How Did This Guy End Up Running For Senate?

Citizen McCain with Meghan McCain

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3.8 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Meghan McCain and Miranda Wilkins kick off June with a wild mix of politics, pop culture, and campaign chaos. The conversation dives into the growing controversy surrounding Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, the future of the Republican Party after John Cornyn’s stunning Texas loss, and why both parties may be facing a major identity crisis heading into the midterms. Plus: Kevin Walling weighs in on Nancy Mace, Texas politics, and the latest campaign controversies Anang Mittal breaks down the growing influence of Indian American voters and why online political discourse is becoming increasingly toxic The America 250 celebration goes sideways as "Freedom 250" turns it into a political circus. Major performers drop out and Vanilla Ice becomes an unlikely headliner Meghan and Miranda debate the 'Euphoria' finale, roller coaster disasters, Pride Month, and modern parenting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Some follow the noise.
0:03.0	Bloomberg follows the money, whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion-dollar swings.
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1:11.5	Megan McCain has entered the chat. Hello, welcome to Citizen McCain. It's Monday, June 1st. I feel like I just gave birth January 2nd. How is it June 1st? It's June 1st, you guys. I'm very excited. It's finally turning into summer and it is warming up, at least here in D.C. it is. I hope you guys had a really nice weekend. If you're listening to the podcast, you want to join us on Zoom. You can register to do that at 2a. dot TV slash Megan. And if you're watching right now on YouTube and you want to join us on Zoom,
1:16.2	raise your hand and look at the YouTube chat for a registration link. And lastly, if you've not
1:21.0	subscribed to our YouTube channel, please do. YouTube.com slash at Citizen McCain, YouTube.
1:26.5	We have a really great show today. We have Kevin Walling
1:29.2	coming in, the Democrat strategist and also co-host of the morning meeting. And then we have my friend
1:34.6	Anang Matal all around Republican strategist, man about town, D.C. Insider. He runs this really
1:43.2	amazing company that tracks South Asian voters and
1:46.6	South Asian candidates running for office. And I often think when we're talking about demographics
1:52.4	of voters, we don't talk enough about the Asian vote. We talk about the Hispanic vote. We talk
1:56.5	about the Black vote. I think we should be talking more about all of the Asian Americans in
2:00.6	this country
2:01.1	who have a huge stamp and voting block that are making a lot of differences in a lot of different
2:06.7	races. And he's a friend of mine. He's a good friend of Ben and I. So we're excited to have him on
2:10.4	later on in the show. We have a lot of Graham Platner insanity to get to. And we're going to go
2:17.3	into that with Kevin in a minute. But first, we get to. And we're going to go into that with Kevin in a minute.
2:19.4	But first, we wanted to show you this crazy video that Miranda and I saw over the weekend.
2:25.1	I personally love roller coasters.
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