The Stack: Super Bowl Spectacle and the Cultural War Behind It
The Super Bowl used to be about football. Increasingly, it’s about everything except the game. On today’s Toddcast, Todd reflects on one of the most forgettable Super Bowls in recent memory—a defensive slugfest that nevertheless revealed deeper truths about the NFL, culture, and the state of entertainment in America. While old-school fans may have appreciated the physicality, the broader spectacle once again overshadowed the sport itself.
Todd then turns to the cultural power of entertainment, particularly music and halftime performances, and why conservatives cannot afford to ignore these battlegrounds. Culture shapes values long before politics ever enters the picture, and disengagement comes at a cost.
Finally, Todd breaks down the looming Department of Homeland Security shutdown, the fight over the SAVE Act, and a revealing exchange between Representative Hakeem Jeffries and CNN’s Dana Bash that exposes how voter ID and election integrity are being deliberately mischaracterized. Sports, culture, and politics collide—this episode connects all three.
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📰 Stack Links
Super Bowl 2026 highlights: Seahawks capture second Lombardi with 29-13 win over Patriots - ESPN
Seahawks exact revenge, ride dominant defense to Super Bowl win over Patriots - Reuters
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was expected to provoke. Did it? - The Washington Post
Turning Point Halftime Draws Millions on YouTube After Early Stumble - Front Office Sports
Fetterman expects DHS shutdown as Democrats deadlocked on funding | Fox News
Jeffries Calls Citizenship Proof ‘Voter Suppression’ As Majority of Americans Back Voter ID
Lawmakers locked in standoff over ICE reforms as DHS funding deadline approaches
Democrats demand ‘dramatic changes’ for ICE, including masks, cameras and judicial warrants
SAVE Act Would Undermine Voter Registration for All Americans - Brennan Center for Justice
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📝 Transcript: Super Bowl Spectacle and the Cultural War Behind It
The Todd Huff Show – February 9, 2026
Host: Todd Huff: My friends. Did you watch the super bowl? Super Bowl 60? That is hard to believe. Super Bowl 60. Last night I didn't even talk about this leading up to the weekend. I used to be a humongous football fan. In fact, as I was getting ready to watch the game, I was thinking about. I was thinking about just watching it as a kid. And, man, I used to love. Used to love watching that game. I used to love the game of football. They've done a lot. To harm my beloved sport of football. Trying to reach broader audiences, dealing with, you know, people who didn't like the, dare I say, the violence of the sport, the controlled violence, the physicality of the sport has changed so much in some ways, necessarily, and good and so forth. But last night's game. Last night's game was not the type of game that the NFL wants. It was actually a game that is, if anyone liked it, it would have been the old school football fan. It was probably. It may have been the most boring super bowl that I can remember watching.
Todd Huff:There may have been another contender or two in there, but at least in the past, man, It's been competitive. It's been offense driven for so long. It was a defensive battle. In fact, there was a time I was thinking that the Patriots were not even going to score a touchdown. So I want to talk just a little bit about that. I want to talk a little bit about the halftime show. Yes. I want to talk about the halftime show. I didn't talk about any of these things. Last week. And then I want to get into the state of the DHS apparently shutting down the partial government shutdown that is looming later this week that may, in fact, looks like it's going to be shut down, the DHS specifically. We'll get to that, my friends. As time goes along here.
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Todd Huff: So the game last night. You know, let me tell a quick story. Because I remember this was about 20 some years ago. I was in my, I don't know, early to mid-20s, I'm guessing. And I remember my brother and I had made plans to watch the game together, actually to go to our parents house. And literally we. Get. It's just funny to me. My mom, she always wanted boys. She had two boys, my brother and I. We both played football. My brother was a very good football player. Got recruited, had led the state in passing, I think, in the regular season was getting recruited. There's a lot going on there with my, with my brother, but he, he and I loved football, especially when we were younger.
