Midterms: Red Wave or Blue Save?
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 13 September 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Two months to the midterms. Bill talks to Steven Shepard, the Senior campaigns and elections editor and chief polling analyst for Politico. The often predicted Red Wave for the GOP has disappeared. But has this made a Blue Save possible?
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| 0:00.0 | We're off to the races. |
| 0:08.9 | Hello, friends. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome back to the Bill Press pod, and yes, we're off to the final stretch of the midterm elections. |
| 0:16.4 | And with Election Day, less than two months away, campaigns are shifting into high gear. With this note, |
| 0:23.5 | because the Supreme Court stirred things up with its anti-abortion decision, because gas prices |
| 0:28.9 | fell along with the threat of inflation, and because Joe Biden finally scored some wins in Congress |
| 0:35.0 | and his poll numbers popped up, most political analysts say |
| 0:38.7 | things are suddenly looking a little better for Democrats. Good enough to defy history and hold |
| 0:45.0 | onto the House. Good enough to not only hold on to but increase their majority in the Senate. |
| 0:51.1 | Good enough to win some important governor's races? Well, that's the big question, |
| 0:55.7 | as both parties work that motivate their base to turn out in November. Two months is still an |
| 1:01.9 | eternity in politics, so anything could still happen between now and then. But where do things |
| 1:07.6 | stand today in those important House, Senate, and governors' races? |
| 1:12.6 | Nobody follows the political landscape closer than our guest today, Stephen Shepard, |
| 1:19.1 | senior campaigns and elections editor and chief polling analysts for Politico. |
| 1:25.4 | Steve Shepard, good to connect with you. |
| 1:27.7 | Welcome to the Bill PressPod. Thanks for joining us. Thank you for havingico. Steve Shepard, good to connect with you. Welcome to the Bill Press Pod. |
| 1:29.4 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:30.8 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:32.5 | Let's start, Steve, with the big picture. |
| 1:34.9 | We're now right about eight weeks out before Election Day, November 8. |
| 1:39.5 | These are the midterms when the party that holds the White House usually gets |
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