Dem Super Tuesday REVOLT: Uncommitted, Adam Schiff Shouted Down

Ryan uh let's talk about what happened

in the Democratic primary last night

because some of these results were

really interesting huge shout out to

American

Samoa yes American Joe Biden lost

American s Samoa to a guy who's

extraordinarily famous here in the

mainland on the mainland uh but other

otherwise he was embarrassed in a lot of

States uh by the uncommitted vote

basically across the country uh we do

not have a speech to show you from Joe

Biden because even though he is running

for real election he did not give a

super Tuesday victory speech instead he

uh kind of stared blankly out at a at a

crowd after mumbling that he would get

in trouble if he took questions it's

almost too painful a video to even

subject you guys to so we're not even

not even going to show it because it

would we that would make us complicit in

the elder abuse that is being uh dealt

out to Joe Biden not that I have any

sympathy for him given uh you know what

he's doing in Gaza right now so you kind

of kind of guess what he has coming to

him yet it's still kind of painful and

sad to watch that's for sure all right

so let let let's get to what the voters

are doing to them we can start in

Minnesota is put this put this first one

up here uh kind of a shocking to The

Establishment result in Minnesota with

close to 20% of the electorate uh uh

voting uncommitted this is a campaign

that had about a week to organize itself

and that that's on top of 8% for Dean

Phillips yes by the way so almost

30% just just between the two of those

against Biden uh people were say so they

spent about $5,000 over the course of a

week something like that to organize

this campaign organizers for that uh

campaign were telling me over over the

course of the week that they actually

expected to outperform Michigan because

the the phone banking that they were

doing was just landing on voter after

voter after voter who was telling them

uh no we're already uncommitted like it

basically it was an it was organic that

it spread from New Hampshire over to

Michigan and then in into Minnesota in

Ilan Omar's District which is number

five in Minnesota uh they'll win they'll

win at least a delegate they may win

three delegates at least across the

state that means the party process in

Minnesota is going to send at least

three people to Minnesota who will be

representing kind of a free Palestine

ceasefire and the war in Gaza vote huge

Somali Muslim population obviously

outside Minneapolis but there was also

this you know uh the correlation between

age and support for uncommitted was

basically one to one the younger a

Precinct was the stronger the support

was there was one Precinct that had

something like 80% for uncommitted that

must be a fun neighborhood so the the

governor addressed this uh we have a

clip of that let's let's roll Tim Waltz

Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz about

40,000 votes right now 20% of the vote

going to uncommitted and we've seen that

already in this Primary in um in

Michigan what message are voters in your

state trying to send to President Biden

and what do you want to see President

Biden do in

response yeah look they're engaged we're

really proud Minnesota civic

responsibility we have some of the

highest voter turnouts these are voters

that are deeply concerned as we all are

the situation in Gaza is is intolerable

um and I think trying to find a solution

a lasting two-state solution certainly

the president's mooved towards

humanitarian Aid and asking us to get to

a ceasefire that's what they're asking

to be heard and that's what they should

be doing uh we've gone through this

before and we know that now we make sure

we've got 8 months we start bringing

these uh folks back in we listen to what

they're saying uh that's a healthy thing

that's happening here but I would note

that uh that the former president uh

lost twice as many votes here in

Minnesota to Nikki Haley and I've seen

some of these exit polls out of North

Carolina and others 80% of folks said

they're not voting for him who voted for

Nikki Haley we'll get these folks back I

think it's take them seriously their

message is clear that they think this is

an intolerable situation and that we can

do more and I think the president's

hearing that all right let's bring back

Crystal and Sager into the conversation

uh Chrystal what do you make so not of

the not not only in Minnesota North

Carolina Colorado around the country

Minnesota had the strongest performance

for uncommitted but around the country

it was clear uh that there is like

widespread dissatisfaction uh with with

Biden and with his war effort what what

did you make of it yeah when you combine

uncommitted and keep in mind that not

all of these states had uncommitted on

the ballot um which is why you should

consider you know the votes for Maryann

and the votes for Dean and the votes for

uncommitted I think you should count all

of those as basically Biden protest

votes and also whatever other candidates

Jen and the other like unknown

candidates that popped up on some of

these ballots so quite significant um

the Minnesota performance is nothing

short of astonishing and I heard this

talking point over and over again on CNN

like oh sure Biden lost a few votes but

look at Nikki Haley eating into trump it

is a very different deal to to vote for

an actual candidate and also by the way

for it to be a lot of Democrats and