Todd Huff: We were talking about this yesterday. It's just, you know, the older you get these things, I, I I fight to hang on to the. What I want to say. The. Just. The. The memory or kind of just the. The thing that I loved as a kid for the memories and for the tradition, maybe watch it with our kids or that. That sort of stuff, but. It's. I've lost interest in it. I really have. I don't know if I've grown up. Just your interest changes. I don't know. But I do try to still like it, even though they've made it harder for people like me. Who want to see real men out there. Knocking the heck out of each other. And I get it. Player safety. I understand all that. And that's good. They may. They've made some good progress in Aries, but they've also. They. They've. They've taken out a lot of the things and changed a lot of the things that made football for a traditional old school fan like myself worth watching.
Todd Huff: But anyway, my brother and I, we. We made plans back sometime in the early 2000s to watch the game. At my parents and we get over here. To the house. And. We are in the living room, and my mom comes out and says, hey, can you help me move the furniture? I got the carpet guys coming today. She. She had carpet laid. On Super Bowl. Super Bowl Sunday. And I remember my brother and I were. First of all, we said, mob, do you know it's Super Bowl Sunday? Yet. You got somebody to lay the carpet? We. Whatever. We were helping her move furniture. My mom is. Is just. She is an incredibly efficient worker. She had it all done put back together. You never would have known it.
Todd Huff: In fact, someone like me probably didn't even notice the carpet was different. But she had it all put together in time. And time for kickoff. That may have been the same year. I think it was whatever year. Janet Jackson had the infamous wardrobe malfunction. I think that was the same year anyway. Watched football for a long time. Loved the sport. As I've gotten older, this matters less and less to me. That's why we didn't talk about it last week. But there are some things to talk about. Number one, probably the least exciting super bowl that I can remember in some time. But it might have been a good one. For the traditional football fan, this was.
Todd Huff: Two things happened last night. One, there were some bad offenses. Two. There were some good defenses, and that, of course, combined. Combined, we have a. That, that, that's a recipe for some low scoring football. In fact, last night the NFL super bowl record was set. For the most field goals by a player in a game. Five field goals. Seahawks win, by the way. 29. To 13. People might have been wondering, you know, where's the offense?
Todd Huff: I tell you something else that's happening again and we'll move out of football. For those of you who stick to the issues of listeners out there, just hang on for a moment. But some people would say, you know, where. What. What about the quarterback play? Defense was great. And look, football. Sports are cyclical, right? 15, 20 years ago, we went through an era. 30 years ago almost now. Where NFL quarterbacks were just tearing it up. I mean, they were setting records routinely for yards in a season, for touchdown passes that went back and forth. Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Drew Brees. There were lots of gunslingers back in the day, if I can say that. That changed the game of football.
Todd Huff: And defenses have adjusted, have adapted. I remember Peyton came in. And he changed the play. He was such a cerebral quarterback. Could read the defense as it became a chess match. Defenses were trying to react and bait Peyton into thinking that they were in a certain coverage. Single, high safety versus two, whatever. And. And there was a lot of that going on. But defenses have adjusted, and they've. They've taken away some of the things or made it harder to execute some of the things that maybe were working really well. 10, 15, 20 years ago, whatever. And so it's. It's cyclical.
Todd Huff: But I will say this. Quarterback play in the NFL overall. Is perhaps at the lowest point in my opinion, and I'm not an expert in this, I'm going to give you a ballpark of. 30 years. 30 years or so, maybe even further back than that. Back before the Peyton Manning era, back before the time Brady era, back before the Drew Brees era. You got to go back to that time to find even something that's remotely comparable to what has been playing wise, what we've seen. From quarterbacks. In today's game and that made itself known last night.
Todd Huff: And I don't want to beat up, actually. I love the story. I love. I think I like Drake May on the Patriots. I love the story. I like Sam Darnold for the Seahawks. There's a guy who's been through it and there's so many takeaways from this. Right? There's Sam Darnold had had struggled for so long. He built a team. He put together a great season for the Vikings, but they decided that he wasn't the guy for the future. They he ends up in Seattle. And now he's in the Super Bowl. Just. It's just Great story.
