The David Pakman Show

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-- JD Vance publicly blames Trump's Iran war for the Republican midterm defeat, breaking with Trump less than a day after the rout

-- Trump emerges after the devastating losses and gives bizarre answers on Vance, Hegseth, impeachment, and when the Iran war ends

-- Asked if he's worried about a third impeachment, Trump insists he's not, saying it would destroy the Democratic Party instead

-- Ron DeSantis calls the Republican midterm defeat something like an extinction-level event and warns Texas is slipping away

-- Trump retreats from public view after the midterm disaster, posting about his ballroom, vote transfers, and daylight saving time

-- Trump publicly defends Pete Hegseth while reportedly asking advisers whether his Defense Secretary should be replaced after the losses

-- Mike Johnson quits Republican leadership rather than lead the minority, as Jordan and Scalise circle the job he left behind

-- Elon Musk spent roughly $474 million backing Republicans in the midterms, lost everything, and started deleting his election posts

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(1:05) Vance turns on Trump

(7:55) Sickly Trump struggles

(20:29) Trump fears impeachment

(27:19) Extinction-level event for Republicans

(38:55) Trump stays in hiding

(45:53) Trump panics over Hegseth

(51:55) Johnson quits leadership

(58:50) Musk deletes his posts

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-- On the Show:

-- Democrats win the House and Senate in a midterm rout, flipping Senate seats in Texas, Kansas, Iowa, South Carolina, Ohio, and more

-- A look back at a 2024 conversation about the impossible Senate map, the states that flipped, and a reminder that difficult is not impossible

-- Trump vanishes after the rout, then rage posts on Truth Social blaming voters, Greg Abbott, pundits, Fox News, and Bill de Blasio

-- Trump told voters to pretend he was on the ballot and promised $5,000 checks, and voters did exactly that, so Republicans paid

-- Trump dragged the Republican Party down with him, and a party that ignored every warning sign for a decade has nobody to blame but itself

-- James Talarico beats Ken Paxton and Gina Hinojosa beats Greg Abbott as Democrats win Texas statewide for the first time in decades

-- Karoline Leavitt's election excuses fall apart against Jessica Tarlov on Fox News as defeated Republicans learn nothing at all

-- Vivek Ramaswamy loses the Ohio governor's race to Amy Acton in an embarrassing rout, and it is finally time for him to go away

-- On the Bonus Show: Top takeaways from the US midterm elections, and much more...

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(0:00) Start

(1:12) Democrats win it all

(10:23) We actually did it

(19:01) Trump goes into hiding

(27:01) Voters did what Trump asked

(35:59) Trump destroyed his own party

(44:04) Democrats took Texas

(51:31) Republicans learned nothing

(59:57) Goodbye, Vivek

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-- On the Show:

-- Election Day is here, and voters decide the House, Senate, governors, and ballot questions in the first big verdict on Trump's second term

-- The Supreme Court rejects Trump's emergency bid to set aside some 20,000 California ballots overnight, the day before Election Day

-- The FBI's New Haven office tells Americans Election Day is Wednesday, the wrong day, in a post about protecting election integrity

-- Enormous lines at polling places are celebrated as enthusiasm, but they signal too few locations, machines, and poll workers

-- Trump's final pre-election speech veers into algae, pipes, and a long explanation of the Reflecting Pool walkway he calls a promenade

-- On Sean Hannity's show, Trump warns Democrats would wipe out everything he's done, boasts about controlling Venezuela, and retells a Xi story

-- Trump calls into Fox and Friends, touts fresh bombing in Iran while insisting it is not really a war, and declares inflation solved

-- A UMass law professor speculates Trump could someday flee the US and seek refuge with a friendly authoritarian leader abroad

-- On the Bonus Show: Final Election Day predictions and polls, a Learjet crashes in Florida, a man finishes his walk around the world after 28 years, and much more...

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(1:16) Election Day is here

(9:35) Supreme Court rejects Trump's desperate move

(20:15) FBI tells Americans to vote on wrong day

(26:48) The truth about long voting lines

(34:37) Trump's final speech goes off the rails

(42:27) Trump goes off the rails on Hannity

(51:29) Fox asks Trump one question, he implodes

(1:01:32) Trump could flee the US in final twist
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-- On the Show:

-- Early voting passes 50 million ballots as records fall in several states and Republicans grow nervous about midterm turnout

-- Trump gives baffling answers on the Alaska election lawsuit, the reflecting pool event, and a concept of a deal with Canada

-- Trump stops a rally speech to wipe his eye with a wet towel and turns a minor moment into another fight over his health

-- Trump rambles through an Iowa rally, talking about boring football, a candidate's weight, protesters, and an invented story

-- Asked for a closing message to voters, Trump tells people struggling with prices that the poverty numbers are the single best

-- Republicans openly discuss not seating a Democrat who wins Alaska's Senate race as Tim Scott dodges a simple question on results

-- Jon Ossoff lays out what Democrats would do with Congress, from oversight to healthcare, as Republicans face real consequences

-- Trump rages at Alina Habba's $50 million deal with a pardoned banker's family, then attacks a reporter who asks about Iran

-- Trump can read, but a presidency built on never reading, with everything delivered verbally, may be the most dangerous kind

-- On the Bonus Show: Haley Stevens endorses a Republican in the Michigan Senate race, a researcher watches hundreds of midterm ads, voters decide 140 ballot questions around the country, and much more...

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(0:00) Start

(1:19) Record early voting turnout

(8:33) Trump's baffling answers

(17:28) Trump's rally eye problem

(26:43) Trump's rambling Iowa rally

(38:36) Trump's closing message

(44:56) Not seating a Democratic winner

(53:42) Ossoff on Democrats with power

(1:00:08) Trump turns on Habba

(1:08:38) The post-literate president
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-- On the Bonus Show: Lisa Murkowski endorses the Democrat in Alaska governor’s race, Microsoft offers a quarter of its global workforce voluntary buyouts over AI, James Comey faces federal charges for a third time, and much more...

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