This live recording unpacks why Tennessee’s special election, far from being a Republican win worth celebrating, was a seismic warning sign for Donald Trump and the GOP. Mitch walks through the numbers and explains how a Democrat cutting a 22-point deficit down to single digits in one of America’s reddest, most gerrymandered districts is nothing short of a catastrophe for Republicans. He places the race within a clear national trend: Democrats dramatically overperforming across New Jersey, Virginia, Florida, and other states ever since Trump returned to power.
Mitch digs into why Republicans had to dump millions into a seat they should have won effortlessly, how fear-based messaging drove last-minute turnout, and why Trump’s growing scandals, economic failures, and public meltdowns are putting even deep-red states into play for 2026. His message to Democrats and the broader pro-democracy community: stop doom-scrolling and look at the macro. The movement is stronger than it feels in the moment.
The live then pivots to new economic reporting showing steep job losses in the small-business sector and the widening gap between private-sector data and suspiciously rosy federal numbers. Mitch lays out why these trends matter, how they tie back to Trump’s mismanagement, and what they signal for the months ahead.
