A California man, Cole Tomas Allen, decided to shoot up the White House Correspondents Dinner, and ruined all the fun where President Trump was expected to unload about an hour of mockery on the elitist media. Does anyone expect this scare to change the longstanding hostility of the press corps? NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck and associate editor Nick Fondacaro joined the show, since they worked long into the evening after the dinner on Saturday. Just minutes before the violence, CNN analyst S.E. Cupp made some unfortunate remarks: “You just heard Brian Stelter say that the Correspondents Association was trying to sort of mend some fences with a guy who wants us dead -- figuratively, figuratively. He wants journalism dead.” Scott Jennings offered a rebuttal: “He may roast the press, and they spend 24 hours a day roasting him, and they need to have a little bit of thick skin and put on their big boy pants and take it.” CNN came into the big dinner with the usual trepidation of what insults might be thrown by the president, but Brian Stelter jumped in to report happenings from the dinner. Wolf Blitzer recounted being just a few feet from the shooter. Van Jones and Scott Jennings agreed with Trump that the event should go on to show resilience, but Van Lathan and S.E. Cupp agreed “this country is sick.” Stelter came out of his reporting in the aftermath of the shooting with the usual liberal spin. His special "Reliable Sources" newsletter reliably toe-tapped the line. The headline was "An all-too-common American story." The foiled shooting at this exclusive Washington party was "extraordinary," and yet, it's the latest example of Americans have too much access to guns. Despite the clarity of "progressive" viewpoint in the shooter's manifesto, it was annoying when some reporters were still pretending the motive was unclear. Even when they described the manifesto's contents, some were reluctant to identify it as on the Left. Reporters noticed that a truce of sorts broke out between the president and the press over their shared scare, but by the time CBS reporter Norah O'Donnell bonked Trump over the head by quoting the manifesto calling him a rapist, a pedophile, and a traitor, the "truce" was over and Trump called O'Donnell "disgusting." The media love to pretend that all of the hostility and aggression is coming from the president, somehow ignoring their own hostility and aggression against Trump.  Enjoy the podcast below. The audio is here.  

It’s been 48 hours since the attempted assassination of President Trump and senior Cabinet officials at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Sadly, one network endeavors to deemphasize the words contained within the shooter’s manifesto, and hide his leanings from viewer consideration. Watch as correspondent Matt Gutman papers over all of these important insights into the shooter, reducing his statements to his mockery of the security arrangements outside the D.C. Hilton: THE FADE BEGINS: The sole mention of the WHCD shooter's writings on tonight's CBS Evening News alludes to his mockery of the security situation at the D.C. Hilton: no mention of a manifesto, or of his political leanings. MATT GUTMAN: In an email to family timed to be sent just… pic.twitter.com/FtAqGlXEa2 — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 28, 2026 MATT GUTMAN: In an email to family timed to be sent just before the incident, police say the suspect himself expressed surprise at the security footprint. He wrote "I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat. The security at the event is all outside… because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before." Inexplicably, there isn’t even a mention of the now-public manifesto anywhere within this report. Likewise, there is no real examination of the shooter’s motive. Gutman’s report instead focuses on the timeline of the shooting, and on elements of the press conference announcing the shooter would be charged with attempted assasination of the President of the United States- a life felony.  As our own Curtis Houck noted earlier, there is an ongoing effort to obscure the shooter’s leanings and motivations as much as possible. To put a fine point on it, the effort entails obscuring any and all of the shooter’s leftist leanings and loathing of Donald Trump.  But we know that this is proof of a glaring double standard. Were the shooter counted among conservatives, that’s all we’d hear about. Many Raju would be chasing Congressional Republicans down the Senate halls for reaction. But the Kamala voter and honors stg A reasonable observer could watch this report and determine that if it weren’t for double standards, there’d be none at all.  Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report on the CBS Evening News on Monday, April 27th, 2026: TONY DOKOUPIL: And good evening. He was a star student, an award-winning teacher, and now he's charged with an attempt to assassinate the president. 31-year-old Cole Allen, according to new documents filed today in federal court, bought these weapons, a semiautomatic handgun and pump action shotgun legally as far back as 2023. But in early April, investigators say he booked a room at the Washington Hilton and made a plan to attack the dinner there on Saturday. According to his own writings, his targets included President Trump and members of the administration, and he would go through most everyone to get there. Allen has not yet entered a plea. Chief Correspondent Matt Gutman has been following the investigation from the beginning and he joins us now. Matt, what more have we learned? MATT GUTMAN: Tony, we now know that that suspect allegedly planned the attack weeks in advance and that he himself had written that he was surprised at the light security footprint at this hotel. We also spoke to a witness who saw him race past security, and she noticed that the doors to the bottom at the time were open, so she ran downstairs herself to close them.  Two days after allegedly charging towards that Washington ballroom Saturday night, Cole Allen was in a federal courtroom today facing formal Department of Justice charges of the attempted assassination of a President. JEANINE PIRRO: Make no mistake. This was an attempted assassination of the President of the United States. With the defendant making clear what his intent was- to bring down as many of the high-ranking Cabinet officials as he could. GUTMAN: President Trump has faced two previous assassination attempts, both during the 2024 campaign. Prosecutors also brought two federal gun charges against the California teacher, alleging he was armed with a 12-gauge shotgun, .38 semiautomatic handgun, and three knives. They say he raced through a magnetometer leading to a staircase descending to the packed ballroom. The suspect then appears to fall forward right at guest Erin Thieman's feet. And then immediately they were on top of (unint). ERIN THIEMAN: At that point I saw that he had his hands out in front of him on the ground and the shotgun had fallen to his side so he dropped his gun, and I deemed it safe to get the hell out of there. GUTMAN: Within seconds, you can see Secret Service agents emerging from those doors. THIEMAN: I ran downstairs.  GUTMAN: And what did you see about these doors? THIEMAN: The doors were wide open and I was very concerned because we have the line of succession for our country in the ballroom, and I didn't know what they knew. So I started shutting the ballroom doors. GUTMAN: As plates clattered and a hush silenced the 2500 guests who began ducking beneath tables, many of us began to film. It took about ten seconds for officers to reach the president. It took security teams more than 3 minutes to clear top administration officials. The president and 12 of the 18 in the top line of succession were safe. A breakneck investigation began into how the suspect got that close, revealing that Allen, a 31-year-old from near Los Angeles, booked his room at the hotel on April 6th. President Trump announced he would attend the dinner on March 2nd. Allen checked into the Washington Hilton on Friday, April 24, the day before the dinner, traveling cross country with his weapons by train, said officials. The Secret Service said its safety net worked. But top officials tonight are facing tough questions. TODD BLANCHE: Law enforcement did not fail. They did exactly what they are trained to do. This was not an accident. It was the result, as we know now, of preparation. GUTMAN: In an email to family timed to be sent just before the incident, police say the suspect himself expressed surprise at the security footprint. He wrote "I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat. The security at the event is all outside… because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before." And Tony, the White House Correspondents' Dinner has been held at the Hilton here for decades, with largely the same security protocol. What has changed and The White House acknowledges this, is the threat environment in this country, the rise of political violence. Tony. DOKOUPIL: Yeah, we all feel it. Matt, thank you very much.  

