Chase Lennox

Talarico is going to get curb stomped. I apologize for my harsh language but man the early voting data is absolutely brutal for the little guy. No wonder they have cancelled millions of TV ads. Texans didn’t buy his charade and now it’s all about doing damage control.

Jesus mogs Muhammad.

Too much SIGHS before answering. This may be the Most uncomfortable minute in JD's life.

Has Pete Hegseth committed impeachable crimes? The question is absurd and the answer is: obviously not. Like so much of Congress, impeachment has become a ridiculous show that stands in for actual policymaking. Congress has so many tools for registering its policy disagreements. Rather than use them, they're going to try to impeach Pete Hegseth. They did the same to Donald Trump. Legislation is hard. Impeachments are easy (and ultimately, inconsequential). The irony is that legislators are most angry at Pete on the issues where he's most correct: repositioning forces away from Europe/Ukraine and reorganizing the general officer corps. This isn't about Iran, this is about the fact that Pete took on the bureaucracy at the Pentagon.

Massie: "I hope Hegseth addresses the 8 articles of impeachment, and doesn‘t get up and misquote the Bible in Quentin Tarantino fashion and do some pull-ups and call everybody fat and gay. I may have just given you half his speech, I don't know."

CNN projecting Eileen Laubacher will defeat Lauren Boebert.

Massie: "There's no fog of war on the first day! You've had months to identify these targets, yet they picked a school building on a school day with kids in it"

Madam Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa

Dave Chappelle makes a disgusting joke about "feeling better" since Charlie Kirk’s murder, and says that he's probably in hell. Dave Chappelle: “It’s scary being a public speaker. And I mean, look, ever since that guy Charlie Kirk got murdered, and I shouldn’t say this publicly, but I feel better. I'm sure he's looking up at us right now, laughing so hard he can't breathe." Vinnie: “I have lost all respect, everything, for Dave Chappelle. I don’t care how funny he is. Just put yourself there for a second. If Shane Gillis went on stage and said, ever since George Floyd died, man, I feel better. Imagine what the world would do.” Ilan: “A human life is a human life at the end of the day. If you see a man die and you feel like it was under circumstances that were unjustified, regardless of George Floyd, regardless of Charlie Kirk, you do not celebrate it. Because you’re a human being, and through that, you have empathy for other human beings. And we’re losing that empathy.”

Come again?

Kurt and I talk through the election eve news on the latest Counterweight: YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=HFzGB7tj… Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2Mi…

Time to sub in Bronny

Setting the mark of a blue wave by the betting markets is a mistake. This race is going to be closer than previously imagined.