independents who are voting for that

actual candidate then to have voters

taking the time out of their day to show

up to directly say screw you and your

disgusting immoral policy Visa V Gaza I

mean that is extraordinary with no money

think of how much money Nikki Hy spent

there was almost literally no money

spent on this effort in Minnesota it

popped up in a week's time and

outperformed by percentage

what was done in Michigan so I think it

is absolutely extraordinary and I do

think that you have seen a rhetorical

shift from the Biden Administration

directly because of this uncommitted

protest vote so you saw you know kamla

Harris with some more strenuous language

backing basically the same policy but

you also see all of the Dem flax out

there instead of going back to oh well

Israel has a right to defend itself now

the line is well Biden is working day

and night to you know try to secure this

ceasefire and he hears them and he

agrees with them so basically trying to

Gaslight but you can see there has been

an impact and that they are feeling

pressure you couple that with the just

abject horror of the flower Massacre and

I think you do see that they are feeling

some kind of pressure from this movement

which will only continue and grow post

super Tuesday and once again the results

show this is not just a problem with

Arab American this isn't just a problem

with Muslim Americans or some other

narrow demographic group if you are a

Democrat and you want to win the

presidency of the United States once

again you need young people to show up

for you and not to stay home and young

people are sending you as loud and clear

a message as they possibly can that this

current posture viav Israel and Gaza is

utterly unacceptable and Biden wouldn't

have won without a pretty decent Surge

from young voters in 2020 I mean his

margins either yeah absolutely and one

second Ryan can you break down the other

states for everybody the

uncommitted yes because I know that we

have all the other states there do we do

we have the element that that we can put

up here all right so let yeah let's

let's run through these uh quickly so uh

there we've got North Carolina rocking

in at at 133% which is you know pretty

pretty strong performance at least as

strong as uh Michigan uh move move to

the next one we got

Massachusetts coming in at almost 10%

with another uh nearly 5% for Dean

Phillips uh move on to the Colorado

primary uh what eight almost 9% uh plus

then a handful you know so you're

looking at almost 20% kind of protest

votes with about 10% uh there and then

the Oklahoma primary uh almost 10% of

Oklahoma Democrats um saying uh un

uncommitted like end end this war and if

you know the if the Democratic party was

but also nine and N for Dean Phillips

and Marion Williamson yes right right

which it's also a protest vote at this

point yes and you know so if if the

party was an actual like power seeking

operation that ran rationally somebody

like the guy you just saw the Minnesota

Governor Tim Walls would he'd be the

nominee you know probably Waltz uh you

know to into into the white house

instead dad joke yeah do you like that

one no you loved it uh instead to

Crystal's Point all we're getting is

this kind of change in rhetoric and if

you boil down what their change in

rhetoric is it's we are not complicit in

this evil we are just too weak and

incompetent to stop it which is okay I

guess that makes us feel better about it

maybe but that's not much of a selling

point at

all well actually this is interesting

because in California here's

establishment darling Adam shiff uh if

we put B6 up on the screen the primary

this is a huge primary election in

California people know the high-profile

candidates uh Katie Porter Barbara Lee

uh now Steve Garvey actually did better

than Katie Porter and Barbara Lee's

margins here or their percentages here

put together uh so this goes to the

Jungle Primary runoff type situation

Adam Schiff secured 33% of the vote uh

I'm just curious Ryan Crystal sger what

your take is on uh you know with with

the Middle East weighing so heavily on

Democratic voters Minds Adam Schiff is a

Biden establishment Ally also a

conspiracy monger and weirdo but that

aside um I mean that's a it did not

weigh in here in this in this California

primary it's very it's very interesting

Barbara Lee you know uh fairing fairing

terribly I was actually in California

over over the

weekend talking to a voter uh who is his

his primary issue was uh anti-war and

later in the conversation he said I hope

Barbara Lee wins her re-election I was

like actually you know she's running for

Senate he's like what he's like no way

that's awesome that's that's that's so

cool it's like Barb Barbara Lee is so

screwed like this is like this is like

her base and he didn't even know uh that

she was running which goes to the

problem for anybody running in

California that it's just so insanely

expensive but Sager uh what do you make

of that well California obviously

basically a rigged you know electoral

system so like let's all be honest

around that uh especially with the

Dynamics that you just uh highlighted

also just to pick up on that we have a

saw here some of the protesters who were

interrupting Adam shiff and this goes to

the question of how that will play out

in the actual general election let's

take a listen to

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that to thank you so as everybody could