Todd Huff: And these are things that I think we can pull from ourselves and use as inspiration or motivation. And I know sports. Listen, sports is sports, and it's different. From the things that we struggle with in real life, but is it in other ways? Right. It's very comparable. But this is. Listen. Congratulations to the Seahawks. It was a great defensive performance. Was a little bit of an ugly game and a lot of ways, but for the old school football fan, You may have found some enjoyment watching. This game.
Todd Huff: So that's really all I want to say about oh, that's. That's all I want to say about the game. Let's talk about the halftime performance. So. And I do want to talk about this. This is relevant. Now we're getting into. Now we're getting into the, you know, things that we talk about normally on this show. The the political impact or the political messaging of the halftime show. I will tell you, I did not watch one millisecond. Of the halftime performance of the super bowl last night.
Todd Huff: I'm not even going to say the name of the fella that did the performance. Because that's what they want. They want you to talk about it. They. You know, what's the old country song Brad Paisley sang? The more they put my name, the more they drive my name down, the more my price goes up, or something like that, right? Any publicity is good publicity. Because it drives. As the first top of the marketing funnel. You got to get attention before you get interest and all that sort of stuff.
Todd Huff: So I'm not going to do that. But what I am going to do is I'm going to talk about, well, a, I didn't watch it and B, I didn't read about it. See, I don't care about it. I couldn't care less. I don't care how much this dude hates America. I talk about people who hate America every day. It's not something that is shocking to me. I don't care what language he's saying in. I don't care if he had derogatory. I don't even know what happened, and I don't care. And I feel happy about that.
Todd Huff: Best response is to truly ignore it. Now, again, we can talk about why some of these things are bad. And that's what we do on here every day. But I think just ignoring it. I turned it off. I just didn't want it on my television. We actually turned on. I didn't know that I was going to do this. My brother and I were talking about this. He'd mentioned the Turning Point USA halftime show. That they were doing as kind of a competitive thing.
Todd Huff: They had. Who did they have? Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert. Who else am I missing, Oz? Who? Lee Brice. I like Lee Brice and some girl that I didn't know. What is it, Gabby? Gabby Barrett? I don't know. No disrespect intended. I just don't know. The older I get, the less I understand about pop culture. But I will say this. Much better. These are people that care about their country, love America, patriotic, all that sort of stuff.
Todd Huff: And this is part of know you may have read I don't. You can go and read some quips and one liners and quotes from great thinkers or influential people throughout history. And someone once said, and I don't know who said it, that's why I just start this with a general. Kind of blanket statement to say. I remember reading this quote, and I'm going to paraphrase it. But it basically says if you want to change a society, Don't bother rewriting its laws.
Todd Huff: Let me write its music. Let me write the stuff that people are consuming. Without a filter. That's what's so. Powerful or dangerous, depending upon what's going on behind the scenes with things like music. See, I know when I come on here and I say, we want to talk about this topic, and this is what I think, immediately it puts people on defense. They think, well, let me hear what's being said here. Do I agree with that? Do I not?
Todd Huff: I'm analyzing what's being said. What do I agree with that? Where do I agree? Where do I disagree? Right. You're immediately in a mode, a mindset, where you are critically thinking about the things that I'm saying. And I want you hear me say this. I want you in that mindset. I want people. That's what people don't understand about you. Or the people who listen to talk radio conservative podcast.
Todd Huff: You think for yourselves. Right. They think or they want people to think. The people who are critics of this format. They want people to think that you simply do what the person behind the microphone is telling you. And that's simply not the case. The reason that there's a connection is because there's a common value, a belief set. Shared values, right? And shared beliefs about what it is that makes America great. What it is. That's worth preserving and passing on to the next generation. And you may disagree here and there about details about this or that, but you understand and agree in general what these concepts, and we are in agreement.
