In three national election cycles, it seems pretty clear Tangerine was not favored by a majority of those who actually went out and… voted.

Not in 2016; not in 2020… and as the balance of the last 2 million or so ballots come in from largely blue districts in California… not in 2024, either.

So all of the nonsense over at Powerline, about mandates, or landslides… is just BS.

And Hayward is the bullshitter, in chief.

But the second, of his own charts, this afternoon, puts the lie to his prior crowing.

See at above right.

What a putz.

Update @ 10 PM CST: Hinderaker confirms Gaetz has very little chance of clearing a GOP Senate hearing unscathed on credible charges of transporting across state lines — to have sex with underage (boys and) girls, and illegal drug use. [But the MAGA moral indignation is only ever aimed at… Democrats, it seems.] End update.

In passing, I (too) doubt Matt Gaetz can be confirmed as the US AG… but we shall see.

If this Senate will confirm a Faux News talking head to be Secretary of Defense (never in our history has that cabinet level position been held by anyone not already at least a multi-star General — and this TV guy… was last an enlisted man, over two decades ago) — I guess any clown show in this circus… is possible.

Onward, grinning — what a pack of… dead-enders.