620 - Beltway Phoenix at the Midterms of Madness feat. Dave Weigel (4/18/22)

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🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 91 minutes

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We just noticed it happens to be a midterms year, so your favorite presidential podcasting duo of Chris and Matt have teamed back up to relaunch our beltway insider series. We’re joined by campaign reporter extraordinaire Dave Weigel to break down the key races to watch, track the trends to follow, and generally put drills to our temples as we attempt to once again engage in American Electoral Politics. If you want to catch us a Pickathon near Portland, OR in August, tickets here: https://pickathon.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to the triumphant rebirth of our celebrated beltway insider series.
0:14.1	I'm Chris Wade, aka Lil' Smooth Holly here with Matt Christmas, aka Taft Hartley, aka
0:20.4	The Big Magician.
0:21.4	What's up?
0:22.4	Hey, happy to be back.
0:23.4	Very excited.
0:24.4	And just as we're getting started here because there's been some controversy on the subject,
0:28.1	it's never been officially addressed on the show.
0:30.6	I would just like to say regarding one of the previous hosts of this ongoing series.
0:35.5	He was unfortunately eaten by an alligator in Louisiana by you while on assignment reporting
0:39.6	a now-canceled 12-part investigative podcast mini-series called Tough Is Clay, the Clay Higgin
0:45.8	story.
0:46.8	Oh, arapitori-wom on me.
0:49.7	But it is a midterms year.
0:52.1	So after Matt and Miles, I'll just call it magisterial recounting of the entirety of
0:56.4	US presidential history last year, we figured we'd team up again to give a deep dive update
1:01.6	into the current state of electoral politics here in America.
1:05.4	This is the rebirth, the beltway Phoenix.
1:09.2	Hop on and fly away with us, destination, the midterms of Matt.
1:12.9	beltway Phoenix, rising from the earth beltway Phoenix noted for his growth beltway Phoenix,
1:27.8	of course here on this program, we believe two things about electoral politics.
1:30.6	First, that it's nothing but a cheap bobble offered by the bourgeois ruling class to distract
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