Cracking The Midterms

The TPM Show with Josh and Kate

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Republicans, Politics, Government, News, Democrats

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Josh and Kate discuss what Democrats are doing, and what they should be doing to avoid a red wave this fall.

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0:35.0	Hi, this is Josh Marshall, and this is the Josh Marshall podcast.
0:39.0	You know, today, we were talking before we started recording.
0:42.0	We're talking about what is the theme of this episode,
0:44.0	and the theme of this episode is the looming midterm elections.
0:50.0	And we're not really going to, with one exception,
0:53.0	and we're not going to talk about the electoral part of it,
0:58.0	you know, kind of like which of the hot races and which of the all that kind of stuff.
1:02.0	We're going to talk about one race in the New Hampshire.
1:05.0	But mainly we're going to talk about the climate this has created for Democrats,
1:11.0	the mood.
1:12.0	And as you may be feeling already,
1:17.0	Democrats have a pretty bad feeling about this midterm election.
1:22.0	I mean, in a sense, they've had a bad feeling about it since the 2020 election.
1:27.0	Midterm elections are never great for the first midterm elections
1:32.0	are never great for the incumbent party.
1:34.0	Very, very seldom do they turn out well.
1:37.0	And, you know, early in Joe Biden's presidency,
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