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4/13/2026, 11:20:19 PM
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More political panel time.
Welcome back to the takeout.
TW I asked you to wait and you did patiently.
Jump in.
Look, John is on the right track here.
Politics is an addition game.
It's not a subtraction game.
The Catholic Church right now is booming.
There's been articles written about it incessantly the past few weeks especially among young voters.
And I think Pope Leo's had a bunch to do with that as the first American Pope.
It And so I don't see the upside of attacking the Pope, the Vicar of Christ on Earth who yes is always going to push for peace and less death.
That's kind of his job.
>> sort of built-in anti-war.
Yeah, hello.
>> And look, the Pope's brother, I guess, likes the president as he likes saying all the time.
But my guess is if you keep bashing his brother, he might change his mind.
So we don't want to lose him either.
Also, I want you to and I'll give you a chance on this TW to weigh in first.
The imagery the president posted, the AI generated thing, which he said today And this almost felt like a troll itself.
A troll upon a troll.
Yeah.
Oh, I thought I was a doctor.
Yeah.
How many doctors are depicted with golden light coming out of not one but both hands?
Please show that.
Golden light coming out of both hands, okay?
Sorry.
I'm not buying it and I don't think those who found it offensive and borderline if not entirely blasphemous are buying it either.
>> Absolutely.
And Riley Gaines was like a you little humility of all people said a little humility would do you good.
Look, Trump will never say I'm sorry.
He's always going to find a way out of it and I wish he would sometimes cuz it would This obviously rubbed a ton of people the wrong way.
>> Legitimately so.
Including probably the DoorDash driver who was there when he said it.
So yeah, a little humility would have gone a long way.
I don't think people are buying the excuse.
Again, it's it's a unforced error.
Yeah, I mean this image here that we just saw.
And I mean even go back a little bit when he posted the image after the death of Pope Francis of him kind of in an AI version of himself as Pope.
Yes, you can kind of laugh about those.
But in the interview we saw on Sunday with the three American cardinals, I actually thought that Exactly.
I thought that Cardinal Supich's comment out of Chicago was the most appropriate where he sat and said that he was very disturbed by the gamification of war.
And these things are funny, but the imagery that the president has Pope almost glorifying the taking of lives is something that's not funny.
So I think that yes, many people of faith are offended by that.
But I actually think if you ask more people of faith and broadly people of goodwill, they would find the kind of moral relativism that he talks about these things with to be more alarming than these.
Let me ask you John about some Cook Political Report moves over the weekend that indicated in some swing states, North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio, Iowa, Nebraska rather, some shifts not to predicted Democratic victories but away from where things looked more solidly for the Republicans.
Right.
I mean, midterm elections are always about the party in power, right?
They are always a referendum on that.
And I think that right now we feel pretty good about the house.
And these political winds are certainly putting Senate races more into the favor of Democrats than they probably would have been.
I still think it's an uphill fight there.
But one of the things that I think we really need to pay attention to in these Senate candidates is the quality of candidates that have been recruited.
It's not just because of the political winds in these places, it's because Cooper is really great for North Carolina and Sherrod Brown is really great for Ohio.
So I mean even if they were the best wins without those candidates, I don't know that those states come online.
But because those leaders have stepped up to run, we might see something come November.
TW Yeah, absolutely.
I worked at the senatorial committee.
I know what these things look like.
Yeah, absolutely.
And And look, it To your point, John's point, the president is in power, the Republicans have control, they are the focus of all the messaging.
And right now we are in a war and gas prices are rising.
So yes, you're seeing discomfort.
However, I would just point out that if we're going to compare it to say a 2018 where it was a massive wave away from Republicans, I would just note that the Democrats on a generic ballot are still underperforming where they were there.
And oh yeah, their favorability rating is still lower than that of Republicans.
>> ID problems.
>> brand ID problems.
So yes, candidates will always matter.
And the Republicans need to do a good job of getting good candidates that can compete with their good candidates and try to figure out a mechanism to match their energy.
>> And as I started the show tonight, the Strait of Hormuz is going to have a lot to do with the president, diplomacy, strategy, and politics in the midterm.
TW, great to have you here.
John, always a pleasure.
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