After the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down Louisiana’s proposed congressional map for relying too heavily on race, Georgia Republican leaders signaled renewed interest in redrawing the state’s own congressional districts—raising the prospect of expanding the GOP’s delegation. “These new maps must prioritize traditional redistricting principles—contiguity, compactness, respect for political subdivisions, and communities of interest—without the distorting influence of racial targets,” Georgia Republican Party Chairman Josh McCoon wrote in a statement. “We stand ready to support swift action that advances fair representation and upholds the equal protection guarantees of the 14th Amendment. This is a win for democracy, the rule of law, and all Georgians,” he added. Georgia Democrats currently hold four of the state’s 14 congressional seats. Other Republican leaders echoed McCoon’s remarks, calling GOP‑friendly redistricting “long overdue.” “[This is a] long‑overdue win for every southern state forced to bend the knee to federal courts on redistricting,” former state Senate President Pro Tempore and current lieutenant governor candidate Burt Jones wrote, describing the Supreme Court’s decision as a “victory for common sense.” In the Louisiana case, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the court that the Voting Rights Act did not require the state to create an additional majority‑minority district. “Because the Voting Rights Act did not require Louisiana to create an additional majority‑minority district, no compelling interest justified the state’s use of race in creating SB8,” Alito wrote. “That map is an unconstitutional gerrymander, and its use would violate the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights.” Former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, now a Republican candidate for governor, said Georgia GOP leaders are pushing for a special legislative session to adopt a new congressional map. “They’re saying it out loud—they’re saying redraw these districts,” Duncan told local media. “Georgians deserve districts that unite neighbors, preserve local communities, and ensure every vote counts equally,” Duncan added. Despite Republican enthusiasm, Gov. Brian Kemp has suggested that any new map would not take effect before the 2026 midterm elections—a timeline GOP leaders worry could jeopardize their narrow House majority. “It’s clear that [Louisiana v. Callais] requires Georgia to adopt new electoral maps before the 2028 election cycle,” Kemp said.

Democrats have run California into the ground for 16 straight years, with supermajorities and zero excuses—not a single Republican to blame.   Now, with Gavin Newsom term-limited, they’re supposed to pick a successor. And what do we get? A clown car of mediocrity: A weak, fractured bench so pathetic they can’t even decide on a candidate, let alone consolidate behind one. Seven major Democrats are still splitting the vote weeks before the primary, each refusing to drop out because none of them actually stands out.  This is not a field of leaders. This is a lineup of failures. Every single one of them doubling down on the exact same failed progressive policies that gave us tent cities, smash-and-grab crime, crushing costs, and a record exodus.   And right now, the establishment is desperately trying to coordinate one man as the savior.  Xavier Becerra—how the heck is this guy even running? But let’s start with the rest of the sorry crew first. Katie Porter: She’s the whiteboard warrior who grilled CEOs on TV. She built a brand yelling at corporations, then ran for Senate and flamed out. Zero executive experience, zero record of fixing anything.  She’s still pushing the same anti-business populism while California families get crushed by the highest cost of living in America. But, no—don’t worry. She drives a minivan.   Tom Steyer, the billionaire climate crusader, self-funding his way through ads—he ran for president, got nowhere, and now he’s back with the same green mandates that doubled your electricity bill in California and made gas the most expensive in the country.  His past investments in coal and private prisons—conveniently ignored—while he lectures the rest of us.   Matt Mahan, San Jose mayor, who criticizes Newsom from the Left. His city, San Jose, still deals with the same homelessness and crime wave every other blue city has. No statewide vision, just more of the same.  Antonio Villaraigosa, the former L.A. mayor and assembly speaker—he had his shot years ago. L.A. streets got worse on his watch, and now he’s recycling the same old promises while the state hemorrhages residents.   Tony Thurmond, state school superintendent—California pours mountains of cash into education and still ranks near the bottom. He oversees that mediocrity and wants a promotion.  Betty Yee—she’s the only one, again, who has dropped out, but she’s still on the ballot—but she’s the former controller. She watched the budget swing wildly with stock prices and did nothing to stop the tax-and-spend insanity.   So every one of these people has something in common: They’re a loyal foot soldier in the same failed experiment.  Higher taxes, heavier regulations, soft-on-crime reforms, endless spending on homelessness that produces more tents, and green fantasies that make life unaffordable. They’re not offering change. They’re offering four more years of the same decline.   And that’s why the party can’t consolidate. Nobody stands out because they’re all the same. Recycled progressive failures who helped create this mess and now want to manage it.  