Todd Huff: That freedom is a rare thing. Throughout history and that tyrants exist and that they are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to take away your freedom. To force their beliefs and their vision for how this country could work upon you. Limiting. Your opportunity. Because less opportunity means for them more control, more command style governance and so forth. They want this. They think they're better, they think they're superior, they think we're idiots and that they have all the answers if the rest of us would just simply follow their edicts and mandates and all this. Sort of stuff.
Todd Huff: And so when we talk about the issues on this program, you can analyze it and put it through a filter and sift it and you're ready. But when you listen to music, oh, this is a powerful thing. When music is there. In the background. Wherever you are driving in the car or when you go out to have dinner, if you go to a sports bar, whatever. You hear music in so many different places. And a lot of times. We're not on defense. We're not. The filter isn't up.
Todd Huff: Now, my filters almost always up because that's just the way that I am personally. And many of you will have your filters up as well. Some of us are built that way. Some people are not. And that's just. We're different. But it's amazing, the subtle. The subtle impact that what you listen to can shape the way you think, and especially when it's something that you're not on active defense about, when you're not an active guard against that. It's easy to be susceptible to those beliefs.
Todd Huff: In fact, I've. I've been in recent, even in recent months, someone who's followed this and talked about this stuff. For a long time. I've told. I've told Oz. The insidious effects of feminism run so deep. In our culture. I had a conversation yesterday with a younger girl, and she's telling me how terrible all the guys are out there that she's dating and all this. And. And I'm not listening. I'm sure that there's some bad guys, there's some bad girls, but you know what? A lot of this is.
Todd Huff: And I'm not saying this is the case specifically for her. But we have bought into. And I, I think even the average person listening to me now, who's very, very intelligent, very aware, very on top of what's going on, is very they, you understand, you know, what things like feminism have done. But I would say I really think this because I see it in myself. I think that the damage is even deeper than I. Than I realize. I think the impact is deeper than I. Than I understood.
Todd Huff: I really think that that's the case. And they have the feminists, and you can pick on the feminist or just it's whatever vehicle the modern left has to undermine traditional values. To undermine the way that God created humanity to function. They are happy to use it, whatever is there. And listen, I'm not saying feminism. Look, there. There were things that we needed to change throughout history. The way that culture and society dealt with women. Absolutely. It's. It's like anything else, but it has gone. So far.
Todd Huff: To the other side. Where we literally don't understand the differences. I'm not saying biological and physical differences because most people understand. That's what today's Todd talk was about. This. Man. This man, who was a boxer, won the gold medal. In the 2020. What? 2024 Summer Games. Recently, last week. Came out and said he has XY chromosomes, meaning he's a man, but he still insists he's a. He's a female.
Todd Huff: Anyway, most people understand still. That, you know, there are physical differences between men and women, but I don't think a lot of people understand just how different we are in other ways. Complimentary. See, some people hear that and they think, oh, well, you think men are better. That's not at all what I said. I tell you what. I think men are better at some things in general. I think women are better at some things in general. And I think that's the way it's supposed to be.
Todd Huff: But I think these things are so insidious. And, you know, when. When it's everywhere, when it's in. The music and in the entertainment. These things break down, break down our defenses because we're not thinking about them. And so we have to win to the point we have to win, we have to engage in the culture. And I watched that performance last night, or listen to a lot of it. I was not watching the television, but I was listening.
Todd Huff: And of course, doing what I do here every day with audio. I commented to my wife and said, what are they doing with the audio? I mean, I could hear the music like I was sitting in a car with the speakers turned up, but they had the audio for and I'm not trying to be critical here. I'M just saying we're going to have. We're going to have to do what Turning Point did, and I commend them for that, but I think they're going to have to do better.
