Democrats Senate Dreams Fading? Platner & Talarico Implode

**Josh Holmes** (0:00)
Platner and Talarico, two just glorious figures, reoccurring characters on the Ruthless Variety Program.

**Comfortably Smug** (0:08)
Talarico stuff is like, dude.

**Michael Duncan** (0:10)
Where do they find these guys?

**Comfortably Smug** (0:12)
And like, this is, Schumer handpicked this clown. There is something super selling about this guy. Like when he said that thing in that interview, where he's like, I'm always thinking about, like, I love trans kids.

**John Ashbrook** (0:22)
He should just stop lying, because he's really bad at it.

**Josh Holmes** (0:24)
So Graham Platner's like, you know what, hold my beer.

**Comfortably Smug** (0:27)
Yeah, he's like, I can't let this guy get it.

**Josh Holmes** (0:29)
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**Comfortably Smug** (0:37)
When you get a dude who shows up at these things and he's like, I'm an ally, that's like the number one sign of a predator, likely worst scent candidate of all time.

**Josh Holmes** (0:46)
Of all time.

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Because the Democrats, they had primaries.
Then we've already covered the hosted candidates that they've tried to put out and they've gotten through primaries. It was like a real piecing of things together. I hope everybody enjoyed yesterday's show. I know we had a good time putting that one together, just how insane the New York contingency is. But it edged out Platner and Talarico, two just glorious figures, reoccurring characters on the Ruthless Variety Program. And they have more.

**Comfortably Smug** (3:24)
Also, especially, we'll get to the Talarico stuff, is like, dude.

**Michael Duncan** (3:28)
What do they find these guys?

**Comfortably Smug** (3:30)
And like, this is, Schumer handpicked this clown. This is Schumer's kid and like, really?

**Josh Holmes** (3:37)
So like, you know, look, I understand midterms are challenging. You know, there's 120 years of electoral history. When you're the party in power, you lose 16 to 18 seats. I know the math.
I'm just not sure that anybody's fielded a crew of candidates that are as fucking horrible as Democrats are. And it's an embodiment of what the Democratic Party has become. It's not like they've just had, you know, like Republicans in, what, 2010, 2012, when they had that sort of rash of the Todd Aikens and the witch and Sharon Angle and all those. Like, that was just a really, that was a rough batch of recruits.

**Comfortably Smug** (4:20)
Those are two cycles specifically where it was like, all of a sudden, you know, we have good chances, and all of a sudden, we get like two or three nightmare candidates that you're like, how did this happen? And they just try to drag the whole team down with them. Okay, so now, it feels like, are it way worse? Like in 2014, when I got involved with candidate recruitment, we straightened that shit out.
Yeah.

**John Ashbrook** (4:42)
I wrote the history.