170: Election Aftermath with Robert Draper

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🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

With the midterm results continuing to come in with a strong showing for Democrats, James and Al bring on NYT contributor and author of ‘Weapons of Mass Delusion’ Robert Draper to dive into why many expectations of a red wave got upended. They cover the weaknesses of the Republican candidates, the electoral hazards of playing into Trumpian delusions, and if the Right has finally been taken to task by voters.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Politics World Room with James Carville and I'm Al Hunt.
0:15.8	This week our guest is New York Times contributor and author of a terrific book on where the
0:20.7	Republican Party lost its mind, Robert Draper.
0:24.9	Remember we love taking your questions so write into politicswarroom at gmail.com or send
0:30.3	a tweet to Adpleticon for next week's show.
0:32.8	Now we'll get to as many as we can but don't forget to tell us where you're from.
0:35.9	And please check out the links to our sponsors and some shaving, bling kiss and miracle
0:40.4	brand and the show notes.
0:41.8	We thank you for supporting these sponsors and helps make this podcast happen.
0:46.1	Please tell your friends about us and remind them to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,
0:50.4	my Stitcher or wherever you get your podcast.
0:55.2	James America voted on Tuesday and while there's still some important votes out, we can say
1:01.4	it was certainly a better night than Democrats expected.
1:04.6	The Republicans waved that they talked about crashed.
1:08.3	Now there was some bad news for Democrats.
1:10.9	They lost the house almost certainly and they'll have a probably a 10 or 12 seat margin.
1:17.6	Like the 30 or 40 seat game they expected.
1:21.4	And you know, the battleground states of Ohio and Florida, I think we can say no longer
1:26.2	look like battleground states.
1:28.1	But there was a lot more good news.
1:30.2	The sweet, democratic sweep in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
1:34.6	Those were really big.
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