see I mean this is going to be an

everpresent problem I think for many of

these establishment Democratic

politicians we covered previously on our

show about how Joe Biden is going to

like extensive lengths not to campaign

um and college campuses pretty

humiliating when the sitting Democratic

president you can't go to a college

campus Al honestly Ryan that may be why

he didn't do a victory speech last night

and they're just terrified as I

understand it they've been contracting

some thirdparty security service to try

and screen people before you go in I

mean once we've gotten to that point you

know thing things are not looking good

for you and it is humiliating because

you've not only got the votes in terms

of uncommitted but you've also got the

physical manifestation of that at every

public appearance that you make from

here on thus far so overall I mean I'm

just coming back to the same Trump issue

where crystal is Right many of those

people who voted in the primary are Dem

are just probably Democrats here though

you know we have a probably a bigger

problem just given the gap between like

the policy that would actually have to

happen to even get maybe half of these

people back in the door it's very likely

that he could if there is a fatal blow

in November there will be many many

reasons as to why that happened but it's

very likely we can trace a lot of it

back to here and to this right now yeah

a Democrat not being able to go to a

college campus is like a republican who

couldn't campaign in The Villages

Florida and and underscoring that point

if we could put up B3 and then Chris I

want to get your uh response to this

this the element B3 this polling that

shows that even among uh Republicans 30%

of Republicans want arms shipments

blocked uh to Israel but 6 62% of Voters

who supported Biden in 2020 want the US

to block weapons shipments to Israel uh

ceasefire and blocking weapons shipments

is not a divisive or controversial

position it is the overwhelming majority

position of democratic voters uh yet it

is in stark contrast to what the

president is actually doing

Crystal yeah that's exactly right and I

continue to bring this up but I am

struck by the poll that found that a

majority of Joe Biden 2020 voters say

Israel is committing a genocide I you

just

cannot possibly overstate the sea change

in American politics that has occurred

Visa the view of Israel and the view of

our relationship with regards to Israel

and so when you see you know the actions

of someone like Joe Biden who's been in

DC for 50 years and has this view of

Israel that d back you know hasn't

progressed since 1970 and whatever he

thought of it at the time the other

thing is that you know one of his

Ironclad Like rules of the road in

politics is you never lose by being too

pro Israel because you know there's much

more funding on that side I'm just not

trying to be an anti-semitic comment

it's just statement of reality given the

the funding behind APAC and how

influential that has been and how

comparatively I mean there's basically

no funding benefit to be gained on the

Palestinian side of the equation um and

also typically the people who vote on

that issue are the people who are most

vifer usly lock step for whatever it is

that Israel wants to do um that

particular Dynamic May well be changing

I think that's the piece that is

different that Biden and many other

Democratic politicians really haven't

accounted for that now you have this

very very impassioned and frankly

radicalized group of predominantly but

not exclusively young voters who are

voting directly on this issue and so I

think that's part of you know where the

disconnect and why they've been so slow

to even change the rhetoric with regards

to Israel and Palestine let alone they

still haven't changed the policy so this

is a massive issue that you know there

videos every day coming out of Kirsten

gillan's Town Hall you know so many

protesters there AOC getting chased out

of a movie theater because she won't

call it a genocide Adam shiff getting

shouted down at his own victory speech

every single Democrat is being held to

account for this monstrous abhorent

policy that again a majority of their

own party says makes them complicit in a

genocide so I think the political

landscape has completely flipped in a

way that many of these politicians

haven't accounted for um just to throw

on a couple things specifically about

California don't claim to be a political

