, but they
talk to these kids specifically about climate change. Now to
that point, Lucy, I think it might You might be
right on in that you could have asked them about anything,
and they would have assigned those traits to that issue. Yeah,
that's probably it. But the things that they say in

(16:32):
the story about what we need to do to to
give up our green grass and help the lightning bugs,
for example, good luck trying to get this done. I'll
tell you about it after a Fox News update.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
Next Scott Voice News Radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Congressman Don Bacon providing his announcement that we will carry
live here in just about twenty five minutes or so,
just after ten o'clock this morning, as to why he's
not seeking re election in Nebraska's a second congressional district.
He's had an excellent run, and I think that he
probably more than anything else, just doesn't want to get

(17:15):
beat in the midterm election next year. He sees that
riding on the wall. He still said I could win,
but he first he has to spend the next eighteen
months or so battling the Republicans who don't like him
and the Democrats that don't like him. And this is
all we hear every year. I don't like him, I'll

(17:36):
never vote for him. And then it comes to election night,
and Don Bacon's been re elected in Nebraska's second congressional district.
How all I've ever heard from you is that I
can't stand that guy. I get the dispatch from the Democrats,
I get these comments from conservative leaning Republicans, and everyone's like,

(17:56):
this guy's as good as gone. He get and then
he wins. Well, we'll hear what he has to say.
Just after ten, here's some of what you're saying, Scott
at kfab dot com in the Zonker's custom was inbox,
Nanette says, what about Tony Vargas. Didn't he almost beat

(18:17):
Bacon the last time. Yes, and that's true that he
almost did. But honestly, Nnette, if you're a Democrat and
you're in a district that went solid blue Kamala Harris
like Trump, it wasn't even close in Nebraska's second congressional district,

(18:39):
and voters came out voted for Kamala Harris and not you,
as the Democrat running for Congress, that's a problem. So
I don't think that Tony Vargas is probably going to
emerge as a candidate again. I I'm not terribly impressed.

(18:59):
I'd have to learn more about a couple of these
candidates among the Democrats looking to be our next congressman.
You don't have someone who immediately has the name recognition
and political viability of Brad Ashford. Everyone loved Brad Ashford
and that's why he ended up being the placeholder there

(19:22):
for a couple of years between the former Republican Lee
Terry and then Don Bacon. So is there a placeholder?
Is it State Senator Cavanaugh of the John variety? Not
michaeleb But I don't know. We'll see. We get a
long time from now until then. Regarding climate change, the

(19:46):
story here says anxiety, grief, anger, fear, helplessness. That's the
emotional toll of climate change for young people. Many worry
what the future holds, and a daily grind of climate
anxiety and distress can lead to sleeplessness and inability to focus,

(20:08):
and worse, it could be full depression. Lucy, say what
you said again, because I like what you said.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
It's all of those things can absolutely be true, But
I don't think it's climate change. You've got an entire
generation of kids that have no reason to hope. The
generation before them have taken that all away. There's no
reason hope I do. I can see where they have hope,
But they can't.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
Aren't we the generation before them?

Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yeah, but I didn't raise kids. Oh it's not my fault, all.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Right, So Lucy's claiming that she's.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
Got now here's the part of the show where Lucy
says she's glad she doesn't have kids.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
Collectively, there are a lot of great parents out there,
and there are a lot of great kids with hope.
M hmm, it's very collectively.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
I think that you're right in that. As far as
like the leaplessness and the hopelessness and all the rest
of this stuff, all we've ever done is tell these kids, Oh,
the politics. Everyone hates each other, and the police are
racist and America's racist and white people are racist, and
the climate's going to boil us all in a lake
of fire. And what you really need to do is

(21:18):
play first person shooter video games all night and drink
nothing but energy drinks and never get enough good sleep.
And hey, if you don't do very well in school,
it's fine, We're going to pass you along anyway. It's
not really a big deal and will make you completely unhireable,
and then no one wants to hire you. And somehow
it's society's fault and we can blame all this on
but climate change. So that's an excellent point, Lucy. But

(21:42):
you know that there are certainly those who are climate
change warriors out there, and as I said a moment
ago here, since it's mostly young people who have got this,
and by the way, before I go into this latest screet,
there's nothing wrong with wanting to be a good steward

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of our environment. You want to go out and pick
up trash on the roadside and you're not on a
prison crew, that's awesome. You want to make sure that
your tires are at the proper inflation so that you're
maximizing your gas mileage, that's fine, that's great. You want

(22:24):
to turn the lights off in a room when you
leave it, Well, you're not one of my kids, you know,
but I guess other people do this kind of thing.
You want to be a good steward of the environment
and recycle and all around, that's fantastic. There's nothing wrong
with bean a conservationalist when it comes to our environment, right,

(22:49):
But there are some climate change social justice warriors out there,
And as I said a moment ago, here's probably when
your relationship with when you're with your granddaughter. This is
when it comes to an end. You know, your your
granddaughter wrapped around her finger, or she's wrapped around here.