Todd Huff: Than they did. Because, again, it's superficial. Right. The super bowl has a certain look and feel. And as dumb as the things are that they're saying on the stage, oftentimes, and as offensive as they try to be, And as downright evil as it is sometimes, dare I say satanic as it is sometimes. As. As much as it is those things that times. And I'm not talking about last night, because I truly have no idea. I didn't watch a millisecond.
Todd Huff: And I didn't read anything about it, and I don't care. But in the larger picture, I do care, because it's so powerful, because it just seeps into our subconscious. And so we're going to have to win the battle. I commend them for doing it, but they're going to have to do better in some of those areas, including the audio. I look at the clock here, folks. I got to take a quick time out. Wrap this up on the other side of the break and we'll talk about the shutdown real quickly.
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Todd Huff: Just want to tie up a couple of loose ends here. You hear me talk about on this program regularly? The seven pillars of propaganda, and I don't want to go into all that, but it is an important thing. Entertainment is one of the pillars. And just for those who are new or need a quick refresher. The Seven Pillars of Propaganda is built on or based upon what Rush Limbaugh identified years ago as the four corners of deceit.
Todd Huff: When he talked about the people in this country that are colluding basically, to keep you in the dark, to keep the truth from being known. And as I've thought about that, I've added a couple of things to that. And I call it the seven pillars of propaganda. Because it's not just that. It's the media and science collaborating, colluding, if you will, to mislead us about things, to keep us in the dark, as I talked about last segment.
Todd Huff: To push things like feminism on us insidiously, just constantly drip. Drip, drip. Trying to seep past the defenses of unwitting people because they're busy. And it's getting into their ears and into their subconscious minds in ways where we're not actually on defense. We're. We're not ready to defend against it, and it's just drip, drip, drip getting into our subconscious, and this is by design.
Todd Huff: And I don't want to get into all of it. Because there's a lot to it, in my estimation. But one of those areas is entertainment. And entertainment. I mean, I literally mean sports. So we had kind of yesterday was. You could make the case that yesterday. Was the pinnacle of entertainment, at least for a lot of people. In the country. Yesterday was maybe the pinnacle.
Todd Huff: So many people watch the Super Bowl. It's a worldwide phenomenon now. You've got, you know, celebrities, and you got these commercials. Everybody talks about the commercials and all this sort of stuff. And you've got the game, which is almost in many ways today for some people. Not even the main draw at all. It's all the other. It's the spectacle, right? Indianapolis 500 is the greatest spectacle on racing. The super bowl is probably the greatest spectacle in sports and entertainment. And all these eyes are there, and everybody's paying attention, and everyone's looking just to increase their brand, their awareness of who they are.
Todd Huff: People love to do things like the halftime show. They love to, you know, to be in the crowd. Just to go to watch a game. And I don't want to. I don't want. To, I don't know, give you. Make you a little jaded here. But for the celebrities in the crowd. Listen, I'm. I'm not saying that none of them are. None of them. Are fans of the team. I'm not saying that, but you. Some people, they understand that this is. This is like paying a PR agent.
Todd Huff: If I can get my face. One of these celebrities on the camera and X number of people see me, that is beneficial. They'll. If they'll mention me. The play by play, guys. Or the, you know, Collins, Worth and Rico if they'll mention my name while my face is on screen. It's. It just has tremendous value and impact for that person's, well. Their. Their recognition, their credibility, the number of Google searches that happen or conversations at super bowl parties.
Todd Huff:Who's that person? Oh, they're in this movie. Or they did. Oh, okay. They got a new book out. Oh, maybe I'll check that out. Right. The amount of stuff like that that happens. When you have this many people watching is absolutely just incredible. And so. But. But it's the pinnacle of entertainment. And sports. But it. We have to. As conservatives, we've lost the culture, and I don't mean it's permanent.
Todd Huff: And I don't mean that we've lost all of it. I think that there's a remnant of the culture. That has been secured by conservatives by. Christians, followers of Jesus. That have preserved what is good. In culture. But then there's a bunch of garbage out there, and we have to figure out, you know, it's to think that every four years, That we can show up on a campaign stage. And convince people who are consistently, incessantly fed poison by the.
