367: A King, A Pope & A Trump With Ed Luce & Jim Gerstein
Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt
Politicon
4.6 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
James and Al sound off on voting rights and review recent polling before welcoming Ed Luce of the Financial Times. They discuss the future of Ukraine and the status of the war, the changing political landscape in the UK, and the growing US platform of King Charles and the Pope. Then, they are joined by pollster Jim Gerstein to review current voter priorities, changing attitudes towards Israel and Netanyahu, the emerging Democratic candidates, the danger of MAGA election interference, and the possibility of a Blue Wave heading into the midterm elections.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to politics world room with James Carville and I'm Al Hunt. |
| 0:13.9 | This week, our guests are founding partner of GBO Strategies and polling expert Jim Gerstein |
| 0:20.3 | and the U.S. national editor and columnist at the Financial |
| 0:24.2 | Times, Ed Luce. |
| 0:26.4 | Now remember, we love taking your questions, so write to PoliticsWRum at gmail.com for next week's |
| 0:32.7 | show. |
| 0:33.5 | Now, I'm going to get to as many as we can, but don't forget to tell us where you're from. |
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| 1:02.1 | It really helps make this podcast happen. |
| 1:06.6 | James, after Saturday night shooting at the correspondence dinner, Donald Trump, also after the visit of King Charles this week, which we'll discuss later, Trump could have lowered the temperature a little. |
| 1:23.0 | He did for a nanosecond, and then he and his lackeys went on a terrorist-like rage. |
| 1:31.0 | Trump blamed the Democratic rhetoric for encouraging violence. |
| 1:36.8 | Let's roll the tape. |
| 1:38.1 | Trump called for executing General Mark Milley, who was chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff. |
| 1:43.5 | He said Democrats were scum, |
| 1:45.3 | and he hated them. He said former President Joe Biden, after he was diagnosed with cancer, |
| 1:53.6 | he called him a decrepit corpse. When former FBI director and special counsel, Robert Mueller, |
| 2:00.4 | died, Trump said good. It was cause for celebration. When it comes to... FBI director and special counsel, Robert Mueller, died. |
| 2:01.9 | Trump said good. |
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