Is JD Vance the Republican Front-Runner?
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🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Jon, Lovett, Dan, and Tommy answer your questions about the upcoming midterms, early bets on 2028, what they got wrong about this year, and Lovett's future reality television career. Then, they listen back to their 2024 New Year's resolutions and set ones they hope to actually keep in 2025.
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| 1:23.4 | I'm John Lovett. I'm Tommy Vitor. |
| 1:24.7 | I'm Jan Pfeiffer. |
| 1:25.4 | It's that time of year again. |
| 1:27.5 | When we answer your most burning questions about the year, we're wrapping. What's coming next? |
| 1:32.2 | And all sorts of personal stuff about Lovett. Okay. Then we'll be confronted with our New Year's resolutions from last year, as we always are. |
| 1:41.3 | Love us. Come clean about how we did. And and as always we're going to make some new ones about |
| 1:46.0 | 2026. You bet. |
| 1:48.1 | You guys ready? |
| 1:49.0 | Mm-hmm. All right. |
| 1:50.6 | New Hampshire Avenue asks. |
| 1:54.8 | Coastplay Republican strategist |
| 1:56.3 | for a minute. |
| 1:57.6 | You're headed into a midterm year. |
| 2:00.0 | You control all of the government and you shat the bed and everyone knows it. You're headed into a midterm year. You control all of the government and you shat the bed and |
| 2:03.6 | everyone knows it. Dems will run on a simple change affordability message. What's your best possible |
| 2:09.8 | counter message? We're going to start off by doing some work for Republicans. Do we get to do |
| 2:15.3 | things or just say things? Because the best counter message is you ditch the tariffs, you extend the ACA subsidies. Oh, no, I think you're, pitch on gas prices being down. I think you're, um, your actions. You go to war with the Republicans you have. Thank you. That's right. It was I lost. That's yeah. Yeah. Okay. Dan, you want to go? Yeah, sure. Okay. So I've given this a little thought. |
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