expert in the ins and- outs of

California politics I do want to mention

Adam Schiff spent I think more money

propping up the Republican candidate

than he did even on his own campaign

because he wanted to make sure he wasn't

up against another Democrat in the fall

because he feels very confident of

course in California he can beat a

republican he wasn't so confident he

could beat say Katy Porter Barbara Lee

head-to-head the other thing is my

understanding based on you know the what

I've seen of the the messaging in that

race is that none of them really put

Gaza at the core of their messaging and

yes barbar Lee is seen as like you know

generally anti-war but she hasn't been

leading the charge in the way that say a

Rashida Talib or like an ilhan Omar has

and California also their uncommitted

vote um you know protest vote on super

Tuesday was one of the lower ones of the

states that actually went for whatever

reason I'm not really sure why and I

think it's also worth mentioning while

we're in California that both uh George

gasone in LA and Jose Garza in Travis

County which soccer you're obviously

very familiar with held on to their

seats in these pretty competitive

Democratic primaries uh not super close

either and that contrasts with the mood

of the country back in 2022 where it was

sort of like oh you know Democrats are

going to have to you attack to the

center in order to make up uh from this

backlash of 2020 well then dos came down

and now we're here and Israel happened

so I think there's just there's so much

going on with young voters in particular

for Democrats that if there's going to

be a wakeup call uh you would think the

results that are coming in showing you

know some some seriously alarming drops

and enthusiasm for Joe Biden that could

affect turnout could affect his margins

could affect third parties uh these

would be those red flags those warning

signs but Ryan there was a a glaring red

flag last night in American samawa in

the form of Jason Palmer Jason Jason

Palmer ran what is I think it's got to

be the coolest campaign uh ever uh so he

beat Biden for the delegates from

American Samoa uh congratulations to yes

Jason Palmer very very well known here

in the here in the mainland uh let's

let's play a little bit of the the case

that he made to American Samoan voters

I'm asking for your support and vote and

would love to talk to you about why I

believe I'm the best candidate for

American Samoa a beautiful and diverse

territory that needs much more attention

and support from our federal government

you're probably wondering who is this

Jason Palmer I've never heard of him

before well in the main M land I'm

actually very well known I mean I can I

can vouch for that

right that is the man as soon as I saw

I'm like Jason Palmer the man I don't

know if you saw Fox News call the race

um for Jason Palmer but Brett Bear was

really confused in the video he was like

I don't know who that is he's out of

touch he's out of touch Jason Palmer's

huge and Jason Palmer looks like a he's

a realtor in you know Suburban

Minneapolis or something he's got the

Martin Luther King spe in the background

it's just uh like if if you were

watching the video he really had a frame

picture of Martin Luther King giving his

American giving his I Have a Dream

speech behind him I mean it was just

perfect in so many ways Ryan yeah

incredible congratulations uh to to

Jason Palmer krisen Sager you voting for

him yeah maybe absolutely I'm gonna

write him in in the fall he's a very

well-known figure you know known about

him for years yeah he's big on Tik Tok I

think I don't know something like that

the Zoomers love him too good the kids

the love so good for Jason Palmer very

very exciting love love to love to see

it well Sager I want to toss this last

element to you um in the block this is

more results out of Texas again I think

what the theme of this block um when it

comes to how Biden performed last night

on super Tuesday we can go ahead and put

B10 up on the screen just some really

some of the signs from the polling

that's found Biden starting to flag with

Hispanic voters black voters young

voters started to show up in the returns

yesterday talk to us a little bit about

these results from Cameron County yeah I

had big uh eyes in South Texas just

because that was such a big flip that we

saw that happened um in 2020 in some

cases moving like 40 to 50% of the vote

from Hillary Clinton to Trump what you

