Normally Podcast: Trump’s Primary Power, Newsom’s Election Panic & Kamala’s “No Bad Ideas” Moment

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Politics, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Daily News

4.5 • 11.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Mary Katharine Ham and Karol Markowicz break down the biggest political stories shaping the conversation: President Trump’s growing influence in key Republican primaries, the high-stakes Thomas Massie race, and the fallout from Bill Cassidy’s loss in Louisiana. Plus: Gavin Newsom faces backlash over California election concerns, AOC fuels debate with controversial rhetoric, and Kamala Harris sparks reactions after suggesting Democrats should embrace “no bad ideas.”

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:10.7	Hey, guys, we are back on normally the show with normalish takes for when the news gets weird.
0:15.1	I am Mary Catherine Ham.
0:16.3	I'm Carol Markowitz.
0:17.4	How was your weekend, Mary Catherine?
0:19.4	It was pretty good. Like, when was that? What weekend?
0:22.6	Try to remember what I did?
0:25.6	Actually, I just realized why my weekend disappeared from my head, and it's because I spent a large part of Sunday trying to tame my email in boxes.
0:34.6	That is bold.
0:38.0	Thankless and probably not very effective work.
0:42.3	You look at after at least?
0:44.6	I feel medium.
0:46.5	I feel overwhelmed.
0:48.3	I feel that I'm going to pay some AI to do this for me.
0:51.7	Sorry.
0:52.3	I'd love to pay some AI to do this for me. I have no problem love the base of some AI to do this for me. I have no
0:55.0	problem with that. Do you save a lot of things as new? Oh my gosh. I could give people an aneurysm
1:02.5	just showing them the unread number for my Gmail. Man, I don't think I want to know.
1:08.1	You don't want to know. It's tragic. I'm one of those people who,
1:12.2	when the time comes, I must like just auto archive anything over a certain amount old.
1:18.8	Yeah. And just be like, okay, that's gone. That's enough for that. Right. We don't need to
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