Midterm Madness Begins
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🗓️ 3 May 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
With the midterms just seven months away, Bill talks to Kyle Kondik, Managing Editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the University of Virginia Center for Politics’ nonpartisan newsletter on American campaigns and elections. They focus on the primaries coming up in the month of May in the GOP where Trump has endorsed candidates. How these primaries turn out may determine who controls the Senate in 2023. They also discuss the likelihood of the Republicans taking over the House of Representatives. And a little conversation about Biden and Trump in 2024.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day, good friends. Welcome back to the Bill Press Pod. And today, a timely look at the political |
| 0:13.0 | landscape as we head into the midterms. You know, a couple of months ago, we all went through |
| 0:18.3 | March madness and the scramble to fill out a perfect bracket for |
| 0:21.8 | the NCAA playoffs. Well, now, welcome to May Madness and the Scramble to pick candidates in |
| 0:29.1 | party primaries nationwide. Four states will hold hotly contested Republican Senate primaries in the |
| 0:36.8 | month of May alone. |
| 0:38.6 | Donald Trump has endorsed in all four races, and that has unleashed a Republican civil war in all four states. |
| 0:47.3 | It all starts today, Tuesday, May 3rd in Ohio, where Trump's candidate, J.D. Vance, is battling four or five other Republicans for the |
| 0:57.0 | chance to run against Democratic Congressman Tim Ryan in November. Well, to bring us up to date |
| 1:02.9 | on where things stand in these important Republican primaries and the prospects for Democrats |
| 1:08.8 | and Republicans in November, we're lucky to catch up with |
| 1:12.7 | Kyle Condick, managing editor of Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball newsletter at the renowned Center for |
| 1:19.6 | Politics at the University of Virginia. Kyle knows American politics as well as anybody I know. |
| 1:26.6 | I talked with him yesterday on the eve of the |
| 1:29.5 | Ohio primary. Kyle Condick has been a while. Good to reconnect with you and welcome. Welcome to |
| 1:35.9 | the Bill Presspot. Good to be with you, Bill. All right, so 2022. We've been waiting for it. We're here. |
| 1:43.8 | And the GOP primaries kick off actually tomorrow in Ohio. |
| 1:50.8 | One of the most interesting primaries of all. It's pretty wild out there, Kyle, isn't it? And Donald Trump endorsing J.D. Vant. So give us a little overview. Who are the leading candidates and how's it |
| 2:02.6 | look? Yeah, so there are five kind of major candidates, all of whom for the most part have had |
| 2:08.1 | sort of a moment in the sun in this race. But as we get to the actual voting concluding on Tuesday |
| 2:14.6 | evening, you know, J.D. Vance is probably a soft favorite, you know, |
| 2:18.7 | the author of Hillbilley Allegee, who has, you know, was a big time Trump critic in 2016, |
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