CNN host Jake Tapper is a repeat guest on the late-night comedy shows on all the broadcast networks. These fiercely anti-Trump comedians are his pals. Last year, Tapper became especially fierce in defending Jimmy Kimmel’s vicious lie that Charlie Kirk’s killer was a Trump fan. Tapper hosted an hour-long CNN special titled No Laughing Matter: Free Speech Under Attack. Tapper falsely claimed in that special that Kimmel “wasn’t calling the shooter MAGA.” He told NBC’s Seth Meyers that Kimmel’s suspension was “pretty much the most direct infringement by the government on free speech that I've seen in my lifetime.” (That’s not counting the free speech of Charlie Kirk.) On Monday's The Lead, Tapper crusaded for Kimmel again after he was condemned by Melania Trump, followed by President Trump again calling on ABC to dump Kimmel after he created a fake Correspondents Dinner routine on  Thursday night where he said to Melania: "So beautiful, Mrs. Trump. You have a glow like an expectant widow." Tapper lamented "what was perhaps inevitable that the Trump administration would try to use Saturday’s horrific act of violence to try to clamp down on criticism and free speech." In other words, Tapper didn't object to Kimmel's joke half as much as to criticism from the Trumps. It's quite obvious that Tapper acts as a defense lawyer for Jimmy Kimmel when he makes nasty jokes about Dead Trump. His client cannot be judged for mean-spirited dumb cracks after the shooting. (How about before the shooting?) Tapper REALLY objects to anyone seeking to curb… pic.twitter.com/7BmybkKCNa — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) April 28, 2026 TAPPER: Today, the President and the first lady, Melania Trump, citing a joke that comedian Jimmy Kimmel made last Thursday on his show, tried to connect that joke with the assassination attempt. Now, there is zero evidence — zero evidence that the would-be, alleged assassin heard the joke....is it fair to judge Jimmy Kimmel’s joke in light of what happened at the dinner two nights later?... Does anyone out there think that Karoline Leavitt had any idea what would happen? I don’t. Does anyone out there think that Jimmy Kimmel had any idea what happened? What would happen? I don’t know, do I think both, in retrospect, would choose their words differently in retrospect, given what happened on Saturday night? Of course. But this crusade against Kimmel  was predictable because the Trump administration’s attempt to use Saturday’s shooting as justification to stop all critical coverage, whether journalistic or comedic, of Donald Trump.  This entire formulation makes excuses for Kimmel and crusades against stopping "all critical coverage," including "comedic" coverage of the Trumps. It's somehow unfair to judge Kimmel after the fact. Wasn't it easy to judge Kimmel as a crude jerk before Saturday night? Is Tapper incapable of imagining that he wouldn't like a "joke" about Dead Jake Tapper and his beautiful widow?  Then Tapper lamented how Trump appointee Kari Lake attacked CNN at their table for causing the shooting with their rhetoric, and Tapper said she "trailed me for about a block I was trying to ignore her. She was saying that I was responsible for what happened. CNN’s responsible for what happened, and that unhinged rant by someone who, frankly, obviously needs help." Notice again: Tapper defensively says Kimmel might have chosen different words, but he was not guilty of an "unhinged rant" like the apparent psycho stalker Kari Lake.  Ultimately, Tapper thinks the attempted censorship is worse than the crude talk of Trump being murdered: “It is a big problem of calls for violence and dehumanization, and it’s getting worse. But it is not a problem to be wielded like a cudgel to try to stop journalism or jokes. Journalism and jokes are not calls for violence, calls for violence are calls for violence, and far too many Americans in positions of power and influence are too blasé and too glib about those who make them.” CNN’s Jake Tapper says journalists and comedians like Jimmy Kimmel are not the ones hurling incendiary rhetoric and are not irresponsible for the rise of political violence... “It is a big problem of calls for violence and dehumanization, and it’s getting worse. But it is not a… pic.twitter.com/AoWGCcZYO0 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 27, 2026 If there is ANYONE who is too blase and glib right now about violent talk like Trump being killed, it's Jimmy Kimmel. Journalism and jokes CAN be dehumanizing. Just because the "establishment" does it doesn't make it right. CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper 04/27/26 5:41:17 p.m. 5 minutes and 17 seconds [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Breaking News; Trump Admin Labels Criticism, Jokes as Calls For Violence After