So who does the Democratic Party machine turn to when the field is this weak? Xavier Becerra. The insiders, the donors, the Sacramento power brokers—they are rallying hard behind him right now. After Eric Swalwell imploded in scandal and dropped out, Becerra’s poll numbers shot up overnight. He’s suddenly the top Democrat in the race.  The establishment is trying to coordinate him as the anointed one, the safe, experienced choice to keep the machine humming.   This is their best? This is who they want to hand the keys to the fifth-largest economy on Earth? I’d like to talk about why that’s insane.  How is Xavier Becerra even running for governor? The guy has never run anything successfully. He’s a career politician and lawyer with zero health care experience, zero executive leadership record, and a trail of embarrassing failures everywhere he’s gone.  As California attorney general, he was a partisan attack dog who sued the Trump administration over 120 times, wasting your tax dollars on political theater instead of actually protecting Californians.  He went after pro-life pregnancy centers, forcing them to advertise abortions—a law the Supreme Court smacked down as unconstitutional.   He demanded nonprofits hand over donor lists and published them, violating privacy and exposing people to harassment. The Supreme Court eventually ruled against him there, too.  Becerra threatened reporters who wanted public records on crooked cops. He coddled bad police while pretending to be a reformer.   And during the early COVID chaos, his office was slammed for failing to lead on unemployment fraud—the biggest taxpayer rip-off in state history. He owns that.  Then Biden made him HHS secretary, head of the entire federal health apparatus during a pandemic. No medical background, no science background—just a left-wing trial lawyer.   What did Becerra deliver? An invisible, detached disaster. Critics called him missing in action—MIA. He barely showed up for briefings. He let infighting between CDC, FDA, and NIH drag on.  He violated the Hatch Act by campaigning for a Democrat while in office. He botched the legal reappointment of key NIH officials, putting billions in research and jobs in legal jeopardy—an attorney who couldn’t even handle basic paperwork required by the Constitution.  His monkeypox response—another mess under his watch. COVID guidance flip-flopped while he stayed on the sidelines. He pushed vaccine mandates and government tracking of who got jabbed, saying it was the government’s business to know your medical choices.  And then, my favorite—there’s the migrant-children scandal, one of the darkest stains on his record. Under Becerra’s watch at HHS, the department lost track of tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children. Early reports showed at least 85,000 children they couldn’t reach after placing them with sponsors. Broader estimates from oversight reports put the number unaccounted for as high as 320,000. Many were rushed into the hands of unvetted sponsors—some with criminal ties, some addresses that turned out to be strip clubs. Children ended up in forced labor, exploited and trafficked—reports of kids working in dangerous jobs, disappearing into the shadows.  Congress grilled Becerra repeatedly. His response: He downplayed it, claiming they just weren’t answering the phone. The top Health and Human Services official in America—the man in charge of protecting vulnerable kids—couldn’t account for tens of thousands of children placed under his department’s care.  That’s not oversight. That’s catastrophic negligence. That’s children treated like inventory in a failed open-border experiment.  Add in the corruption cloud from his own campaign account—money siphoned off by his longtime chief of staff and insiders in a federal fraud case. The former top law enforcement officer in California claims he had no idea.  I mean, the former attorney general of California, the top law enforcement officer in the state, didn’t notice his own inner circle running a scam. That’s incompetence wrapped in denial.  And this is the guy the Democratic establishment wants to crown—the one who helped turn California into a cautionary tale and then went to Washington to fumble a national health crisis.   The one who spent his career attacking religious freedoms, privacy rights, and common sense while doubling down on the same progressive poison that created our tent cities, our crime wave, and our middle-class exodus.  Becerra is not the solution. He’s the problem with a fresh coat of paint.  The Democrat bench for governor is embarrassingly weak because the entire party is bankrupt of new ideas. They can’t consolidate because every option is just more of the same failure that’s already destroying the state—and their desperate choice to rally behind Xavier Becerra proves it.  This is the best they’ve got? A scandal-plagued, unqualified careerist who failed at every level and now wants the biggest job in California.   Well, I guess he’s following in the footsteps of Gavin Newsom, who also failed upward spectacularly.  Nonetheless, California deserves better than this pathetic parade of has-beens and never-weres. The evidence is everywhere. It’s undeniable—the tents, the bills, the moving trucks.  If this is the Democrat bench, the state is in even deeper trouble than we thought.  This is Drew Allen with The Daily Signal. Thank you for watching.  We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal.

