El-Sayed Heads to the Senate With Questions Unanswered | Ep. 293

Democrats won the House and the Senate on Nov. 3. They flipped Senate seats in Texas, South Carolina, and Kansas. James Talarico beat Ken Paxton by about 12 points to become the first Democrat Texas has sent to the Senate since 1988.

Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers break down why. Prices stayed high, and voters punished the party in power. Republicans also ran weak candidates in red states. Florida held, but by narrow margins, while a property tax relief amendment passed.

Now Democrats hold the gavels and the subpoenas. Rep. Robert Garcia, the incoming House Oversight chairman and a onetime California youth coordinator for the 2000 Bush campaign, posted two words on election night: lawyer up. Rep. Jamie Raskin, in line to chair Judiciary, says Democrats are not afraid to impeach Trump a third time. Peter backs oversight of real corruption, including the $100,000 Amex allegation against former Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle. A third impeachment is a different matter.

The episode closes on Abdul El-Sayed, the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate. GAI research places him at a February 2022 meeting in Colombia with leaders of U.S. Muslim nonprofits, many tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. Many of those leaders later backed his Senate run. Rep. Haley Stevens broke with her party over an outside ad blaming grocery prices on U.S. aid to Israel, and the Michigan Democratic Party chair says she is no longer a member.

(00:00) Democrats sweep the midterms (01:35) Cost of living decided the vote (03:24) Bad candidates in red states (05:37) Red undertow and Florida's property tax vote (07:29) Robert Garcia: "Lawyer up" (11:37) Guilfoyle and the $100,000 Amex bill (12:41) Raskin floats a third impeachment (13:27) Historic firsts and Abdul El-Sayed (17:04) Haley Stevens and the Israel ad (19:02) The Islamophobia double standard

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