Pat Ryan: Epstein Portents, Off-Year Omens & DJT’s Lame Duckification
Impolitic with John Heilemann
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🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:36.8 | Aloha and namaste everyone and welcome to Impolitic with John Heilman, a puck and Odyssey |
| 0:41.2 | Joint featuring lively, in-depth conversations with the people who cruise the court as |
| 0:45.6 | power in America, sculpting and shaping the evident flow of our politics and culture. |
| 0:50.1 | From the moment that Donald Trump won re-election last year until precisely two Tuesday nights ago, |
| 0:56.4 | when the scale and sweep of the Republican wipeout in this year's off-year elections became clear, |
| 1:03.2 | Democrats had spent nearly every waking moment puzzling over how to win back the voters that they had lost in 2024, |
| 1:09.5 | losses that ushered in the horror show of Trump 2.0. |
| 1:13.7 | It wasn't just one demographic group that had slipped away, African Americans, Hispanics, |
| 1:17.9 | white working class voters. The party had lost ground with all of them, but the group that got |
| 1:21.9 | the most attention because, in fact, the erosion among that group was the most dramatic, |
| 1:28.6 | was young men. |
| 1:35.3 | And as the party search for answers as to how to win that group back, Pat Ryan's phone started ringing off the hook. Pat Ryan is the 43-year-old fourth-term congressman |
| 1:41.3 | representing New York's 18th district, which sits upstate in the heart of |
| 1:44.7 | the Hudson River Valley, not far from where I spend most of my time these days. The CDs up here are |
| 1:50.5 | all front-line, deep purple battleground districts. They're heavily contested and very much up for grabs |
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