Mark Moran Appears on Timcast IRL with Tim Pool, Drawing Nearly 500,000 Combined Views Across YouTube and Rumble
HARPERS FERRY, WV - Virginia Senate candidate Mark Moran joined Tim Pool and the Timcast IRL crew Wednesday night for a live two-hour broadcast from Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, drawing a combined audience of nearly 500,000 viewers across YouTube and Rumble within 48 hours of airing. The episode, titled "Trump Admin Preparing INVASION OF CUBA, Say Iran War ALMOST OVER," became one of the most-watched Timcast IRL episodes of the week, generating more than 800 comments on YouTube and 234 on Rumble, with a Rumble-exclusive after-hours segment available to subscribers through The Green Room.
The YouTube broadcast alone reached 144,000 views and 6,300 likes within two days, while the Rumble stream accumulated 335,000 views. Timcast IRL is one of the most-watched independent political programs in the country, with 2.72 million YouTube subscribers and 621,000 Rumble followers. The after-hours Green Room segment, which aired exclusively on Rumble following the main broadcast, extended the conversation with Moran on the policy details that distinguish his campaign from both major parties.
Watch on YouTube →Moran, a former investment banker and Virginia native running as an independent against three-term incumbent Senator Mark Warner, discussed his background as a Democrat who voted for Abigail Spanberger before concluding that neither party is capable of addressing the structural failures driving unaffordable housing, broken healthcare, and the hollowing out of the American middle class. He laid out his Fiduciary Democracy platform, which would require members of Congress to vote on legislation in proportion to their constituents' expressed preferences, and his Compute Tithe proposal, which would redirect a portion of the revenue generated by Virginia's massive data center corridor back to the Commonwealth's residents.
"I voted for Spanberger. I believed in what the Democratic Party said it stood for. But at some point you have to look at the results, not the rhetoric. Forty years of promises and the average Virginian still cannot afford a home, cannot afford healthcare, and cannot retire with dignity. That is not a partisan failure. That is a systemic failure, and it requires a systemic answer."
, Mark Moran, Timcast IRL, April 16, 2026
The conversation ranged across foreign land ownership in the United States, the role of data centers in Virginia's economy, immigration enforcement, and the structural argument that Washington's two-party system has been captured by the same financial interests it was designed to check. Moran drew strong audience response on the question of foreign nationals purchasing American agricultural and residential land, a position that generated the most-liked comment on the YouTube broadcast: "I definitely think it's insane that any other country can buy American land."
"The surveillance state and the dependency state are the same system. They both require you to be afraid and unable to act without permission. What we are building is the opposite of that. We are building a platform where the people vote directly on legislation and their representatives are legally required to follow that vote. That is what the founders intended before the technology existed to make it possible."
, Mark Moran, Timcast IRL, April 16, 2026
The Rumble-exclusive after-hours segment, The Green Room, extended the conversation beyond the main broadcast and is available to Rumble Premium subscribers. The main episode remains available in full on both platforms.
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