An Election Preview and the Emerging Antisemitism on the Right

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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New Wall Street Journal columnist Matt Continetti joins Paul Gigot to discuss what to look for in Tuesday's elections. Plus, what the fight over antisemitism reveals about the future of the MAGA movement and the GOP presidential race in 2028. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.8	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:38.8	America will get its first sounding of the public mood with elections in Virginia,
0:44.3	New Jersey, and New York City this week. That is the public mood in the Trump administration era.
0:51.1	Trump, too, can Republicans win without Trump on the ballot? And how would a victory by socialist
0:57.1	Azaran, Mamdami? What would that mean for the Democratic Party's future? Plus, anti-Semitism is finding
1:04.1	support on the political right as riffs emerge in the mega movement. Welcome everybody to Potomac Watch, our daily podcast for
1:13.0	Wall Street Journal Opinion. I'm Paul as you go. And today I want to welcome our new columnist,
1:17.3	Matthew Continetti. Matt will write about politics for us after years of writing for a variety
1:23.0	of publications and writing a well-received history of modern American conservatism. Welcome, Matt.
1:29.8	Good to see you. Good to see you, Paul. Thanks for having me. So let's start with the elections
1:33.6	this week. What has struck you so far about the races for governor? Let's start in Virginia and New
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