Democratic Strategy and Resistance Analysis

are mad, um, why the base is mad at s- at some of the leaders in

Washington is not 'cause they're not left enough.

Um, it's because, you know, Chuck Schumer came out with no strategy,

no forewarning

and just said, "We're gonna fold on the CR." I mean,

I think he could have done a

better job of explaining what the strategy was and wh- what we're gonna

do, but there wasn't anything like that.

I think Democrats are learning, and I'm, I'm gonna agree with you, that Democrats

cannot only be the party of resistance. We cannot...

Like, we resisted so hard between 2017 and

2024. We impeached the guy. Like we-

Twice

... prosecuted him, um, convicted him on 34, um, felony

counts, and guess what? He still got elected.

So th-

Right

... I don't know how much harder we can resist

right now.

Are you, are you admitting that the-

Yeah

... that the case against Trump in New York

was part of the organized Democratic

Party resistance?

It, it was a Democratic prosecutor, and at the time-

Yeah, okay.

At the time, I said I thought it was unwise.

I went on Fox News and said-

You're right

... I said it was unwise.

There were Democrats who said this at the time.

There were a lot. There were a lot.

Just to be clear, this wasn't... Just to be clear,

everybody who now touts the 34

felonies, take it from Liz. This was not a real case.

This was a plot to upend the presidential campaign, which backfired.

I, I just think it was a boneheaded move by Alvin Bragg,

but it's w- It's not his

first or last one, so.

This is why w- we invite Liz, 'cause she's a plain-spoken New Yorker.

Paul, who can really tell it, uh, straightforward in a straight forward-