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Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

Ali Velshi & Dave Weigel

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

iHeartPodcasts

Politics, News

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

MSNOW’s Ali Velshi stops by to talk about Trump heading into another election year of picking bad candidates.
Semafor’s Dave Weigel joins us to discuss the trends he’s seeing as the primaries shake out.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.3

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.5

Hi, I'm Molly JongFast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discussed the top political

0:10.4

headlines with some of today's best minds.

0:12.9

And Donald Trump's Board of Peace's official fund has received $0.

0:19.7

Despite billions being pledged, sure.

0:23.5

We have such a great show for you today.

0:25.5

MS Now's Ali Valshine stops by to talk about Trump going into the midterms with a slate filled with bad candidates.

0:35.0

Then we'll talk to Semaphores, Dave Weigle, about the trends he is seeing in

0:40.7

the primary field. Somali, we knew it was going to happen. Ken Paxton has prevailed against John

0:46.8

Corden. Unprecedented loss in the modern era. It's been half a century since we had something

0:51.9

like this. But there was lots of other interesting things down in Texas,

0:55.8

including a anti-Semitic sex therapist who was like half Maha,

1:01.4

half left-wing weirdo losing her race.

1:03.8

I just want to pause for a second to talk about the Cornyn-Paxon race runoff.

1:15.6

$130 million spent on a Republican-again- against Republican primary that pitted an incumbent who could theoretically win in a more

1:24.1

normal field, right, outside of the primary, more of an appealing centrist.

1:30.3

I mean, I don't find him appealing. He votes with MAGA 91% of the time. But he has some sort of

1:36.7

actual values that aren't just I love Trump versus Ken Paxton, who has been impeached but not removed. He has numerous

1:47.8

allegations of adultery is in the middle of a divorce with his wife, Angela, who is a Texas

1:55.5

state senator who did not vote to impeach him because she was not allowed to.

2:01.7

You know, you're not allowed to vote in impeachment if you're married to the person who is being impeached.

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