Would-Be Assassin Target Admin Officials Saturday] JAKE TAPPER: Let us discuss now two important aspects of what has happened in the United States since the horrific attempted assassination on President Trump and members of the Trump administration. And let me be clear at the very outset that the violence is horrific and should be condemned by everyone. I’ll get into the responsibility that we all have to help bring down the temperature in a second. But first, let me touch on the news today and what was perhaps inevitable that the Trump administration would try to use Saturday’s horrific act of violence to try to clamp down on criticism and free speech. Today, the President and the first lady, Melania Trump, citing a joke that comedian Jimmy Kimmel made last Thursday on his show, tried to connect that joke with the assassination attempt. Now, there is zero evidence — zero evidence that the would-be, alleged assassin heard the joke. In fact, authorities say the suspect left California for Washington, D.C., by train on Tuesday, so his trip to D.C. started long before Jimmy Kimmel told this joke on Thursday night, airing this pretend correspondents dinner skit. JIMMY KIMMEL [on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, 04/23/26]: Then, of course, our First Lady, Melania, is here. Look at — so beautiful Mrs. Trump. You have a glow like an expectant widow. TAPPER: Earlier today, the First Lady tweeted: “Kimmel’s...monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America...It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.” This in response to a joke she did not like. This afternoon, President Trump followed with a Truth social post that said, ‘this is something far beyond the pale. Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC.’ There was more, but let us just take this moment and say, is it fair to judge Jimmy Kimmel’s joke in light of what happened at the dinner two nights later? White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Saturday, shortly before the shooting, that President Trump’s speech would be funny and there would be ‘shots fired,’ which of course would not taken literally refers to humorous insults. Does anyone out there think that Karoline Leavitt had any idea what would happen? I don’t. Does anyone out there think that Jimmy Kimmel had any idea what happened? What would happen? I don’t know, do I think both, in retrospect, would choose their words differently in retrospect, given what happened on Saturday night? Of course. But this crusade against Kimmel was predictable because the Trump administration’s attempt to use Saturday’s shooting as justification to stop all critical coverage, whether journalistic or comedic, of Donald Trump. That started even before the ballroom emptied. Because Kari Lake, the election denier who’s currently in charge of voice of America, she approached a CNN table after the shooting and blamed journalists for the attempted attack and personally insulted one of our correspondents as a “midget.” She then went outside and trailed me for about a block I was trying to ignore her. She was saying that I was responsible for what happened. CNN’s responsible for what happened, and that unhinged rant by someone who, frankly, obviously needs help, is now being matched with social media posts and more from the White House trying to use this horrific tragedy to demonize any criticism as calls for violence. And the President has been making literal calls for violence since 2015. I’m not even going to go into them. You’re familiar with them, but literal calls for violence. Now, a reminder that the President’s tone immediately after the attack on Saturday was praised by Democrats and Republicans, and it was far more conciliatory. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP [on 04/25/26]: I ask that all Americans recommit with their hearts in resolving our differences peacefully. We have to. We have to resolve our differences. TAPPER: That sentiment clearly did not last long. And let us turn now to this deranged alleged, would-be assassin whose writings clearly seem to be from someone on the left. And there is a problem with violence on the left in the United States. And there is a problem with violence on the right in the United States and to — to debate which one is worse is honestly to avoid the problem. It’s all awful. It all needs to stop now. Now, there was a time when people who tried to justify violence against anyone were considered fringe lunatics. Today, a lot of them are called influencers. Social media companies have figured out how to commodify the hate that they push. It’s pushed by these twisted algorithms too. And politicians and pundits are increasingly lending their credibility to these influencers. And those politicians and pundits are playing a role in this, too.

