Democrats are Delusional. Republicans Are Nuts.

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🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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National Journal’s Josh Kraushaar joins the Commentary podcast today to break down what we’ve seen so far from Democratic and Republican primary voters, and what we can expect their choices will mean for the 2022 midterm elections.

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0:00.0	music
0:24.0	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine podcast for today, May 12th, 2022.
0:29.9	I'm Noah Rothman with us as always is executive editor Abe Greenwald.
0:34.8	Hi Abe. I know.
0:36.8	Senior writer Christine Rosen. Hi Christine. I know.
0:39.5	I know. John is out today, but joining us in his stead is Josh Krashauer,
0:44.6	host of the Against the Green podcast and a political columnist for National
0:48.8	Journal. Thank you for joining us, Josh. Hey Noah, it's great to be back on the
0:52.4	Commentary podcast. We appreciate it. So we're going to talk all
0:55.5	politics news today. Um, like we always talk politics news, but this is more
0:59.5	electoral politics, the real stuff. Um, it's primary season and the
1:04.4	primary is our well underway. And the topic of primary interest to the
1:10.5	commentary set and inside the beltway seems to be how is Trump doing?
1:14.4	Trump isn't on the ballot anywhere. And yet he really is.
1:18.2	Um, in Ohio, Indiana, and we had a couple of races in West Virginia, in Nebraska,
1:23.9	and all anybody seems to be talking about other Republican races, primarily.
1:27.6	And which one's Trump has endorsed in and which ones and where he's doing
1:32.0	all right with his endorsements. So Josh, I want to get your thoughts on this,
1:35.5	but first I have one of after Ohio and the Ohio Senate race where Donald
1:40.0	Trump endorsed JD Vance late. And it seemed to really
1:43.6	have some relevance, helped Vance emerge from a crowded field and
1:48.4	differentiate himself and emerge victorious with a pretty convincing victory.
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