Latest results signal impending GOP disaster in midterms
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
Brian Tyler Cohen
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🗓️ 12 April 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Republicans’ underperformance in one election in particular signals an impending disaster in midterms. Brian interviews Jamie Raskin, Tommy Vietor and Alaska Senate candidate Mary Peltola.
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| 0:00.0 | Republicans underperformance in one election in particular signals an impending disaster in midterms. |
| 0:06.7 | And I've got three interviews, Jamie Raskin, Tommy Vitor, and Alaska Senate candidate Mary Peltola. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie. |
| 0:16.5 | Something pretty amazing got virtually zero coverage because of everything that's happening right now in Iran with gas prices, with Epstein, and on and on. |
| 0:25.3 | But on Tuesday, Democrat Chris Taylor flipped a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, expanding the liberal majority from four to three to five to two. |
| 0:33.4 | But the real story is this. |
| 0:35.7 | Back in 2024, Trump actually won six of the eight congressional districts in Wisconsin. |
| 0:40.9 | But this past Tuesday, Chris Taylor won seven of the eight congressional districts, meaning a |
| 0:46.6 | flip in support of five seats. |
| 0:49.1 | The only seat in Wisconsin that didn't have higher Democratic support is Wisconsin's fifth |
| 0:53.2 | congressional district. |
| 0:58.8 | That went from a 22 point margin in Trump's favor to a nine point margin in Trump's favor, |
| 1:03.7 | meaning it's a 13 point swing to the left. And that's a 13 point swing in the reddest district in the state. The biggest swing was actually Wisconsin's third district where there was a 28 point |
| 1:08.8 | swing to the left. And if we see these kinds of numbers play out |
| 1:12.1 | nationally, even, you know, the more conservative 13-point swing, then the House has gone for Republicans, |
| 1:17.4 | and in fact, Democrats would also take the Senate. And better news yet, the candidates that Democrats |
| 1:22.5 | have fielded for the Senate are, you know, as strong as they come. Roy Cooper in North Carolina is polling between eight and 18 points ahead. |
| 1:30.3 | Sherrod Brown in Ohio is polling one to two points ahead. |
| 1:33.3 | James Telerico in Texas also polling one to two points ahead. |
| 1:36.6 | Mary Peltola, who you'll hear from in a short while, is polling four points ahead. |
| 1:40.6 | We've got strong candidates in Maine and Michigan. |
| 1:43.7 | And with Trump continuing, |
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