Democrats Actually Win Something with Chris Hayes and David Plouffe

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Following Democrats' decisive Tuesday wins, Jon is joined by MSNBC's Chris Hayes, host of "All In" and author of "The Sirens' Call," and David Plouffe, former Obama campaign manager and White House senior advisor. Together, they dissect the election results, explore the tension between political consulting and authentic campaigning, and discuss what this election reveals about candidates and messages that can genuinely resonate with voters. This podcast episode is brought to you by: QUINCE - Keep it classic and cool this fall— go to https://Quince.com/ TWS for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. GROUND NEWS - Go to https://groundnews.com/stewart to see how any news story is being framed by news outlets around the world and across the political spectrum. Use this link to get 40% off unlimited access with the Vantage Subscription. SURFSHARK - Go to https://surfshark.com/stewart and use code stewart at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! Follow The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart on social media for more: > YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeklyshowpodcast> TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > X: https://x.com/weeklyshowpod > BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/theweeklyshowpodcast.com Host/Executive Producer – Jon Stewart Executive Producer – James Dixon Executive Producer – Chris McShane Executive Producer – Caity Gray Lead Producer – Lauren Walker Producer – Brittany Mehmedovic Producer – Gillian Spear Video Editor & Engineer – Rob Vitolo Audio Editor & Engineer – Nicole Boyce Music by Hansdle Hsu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, it is Wednesday, November 5th, this is the weekly show podcast.
0:14.5	My name is John Stewart.
0:15.5	And are you hearing something in my voice?
0:17.1	You may be hearing something in my voice.
0:18.9	In my voice may be something called hope.
0:21.5	A little bit of hope. Has it been in there in a while. Last night's election was the kind of
0:26.8	election night that I haven't seen since I was a kid. It hearkened back to those old election
0:32.7	nights when the polls would close at eight and they'd be like, that's it and and i know all the networks had
0:38.9	gotten their election teams and their political uh pundits and they'd gotten all the desks set up
0:43.9	in the election center and the magic tv and all that and they were ready to go for you know the eight
0:49.4	to 12 hours that they were going to do to try and discern the closeness and that it was just a
0:54.8	fucking eight o'clock it closed and at 830 they're like yep we're calling it uh clear
1:01.1	decisive uh really i thought positive results all across the board mikey sherell uh spanberger
1:09.9	mom donnie prop 50 it you know even these races in in georgia across the board, Mikey Cheryl, Spanberger, Mom, Donnie, Prop 50.
1:12.3	You know, even these races in Georgia and everywhere else, it turns out, and again,
1:17.8	I am not a political consultant.
1:19.2	And by the way, we're going to have on a really smart political consultant and a political
1:23.3	analyst.
1:24.8	But it may be that when the President of United States tweets out a video of him
1:32.4	dumping diarrhea on the American public, they find that slightly dismissive. And maybe that's what
1:39.2	all this is. I don't know about the argument of populism versus security state Democrats or moderate
1:44.5	timid or all that.
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