7/6/26: Zohran July 4th Speech, AIPAC Millions In Michigan, FIFA Corruption

22:33Amazing. He had the most amazing comment about Mom Donnie's speech. Two months shy of the 25th anniversary of 9-11, this is what New York City's mayor has to say about the 4th of July. Mom Donnie is unwell.

22:50Emily Jashinsky:Unwell? And you're like, wait a minute, hold on. first of all, it's two months and a week shy of 9-11. 9-11? Like, what is... So I want to know, what is the window around September 11th where a Muslim has to be, like, conscious of what they're saying about New York City? Is it three months? So from June through, I guess, like, September, October, November, December, or maybe into January. So June into January, basically. But then if you get into February, like you're getting close to the six month biannual anniversary of 9-11. So you got to be careful around that time too.

23:42How did you bring 9-11 into this? I don't know. You absolute I don't know.

23:48Emily Jashinsky:I don't know. Speaking of absolute morons, let's talk about the Michigan Senate race. There we go.

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25:28Emily Jashinsky:Surprising news out of the Michigan Democratic Senate primary yesterday as, again, it's a Sunday and Mallory McMorrow suspended her campaign for the Michigan Senate Democratic nomination. Let's take a listen to her announcement video. Today, I'm announcing that I am suspending my campaign for United States Senate. And I'm doing it with a deep, deep sense of gratitude for our thousands of volunteers, for everyone who donated what you could, building a campaign with zero corporate PAC dollars. Okay, that was like the consultant focus group tested candidate in this race, who I think a lot of consultant types on the left, Ryan, they thought with Mallory McMorrow, who initially went viral for pushing back on quote-unquote book bans, which actually it was a lot of Muslims in Michigan that were upset about.

26:20Emily Jashinsky:It was a lot of Christians, a lot of Muslims as well. But she went viral during the pandemic era because people were saying, here we have this normal Michigan mom making a kind of inspirational left argument against this. And look, she seems like a normal soccer mom. and we might be able to take her all the way to the Senate. She's actually lived in California right before moving to Michigan. I think maybe her husband's from Michigan or something like that. But anyway. Vote for Gawker, right? Did she? Oh, my gosh. After all of that, Mallory McMorrow suspended her Senate campaign. Let's take a look at this throwback conversation between Emma Vigland and Mallory McMorrow on Medicare for All.

27:01Emily Jashinsky:A public option is an improvement, of course, on the private marketplace and the Affordable Care Act. But that would still involve premiums and deductibles. Why not go all the way to Medicare for all? Yeah, I hear you on the vision. I 100 % do. And what I know after almost a decade as experience in a legislator is that you need to push as far as you possibly can while building the coalition of votes to actually get it across the line. And the support for a true single payer system isn't there yet. I think that when we're talking about how to keep a coalition together, the 77 percent of Democrats that think Israel is committing genocide, the 90 percent of Democrats that do not that are have a negative view of Israel or don't want to send them more money.

27:52Emily Jashinsky:That would I would imagine be the position that would be as unifying as possible, because it appears like this is kind of a consensus opinion now within the Democratic base. I mean, I hear that it's reflective in polls and reading polls and asserting how campaigns should be run based off of polls is not a way that you win in a state like ours. Oh, I hear that. I hear the vision. She's so, so acting. You just get from her that she's artificial. I'm sorry. I'm really going in on Mallory McMorrow. I can't stand her. But it's more that I can't stand the consultant. What drives you crazy? Because the consultant class, I was going to say, like what drives me crazier than McMorrow is that the consultant class looks at that and says, this is what will connect with normal people in Michigan.

28:40Emily Jashinsky:This is how we make our democratic agenda look palatable to people in Michigan. She's inauthentically Michigan. Like, it's just I'm not from Michigan, from Wisconsin. So I don't give like I'm not I can't speak for Michigan. But it's just like, come on. Like, it just drives me crazy because it's like the we're 10 plus years in the Trump phenomenon. And that's what they're coming up with and thinking that it's going to work. And, you know, ironically, it may have if not for Abdul El-Sayed running to her left because Haley Stevens running in the establishment lane was such a and is such a flawed candidate.

29:15Right. That she would have, I think, been a lot more appealing compared to Stevens.