Todd Huff: The left, by the media, by the seven pillars of propaganda. It's absolutely ridiculous to think that we can do that. To think that every four years we can show up. And even begin to understand the person that we're talking to because they've been fed a. A bunch of just a belief system, an ideology. That is in many cases antithetical. The exact opposite of our belief system of. Of. Of the truth.
Todd Huff: Candidly, they believe, in some cases the absolute opposite of the truth. And to think that we can show up in an election year every two years even, and somehow when these people over, when they've been fed poison and they've been told Trump is Hitler and they've been told you're a racist, a homophobe, a bigot and everything else, it's just. It's a tad bit. Naive.
Todd Huff: So it's important to win this, and I commend Turning Point. And I'm not trying to be super critical. I'm pretty sure if you put these performances side by side, which I won't do because I didn't watch the stupid one of the Super Bowl. But I'm pretty sure Turning Points was much better and much was definitely a step towards truth and goodness and love for country and all that stuff. Probably multiple steps in many, many cases.
Todd Huff: But we've got to get better at this, and we got to find ways to do this. And we all have our strengths. This one is not mine. Right. There's people out there. I know. People that make. That make movies, right? They make Christian movies and so forth. We need more people like that. So don't. We all have our strengths.
Todd Huff: And I just want to speak to this because it's. It matters, my friends. It's certainly an absolutely matters here. And I just wanted to say that. Before I wrap this segment up today. So I told you I was going to talk a little bit here. A little bit about what's happening. With the government shutdown. That's. Impending here. On the American people.
Todd Huff: So. Senator Federman. Couldn't think of his name there. Senator John Fetterman, Democrat. Was on Fox News over the weekend. And he said that a shutdown. Is. Is likely. Over dhs funding. Department. Department of homeland security. Funding. Now, he is not a conservative hero, but I will tell you. Fetterman is at least a Democrat that we can find some common ground with.
Todd Huff: I mean, the Democrat Party has been taken over by the radical left, and if you don't believe me, Look at how rare someone like John Fetterman is. John Fetterman is a liberal Democrat. Some people and today might think of him as a moderate. I don't. That's fine. Moderate or liberal Democrat. But he's not a leftist lunatic.
Todd Huff: He doesn't think the SAVE act, which we've talked about last week on this program. Somehow a danger to America, or it's reinstituting Jim Crow laws. He's not. Bought into that ridiculous and utter nonsensical narrative. But he's not a conservative hero. But he also understands what we're up against. Secure elections are not voter suppression. Dhs arresting and deporting criminal illegal aliens is in fact a good thing. And that's what he's out there saying.
Todd Huff: But it's going to this difference of opinion. Which again, the opinions are one side wants law and order, the other side. Wants absolute chaos and anarchy. The radical left. That difference of opinion as it pertains to DHS is going to probably lead to lead to a government shutdown starting at the end of this week. At least partial government, right? Dhs. Everything else is funded. The one thing we're fighting about is the Department of Homeland Security.
Todd Huff: We're talking tsa, we're talking ice, we're talking lots of things that could. That are important right now. So we'll see where this goes. I'm up. Against the break here at the clock says it's time to wrap up this segment. I've got to comply. With that. We'll hit this after the break. And talk about it in the time we have remaining, my friends. Sit tight. You're listening to Conservative, Not Better Talk. I'm your host, Todd Huff. Back here in just a minute.
Todd Huff: Welcome back, my friends. Final segment here. I told you I want to talk a little bit about this impending government shutdown. John Fetterman has broken with his party. He says, expect the shutdown. It's not crazy. To do what Republicans are suggesting we do pass the SAVE act and continue to fund and support ice. To arrest and deport criminal illegal alien.
