Baris: Jd Vance Has the Rust Belt Appeal Republicans Need

I think they have to, John. I think they have to. I mean, the one thing I always found funny about Republican governance is that they're much better as a minority opposition party. Not so much like the dog who catches the bus. They're very good at explaining when they're in the minority, why Democrats are governing incorrectly and why they're screwing up. But then when they catch that bus, they don't know what to do with it. I think they have to do this and they have to be an effective or try to be an effective opposition party. The message itself is the most important thing. And the truth is the real silver lining here, guys. Is that we're out of the era of ideology. It's why so many of these states did swing the way they did. We're out of the era of partisanship. Yes, people, there were a lot of defectors last night. Yes, people have partisan preference, but it doesn't mean they won't punish you if you let them down, right? And Democrats are going to let them down. Let's just get real. They made some big promises without any real specifics. They did this. They're going to win what? 262 seats, mean right now, and 55 in the Senate. Without having an actual platform, they will go. They're a fragmented coalition themselves. We have Democratic socialists who are crazy. Most of them are going to want they're going to demand that the president be removed from office. They're going to be fighting amongst each other. And there's very high likelihood that they themselves will lose track of what they were sent there to do. And when when that happens again, being that it is. It's transactional now. Voters are going to say, we sent you there, get it done. If you don't, we'll take you up too. And that's the way it's going to go for a long time. Now we're in a turning here, John. It's a two year apprenticeship. It's not a five or 10 year guarantee on the lock anymore. It's a remarkable thing about this. All right. For the 2028 election, can a J.D. Vance or a Marco Rubio emerge from this and still take the Trump mantle? Or does it take someone on the outside to surprise us there? I mean, there's always that room for a dark horse. I've been very, very vocal. It's not a matter of who I personally like or who I don't. This is what I do. I look at the map, and I'm telling you. J.D. Vance is basically the only chance they have to put together 270 right now, and there's a reason for that. Look at the groups they slid with. I keep hearing Republicans today, and of course, they're from the side of the Republican faction who got us in this trouble, got us in this mess. They thought we can run on an anti-war platform and then start a new war in the Middle East. Now they're telling us in their infinite wisdom it has to be Marco Rubio because we lost so many Hispanics. We have to nominate someone with a last name that's Hispanic. 80-year-old billionaire from Queens, New York, a white guy from Queens, New York, won more Hispanic votes than any Republican presidential candidate in the history of exit polls. What does that tell you? They vote by last name? No. They make rational policy choices, an attitudinal appeal. That's what matters. And the Rust Belt? I see no path for Marco Rubio because he can't win the Rust Belt. You have to win white working class. Yeah, I mean, look at what happened to Mike Rogers in Michigan. Everyone thought that it would be a problem. El Sayed would have a difficult time in places like Oakland, in places like Saginaw, in places like Monroe and Macomb. He didn't. He did not. Right. You need... J.D. is a Midwest millennial veteran, a veteran of the Iraq War lie. This is... He's them. He's one of them, John. You understand? Which is why he's the only one who went to Twitter in any competent fashion whatsoever and articulated why we lost. He's the only one who gets it. And if you don't really get it. Voters will sniff it right out of you, and they'll see it for what it is. You're not going to fool them with a Rubio or somebody else. It's not a matter of whether I like someone or don't. That's just the reality. And we're running out of time to kind of have these debates. I mean, I know the party wants to have them, of course. But we're running out of time to fundamentally understand what makes Americans want to vote for you. You know, we should have learned this. Trump taught us this already. He taught us this. Come on, guys. Let's not go back and relitigate this. The hour's too late.