29:20Emily Jashinsky:At least she sounds like she's from Michigan. And Abdul, I think, comes across as much more of like a Michigander, too. Like he just seems to be much more fluent in Michigan than McMorrow. And McMorrow had the endorsement of Elizabeth Warren and kind of ran in that Elizabeth Warren lane. And it'll be very interesting to see what Warren does. She's much closer, obviously, to El-Sayed's politics. So if she goes out with AOC and Bernie in campaigns, that could be decisive. There's been a lot of pressure on McMorrow to drop out and endorse Stevens to try to stop El-Sayed. from everything we gather McMorrow is no fan of Haley Stevens so if she does that it will be as a favor to the party establishment to the party bosses not because she herself is a huge fan of Haley Stevens.

30:10There was a Politico report that El-Sayed immediately called McMorrow, thanked her for running because now everybody's going to be trying to court her and her supporters but that Stevens didn't until Politico reached out.

30:24Emily Jashinsky:As soon as Politico reached out, that's what happened. Let's skip ahead to D5. This is from Prem Thacker, who posted—from Zateo, who posted, Haley Stevens makes no outrage to Mallory McMorris' borders while Abdul El-Sayed explicitly welcomes them to his movement. Put out a press release right away, the El-Sayed campaign, and said, throughout this campaign, Senator McMorris showed what it looks like to fight back against the politics that rigs the system against too many of us. While we have policy disagreements, I never questioned whether Senator McMorrow would fight for a better America for my daughters and hers.

30:54Emily Jashinsky:Goes on to say I welcome her supporters to our movement and to stand up against money in politics. Finally, a couple other things we wanted to mention here are the polling and the ad spending. This is according to Ad Impact Politics. Ad reservations as of July 1st,$34.4 million reserved for Haley Stevens,$8.9 million reserved for Mallory McMorrow, 2.8 million reserved for Abdul El-Sayed. And then finally, the RealClearPolitics average. As of yesterday, we can pop up on the screen. This is for the El-Sayed campaign. I mean, they were at 35.0 in a three-way race between Stevens, who was at 29.7, and McMorrow, who was only at 7.7.

31:36Emily Jashinsky:So where that 7.7 goes, that is obviously determinative, because if it all goes to one or the other. If it goes to Stevens, you're basically in a tie. And if it goes to El Syed, the race is totally different. And he's a really, really comfortable lead. He's up 5.3 points in the RCP average right now. And recent polling is all from June. So it's not like it's sparse. That's a pretty good indication of where the voters are. Yes. And by the way, let's not leave without identifying the wild thing that happened in this race that you're probably not going to hear about from like CNN or the New York Times as they cover this development.

32:17But if you watched it in real time, you saw it happen. And that was that in March, the McMorrow campaign decided, and the Stevens campaign as well, but McMorrow really taking the lead on it, decided to make Hassan Piker a major part of the campaign. As Abdul El-Sayed had said that he was going to campaign with Piker, the leftist Twitch streamer. And McMorrow comes out and slams him and says, compared Hassan Piker to Nick Fuentes. That was what McMorrow did.

32:52Emily Jashinsky:In a state, by the way, where you're running in a primary, a Democratic primary, which means you have to have grassroots and young voters, it's a state with a bunch of young Muslims that are involved in the grassroots at the Democratic primary level. Yeah. And at the time that she did this, the race had been pretty stable for months. And that was Stevens with a slight lead over McMorrow and then El-Sayed a couple of points behind. They were all in the 20s, but with Stevens in the lead. And as the weeks go by and the major focus of the race becomes this question of Hassan Piker, which then evolves into the question of where the different candidates stand on the question of arming Israel and whether or not they're willing to call out its genocide.

33:45side, it begins to become apparent to voters what's going on here and that El-Sayed is the progressive left lane candidate. Like it really cemented that idea in people's minds. And McMorrow, by comparing Hassan Piker to Fuentes, came off as cynical and dishonest. Because nobody who knows anything about the two of them thinks that there's any similarity between them other than they're both critical of Israel.

34:18Emily Jashinsky:Nick Fuentes is an outspoken white supremacist or white nationalist or whatever he says he is. Supremacist? Whatever. I think it's probably fair. He's not Hassan Piker. He's a completely different political animal on the far right. And so it destroyed her campaign. And like that alone, Third Way went to the New York Times and they made this like Third Way is this corporate centrist group saying that that the tent needs to be drawn such that Hassan Piker is out of the tent. And they launched this campaign with the New York Times and CNN and all these others. Jake Tapper doing program after program about it.

34:56Fox News covering it every single day. And the lines were drawn. And it's McMorrow that was pushed out of it. because people were pushed on the question. And when they weren't pushed on the question.