California college graduates have been struggling to take their next steps into the career world. According to one congressman, the issue is not a lack of jobs, but a prioritization of foreign workers. For years, the Golden State’s Bay Area has been a haven for jobs within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. But Republican Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt told The Daily Signal that companies and universities have been passing up American workers and instead relying on temporary employment tied to international students’ major area of study—known as Optional Practical Training. “We went from displacing blue-collar workers with sending jobs overseas, and then illegal immigrants suppressing wages and taking other jobs,” Schmitt said. “Then you also have white-collar job issue[s] with H-1B visa[s], which we tried to highlight, but also displacing recent grads and American students through these programs like OPT.” Schmitt has long called for the end of OPT. On Friday, he released data that showed California has 46,547 OPT workers with 19,285 employers. What I've found is staggering.46,547 OPT workers. 19,285 employers.New OPT data from California was provided to my office. pic.twitter.com/lReSVED74I— Senator Eric Schmitt (@SenEricSchmitt) April 24, 2026 While the concept of the OPT program was introduced in the late 1940s, it wasn’t until 1992 that the program was modernized and rolled out to California. Due to most of its early participants being from STEM and other technical fields, California quickly became a top destination for OPT. The program allows international college students who are in the U.S. on an F-1 student visa to work in the United States for a short time following graduation. Per the requirement, the job should be directly related to their major, giving them temporary legal work permission without needing a full work visa like an H-1B. The program quickly became popular with employers, as F-1 visa holders on OPT are exempt from Federal Insurance Contributions Act taxes, saving companies the full 7.65% employer payroll tax that they must pay for U.S. workers. “You’ve just seen thousands of American workers whose only crime was that they happen to be, I guess, more expensive than their foreign replacements that came over to do the same job. And they’re using the H-1B program,” Schmitt said. “They’re also using OPT as a way to the backdoor. It’s sort of a backdoor jobs program for foreign nationals at the expense of American workers and recent graduates struggling to find work,” he added. In 2012, 54 members from education, industry, and policy fields were gathered to create the California STEM Task Force. By the following year, the state adopted the Next Generation Science Standards, which became a core part of the push for California students to pursue STEM. In 2014, the task force released a report called “INNOVATE: A Blueprint for STEM Education,” laying out seven strategic recommendations that guided implementation throughout the state. Because of this collective push, statewide STEM bachelor’s degrees jumped 55% between 2010-2017, with non-STEM degrees growing only 17%, according to data from the Public Policy Institute of California. Within the California State University system alone, STEM majors now make up roughly 30% of undergraduate students, and STEM degrees conferred rose by more than 3,300 per year between 2016-17 and 2022-23, data from the state universities show.  The push from the state also included messaging to students that pursuing STEM would lead to abundant career opportunities and financial security in fast-growing industries. Although the state drove a successful campaign for STEM, recent data shows that graduates in the major are now having a difficult time finding a job after graduation. “What you’re seeing is OPT being used by universities as kind of this visa mill, because they get the students to pay full tuition,” Schmitt said. “The school benefits from it from that regard, and then employers get more compliant, cheaper labor because they’re dependent on that visa for their employment.” “And they don’t have to pay taxes for one-to-three years on that OPT employee, whereas they do have to pay taxes for American workers.” He explained this creates a “perverse incentive structure” to hire foreign labor instead of recent American graduates, and younger workers suffer. “If you want to really get at what Gen Z and others are frustrated with right now, they want to make sure they have opportunities. They take on a debt load to get the degree, and then they’re displaced by a foreign student or foreign worker for something that they’re eminently qualified for,” Schmitt added. National data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows that, overall, recent college graduates in all majors have an estimated 5.6% unemployment rate since late 2025.  