(23:11):
I don't know, someone's wrapped around each other's finger and
like she can do no wrong. And then she comes
to you and says, Grandpa, yes, sweetie, pumpkin, you need
to stop watering and mowing your lawn so much, because
that which we need to provide, this green manicured lawn

(23:33):
of yours. It's too much watering. It's it's it's it's
bad for the environment to water so much. We have.
We need to limit our water usage. You also need
to take shorter showers, but or fewer showers, and you
need to not water your lawn so much. And plus
your lawnmower, that one you've had there for decades, it's

(23:57):
really bad for the environment. Wouldn't it be better to
let some natural grasses grow, not worry if it's green,
but just some nice brownish yellowish spotty long grass in
your yard. Wouldn't that be better for the environment. Because
this is what young climate change warriors have been tasked with,

(24:19):
going out there with their marching orders to try and
get people to stop doing stop having green grass. You
need to increase biodiversity by not mowing your lawn. So
what if you have some pests and some insects and
so forth. There it's their environment too, which brings us

(24:40):
to light pollution. We need to decrease pesticide use to
save frogs, insects and bird and birds, and we need
to cut down on light pollution. Turn down the nighttime
lighting to help birds. And light ning bugs are the

(25:02):
lightning bugs? Is there a problem with lightning bugs?

Speaker 3 (25:09):
Uh? Their numbers are dwindling.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
How do you know this?

Speaker 3 (25:14):
I saw a headline.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
Did you? And I didn't read it? And what happens
if some I mean when you say the numbers are dwindling,
are they dwindling here in Omaha because they've all moved
out into rural country where lightning bugs flourish.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
Did you hear the part where I said I didn't
read the article or did it? Did you miss that?
Or I don't know. I don't know why they're dwindling,
but I would assume chemicals and all the crap that
we put in the air that's killing us. Two.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
Okay, well you can to assume that I don't know
that any of that's true.

Speaker 3 (25:56):
But it's I would imagine it takes a lot to
lie up that tail end.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, this says that we need to turn down the
nighttime lighting to help out lightning bugs. You know what
killed a lot of lightning bugs when I was a kid,
Me and my friends, we would grab those We would
collect those things and either suffocate them in jars until
we learned we had to cut holes, or we would
just smash them and put their their light light lit

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up bug rear ends like all over our arms and
stuff like, look, I'm glowing.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
That's gross. Yeah, come to bug blood.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Come to think of it, I don't remember a lot
of girls doing that, but we guys, we kids, we
boys did it. You just catch lightning bugs and smash
them like the back of your hands. And I'm glowing.
I'm neon lightning bug. Man.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
Well, I wonder if we're actually seeing the numbers dwindle
or if we have as you started to talk about,
if we have too much light all around us, even
in the evening. And I saw some lightning bugs just
Friday night in my backyard and it's a couple, but yeah,
they're out there.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
That's several lightning bugs in my backyard.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
Maybe there's hundreds, we just don't see them because it's
too light out.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
I don't think there's a problem with the lightning bugs. Also,
it says we need to tell older people to stop
eating meat. And so let's see go to grandpa and say, Grandpa,
your lawn is too green and too short. Why don't
you stop mowing and watering so much and all the

(27:36):
chemicals you use on your lawn to make it so
weed free. That's really bad for the environment. Also, I
can't believe that you're grilling all that meat for our
family get together. We should have not as much, if any,
meat for our family gatherings. And that's about the time
that your relationship with your climate change obsessed teenage grandkids

(27:57):
about comes to an end, because we've talked them that
if we don't see older generations doing this, that we're
all going to die. Oh hey, guess what we are,
Thank you, Jony Ernst. The story also suggests that what
we need to do with what young people should do

(28:18):
is deliver news in a positivity sandwich. A positivity sandwich
is where you begin with a good piece of news
followed by something that's a little harder to chew on
but then end with a more positive, feel good story.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
So we're just going to take this everybody gets an
award thing that got us here in the first place.
We're just going to keep going with that.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
Yeah, the positivity sandwich, good piece of news. Hey, good news.
If you let your grass grow a lot longer and
basically die out, you're not going to have to mow
as much. Now. The bad side of that is you're
probably going to feel like your lawn looks like garbage

(29:05):
because it does, and that might be a little difficult
for you. But hey, on the bright side, you'll save
a bunch of money on two cycle oil and you
won't have to be out there sweating all summer mowing
the lawn. Isn't that great? Like you're my grandson, shouldn't
you be mowing my lawn?