The “Big Three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC each provided extensive coverage on their lead Monday morning news shows of Saturday’s White House Correspondents Dinner (WHCD) shooting that we learned was a third assassination attempt against President Trump in less than two years. But when it came to coverage of the suspect’s ideology and motive, they refused to engage on the former and couldn’t bring themselves to refer to him as a leftist, left-wing, liberal, Marxist, or even progressive. ABC’s Good Morning America was true to form as by far the most ludicrous. Longtime Justice correspondent Pierre Thomas declared off the top of his report about Cole Thomas Allen that “[l]aw enforcement sources are describing allegations that point to a suspect who is extremely intelligent and who was meticulous in planning to conduct a mass shooting that was intended to kill top administration officials, including, possibly the President.” Notice how this story from Monday’s ‘Good Morning America’ on ABC did nothing to ascribe ideology or political leanings to the #WCHD shooter, merely referring to the suspect as “extremely intelligent and who was meticulous in planning to conduct a mass shooting that was intended… pic.twitter.com/QqsLb7kfW3 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 27, 2026 “Sources describe a message Cole Allen allegedly sent to his family before the attack. That message allegedly describes grievances against Trump administration officials, expressing how, if necessary, he would kill from the highest ranking to the lowest, including any Secret Service member that got in his way. allegedly ends the message with a critique of hotel security,” Thomas added. Co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos recognized this was the “third assassination attempt against President Trump and the domestic terror threat, about as high as it’s ever been,” but refused to go any further. Thomas kept it vague, thus playing both-sides: “George, this is perhaps the most dangerous threat environment since 9/11. And there has been a surge in politically motivated attacks, like nothing we’ve seen in decades.” In the show’s second hour, chief investigative correspondent Aaron Katersky explicitly tried to both-sides recent political violence, leaving out the crucial fact that the suspected arsonist targeted Pennsylvania Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro’s mansion because he was a leftist upset about Israel’s war against Hamas and, in his deranged view, Shapiro was culpable because he’s Jewish: ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ DOWNPLAYS political violence against Republicans, arguing it’s happening equally to both parties... Aaron Katersky: “Sources also told ABC News the suspect sent a message to his family just before allegedly rushing the checkpoint, describing himself… pic.twitter.com/ImFeyADnob — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 27, 2026 Going over to NBC’s Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie said shortly after the teases the suspect would be arraigned later in the day and “investigators say was armed and believed to be targeting President Trump and other high-level officials who were attending the dinner.” “Meanwhile, President Trump speaking out overnight amid new details about anti-Trump messages the suspect sent to family members,” co-host Craig Melvin added. Senior White House correspondent Gabe Gutierrez had the tick-tock of Saturday, but included in his report a line about “a senior administration official say[ing] Cole sent writings to family members expressing a desire to target administration officials.” Allen’s motive fell to longtime correspondent Kelly O’Donnell, who remained vague: NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell claimed on Monday’s ‘Today’ show that the #WHCD shooting suspect “left behind writings that...could unlock a motive” and “[a]uthorities say they hope to identify what they call a triggering event” and his manifesto merely referred to “intended targets” and… pic.twitter.com/plC7J37h5l — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 27, 2026 National law enforcement and intelligence correspondent Tom Winter was on set with Guthrie and, while he couldn’t bring himself to call Allen a leftist, he was unequivocal in telling viewers that Allen wanted to take out the President: NBC’s Savannah Guthrie and Tom Winter couldn’t bring themselves to use a political label — liberal, leftist, lefty, progressive, or Marxist — to describe the #WHCD shooter who wanted to kill the President and members of his cabinet.... Guthrie: “You’ve seen some of the writings… pic.twitter.com/JOBstVtrEG — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 27, 2026 Later in the block, Winter emphasized “law enforcement’s biggest concern is that the idea that you could solve your political problems or your personal problems through violence and targeted attacks could then take root in American society” and that’s borne out with three Trump assassination attempts, Charlie Kirk’s murder, the United HealthCare CEO, and, in an attempt at supposed balance, the Minnesota Democrats: NBC’s Tom Winter on the ‘Today’ show discussing the political violence: “Look, we sat here on July 14, 2024, this exact set, and talked about the concern following the first Trump administration attempt. What did that mean? And law enforcement’s biggest concern is that the idea… pic.twitter.com/43Z6t1APwi — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 27, 2026 CBS Mornings was also rather cursory in its reporting. After co-host Gayle King stated off the top that “[t]he suspect...is a teacher from...a Los Angeles suburb...with no previous criminal record,” it aired a portion of 60 Minutes when Norah O’Donnell read aloud the portion of the suspect’s alleged manifesto lashing out at Trump as “a pedophile, rapist, and traitor,” which led to an fiery response from the President. Back live, fill-in co-host Major Garrett said it was something O’Donnell “had to ask” Trump about while, for her part, O’Donnell said it was part of “these...important questions about what happened and why it happened” and “the state of America — political violence and extremism.” To their credit, they were the only broadcast network morning show to mention the conspiracy theories on the far left and far right questioning whether the shooting was staged: Earlier in the show, @NorahODonnell shared part of her '60 Minutes' conversation with President Trump about these conspiracy theories pic.twitter.com/h31vSWqBtY — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 27, 2026 Monday's 'CBS Mornings' was the only broadcast network morning show to mention and rip down the insane conspiracy theories swirling (on the left and right) that Saturday's #WHCD shooting was somehow "staged"@MajorCBS Garrett: "You can fill in blanks that don't exist. There are… pic.twitter.com/HX5Sj6ECML — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 27, 2026 But during its own report on the suspect, chief correspondent Matt Gutman largely hewed to one (but nonetheless important) aspect of the investigation in the path the shooter took Saturday, including walking viewers up to his hotel room and down the stairwell to the hallways outside the ballroom. On the writings, however, he only said Allen “expressed deep anger at the administration, and said he was targeting administration officials from the highest ranking to the lowest.” Adding he was “teacher from Southern California...awarded Teacher of the Month at a College Prep Academy in December of 2024,” Gutman summarized the manifesto as having declared he would be “targeting Trump administration officials ‘from highest ranking to lowest’” and that security was minimal. To see the relevant transcripts from April 27, click here (for ABC), here (for CBS), and here (for NBC).

