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Amanpour

How Project 2025 is Reshaping America

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump's hold on the Republican Party appears as strong as ever. In primaries held this week, Trump-backed candidates advanced in Georgia, Alabama and Kentucky. David A. Graham, author of a new book which examines how Project 2025 is reshaping America, joins the show to discuss what this moment tells us about the future of the GOP and the upcoming midterms.  Also on today's show: exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Fishman; Atlantic staff writer Helen Lewis    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur.

0:05.8

Here's what's coming up.

0:07.6

I have called and conceded the race.

0:10.3

We've been honorable the whole time and we're going to stay that way.

0:15.2

Trump tightens his grip on the Republican Party as his picks win key primaries.

0:20.8

What does it mean for the midterms and the future of the GOP?

0:24.9

Journalist David Graham joins me.

0:27.4

Then...

0:28.4

Today, our relations have reached an unprecedented high level, serving as a model of comprehensive

0:34.2

partnership and strategic interaction.

0:37.2

Putin visits Beijing, but is he on the back foot in Ukraine?

0:41.9

I speak to exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Fishman, author of the new book, The Successor.

0:48.3

Also ahead, the men who want women to be quiet.

0:52.3

Hari Srinivasa speaks with the Atlantic's Helen Lewis

0:55.3

about how the Christian right, the Manosphere and Maga

0:59.4

have formed a powerful new coalition against feminism. Welcome to the program, everyone, I'm Biana O'Olegia, New York, sitting in for Christian Amampur.

1:25.0

Donald Trump's hold on the Republican Party appears as strong as ever.

1:28.7

In primaries held this week, Trump-back candidates advanced in Georgia, Alabama, and Kentucky,

1:34.4

a show of force that comes despite the president's week polling, growing concerns about the midterms

1:39.7

and questions about whether Republicans will lose control of Congress. Perhaps the most striking

1:45.4

example, Congressman Thomas Massey, once an ally and more recently a critic of the president

1:51.1

on issues ranging from the Epstein files to Israel and Iran. Massey lost to retired Navy SEAL

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