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The Bulwark Podcast

Chuck Todd: Is the Economy the Biggest Political Threat to Trump?

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Voters in the seven swing states that elected Trump in 2024 thought he'd make the economy better. His perceived strength on the economy is the cornerstone Jenga piece of the whole Trump Tower. And he keeps making the economy worse. Meanwhile, Democratic voters are highly engaged—but just not with the party, whose brand is struggling. Plus, Republicans are still trying to steal the House, and how a stronger, re-imagined local news media can help restore trust in national news.

Chuck Todd joins Tim Miller.
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0:00.0

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0:06.3

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0:23.6

For the rest of time. Yes. Okay, good. Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast.

0:44.5

I'm your host Tim Miller.

0:45.8

Delighted to welcome to the show, former moderator of Meet the Press.

0:48.6

You might have heard of that show.

0:49.5

He's also the host of the Chuck Toddcast, nice pun, and head of politics at Newsphere, a new subscription news platform showcasing the work of independent journalists. It's Chuck Todd. What's up, man?

1:00.3

Mr. Miller, good to see it, buddy.

0:51.9

Yeah, it's been a minute.

0:53.0

It has.

0:53.6

I've got a bunch of stuff I want to talk to you about.

0:55.3

I want to do media stuff at the end.

0:56.7

There's a lot of media gossip, but we have real news first.

0:59.4

I'm interested in your kind of historic perspective on August.

1:02.4

We're in this August.

1:03.3

This is August 5th and what we're seeing. We had this event yesterday in Nebraska 1 with Mike Flood, who's kind of a no-name congressman, really. The only thing I knew about it was he ran against Carol Blood in the last election. So you liked Flood versus Blood?

1:27.8

I got it.

1:29.5

I got a kick out of that.

1:30.1

You got into that.

1:31.2

That's why the only thing I knew about him until yesterday.

1:31.9

And people on the ground reporting that it was like presidential campaign level turnout for his town hall.

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