Is It Time for Democrats to Panic?
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🗓️ 4 November 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Democrats suffered major losses in local and state elections this week. Are the results a harbinger for the party’s fate heading into the 2022 midterms?
Guest: Jim Newell, Slate’s senior politics writer.
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| 0:00.0 | I've entered the Rick and Morty multiverse so many times at all for |
| 0:04.4 | that I don't know whether I'm Rick, Morty. |
| 0:07.3 | All myself. |
| 0:08.5 | Am I Rick? |
| 0:09.6 | Am I Morty? |
| 0:10.7 | Am I me? |
| 0:12.0 | Am I Rick? |
| 0:12.9 | Am I Morty? |
| 0:14.0 | Am I me? |
| 0:15.2 | I don't know. |
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| 0:22.8 | Go for me. |
| 0:23.6 | Compare channel floor.com slash verify. |
| 0:30.5 | So Jim, do you feel like saying I told you so at this moment? |
| 0:37.0 | Uh, like a wee bit maybe just just a little bit. |
| 0:47.2 | Back in September, Slates Jim Newell wrote this article. |
| 0:51.5 | It was called a maybe Democrats should start paying attention |
| 0:55.6 | to the Virginia governor's race. |
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