saw last night was actually pretty

fascinating it's not just Cameron County

but what we tried to highlight there is

a lot of the results all across South

Texas where you actually saw a pretty

significant uh you saw pretty

significant protest vote for Armando

Perez serat um who is a Democrat he's

kind of an all over the place all over

the place gentleman but critically um

was somebody who came out very hard

against Joe Biden said that he was too

old disagreed with him on the Israel

policy uh went after a lot of the

establishment Democrats that showed me

that he was one of the most uh polling

protest vote candidates but it was

localized to South Texas uh where he

spent a lot of the time actually um

campaigning on and I think what it kind

of highlights for us here on the show is

that regardless of where people are you

know in Minnesota we saw some Dean

Phillips voters and uncommitted voters

Maryann actually did quite well here in

in Virginia where Crystal and I are you

know in certain places where there were

younger voters South Texas everyone is

localizing some of their descent against

Biden and then that comes down to how

are they actually going to come out and

vote and if you couple Descent of the

existing Democrats and then the

Republican like surge of 2020 and really

in 2022 as well in South Texas I think

that it will fundamentally change the

electoral map of Texas such that the

Republican suburbs will vote Democrat

but they will make up for it with a lot

of uh non-bite non- colge educated

voters and I found that really

interesting in the results last night

yeah and my understanding uh from what

what's going on around there is that a

lot of this just feels kind of cultural

like the area is just becoming

culturally Republican like it's just in

the water like it used to be culturally

Democrat like you're you're a Democrat

because you in this area uh now fluoride

in the water it's the fluoride I mean I

I think some some of it is the is the

media like the the the Spanish language

um take takeover by the rightwing of the

media uh you know that that is dominant

there I

think is is where kind of you get that

in the water like that's that's kind of

what makes the water is is is what you

consume on Facebook and also then uh

through the Spanish language television

but yeah is is that is that your read

sagur and Emily that it's just BEC just

like you're just you just are a

republican like I think this is going to

go from a democratic stronghold to

pretty soon being just Republican

territory look I I don't think the

labels are useful it's just like the

tahano kind of libertarian identity has

been there for a long time uh in some

cases longer than even many people who

have lived in Texas who are white so my

point is just that trying to apply like

National like it's the right we take

over the media and all that I just don't

really think it's accurate I think a lot

of it just comes back to the fact that

they truly felt screwed um by the de

they felt abandoned by democrats on a

couple of key issues inflation was a

huge one actually in 2020 I believe if I

remember gas and uh Co checks were a

huge reason why people voted for Trump

back then but when you continue into

2022 immigration had become a massive

you know a massive massive issue down

there I mean not just there really

across the entire country I think last

night we saw as one of the number one uh

things that people were said that they

were voting on or was their top priority

especially in the Republican party so my

point is just that it doesn't come back

to Media it comes down to I think

actually genuinely local conditions and

to a broader more like libertarian

aesthetic identity combined with some

cultural conservatism that has existed

there for you know more than a hundred

years now at this point it's a very

unique part of the country I encourage

everybody to go if you can it's a it's

pretty fascinating place and there's

just a ghoulish segment on MSNBC last

night I don't know if everyone saw this

but it was J saki Rachel mat joy and

Reed laughing about how yes exit poles

found Republican voters in Virginia were

very concerned about immigration and

Jens saki was like I live in Virginia

come on and then I think one of them

Rachel mat was like well it's very close

to West Virginia in this just completely

obnoxious way and you know it's worth

noting that just a few days ago a a

Venezuelan migrant uh who was here

illegally was charged with sexual