Five Predictions That Will Define 2026

The Chris Cuomo Project

Chris Cuomo

News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Chris Cuomo lays out five interconnected predictions for 2026 — not as isolated forecasts, but as a chain reaction driven by exhaustion, escalation, and a public fed up with how power is exercised. He warns that the rising stakes of political rhetoric and performative outrage make some kind of major internal attack increasingly likely, and explains why the aftermath — misinformation, blame, and manipulation — will force a reckoning with social media algorithms that profit from division. Cuomo argues that MAGA is unsustainable in its current form and will begin collapsing under the weight of constant hostility, setting the stage for a pivotal midterm election. Whether Democrats capitalize or squander that moment, he says, will determine whether the results are historic or razor-thin. He closes with his biggest prediction: the next president won’t be a familiar figure, but someone outside the system, emerging from a public desperate for disruption, perspective, and a way out of the exhaustion cycle driving American politics. Follow and subscribe to The Chris Cuomo Project on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube for new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday: https://linktr.ee/cuomoproject Join Chris Ad-Free On Substack: http://thechriscuomoproject.substack.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You want predictions? I have them. And it's going to be a little different, and you're going to have to string them all together.
0:13.6	Chris Cuomo here. Welcome to the Chris Cuomo Project. I see five things headed this way, and one of them is a catalyst for the next. So it's kind of a
0:26.6	chain reaction, as opposed to just predictions like, I'm going to gain 20 pounds and then lose 20
0:31.6	pounds and then gain it again, which is probably also true. Here's what I see happening.
0:37.4	And it's a little heavy, and I know that, and it's not by design. Here's what I see happening.
0:40.5	And it's a little heavy, and I know that, and it's not by design.
0:43.0	It's just because I don't think I can avoid it, to be honest.
0:43.4	Okay?
0:45.0	Here's the first one.
0:52.1	Something bad is going to happen in America this year, and it's going to be an attack,
0:55.6	and it's going to be internal, and it's going to be something that ups the stakes from what we've seen thus far. I don't want this to happen. I hope it's averted.
1:02.3	I hope it's avoided. But the increase in the rhetoric, the increase in the ante of what it
1:09.9	takes to get attention feels just so eerily similar
1:15.1	to where we were after 9-11. And when the bad guys knew that they could get our attention,
1:23.5	that they knew that if they did something to hurt us, it would really hurt us in that moment.
1:29.2	And I feel that again.
1:30.6	I just don't believe that the bad guy is going to be the same as the last time.
1:35.0	It could be.
1:35.8	I mean, we've had an amazing avoidance of clashing with extreme Islamism in this country
1:42.4	in terms of having terrorists hit us here.
1:45.0	Our government has done amazing work. I know you're not used to hearing that. But recently we're
1:49.8	heard about the FBI taking down a plot was not extreme Islamists. It was really fucked up
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