The third hour of post-midterm morning coverage confronts the scale of conservative election losses across the country alongside national investigative headlines. The show begins with reactions to Republican voter turnout apathy and cultural shifts surrounding Missouri's Amendment 3 defeat, reviewing election night audio from Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed, Donald Trump on Fox News, Will Cain, and Scott Jennings. Heritage Foundation Executive Vice President Derrick Morgan joins the program to analyze the nationwide wipeout, comparing the cycle to 1974 and 2006 while assessing how elevated fuel prices and military operations in Iran impacted voter sentiment. Gregg Keller, principal at Atlas Strategy Group and spokesman for the pro-Ken Paxton Lone Star Liberty PAC, delivers an insider breakdown of the sweeping GOP collapse across Texas, detailing how James Talarico unseated Paxton, Greg Abbott lost the governorship, and Rio Grande Valley gains reversed, while outlining future 2028 challenge strategies against newly elected Representative Fred Wellman in MO-02 and pushing for deep budget cuts in Jefferson City. The hour concludes on "Kim on a Whim," examining new NTSB reports that an elevator piece detached miles from the Florida private jet crash that claimed nine lives, including tech CEO Adam Robinson and his family, while debunking online missile conspiracy theories.
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