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How Trump lost the bro vote

Explore episode Jun 27, 2026

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Posobiec Acknowledges the Break: Young Men Are Softening

At 20:15 · chapter starts 19:00

The conversation turns more candid when Herndon asks Posobiec directly whether Trump has lost something with young men. Posobiec doesn't flinch: 'I hear it all the time.' He says he communicates this feedback directly to White House contacts — that young men want more domestic focus and less foreign entanglement, and that gas prices and the Epstein files have created real friction in a relationship that was once Trump's greatest strength. He acknowledges that inflation has hit a record high relative to the Biden years and frames the gas price increase as the explicit cost of removing Iran as a global threat — a trade-off he thinks the president is betting will look better once the conflict winds down. But he's honest about the uncertainty: whether that bet pays off before the midterms is an open question. His reading of the UFC event is that it's not just a party — it's a political signal that the White House knows the connection needs repair and is taking concrete steps to rebuild it.

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