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Thursday on Tequila Talk, Cliff and Joe Walsh squared off over the most chaotic Senate race in America. Janet Mills just dropped out of Maine. The field now belongs to Graham Platner—the populist insurgent with a beard, a flannel shirt, a Nazi tattoo he allegedly lied about, a paper trail of guests on far-right anti-Semitic radio shows, and the kind of working-class authenticity Democratic primary voters say they’re starving for.
The problem? Walsh isn’t buying it. “There isn’t a tent big enough for Joe Walsh and Graham Platner,” he tells Cliff in one of the sharpest lines of the night. And then they go—two friends, half a bottle of tequila in, fighting over whether the Democratic Party needs fighters, saints, or something neither of them can quite name.
The conversation goes deeper than Maine. It runs through Mills’ filibuster blunder that cost her Cliff’s support, through the Hungary playbook that just ended Orbán, through the question of whether you’d vote for Rashida Tlaib if she were running against Susan Collins in your state, and through the harder question underneath all of it: when the GOP nominated Trump three times, did they take character off the table for everyone—and what does the Democratic Party become if it follows?
Cliff closes with a stake-the-ground call for institutional reform: 17 justices on the Supreme Court, a bigger House, the filibuster gone, and six-to-nine Senate pickups in 2026. If you’ve ever wondered what an honest argument between two friends who agree on the stakes but disagree on the tactics actually sounds like, this is it. Pour something good and hit play.
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