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Visit politico.com slash the deciders to learn more. for. I'm Scott Bland, your host. This week on the nerd cast, an anonymous senior

administration official joins the show to reveal their identity. Just kidding.

We're going to be talking about Iana Presley's defeat of 10-term incumbent Michael Capulano in a Democratic House

primary in Massachusetts. That was the big election news on Tuesday. What does it say

about where the Democratic Party is right now and how is it like or not like what we

saw on the other side in 2010 in the Tea Party wave that changed to the GOP.

Plus, we're going to sidestep some of the fireworks from the still ongoing Senate hearings over Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court appointment and put that nomination fight into some political context.

A reminder to our listeners, before we get started to subscribe to the Nerncast, rate us and write a review.

And one more note before we begin, we are taping this a little bit before noon eastern on Thursday, September 6th.

So it's all up to date as of then. Unfortunately, we're going to miss the

Delaware primaries and presumably some fireworks at the Kavanaugh hearings. But what can you do?

The Nurdcast must be taped. All right, let's get started. I want to welcome our guests.

As usual, we have senior politics editor Charlie Matessian.

Good to see you as always, Charlie.

Hi, Scott.

Also in the studio, our polling guru and campaign watcher Steve Shepard.

Hi Steve.

Hi, Scott.

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