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Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

168: PA & UK with Ed Luce and Jonathan Tamari

Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

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🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

James and Al bring on Associate Editor of the Financial Times Ed Luce to discuss the fall of Liz Truss, the high turnover of the UK’s Prime Ministers, and what to expect going forward under Rishi Sunak. Then, they’re joined by expert on Pennsylvania politics Jonathan Tamari from the Philadelphia Inquirer to lay out the factors defining the midterm races there, weigh the candidates, and look ahead to what to expect on November 8th.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Politics War Room with James Carville and I'm Al Hunt.

0:17.3

This week our guests are Chief U.S. commentator and columnist and associate editor at the

0:22.5

Financial Times, Ed Luce and the Philadelphia Inquires National Political Reporter Jonathan

0:28.2

Samari. Remember we love taking your questions so right into politicswarrowmageemail.com

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or send a tweet to adpleticon for next week's show. We'll get to as many as we can but don't

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We thank you for supporting them. It really helps make this podcast happen. Please tell your

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friends about us and remind them to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you

0:58.8

get your podcast. Hey James, you got to get me out of my doldrums. I don't see a red wave coming

1:05.9

on November 8th but it does look like a red tide. Republicans picking up 20 to 25 house seats and

1:13.1

having at least an even shot at taking the Senate. Maybe even some critical state offices in

1:18.0

addition to governor like Democrat or like secretaries of state. And there's no question that Biden

1:23.4

is a drag but the economic issues and abortion really haven't changed much. One slightly helps

1:30.3

the Republicans, the other helps the Democrats more but the GOP attacks on crime and the border

1:36.0

seem to be resonating in a number of contests. So tell me I'm being too pessimistic.

1:41.5

I can't. Oh wow. I mean, well, I guess if you were saying let's wait and see that they're,

1:51.2

I do hear some reports that there's some real Democratic enthusiasm and what happened in 94

1:57.9

and what happened in 2010 and 14 years there were elections that were really decided by turnout

2:05.5

that the Republicans were very jazzed off the Democrats and demoralized and didn't show up.

2:09.8

The only thing I think they can hold us to, I don't know, I wouldn't say manageable losses but

2:17.2

could hold it the actual margin is that our voters are still pretty far up. But you know, a lot

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