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Hi, I'm Will Summer.

Welcome to The Daily Beast's fever dreams.

I'm a politics reporter at The Daily Beast,

and I'm currently working on a book about Q&ON called Trust the Plan for Harper Collins coming out later this year. And I'm Kelly Weil. I am also a reporter at The Daily Beast, and I'm the author

of the book Off the Edge, Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything.

On this podcast, we're going to take you on plunges into the

sometimes hilarious, sometimes scary fanatics, infecting the way that millions of Americans

view the world and how they vote. Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration,

the energy of these conspiracy theorists, grifters, and influencers, is still pushing our

mainstream political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point.

Welcome back to Fever Dreams. Once again, I'm Will Summer. This week, we're joined again by guest

host Anthony Fisher. He's a senior opinion editor at The Daily Beast here to share some of his

opinions. Anthony, welcome back. Thanks so much, Will. Delighted to be back. So, Anthony, first of all,

top of mind for me is this kind of, I guess, mental game Donald Trump is running in the Missouri Senate race. Now, by the time this episode is out, that primary will be decided, the Republican primary there. But I think Donald Trump's maneuver here will echo throughout the ages. Were you able to catch this little bit of a sort of verbal jiu-jitsu. I was, and I have thoughts. Okay, so just sort of set

the stage for folks, the Missouri Senate primary right now is a pretty crowded field on the Republican side.

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