Mitch McConnell’s Advisor Predicts the Senate Map

Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri

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🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Tara is joined by Republican consultant and former chief of staff to Mitch McConnell, Josh Holmes, and they begin their conversation by discussing Donald Trump’s current standing within the GOP and what the party has done to streamline the somewhat mercurial relationship with its presumptive nominee. They then dive into all of the tight senate races around the U.S. and shine a light on the Republicans' path to regain the majority in the chamber. For more of Tara's reporting, please sign up for her newsletter, ‘The Best and the Brightest,’ at puck.news/tarapalmeri and use the discount code TARA20 Host: Tara Palmeri Guest: Josh Holmes Producer: Chris Sutton Production Supervision: Conor Nevins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:40.0	. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hi, I'm Tara Paul Mary. I'm Puck Senior Political Correspondent, and this is
0:54.0	Somebody's Gotta Win. On this show, I speak with Josh Holmes. He is one of the
0:59.7	closest advisors to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
1:03.5	He was his longtime chief of staff and now helps him on the outside.
1:06.8	It's an advisor.
1:08.7	Republicans are poised to take back the chamber in 2024 after missing a prime opportunity in 2022 when the map was
1:17.2	squarely in their favor.
1:18.9	He said they've learned a lot of lessons from that cycle and part of it was that they really needed to repair the relationship with Trump.
1:25.0	So Josh was tasked with doing that and he's feeling pretty confident that this time
1:30.0	around everyone will be on the same page and they'll be able to take back
1:35.0	control of the Senate. Josh and I will go through all the seats that he thinks are in
1:39.1	play and he'll give his predictions at the end. But first, in Trump legal news, he got a lucky break in Florida
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