35:10Emily Jashinsky:Well, and Haley Stevens is already in the race. Like, you're not going to out Haley Stevens, Haley Stevens. That's impossible. And McMorrow had a strategy going in that she was going to try to keep. And it's kind of, it's messed up how you have to strategize around APAC. But her goal was not to win APAC support, because she knew that wouldn't be possible because Stevens had beaten Andy Levin with millions of dollars in APAC support. She was clearly APAC's candidate in a previous race. So it was very unlikely that McMorrow was going to become APAC's candidate. But what she wanted to do is persuade APAC to stay out of the race.

35:53Just let us fight this out, and then we'll see you in the general election. To that end, and this is where Dropside played a role in this election, to that end, one of her top supporters on a donor call said that McMorrow had submitted an excellent AIPAC paper, policy position paper. I suspect he misspoke and he meant DMFI, which is Democratic Majority for Israel, which is kind of an AIPAC offshoot. Either way, so McMorril produced this secret Israel policy paper in an attempt to keep AIPAC out. That kept coming up throughout the race with people saying this also appears cynical. What's in that paper?

36:40Release the paper. What are you not telling us about your actual position? Daniel Biss, who won his race against Cat and against an APAC candidate in Chicago, he also got hit because he met with APAC trying to keep them out. Wasn't trying to win their support and wasn't bending to everything they wanted, but he met with them just to try to, because he was meeting with everybody. He said after the race, if he had to do over again and his advice to other candidates, do not ever meet with them because it's just politically too toxic even to take the meeting. and McMorrow I think found that out if she had not done that secret policy paper and if her donor hadn't because what good is it if you can't tell people about it so she the donor kind of told other donors about it on this off the record call but then that got leaked um is that really so that really screwed her so um it's an amazing own goal on the part of third way who thought they were going to make Hassan Piker the center of this campaign,

37:46Emily Jashinsky:they succeeded and they blew themselves up. Totally embarrassing. And it's just missing, misreading where the electorate is in just like a ridiculous way. It's not that hard anymore, honestly. I think of McMorrow as the type of candidate that 10 years ago actually might have been a slam dunk or 20 years ago might have been a slam dunk. But even Haley Stevens in this new media environment, She's out there just like riffing and saying the craziest shit ever in a way that does feel a lot less stage managed than McMorrow. And Abdul El-Sayed feels a lot less stage managed, too. Like he goes on Fox News and answers tough questions.

38:23Emily Jashinsky:He like he just comes across as a normal guy. He knows how to talk on podcasts and just have a like authentic, genuine conversation where you don't think he's reciting talking points. Same thing with Haley Stevens as like crazy as Haley Stevens is. She's out there riffing about how she dreams about Israel. She's just talking. That one's haunting. And McMorrow's the type of candidate who would never, she's so risk-averse. She can't do either of those things. So it just was an impossible lane with all three of them in the race. And it's unfortunate because I think there is something likable and there's some inherent talent behind McMorrow.

39:05If she would have been unleashed. like you know if she would have just been able to be herself but she was trying to calibrate this goldilocks thing of i'm not the establishment candidate but i'm also not the right the super far left right and it and it didn't allow her to it made her just constantly be measuring everything that she was saying exactly and that that turned out to be um too difficult once she kind of deliberately polarized the race around Israel, which was a huge mistake. Huge mistake.

39:41Emily Jashinsky:Well, we'll obviously continue to cover that race. The primaries, I believe, August 4th, right? Yeah, that's right. And now, like, El Saeed's supporters are pretty confident at this point. But, you know, there's millions and millions and millions of dollars coming in for Stevens. This race is not over. She could, if the polls show that about half maybe of McMorrow's remaining support could go to Stevens. so if El Saeed can pick up that other half then he's in a really good position we'll see alright well let's talk about the huge this is the huge conflict roiling FIFA at the moment and has the United States very excited he's dribbling the ball with everything on the line he's driving down the pitch he's facing price hikes and cuts past him carrier contracts tries to block him oh he leaves him in the dust he's at the edge of the box he cuts past the non-stop Group chat, trash talk, he clears on goal, he shoots.

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42:05He made a call to the head of FIFA and said, hey, look, we just want you to go ahead and look into this red card situation. He made some peace. He made peace. He's again, he's a peacemaker. So Donald Trump, I'm thanking FIFA for getting flow back onto the field. We can put up E2 here. Thank you to FIFA for doing what was right and reversing a great injustice. President Donald J. Trump. So basically what happened is the U.S.'s striker landed, his foot accidentally landed on somebody else's ankle. And they gave him a red card for it, which, you know, things happen. And when you get a red card, you are then automatically suspended for the next game as well.

42:51FIFA has the authority under article something, something, something to suspend the suspension.

