David Pakman answers Leavitt's election explanation with grocery bills

His fast-starting Short centers on a Fox News exchange over whether voters recognized the benefits of Trump's tax cuts.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 381,587 views a day, 10 times a normal first day on this channel (36,461).

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David Pakman boils his response to Karoline Leavitt down to a supermarket reality check: "People know what they're paying for groceries."

His post-election Short had drawn roughly 246,000 views in eleven hours, an unusually fast start for the channel's short-form commentary. It examines a Fox News panel exchange in which Leavitt argues that Americans forgot good policies and may have listened to hostile media instead.

Jessica Tarlov offers a brief objection: "They know how much money they have." Leavitt replies that Trump's tax cuts put more money in voters' pockets, prompting Pakman to challenge the idea that people failed to recognize their own financial position.

The distinction matters to his argument. Pakman isn't simply asking whether Republicans can point to a tax policy they favor. He argues that a benefit described on paper cannot override what voters experience when paying their everyday expenses. He opens by asking whether Republicans have learned anything from their losses, then uses this exchange as his example of an explanation that avoids that reckoning.

Several viewers pick up the same thread, discussing household budgets and the difference between tax-cut claims and money available to spend.

The Short sits alongside other unusually widely watched Pakman uploads about the election: his account of Democrats winning both congressional chambers, and a separate examination of Trump's Fox & Friends call about Iran and inflation.

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The numbers

The Leavitt Short is running well ahead of Pakman's usual early pace for Shorts. His longer videos about Trump and the congressional results are also drawing unusually strong viewing.

the video's first day

usual first day here

36,461

this video

381,587

subscribers

3,690,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

3,953,073,155

views per day

6,133,238

typical day: 2,775,176

the video

views

245,724

likes

10,484

comments

1,007

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Megyn Kelly

4,180,000

More Perfect Union

4,170,000

The Officer Tatum

3,860,000

David Pakman

3,690,000

Matt Walsh

3,470,000

The Rubin Report

3,240,000

As of November 5, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.