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But you’re starting to see some people make a calculated dash—or maybe create an exit strategy—like Marjorie Taylor Greene. She’s, you know, she was saying Nancy Pelosi was this great…
Will the electorate in 2026 be as good as it is in 2025? I think we don’t know that. I think it’s possible. But what we do know is that, historically, midterm elections are very bad for…
And so if we’re in this united front and there’s different factions, and there’s somebody on fire, one of the factions, you give them the rock, if the main objective is to defeat fascism.…
Sheppard: I mean, I think that they’re pretty vast, I think—partly because what you’ve seen in these very disparate elections—and I think the electorates are fairly different here, too—is…
If only—it looks like Sliwa’s number dropped a lot, and it was like a two-man race. It appears Zohran’s gonna be about 50 and Cuomo around 42. So what do you make of—so the polling was…
Dayen: Yeah, I mean, this is how the entire shutdown has gone, really—at least politically. First, Trump said, I’m going to cut off spending in blue areas, infrastructure spending, things…
As Trump’s tirades over the shutdown upend Mike Johnson’s main argument, a progressive organizer explains how this reveals Trump’s deep dereliction of duty—and how voters on the ground are…
So, like, it’s powerful because the numbers are large and because people leave that feeling like, I have hope, that was fun, we’re going to do more of this. All of that is sustaining…
But what I believe more is that the Democratic Party cannot just be the anti-Trump party. We have tried that, and look where we are. And if we aren’t challenging the status quo…
Sargent: Yeah. You brought up these numbers—Gallup numbers—showing that Democrats kind of have this advantage on the economy in a sense, over Republicans, in a way that we’ve never seen…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 29 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced…
All the variability is gonna go into this to some degree—like how well you can actually, take advantage of these conditions that we tend to see, and, you know, how unpopular Trump actually…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 28 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced…
Sargent: I sure hope so. I just want to bring this back to the Maryland situation to close this out, because there’s a little tidbit I’ve actually learned that I want to share here, which…
So often people haven’t looked at the details of that, but the people that have said, Oh, it doesn’t sound so bad, right? And some people are saying, Oh, some people in Virginia even think…
I mean, his fate depends on Trump pardoning him. So, like, it’s another invitation for a bribe, basically. Litman: Exactly. When you make everyone’s future, their career, their liberty…
It belongs to the National Park Service because it’s a national heritage site. It’s a place of history; it’s a place of meaning. I don’t know how many of the listeners will have ever had…
At the same time, Democrats are being mobilized in ways that I actually had not even seen in 2024. In Virginia specifically, there’s a group called Rural Ground Game—they’re doing…
She was not someone who would have shown up—I didn’t ask her—but I don’t think she’s someone who would have shown up for the Women’s March. These are people who’ve been activated—I’m not…
And so I do think that part of what’s driving this is they’re scared. They’re losing. They don’t feel like this stuff is working. They know the economy isn’t going well. So what it’s…
And, we can’t ignore the fact that cities like Chicago, like Oregon, like L.A., are living in day-to-day fear from its own government. We need to talk about what’s happening in Chicago,…
I actually did a little video today—to self-promote for the moment—talking about, you know, how Mike Johnson is effectively dissolving Congress and drawing a meme to the Star Wars line…
That, to me, I think, is really a terrible thing to contemplate—that they’re actually manipulating an aspect of the system that is there, maybe to a fault, because the delays, they, you…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 15 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced…
