For three months Democrats talked about gas, groceries, and rent. Six days after winning, the likely next Speaker is a hard yes on impeaching the Defense Secretary, and a left-wing group has already written Democrats a list of American companies to investigate. Jenny Beth Martin sits down with Rod Martin and Stacy Washington to work through why Republicans lost, why voter ID passed by wide margins in the same states that elected Democrats who fought it, what Republicans can still do with 55 days of House and Senate control, and how the left is already lining up its candidate for 2028.
Guests: Rod Martin, founder and chief executive of Martin Capital and author of The Rod Martin Report, and Stacy Washington, host of Stacy on the Right.
Today's topics:
• Why we lost: Ted Cruz says it was not turnout. Voters who backed Republicans in 2024 came back angry over the cost of living and voted the other way.
• Voter ID won where Democrats won: Nevada passed it with 62 percent while electing Aaron Ford, who opposed it. Ohio passed it with over 65 percent, North Carolina with nearly 60 percent.
• Impeachment week: Thomas Massie's resolution against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth forces a House vote, and Hakeem Jeffries is a hard yes.
• The corporate target list: Politico published a left-wing group's confidential list of companies for a Democratic majority to investigate, including Apple, Tesla, and Trump Media.
• 55 days left: Senator Rick Scott says Republicans have two months to pass the SAVE America Act and every candidate for a leadership job must commit to it.
• Iran: Task Force Iron Gate is operating in Iran, President Trump says new strikes are highly unlikely if Tehran makes a deal, and Cruz and Levin say the conflict and the gas prices that came with it cost Republicans.
• Enforcement "too tough": Stephen Miller takes over as White House chief of staff after Susie Wiles resigned, the same week President Trump told 60 Minutes immigration enforcement "might be too tough."
• The numbers voters did not have: October added 165,000 jobs, about 100,000 more than expected, and unemployment fell to 4.1 percent. The Consumer Price Index comes out tomorrow.
• The left is already running 2028: Axios reports Mayor Mamdani is privately meeting union leaders, New York City's Democratic Socialists voted on urging AOC to run, and Mamdani told Fox News Sunday no to abolishing borders, the Supreme Court, and jails, all of which are in his organization's platform.
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