42:56Emily Jashinsky:Right. And according to all of the different reporting that we have. It was a heavily disputed call. Disputed call. And, you know. Heavily. It can look like you're going for the ball. It can happen. Yeah. Things can happen. Yeah. You know, your red car leg finds another man's leg. The legs are moving fast. Apparently, one thing that the Trump administration protested was the use of super slow motion replay on the doling out of these red cards. because it is true that it always looks worse, almost always looks worse in slow motion. It's like, oh, look, he's aiming right for the ankle, and ooh, that looks like it really hurt.

43:31And unlike almost every other tackle in soccer where the guy's faking being hurt, that one looked like it actually did hurt. But also, you know, let the boys play. So this is the Trump, for once, using his powers of corruption for the country.

43:54Emily Jashinsky:Well, you were pointing out earlier in the show that actually this is Americans arriving on the soccer scene. We have learned how to play soccer correctly. Which is that you bribe the FIVA. Well, let's put the first element up on the screen. This is confirmation that Ben Jacobs, not the political reporter Ben Jacobs, a different Ben Jacobs, confirmed the White House made a direct call to FIFA to ask Gianni Infantino to review Balogun's red card. FIFA approach for comment referred to the findings of its independent committee. FIFA sources insist White House influence could not affect the decision due to the powers contained in Article 27 and the independent nature of the disciplinary panel.

44:33Emily Jashinsky:But obviously the White House did take a call. Trump has very carefully not taken credit. You notice in the True Social he didn't say anything. He just thanked them for making the right decision. Now, we can also put this Clay Travis post up. This is the third element. According to Clay Travis, he's a conservative sports journalist, he says President Trump Commerce Secretary Lutnick and White House Task Force head Andrew Giuliani—he is the son of Rudy Giuliani—put together a team of elite lawyers from outside the government to challenge the Balogun red card. Specifically, they challenged the use of slow motion, as Ryan mentioned, instant replay, to give the red card, which they argued violated FIFA rules.

45:12Emily Jashinsky:The president also conveyed to Gianni Infantino that the appeal had been filed, and he believed the red card penalty was excessive. FIFA's independent committee reviewed the decision and agreed the penalty was incorrectly given, rescinding it under their Rule 27 authority. Now, Brent, I think you can actually make an argument that all makes sense, right? That it was a bad call and that the suspension is wrong. As an American, of course we can make that case. Now, don't tell me that any other country would refuse to use this power in the World Cup. If any other country had this level of sway, they had the FIFA Peace Prize winner in the Oval Office, in their version of the Oval Office.

45:52Emily Jashinsky:You're telling me they don't make this call? I don't buy it. Now, we should mention that Belgium is appealing. So the CNBC headline from yesterday, Belgium set to appeal as FIFA reverses Belgium's World Cup suspension after Trump reportedly intervenes. So the Belgians are furious. No surprise there. BBC, when I checked their website this morning, they were leading with a headline that was integrity of game at stake over FIFA Balogun decision at UEFA. So they're reporting that Balogun, who was sent off against the Bosnia-Herzegovina, should have had a suspension for the last 16 tie against Belgium.

46:28Emily Jashinsky:But FIFA opted not to enforce that. UEFA said that, this is the European Soccer League, said that, or authority, said that intervening to effectively cancel suspension at a tournament, quote, crossed a red line. First of all, the idea that FIFA has any integrity to be challenged. Amazing. Get out of here. Stop it. You don't have any. So Emily has been doing more social media. And so she did a direct to camera reaction to this ruling when it first came out. Let's put up E4. Corruption is not bad. Corruption is only bad if I'm not involved. Yes. but if i'm part of that corruption i'll defend it we are all that guy how did you get that video of me we are all emily i mean and i think this is how where europeans are going to learn something about americans like we we like to win and we don't many of us do not like our president we also don't like the stupid rules that this stupid game has and we are i think repulsed by Belgium's anger at this.

47:40Like it's, okay, fine. Trump used his power illegally to get the American's best player back in. But that's not your business. Your job is to go out on the field and beat our best team that we can put out on the field. You're supposed to want to beat our best players.

47:57Emily Jashinsky:That's a good point. That's a good point. That is weak sauce. How could you be so intimidated by us? We're the United States playing soccer. You're fine. You can beat our best players. Yes. Yes. But you're right. Win with the best players and not on this, what was obviously a very questionable red card call to begin with. But all these stupid red card calls are pretty questionable. The whole thing. Ryan's getting dangerously close to saying play football like a man. The whole sport is just a little bit ridiculous by how much it hinges on these, on all of this stuff and then the penalty kicks and the offside.

