Krystal and Saagar analyze Trump's shift in strategy (Part 4)

We can show the blue map, I think we have it somewhere in this block that we can show the arrows shifting towards Democrats everywhere in the entire country. I mean, you are hard pressed to find a single red arrow on that map. And this indicates the shift towards Democrats that occurred after people got a two year's taste of what Republican dominant leadership looked like. Yeah, you're exactly right. I mean that arrow, by the way, I mean, that map in 2024, you would have been hard pressed to find a blue arrow on that map. And yet this time, the blue arrows are even more striking than the red arrows were in the immediate aftermath of 2024. It also, to your point about Trump really scrambling here and taking a very muted, honestly reaction, I can tell you, like I said, I was there in the Oval Office with him in 2018. I went back and I read the transc script of that interview. It was defiant. It was, this had nothing to do with me. I'm going to fight them. You know, I'm not going to work with them at all this time. In the immediate aftermath, a political reporter gets him on the phone and he's like, yeah, maybe I will work with the Democrats. Here it is. This was literally midnight of right after the election. Let's take a listen. A2. What did you learn, sir? Curious what you learned? Well, we're going to work with the Democrats to make sure things go well for our country. Very important. They've already called and they want to work with me. I have the right to veto everything, but I don't want to be just sitting there for two years vetoing everything. They want to see things happen, too. So I've already spoken to certain leaders of the Democrat Party and we'll probably, you know, have a lot of friends at the Democrats Also, sue, again, very, very tired, honestly, slow response. I think your Biden analogy is perfect. The more, you know, Biden became addled and the worse the, you know, the American people really felt about him. He just became obsessed with Ukraine and NATO and, you know, submarine deals with Australia. It was just ridiculous. To your more point about Trump himself, let's put a four. And I think this is where I really call back to the ballroom is. Well, part of the reason I'm excited to talk to Isaac about it is you can see here, this is a national exit sample of over 80,000 people. Government corruption was a 90% major crucial issue. Cost of living was 89%. So corruption was literally tied with cost of living and actually even beat the Iran war.