Computer engineering is one of the highest among struggling majors, with roughly 7.5% to 7.8% of graduates unable to find a job. Additionally, computer science majors are around 6.1% to 7%, and physics majors are 6.6% to 7.8%. In comparison, surveys from UC Berkeley and UC San Diego show that an estimated 25% to 30% of recent respondents are still job-hunting or pivoting to further education post-graduation. “This is really being used to undermine the wages and opportunities of Americans. I think that’s the kind of abuse that we want to highlight. And I think that’s why we’re pushing for reform because the displacement of blue-collar workers has been well documented,” Schmitt said. Republicans have introduced bills in both the House and Senate that would either abolish the program or end the FICA payroll-tax exemption for OPT workers.  In November, Schmitt sent a letter to then-Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edlow, calling out the OPT program and its harms to American graduates. Although DHS later committed to reevaluate the entire OPT and STEM OPT program, there was a counter bipartisan bill introduced in March 2026.  Democrat Reps. Sam Liccardo of California and Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois, along with Republican California Rep. Jay Obernolte, introduced the bill to codify OPT into law so it can’t be ended by regulation alone. When asked about the pushback received regarding the possibility of eliminating the OPT program, Schmitt called out the Democratic Party’s push for open borders under the Biden administration.  He additionally noted that he believes President Donald Trump has taken action, pointing to an 87% decline in petitions for workers from outside the U.S. and the positive movement on H-1B visas. “[Democrats] have been captured by the radical Left. They don’t believe that we can decide how many people we let in and who has to leave. So that creates sort of a fundamental disconnect,” Schmitt said. “But look, I think both parties have to look in the mirror as it relates to legal immigration and decide who are we going to prioritize, American workers or cheaper foreign labor.”

The Justice Department has opened an investigation into three dozen Illinois school districts to determine whether pre-K–12 students were taught sexual orientation and gender identity content in classes without the schools notifying parents. The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is leading the investigation. “This Department of Justice is determined to put an end to local school authorities keeping parents in the dark about how sexuality and gender ideology are being pushed in classrooms,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, in a statement. Illinois, under Gov. J.B. Pritzker and state Attorney General Kwame Raoul, has clashed with the Trump administration on several legal fronts, such as immigration enforcement, federal funding, and other matters. Pritzker is the co-leader, along with Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, of Governors Safeguarding Democracy, a coalition of Democratic governors which promotes state litigation against the Trump administration. If schools are teaching sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI)-related content, the investigations will examine whether the schools have notified parents of their right to opt their children out of such instruction. The investigation will, in part, focus on whether the Illinois school districts limit access to single-sex bathrooms and locker rooms, and girls’ sports teams based on biological sex. The DOJ is citing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and Supreme Court precedent on parental rights as recently reiterated in Mirabelli v. Bonta in March. In that ruling, the high court upheld a temporary injunction preventing schools from withholding information from parents about gender transitions. In another 2025 ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor, the court allowed Maryland parents to opt their children out of exposure to LGBTQ school books. “Supreme Court precedent leaves no doubt: parents have the fundamental right and primary authority to direct the care, upbringing, and education of their children,” Dhillon said. “This includes exempting their children from ideological instruction that contradicts their values or decisions about their children’s health and best interests.” The Daily Signal contacted the Illinois State Board of Education and Attorney General Raoul’s office. Neither responded by publication time. The DOJ previously opened investigations into three Michigan school districts, as well as a joint investigation with the Department of Education into school sports in Washington state.