48:34Like, it's just dumb. But whatever. This is the U.S. playing the game of soccer, how it's always been played. And now we're actually getting involved in the corruption. And so we're going to defend this corruption. And so the game will be tonight at, what, 9 o 'clock?

48:57Emily Jashinsky:8. 8 o 'clock against Belgium. And also, we had to beat two teams at once, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to get there. You're right. And you're going to say that it's not fair? That's 22 players against 11. I'm sorry, but every other country, both Bosnia and Herzegovina, would be using this power if they had it at their disposal. Everyone would be using this power. Trump, by the way, this morning on True Social put out a very random post where he said, Harry Kane of England is a great player. That's all he said. Amazing. Actually, early this morning. So like 11.08 p.m. last night, actually. Also, real quickly, do people know and people who aren't following this might not know Baligan's story.

49:46Do you know how it intersects? The birthright citizenship. Yeah. For people who don't know it, his Nigerian family was visiting the United States, and they were on their way to London. But she was so pregnant that the airline wouldn't let her get on the plane. And so she had Flo here in the United States. And then once they were able to fly again, they went back. And he grew up in the U.K. as a boys under 17, always played with the UK. But he has said that Americans, as they were getting more and more into soccer, would constantly be kind of in his mentions and comments saying, why don't you play for us?

50:30Why don't you play for us? Rather than the English team. And because he had birthright citizenship, he was able to do that. And also he's able to start because we're not as good as England. So it's not just that he loves the United States. He loves being on the field. And now we have a president who's willing to fight for him and get him back on the field. Fight, fight. Meanwhile, Wild went down in Mexico. We can put up E5 here. So these are Mexican fans outside of the English Players Hotel having an all-night party, setting off fireworks, playing music. rather crassly, I guess we could all say, trying to keep the English team awake didn't work.

51:15I mean, it might have worked. Maybe they were pretty tired, but they beat Mexico last night. And then also Norway knocked off Brazil yesterday. I don't know if you watched this game. I didn't watch it, but... The most Viking-looking guy ever. I saw that. Most Norwegian, scored two goals.

51:32Emily Jashinsky:Yeah. Just this absolute Norwegian specimen. You're like, that's comical. Like that's what the Norwegian guy looks like. I was reading it. He's like a foot taller than the Brazilians. And his first header is just so nasty. Yeah. And his second goal where he just blasts it into the corner. It's brutal. It's a brutal way to lose. No, I was reading an essay recently that said soccer actually has the highest upset rate of Americans. Like if you compare it with baseball and American football, it has the highest upset rate. Which I think is the knock on it from Americans' perspective. because it's like there's so much chance involved and you can be dominating dominating dominating and then then you just get one run go on the other end and boom um so i it's a tough one for americans but but the argument is that makes it fun to watch that's the argument yeah also we need more commercial breaks like it i think americans feel uncomfortable if like there's live action for 10 minutes and we haven't heard from like buffalo wild wings telling us about the new specials and so for the first time ever fifa added these fake water breaks yeah so that we could have our anthropomorphic so that buffalo wild wings can we're like ah okay now we now we now we feel centered and grounded should i buy the bud light then you know yeah and then someone tells us yes um yeah and producer mac just adds finally before we go that it is against fifa's rules to use slow motion on red cards.

53:05Emily Jashinsky:Just the final point, tie this all together. But did they? Maybe they did. Well, yeah, that's true. Producer Mack, see, everyone in America left, center, and right is going to defend the corruption. We don't call him good soccer guy. We call him good politic guy. That's right. Check out that channel. All right, that's going to do it for us on today's edition of Breaking Points. I think, I think Sagar and Jetty is going to be back and in studio tomorrow with you for a bro show? I believe so. Is that correct? USA. Bro show all week. Is that correct? If Sagar keeps showing up. Oh, well, Tuesday, Thursday, bro show.

53:40That's right. That's right.

53:41Emily Jashinsky:Okay. Well, all right. Fingers crossed for a bro show tomorrow. Fingers crossed. Hope everybody had a wonderful July 4th. If you haven't signed up for the newsletter, it's breakingpoints.com. Just as a reminder, it's totally free. If you want a media version, you can get a premium subscription that also sends the entire show into your inbox early, uncut version. That's breakingpoints.com. If you've been having any problems, make sure just check your spam folder first. But then if you still need help, help at kit.com. K-I-T dot com is the email address. Ryan's going to be back with you tomorrow.

54:12Emily Jashinsky:We will see you on the next edition of Breaking Points.

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