Marshall and Steve here. Welcome back to the realignment. So this is the promised election reaction show. It's coming out on Friday because on Thursday I did a Marshall monologue. But Steve, you know, this is part of our sort of monthly or so. We've been a little more than monthly, so I appreciate the time you're dedicating to this work

from that perspective here. But this is going to start with a first section on accountability.

I was wrong. I think you were wrong. Let's just kind of start there when it came to calling the election.

Yeah. So this is the new republic used to have its recriminations issue after every election.

And so, yeah, so election night, I actually sent you what in retrospect looks like a very implausible election map.

And the thing I'll say is literally up until the day of the election, I was saying that I

thought Kamala was going to get wiped out. And then I just couldn't, my nerve couldn't take it.

At the last minute I broke and was like, oh, she's going to like shock her when Georgia and North Carolina

because of demographic change in those states. And she was going to squeak past in

Michigan and Wisconsin. I actually called Pennsylvania for Trump, which looks pretty good now.

But I think just in the end, the thing I learned is that I should have stuck to my guns

and should have stuck to what I thought.

And in retrospect, I should also say, my take on Harris is that I always thought she was a terrible

candidate, and I told everybody I could, that especially after she was replaced, there was a

sudden vibe thing where everybody had to actually say that I see Harris was great. And part of it is before

Biden got replaced, people needed to shift to believing that Harris was great because they

needed to believe that in order to get Biden out of the way. So if they thought that Harris was really

bad, it was going to be harder to say that Biden needed to step down.

And I, for a while, have always been saying, you know, no more Massachusetts, California candidates, right?

We've done that.

It didn't seem to have worked out.

We should just not do that ever again, because I think

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