This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.  Sami Winc: So Victor, Donald Trump was actually a lot easier on his Secret Service and the others that were protecting him that night than actually you were.   He was interviewed by Norah O’Donnell. And he kind of said in that interview, and this is incidental to other things, but, well, you know, things happen and nothing goes quite as you expect in life, and he was kind of philosophic about it.  But I was wondering your thoughts on the interview. She seemed to want to bring out what the manifesto said, by the shooter, that Donald Trump was a pedophile, rapist, and traitor.   And he said, this is a shameful question to ask. Of course, I am none of those things. And you shouldn’t have this job. He was really combative. I loved it. And he was—that the lock—she asked him about the mocking of law enforcement, and that’s where he was kind of good on it, by the shooter saying, that this level of incompetence is insane.  Victor Davis Hanson: It’s not the, again, it’s not the individual officers. You could see the way they reacted, tactically, in that room. As soon as they heard the first shot, they jumped up and they dispatched people into the stairway. Go downstairs. They could tell where the sound came from. They got everybody out. They protected them. That wasn’t the problem.   The problem was that if somebody’s running by you and you have some agents there with firearms and you shoot five times and they’re all missing, that’s a problem. And you should not—that shouldn’t be in that venue with Trump.  I know it seats 2,500. I’ve been there for a White House Correspondence thing. You know it’s kind of a maze. But strategically is the breakdown. They didn’t have anybody to organize correctly, a means of security to get in and out of that hotel. If that guy got off the train with a suitcase with a shotgun and all that stuff, and he had to go through the main door of the hotel to check in, he wouldn’t have been able to go in there. And if they had everything covered, all the exits, he would not have been able to go in.  Winc: You know what you’re reminding me of, the guy in Las Vegas who got into that room on the upstairs. But he was there for an entire week before. So you know how long before would they have to, I think Donald Trump’s right about that, building that ballroom on the White House. It really would solve the problem.  Hanson: Yeah. I mean, everybody said, well, wouldn’t have a hotel—I got so—there was somebody in National Review—I’m not trying to single him out, but he said, oh, you know, it’s a terrible idea because it’s a government building. You can’t have private—come on. You can have a government-related event by the White House, even though it’s a private foundation, you can allow them to come into the government [building].   They rent all sorts of facilities from the government. They can do that. And it’s an advantage not to have a hotel because that just gets rid of a lot of your worries, that you don’t have to look at every single room. They all have to come to your place, bulletproof windows, cameras everywhere, completely designed for security. And I don’t know why they don’t do it. I know why they don’t do it, but it’s after this.  As far as Norah O’Donnell, I mean, she’s been humiliated by so many people. I think JD Vance and people.   But think about it, it would be as if FDR is doing a fireside chat and all of a sudden, I don’t know, Edward R. Murrow in World War II says, could I read you something? Here’s what  [Joseph] Goebbels said about you. And he said, you—and this is, I’m almost quoting verbatim what Goebbels would say—Rosestein, the Jewish puppet, has caused a whole war and attacked us and is committing atrocities, and we’re fighting the Bolshevik communist Jews. All this crazy stuff. And what would Roosevelt say? Oh, let me reply to that. How could you reply to it?  So nobody would do that. But she was airing a manifesto. It’s really weird because the press was always telling us when the trans shooter in Tennessee had the manifesto that basically said, from the little bit that leaked out, that trans was great, and anybody who opposed trans—and they hate he/she, she/he hated Christians. Oh, we can’t let that out because it might incite people against trans. Oh no.   But we can voice this thing because it will incite people, because he’s going to—I can get on national TV that Trump is the cause of his own assassination attempt. Trump didn’t have to be—let’s check it off—pedophile, rapist, traitor. And she wanted to get that out. And then she wanted to say, how do you feel about, basically, if you translate what she was saying, here’s the subtext. It wasn’t much—  Hey, Mr. President, how do you feel now that you committed rape and pedophilia and you were a traitor, what came around went around to you. And you got a boomerang. Do you feel like that was—that’s what she was saying.  Winc: Yeah. She was saying she agreed with this guy’s manifesto because, it in turn reflected hers, the Left’s ideas   Hanson: about Donald Trump.  And as I said, it was a petri dish. Where did she get this? Well, she got it from all these people repeating it ad nauseam. Jimmy Kimmel every night. Robert De Niro. Jeremy Raskin, Tim Walz when he went over to that Commie Social conference in Barcelona. And he trashed the United States and trashed our military effort, while we’re fighting. And said that it was fascism. That was the eighth time, seventh or eighth time, he’s called Trump a fascist.  