Yvonne Wingett Sanchez of The Atlantic was the star of the latest episode of the journalist roundtable Washington Week. After moderator (and Sanchez boss) Jeffrey Goldberg introduced the program with the dubious claim that “Iran is in the driver’s seat in the Gulf,” among other debatable anti-Trump declarations, he pivoted to Sanchez, a Phoenix-based reporter making her Washington Week debut, made the most of it by taking people’s legitimate economic worries up to 11: Much of her rhetoric was familiar from her recent story from Arizona for The Atlantic, "Trump Voters Are Over It." YVONNE WINGETT SANCHEZ: It is terrifying to a lot of people. They -- for a lot of people, this just came out of nowhere. They have no idea what we're doing, why we're there. This is a president who promised that he would not do this. He would only bring peace. They're paying more at the pump. They're canceling their summer vacations. They can't afford to take their wives and families out for dinner. I mean, there's a huge disconnect between what is happening out in the real world and how people are absorbing this moment in his decisions and how they may view this playing out by the time the midterms actually roll around. Gas going up a dollar means no restaurant meals? No summer vacations?  Yvonne Wingett Sanchez made a dramatic debut at the PBS Washington Week roundtable talking Trump, Iraq, and prices: "It is terrifying to a lot of people. They -- for a lot of people, this just came out of nowhere. They have no idea what we're doing, why we're there." pic.twitter.com/JwTrhfBiPa — Clay Waters (@claywaters44) April 27, 2026 Host Goldberg returned to her later for more hyped-up talk of Democratic optimism on the midterms JEFFREY GOLDBERG: …. Yvonne, you've spent a lot of time crisscrossing Arizona and other states talking to Trump supporters. And what you've heard has really surprised you. Let me read this one observation you made in The Atlantic early this week. “Midterm elections are typically rough for an incumbent president's party, but this year threatens to be brutal. Trump's approval is lower right now than it was at this point ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.” What are you -- what have you been hearing in the last couple of weeks, last few weeks from MAGA voters? YVONNE WINGETT SANCHEZ: Yes. I mean, it is the sacrifices that they are having to make within their own homes and within their own households to be able to afford this environment. And this is very much -- to a lot of people, this feels like COVID era prices. It feels like, psychologically, they feel like they are in a really bad economic spot. They're pre-buying electronics. They are cutting back on, like I said, like the family vacations. Like they feel like they are having to make sacrifices for someone that they didn`t want to. Asked about Democrat chances in Arizona in the midterms, Sanchez was giddy with favorable predictions. SANCHEZ: I do. There are two toss-up House seats, one held by representative David Schweikert, Scottsdale-based, wealthy voters there are livid. They are very tuned in. This is a lot of independent voters, centrist Republicans who have just had it. Down south in the Tucson-based Congressional district held by Representative Juan Ciscomani, a Republican that has narrowly flipped back and forth over the last several cycles, and that is a seat that Democrats think that they can flip. They can pick up two seats in Arizona easily, possibly a third. Both of these districts were tight victories last time, so we’ll see how those optimistic Democratic predictions pan out for Sanchez.  But you can't miss that PBS is your channel for giddy Democrat talk.