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The Bulwark Podcast

Mike Murphy: The Sh*t Is Sticking to Trump

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.611.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Trump's killing off of John Cornyn's political career was the last straw for Senate Republicans, who magically found the courage—for the moment—to oppose his thug fund and the cool billion dollars he's demanding for his ballroom. And while the DNC autopsy shows a party not focused on winning, Jeffries and Schumer played a very shrewd hand with their anti-ICE DHS shutdown. Plus, the staggering amount of stock trades from the guy in the Oval Office, blue California's herd mentality may end up sending a man with no message to the governor's mansion, Trump is the Henry Ford of the Chinese auto industry, and Mike makes the case for bulldozing the new East Wing.

Mike Murphy joins Tim Miller for the holiday weekend pod.

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1:45.9

Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast.

1:47.4

I'm your host Tim Miller.

1:49.2

Delighted to welcome back to the show.

1:50.5

Veteran political strategist.

1:53.4

His campaigns include McCain, Romney Schwarzenegger, and Job.

1:58.3

He's the co-host of Hacks on Tap, co-director of the Center for the Political Future at USC. He also runs the American EV Jobs Alliance. We're in California, so I'm bringing in Mike Murphy. What's up, Murph? Hey, good to be here, Tim. At last night's live show, we brought out a bunch of, you know, lib content creators and commentators, you're John Favros, your Jane Coastins, your Van Lathens, your Brian Tauer-Cohens. It's like a swarm here in L.A. You can't avoid them. They're everywhere. Honestly, you know, people need kind of like some raid to keep them away. But I subjected them to a never-trump or trivia, which had like deep cuts, questions about Mitt Romney, who did Dick Cheney shoot, you know, all that kind of material. And you would have, you would have dominated. They were, it was an embarrassing performance by them last night. So, yeah, we need to start up a school to properly educate the youngans here. We do. We do. All right. We've got much to get to. Part of the reason we wanted to have you were here in California, there's a lot of California politics. So we'll get to that.

2:54.2

But first, we have some good news. So I'd like to start with some good news, modest good news. You know, but we take it where we can get it.

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