Badlands Daily: 11/4/26 - Midterm Bloodbath, Trump’s Veto Power & the Two-Party Fight

The morning after the midterms, CannCon and Ashe in America unpack a rough night for Republicans: Keisha Lance Bottoms taking Georgia, Iowa flipping, Talarico beating Ken Paxton in Texas, Abdul El-Sayed winning in Michigan and Susan Collins losing in Maine, with NBC projecting a 258 to 177 House. Ashe reminds everyone that public power only gets its legitimacy from real elections, and argues near-record turnout undercuts the story that the base stayed home. They walk through Trump's New York Times, CBS and Politico interviews, where he says he wasn't on the ballot, will work with Democrats, holds the veto and doesn't regret Iran. Then the hosts clash over whether the two-party system can be broken from the local level or will take a generation, react to Rahm Emanuel's ethics-bill pitch and debate term limits. They cover Norm Eisen's group hiring for 2027 investigations, John Thune's victory-lap post, Greenland's parliament approving the U.S. security deal and Fox News' ratings slide, before closing with chat rants and a reminder to keep your chin up.