So if you keep doing that, and doing that, and doing that, and you inundate social media and communications with all of these alleged stuff, then somebody’s going to say, well, I want to be a Luigi Mangione, because the coolest guy, Hasan Piker—he’s got a weird little great Islamic first name. He’s part Turkish, he’s kind of DEI and he drives an $80,000 Porsche and he is a multimillionaire and his parents were multimillionaires and he’s a commie. This is great. He is cool. Well, when they echo all of that, then they come out of the woodwork.  Where did they get it originally? Well, it’s a petri dish. If you go through the rapist—the rapist came from Judge Kaplan,in the E. Jean Carroll case. That was a complete travesty. And if you want to read about it, as I said to Jack, I wrote about it in Counter-Revolution at length.   It was the biggest travesty of a thing I’ve ever read in my life. She’s completely—they had a bill of attainder, which is illegal. The New York Legislature, just to hurt Trump, passed a law that said for one year there will be no statute of limitations on sex allegation crimes. And that was for her. And then she immediately filed it, and she didn’t know the date. She didn’t—anyway, my point is that, that thing was a joke. And they acquitted him of rape.  They said he was guilty of sexual assault. And they don’t know what happened. And that he said, she said. She said she accompanied him willingly to a dressing room and they closed the door, and they engaged in contact. But she felt he went too far. So they called that sexual assault, according to no witnesses, nothing.  Winc: No. And a Left-wing jury,   Hanson: And she said her favorite—in, you know, ten years, later or 20 years later, said her favorite show was The Apprentice.  And she thought Donald Trump was great. So when she saw him, he was a celebrity. She thought even then. But my point is that, that’s what the judge said. Well, he wasn’t convicted of rape, but it was equivalent to it. It wasn’t. Or they would have convicted him. And then [George] Stephanopoulos got that and said, rapist, rapist, rapist, rapist, rape. 11 times. And lost that—They had to settle.  Winc: That was CBS.  Hanson: I thought it was ABC.  Winc: Was that ABC? Well, said that CBS was paying him millions. He was on 60 Minutues. Donald Trump said…  Hanson: Well, they are too. Yeah, they both are, I think. And then pedophilia came from the Epstein files. All these people said he is holding the Epstein files. And they never said why [Joe] Biden held it for four years. Well, there were a lot more Democrats in the Epstein files than Republicans. And one of the victims said that Donald Trump, and so did [Gislaine] Maxwell, had nothing to do with it, with the sex crime. But they issued that Democratic talking point.  Traitor, that came from—James Clapper said that Donald Trump was [Vladimir] Putin’s poodle. And so did [John] Brennan. He said he was working with the Russians. All of them did during Russian Collusion. That was all debunked, even [Robert] Mueller couldn’t prove it.  So they were all lies. And she wanted to get those lies on national TV and then say, if you hadn’t—Mr. President, if you hadn’t been a rapist, a pedophile, and a traitor, you probably wouldn’t have been shot. How do you feel about that? And that’s what made him get angry.  Winc: Yeah. And he didn’t let her do that because he just said, those are all demonstrably untrue. And nobody that was a professional interviewer would ever do that. You are the worst interviewer. It was a fascinating interview to watch. I recommend it to everybody.  She deserved it.  Yeah, she deserved every bit. Donald Trump really gave it to her.  Hanson: The thing about Trump is—everybody gets angry   Winc: that he can be rude and uncooth but just ask yourself real quickly—she would have done that with any other president, that was a Republican. She would.  She wouldn’t have done that with any …  Hanson: I think she would have.  Winc: You think?  Hanson: If she could go—they did it—they tried to do that with George W. Bush, with the National Guard. And they said he was a coward. And they tried to do it with George H.W. Bush. He was a war hero, and they tried to—I think—a guy wrote article in—I don’t know which magazine—and he said he had bailed out too early and he got his two people killed. And it was crazy.  But my point—and if you look at what they said about [John] McCain. He can’t remember which house—he has 11 houses. He doesn’t know where he is. And he had an affair. With Romney, they said he hazed people in high school. He put his dog out there. Remember that? All that stuff.   But none of them would have ever said to a reporter, you should be ashamed of yourself. That is disgusting. And that’s why people voted for Trump, because they were tired of the Marquess of Queensberry rules. That every Republican candidate, whether it’s the losing track of Bob Dole, John McCain, Mitt Romney, or it was the winning track after, Reagan and George H.W. and George W., they didn’t want to get down and fight in the gutter. And I’m not saying it’s the gutter, but they didn’t want to get dirty.   And the last guy that wanted to get dirty was Lee Atwater. And he got dirty. And he destroyed Michael Dukakis and tore off his—he called it the bark. Boston Harbor ad, Tank ad, Willie Horton ad. And he got Bush elected. And then they thought, I’m never going to do that again. I would rather lose nobly than win ugly. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal.