Newsom vs MAGA, Hasan Piker's Third Party Take & Why Tariffs Won't Save Manufacturing | Purple Political Breakdown

Host Radell Lewis and panelist Elijah break down the biggest stories shaping American politics right now. Is Gavin Newsom positioning himself as the 2028 Democratic frontrunner and are MAGA's racism accusations against him just manufactured outrage? We dig into Newsom's shifting stance on trans rights and sports, why Hasan Piker saying he'd vote third party over JD Vance is dangerously misguided, and what JD Vance's connections to Curtis Yarvin and Peter Thiel reveal about the real power behind Trump's agenda.

The conversation goes deep on Trump's tariff policy and whether bringing back manufacturing is a fantasy that ignores the AI revolution already reshaping the workforce. Plus, we tackle the growing tensions with Iran, Jared Kushner's troubling foreign business dealings, the latest Epstein file revelations, and why the "taxpayer dollars" argument against trans military service doesn't hold up.

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