Flipping Seats and Blue Waves. With former DNC Chair, Jaime Harrison
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🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Bill interviews former DNC chair and Senate candidate Jaime Harrison about the midterms, arguing they’re a chance to check Donald Trump by flipping the House and potentially the Senate. Harrison says Trump’s push to restrict mail-in voting is hypocritical and would disenfranchise many voters, including military overseas. Harrison is bullish on Democratic prospects, comparing the cycle to 2006, citing GOP overreach, corruption, and strong Democratic special-election performance. He discusses countering GOP redistricting moves, candidate recruitment, and targeting Senate races in Georgia, Michigan (a concern due to a heated primary), Alaska (a “dark horse” with Mary Peltola), North Carolina (Roy Cooper), Texas, Ohio (Sherrod Brown), Maine, and Montana via an independent who would caucus with Democrats. He urges a message centered on affordability and healthcare, downplays fundraising gaps, and promotes his “Dirt Road Dems” PAC focused on rural organizing in the South.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, and good to see you, good friends, and a big welcome back to the Bill Press |
| 0:11.0 | pod, where we try to keep up with the ever-shifting political winds of the day, and we have a good |
| 0:16.8 | guide to help us today just in the nick of time because we are already smack dab in the |
| 0:23.0 | middle of the midterms. True, Donald Trump is not on the ballot, but in name only he's not on the |
| 0:29.0 | ballot. By winning back control to Congress, this is our first chance to clip Donald Trump's |
| 0:35.4 | wings before he can tear down the rest of the White House, |
| 0:38.9 | raise prices any higher, pardon any more criminals, or start any more wars. But that means, |
| 0:45.5 | first, winning back the House, where Democrats need to flip only three seats to regain control, |
| 0:51.6 | and where, without taking anything for granted, Democrats are favored to win. |
| 0:57.5 | Then there's a Senate, where Democrats have to hold on to all 47 seats they now have and flip |
| 1:03.3 | four Republican seats to take over. Last year, that seemed impossible for Democrats, but suddenly |
| 1:09.4 | this year, Democratic prospects are looking a lot better. |
| 1:13.8 | So what do Democrats need to do to seize the moment and what should their message be? |
| 1:19.5 | We put those questions today to Jamie Harrison, former Senate candidate from South Carolina, |
| 1:25.5 | and former chair of the Democratic National Committee, |
| 1:28.8 | who's still in demand and on call helping Democrats win around the country. |
| 1:34.8 | Mr. Chairman, Jamie Harrison, it's good to connect with you. |
| 1:38.3 | Thank you for joining us today on the Bill Press Pod. |
| 1:41.1 | Mr. Chairman, it is great to connect with you as well. Thank you. Before we get into |
| 1:46.6 | the politics of the day, there's a big issue that's up now. It was in the Supreme Court yesterday. |
| 1:52.6 | It's part of this stupid Save America, Save America Act. And that's the issue of mail-in ballots, |
| 1:58.9 | absentee voting ballots, we used to call it. What has your experience |
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