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Raskin pledges government must not be "treated as a weapon"

Hook Global's election-night speech upload draws a fast audience for his conditional Judiciary chairmanship pledge and calls for electoral change.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 261,404 views a day, 16 times a normal first day on this channel (16,203).

'If I Became Chairman...': Jamie Raskin Unleashes Warning To Trump With Bold House Judiciary Plan

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0:16Raskin presents Democratic gains as a rejection of Trump's politics and the beginning of a new political era.
3:11He pledges to oppose using government as a weapon if he becomes House Judiciary Committee chairman.
7:52He advocates direct popular election of the president and statehood for Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico.
8:46Raskin receives word of his reelection result while addressing supporters.

The chairmanship is not yet his, but Jamie Raskin is already setting out what he would do with it.

Addressing supporters after Democratic congressional gains, the Maryland representative makes the promise at the center of Hook Global's upload: "If I become the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, we are not going to allow the government to be treated as a weapon."

That conditional matters. Raskin is describing his intentions if he takes the gavel, not announcing that he has secured it. The committee oversees federal law enforcement and the administration of justice, giving the pledge a specific institutional setting beyond the evening's victory rhetoric.

The speech reached about 180,000 views in its first twelve hours, already well beyond Hook Global's usual first-day audience for regular videos. It is part of a broader burst of interest in the channel's post-election coverage: separate uploads featuring Bernie Sanders's congressional priorities and Josh Shapiro's Pennsylvania agenda are also drawing unusually large audiences.

Raskin's speech eventually moves from oversight to changing the electoral system itself. He calls for electing the president by direct popular vote and for statehood for Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico.

Then the policy pitch gives way to an election-night interruption. Told his own result, Raskin asks: "Did somebody just whisper in my ear that I was just declared the winner with 88% of the vote?" For a moment, the congressman outlining his plans gets to register his own victory.

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The facts

Channel: Hook Global
Subscribers: 1,190,000 ▲ 20,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 34,208,957
Channel views, pace per day: 6,536,796 (on a normal day: 4,275,384)
Video published: November 5, 2026
Video views so far: 180,419 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 261,404

The numbers

Raskin's speech passed Hook Global's usual full-day view count within its opening twelve hours. Other post-election speeches on the channel are also running above their usual starts.

the video's first day

usual first day here

16,203

this video

261,404

subscribers

1,190,000

▲ 20,000 in the last 7 days

total views

686,391,377

views per day

6,536,796