Speaker 1 (29:22):
Scott bhees where you're going.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Congressman Don Bacon coming up here with an announcement on
his political future in about six minutes or so. We'll
bring that to you live here on Nebraska's news, weather
and traffic station news Radio eleven ten KFAB. This at
a time when senators are fighting with each other over
President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill I think most of the

(29:47):
Republicans in there realize we need to extend the tax
cuts in there, otherwise it's this major tax hike on Americans.
But then you also hear that, well, the Congressional Budget
Office projects that maybe kind of sorted depending on what
happens here with the rest of the economy and whether

(30:07):
anyone else just sits on their thumbs for the next
few years, it's possible that these Trump tax cuts could
send the US deficit soaring by three point three trillion
dollars over the next ten years. Well, there's a number
of things that are possible in the next ten years
if no one does anything else and the tax cuts

(30:30):
don't continue to fuel the economy. The number of people
who've already decided, they see into the future and they
know exactly what's going to happen if whether or not
we do this. If you don't pass this, there's going
to be a recession. If you do pass it, we're
going to be weighted down by debt, and everyone's going

(30:52):
to lose their Medicaid. I don't understand that we're not
cutting any Medicaid. We're dropping some people who shouldn't be
on Medicaid from Medicaid, which I would think would offer
more Medicaid dollars for those who should be on medicaid
in addition to incentivizing people to hire workers in this country.

(31:13):
What is the problem here? Congressman Don Bacon has apparently
decided he's done. Will hear his reasoning next? Don News
Radio eleven to ten kfab just heard a very long
news conference there. The announcement from Nebraska second District Congressman
Don Bacon. He's not quitting like and well, we'll see

(31:35):
you guys later. He's his term ends in January of
twenty twenty seven. He's not resigning his position and stepping down.
What he announced this morning is he's not seeking reelection.
And look, he's been in there for almost it'll be

(31:56):
about a decade when he's done. And he's been battling
Democrats the entire time. He's been battling Republicans the entire time.
He's leaving when and I've mentioned this on the radio before,
but the Nebraska Republican Party, the Douglas County Republican Party,
this whole thing here is in disarray. And I'm not

(32:18):
interested in trying to determine, like who's right who's wrong.
I Instead, I look at both sides, and my assessment
is is that neither one of them thinks that they
need the other one. And my assessment is is they're
all wrong. In case you're not familiar with how all
this works, then the Douglas County Republican Party and I
believe the State Republican Party didn't support Don Bacon in

(32:42):
his reelection bid this last time, but he's the incumbent Republican. Yeah,
I know. So here's what happened years ago, years ago,
there were a group of Tea Party type Republicans maybe
at that point you'd find them a line with Ron
Paul for example, and they went they're trying to get

(33:04):
some leadership positions or going to the state convention for
the State Republican Party to try and have a voice,
and they were shut down. Let's call them and I
know this term has a bit of a bad taste
to it for some people, but let's call them establishment
type Republicans said, now, we don't need to pacify or

(33:26):
give leadership positions to some of these upstart Tea Party
Ron Paul types. Well, that developed into MAGA, that developed
into a lot of Trump supporters and when the establishment
type ignored the more maga Tea Party type Republicans, these

(33:47):
guys took it as a personal challenge. They went back
to the state convention. They were able to maneuver themselves
into leadership positions and toss out the more establishment type
rep Republicans. They did it at the state level, they
did it at the local level, and they've decided to
be butting heads with each other ever since. So they

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haven't been supporting reelection bids by Don Bacon Deb Fisher,
for example, And it's gotten to be where it's pretty
interesting to watch. And Don Bacon has said it's nearly
impossible that he was able to win reelection this last time.

(34:31):
He didn't have the support of his own party, and
this district went very blue for Kamala Harris. But so
many people out there voted for Kamala Harris for president
and Don Bacon for Congress, which doesn't say much for
Don Bacon in the eyes of a lot of Republicans,
and it doesn't say much for the prospects of a
more progressive liberal Democrat in the eyes of those who

(34:53):
want to vote that way. So over the next year
or so, what does this Republican primary look like, does
it end up shooting out someone who's a lot more
Trump like. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
But Trump himself did not win this district this last November,

(35:15):
so there's a whole lot of then what well, then
what do we get to mean? I would say that
for someone like maybe it's Brett Lenstrom, who does tend
to seem a bit more like a conservative, who also
isn't completely demonized by the liberals, though he will be
like Don Bacon was, even though they apparently liked him

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enough for being bipartisan in some instances, Can someone like
Brett Lenstrom work his way through a primary and then
end up getting the vote of the general election? Would
he want to talk to Don Bacon first before deciding
whether he wants to get involved in all of this?
Because I think a big part of why Don Bacon

(35:58):
left is he just get tired of getting hammered from
both the right and the left all the time. You've
got your conservative base a lot of them mad at you.
All the Democrats seem to be mad at you. The
President of the United States from your own party, mad
at you, the leadership in your own party, in your
home state and district mad at you. So how long

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do you want to deal with all that before you
say all right, you think someone else can do it better? Seeya,
you know, I don't. I don't know one ends up
happening with this district. I know that there are a
lot of people who win. The City of Omaha had
a Democrat mayor when this spring said well that's it.

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Omaha will never see another Republican mayor. The area is
too blue. I don't believe that, but I understand the
sentiment here when you look at you know how some
of these votes have gone. Did don Bacon see that
writing on the wall and say I can either leave

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now with some dignity and a winning record, or I
can get drummed out by Chuck Schumer. Light in the
midterm elections of twenty twenty six.

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