Todd Huff: So we've got the deadline approaching the Friday shutdown. Is now, at least for dhs, is looming. And seems to be very possible. Democrats, I shared last week had a list of demands. They've actually backed off one of those demands, interestingly enough. And Republicans are trying to. Still attach. The SAVE act to this funding bill that I'm guessing that's going to get pulled and this is going to be dealt with separately.
Todd Huff: Time will tell, but we got Hakeem Jeffries out there. Doubling down on what Chuck Schumer said last week, what I talked about on this program, that the left says any sort of voter identification law, any sort of proving that you're an American citizen, to register to vote is going to be going to be framed as voter suppression, which is just who are they suppressing?
Todd Huff:They're suppressing the people who aren't supposed to vote. It's not voter suppression at that point. If the only people whose votes are being suppressed are the ones who don't have a vote to cast. That's called enforcing voting laws, my friends. That's called being a reasonably intelligent person. That's called common sense, dare I say.
Todd Huff:And I want to play, if I can. I want to play a little. Bit of a sound bite of his talking to Dana Bash on CNN Friends. You know, one of the biggest challenges we have as conservatives is finding ways to ensure our values align with the way that we live our lives. That includes the way that we invest our money.
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Todd Huff: Let me, if I can, really quickly here. Play. Play a little bit. Where did this. Here it is. I'm going to get to as much of this as I can. Jeffrey's Hakeem Jeffries, House minority leader, out there saying that. The SAVE act is voter suppression. We've talked about this. It's remarkable.
Todd Huff: By the way, Kamala's out there as well talking about this. I don't have time to play her clip. But the clip is on. In the stack of stuff today if you want to take a listen to that. But Hakeem Jeffries sits down with Dana Bash of CNN, and she has this brief exchange. With him. Let me queue this up. There we go, talking about the impending government shutdown. And this is how that conversation for example.
Dana Bash (Soundbite): But requiring basic ID in order to vote is really popular. Does it make sense? A few months ago showed 83% of Americans, including 71% of your fellow Democrats support requiring an ID to vote. Why are they wrong?
Hakeem Jeffries (Soundbite):I haven't said that they're wrong.
Todd Huff: You haven't? We know that voter suppression. Are the ones who are empowered to conduct elections in every state. Should be allowed to decide the best way to proceed to ensure that there's a free and fair election here in New York. There are, in fact, voter identification requirements.
Hakeem Jeffries (Soundbite): The question is that what Republicans are trying to do is to engage in clear and blatant voter suppression. They know how that if there's a free and fair election in November, they're going to lose. That's the opposite.
Todd Huff: Mr. Jeffries, you know you're going to lose. You can't be these. These people project like none other. I want you to hear the rest of what he says here.
Hakeem Jeffries (Soundbite): The best Republicans have been losing every single election. Since Donald Trump was sworn in in January of last year. Including most recently decisively in Texas and of course, losing all across the country up and down the ballot in the nova in the November off year election in places like New Jersey, of Virginia, New York.
Dana Bash (Soundbite): Yeah. And they've been losing. I mean, Virginia is a good example. They have a requirement to show your id. And Democrats won very, very handily across, across the way. So why not maybe even just take that off the table and say, okay, maybe not a passport or, or birth certificate, but show id.
Hakeem Jeffries (Soundbite): First of all, every state is empowered to be able to make the decision on their own, and we completely and totally support that. What Donald Trump wants to do is try to nationalize the election.
Todd Huff: Translation, steal it.
Hakeem Jeffries (Soundbite): There we go. And we're not going to let it happen. We stop them in terms of their gerrymandering. Efforts.
Todd Huff: I'm out of time here. I got to stop that. He's got some other talking points that he wants to get to. But we went through this last week. Congress absolutely has the explicit, explicit. It's in the document. The explicit constitutional power to set standards for the election. Yes, states can manage their own elections, but setting the basic rules is absolutely something Congress can do. This is pure sophistry. As usual. I gotta go. SDG.
