322: Trump’s Plunging Polls with Professor Alexander Theodoridis
Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt
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🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In last week's podcast episode, we spoke with Jud Leggum. After the episode, we received a letter from Melania Trump's lawyer. |
| 0:07.6 | He took issue with our title of one of those YouTube videos from that episode and a couple of comments I made about the First Lady. |
| 0:15.9 | We took a look at what they complained about, and we took down a video and edited out those comments from the episode. |
| 0:23.3 | I also take back these statements and apologize. |
| 0:36.4 | Hello and welcome to Politics World Room with James Carville and I'm Al Hunt. This week our guest is UMassed Amherst, |
| 0:44.5 | Professor of Political Science, Alexandria Theodorides. Now remember, we love taking your |
| 0:51.1 | questions, so write to Politics War Room at gmail.com for next week's show. |
| 0:56.3 | We'll get to as many as we can, but don't forget to tell us where you're from. |
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| 1:27.4 | James, as you know, was out of town for 10 days. |
| 1:31.3 | I did the podcast last week from London. |
| 1:34.1 | I got back thinking nothing has changed. |
| 1:36.5 | It has. |
| 1:37.5 | It's gotten worse. |
| 1:38.7 | It's more repressive. |
| 1:40.3 | He fires the head of the BOS because he doesn't like the economic numbers. |
| 1:44.9 | He's once on his top economist says, yeah, he's right. |
| 1:48.2 | Trump is always right. |
| 1:49.6 | Now he wants to put someone in who will try to rig the numbers. |
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