JD Vance puts Republicans' desperation on full display

Brian Tyler Cohen (0:01)

JD Vance puts Republicans' desperation ahead of midterms on full display. And I've got two interviews, Pod Save America's Dan Pfeiffer and Norm Eisen. I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie.

No matter how desperate you think the Republicans are, you are not prepared for the actual level of desperation, as evidenced by JD Vance here.

SPEAKER_2 (0:21)

Give us another chance, or give us another couple years to continue to work on the amazing things that we've been doing for the past two years.

Brian Tyler Cohen (0:27)

So we have reached the give us another chance, please phase of politics. Remind me, when a girl dumps a guy and he gets on his knees and starts begging, give me another chance, is that a recipe for success or no?

But here's the thing about Vance's plea. Republicans have had their chance, and look what they did with it. They promised a lower cost on the campaign. Then when they got into office, they rallied behind Trump's trade war that sent cost surging. They promised low gas prices, gas is now $4.37 a gallon, up from $3.19 a year ago. Diesel is at its highest point in history, at $6.23 a gallon. They promised to release the Epstein files. That's obviously not happening. Promised to eliminate this second tier of justice that the elites use to enrich themselves and avoid accountability. That is the basis of Trump's entire presidency. Dude has tripled his net worth while everybody else is left out in the cold. But that was all by design. None of this is an accident. Trump didn't like trip and fall into giving his son a $6 billion military defense contract. They didn't accidentally fall into cutting health care and food assistance. All of this was on purpose. This is unbridled Republican governance. There are no Democrats in power, not in the House, Senate or White House. So, no, there are no accidents here.

Frankly, the time to have recognized that things were going south was six months ago, a year ago, 18 months ago, but not seven weeks before the election. Only because now you're realizing that you have to go in front of voters. The Republicans have ignored voters to an extent that I've quite literally never seen before, and they've been doing it for months. Instead, they've contracted every ounce of autonomy to Trump on tariffs, on war, on Epstein, on health care, on inflation. So guess what? You all own this just as much as he does. So you can get on your knees and you can beg now that you remember political gravity exists, but it's all too little too late. The time to show that you care about Americans is not just five minutes before voters go to the polls.

But I gotta say, it sure is pathetic that once Trump's election rigging scheme falls flat because the Supreme Court refuses to ban mail-in ballots, once the Save America Act falls flat, where Republicans tried to institute a federal takeover of elections, once the DOJ's efforts to take the voter rolls from the states falls flat in 30 different cases, the next tactic being employed by the GOP is JD Vance just begging like a little bitch to give him another chance? Guys, you've had your chance and you blew it sucking up to a president who only cares about himself. If only there was some clue, JD, that the guy who you called America's Hitler would be an anchor around your necks.

Next up are my interviews with Dan Pfeiffer and Norm Eisen.

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