Peggy Flanagan Wins Minnesota, Karoline Leavitt Is Out, and Trump Hid in a Food Cart

Peggy Flanagan won Minnesota's Senate primary by nineteen points while being outspent four to one, and almost nobody covered it. Francesca Hong lost Wisconsin by four tenths of a point to a man who had dropped out of the race a month earlier. Same week, same movement, opposite results — so we get into what actually separated them, and why Republicans have decided to destroy Abdul El-Sayed while leaving Flanagan almost entirely alone. That leads into the argument at the center of this episode: AOC's "Woke 1 was crazy" comment. Nick makes the case that it isn't a betrayal, it's a hierarchy of needs — you can't ask someone to care about climate change when they can't make rent. Rick brings the Latinx and unhoused debates, and we land on why the loudest voices in that era were often white people speaking for communities they never talked to. Also this week: Todd Blanche's DOJ, the USS Abraham Lincoln and 250 days at sea with sailors going overboard while Trump says it hasn't been "nearly long enough," the National Guard occupying DC through 2029 at a billion and a half dollars, an executive order cutting childhood vaccines from seventeen diseases to eleven, Karoline Leavitt's resignation and the question of whether it was worth it, and Trump escaping Turkey inside a catering container while leaving half his cabinet on a decoy plane. Plus: who we're endorsing in Markey vs. Moulton, why AOC should primary Schumer, Ossoff's generational lock-in, and a Filipino martial arts master who may or may not be able to knock people unconscious by touching their ear. (00:00) Halloween is overrated (04:07) Flanagan crushes it in Minnesota (14:08) Hong loses Wisconsin by 0.4 (21:20) AOC and whether Woke 1 was crazy (36:41) Who Will You Endorse: Markey vs. Moulton (51:40) Florida votes tomorrow (52:45) AOC, egg freezing, and primarying Schumer (57:35) The USS Abraham Lincoln (01:01:05) Ossoff is generationally locked in (01:06:47) The National Guard owns DC until 2029 (01:07:19) Vaccines cut from seventeen to eleven (01:08:08) Karoline Leavitt taps out (01:13:40) Trump threatens Oman (01:14:20) The catering container escape (01:18:51) Snopes, Türkiye, and Filipino martial arts