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The Playbook Podcast

Nov. 7, 2022: Is it a wave?

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

Politics, Government, Daily News, News

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

We’re truly in the home stretch with one day to go until Election Day. That means we are running out of precious time to deploy our favorite campaign season cliches. So allow us to note: It all comes down to turnout. And as we all know, the only poll that matters is the one on Election Day... Playbook editor Mike DeBonis and Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza preview the crucial week ahead, including, what should, actually, constitute a red wave? In the House, the most likely outcome is that this will be a typical midterm in which the president’s party loses seats. The modern average is a loss of 27 House seats. Three of the last four presidents did much worse in their first midterms: Bill Clinton lost 54 seats, Barack Obama lost 63 seats, and Donald Trump lost 40 seats.  Every election brings with it confident predictions of some enduring new majority. George W. Bush and Barack Obama were both seen as ushering in eras of dominance for their respective parties. Donald Trump’s election supposedly meant the end of the Democratic Party’s presidential prospects. Some liberals say that the 2018 and 2020 anti-Trump surges prove that a stable center-left coalition exists to extinguish MAGA.  The challenge after Tuesday is to keep two things in mind: There can be a massive change in policy direction (the House flipping) with only a small change in the electorate (less than 5% of House seats changing hands). Ryan's Playbook Deep Dive interview with Lynn Vavreck: Hindsight is 20/20 Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter Raghu Manavalan is the Host and Senior Editor of POLITICO's Playbook Daily Briefing.Jenny Ament is the Executive Producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0

Hey there, I'm Playbook editor Mike Debonis.

0:03.2

Something a little different today to start the week.

0:05.4

I'm joined by Playbook author Ryan Lizzo for today's Playbook Daily Briefing.

0:12.2

Okay, Ryan, we're truly in the home stretch here one day to go until Election Day.

0:16.6

That means we are running out of precious time to deploy our favorite campaign season cliches.

0:21.9

Do you have any favorites, Ryan?

0:23.5

Oh, I'm pretty partial to the Twitter gag every two years about how it all comes down to

0:31.6

Cuyahoga County in Ohio.

0:33.6

Crucial Waukeshaw County or Cuyahoga County.

0:36.3

That's right.

0:37.3

I think the former this time around since Ohio was... Crucial Waukesha County or Cuyahoga County. Yeah, that's right.

0:43.0

I think the former this time around, since Ohio has been trending Republican,

0:48.8

and it doesn't seem like that county is the county or state is the bellwether it used to be.

0:49.6

Yes.

0:55.2

It does seem that this weekend has been a real hotbed of it all comes down to turnout.

1:00.0

But as we know, the only poll that matters is the one on election day.

1:00.6

Indeed.

1:07.2

So just to run down a couple of things we're watching here, it's been a really interesting final weekend on Saturday.

1:10.3

We had three presidents on the campaign trail. A really interesting moment at Donald Trump's rally in La Trobe, Pennsylvania, home of Rolling Rock beer,

1:16.6

one of the foulest white beers I've ever tasted in my life.

1:20.3

Spoken like a true beer snub.

1:21.5

But he did sort of have this offhand comment about his young rival for Republican hearts and minds, Ron DeSantis.

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