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The TPM Show with Josh and Kate

Only Fascists Left

The TPM Show with Josh and Kate

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Republicans, Politics, Government, News, Democrats

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Kate and Josh discuss the expulsion of anyone of character from the Republican Party, Trump's new taxpayer-funded slush fund and Jared Polis' baffling commutation of election denier Tina Peters' sentence.


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0:00.0

Hi, this is Josh Marshall, and this is the TPM show with Josh and Kate.

0:24.2

We are coming off elections that were in something like half dozen states last night.

0:31.4

And a lot of primaries where a lot of Trump enemies were up for elections.

0:36.4

So we are going to talk about that, the results of

0:39.5

last night's elections today. We're also going to talk about this situation in Georgia, which is a

0:45.2

subset of that, but has some kind of extra details. Also, the big slush fund, the new insurrectionist

0:53.3

slush fund that Donald Trump has set up, that you've

0:55.9

certainly heard about, talk about that. And finally, Jared Polis out there in Colorado,

1:01.3

who commuted the sentence of one of the big election deniers. So we have a lot to talk about.

1:07.9

Kate, let's jump right in. What happened last night? Give us the headlines.

1:12.2

What came out of the primary elections last night and half dozen states. Yeah. So, I mean, as a former

1:18.9

political playbook author, kind of rapturously tweeted, you know, big successes for Trump's political

1:27.2

operation. So last night we saw more Republicans

1:32.3

who had shown any amount of resistance to him felled in their primaries, the big one, Thomas Massey,

1:39.8

who is in like, it's kind of comical because he is in a district that went for Trump by like 35

1:45.7

points and yet it was the most expensive house primary of all time at like $33 million

1:52.5

because Trump and APEC and co spent so heavily to dislodge him.

1:58.8

But he ends up losing by about 10 points. Ravensberger, who we know

2:03.3

as the former Secretary of State, who declined to quote unquote find votes for Trump in Georgia

2:09.1

and overturned the election there. And his lieutenant both wiped out. And of course, this is coming

2:14.5

a few days after Bill Cassidy came in a humiliating third in his Republican primary.

2:21.3

So, you know, Trump is probably feeling pretty high on his own supply at this moment.

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