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Impolitic with John Heilemann

Pat Ryan: Epstein Portents, Off-Year Omens & DJT’s Lame Duckification

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.84.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

John welcomes Democratic congressman Pat Ryan—a 43-year-old West Point grad and Iraq War vet whose 14-point victory in his deep purple upstate New York district in 2024 elevated him to national rising-star status—to discuss the lessons of his party’s off-year election gains and signs that Donald Trump’s lame duck era is at hand. Ryan also explains his crusade to end the scourge of sports TV blackouts in the age of streaming, and why it’s not merely good policy and good politics, but the kind of effort that could help Democrats regain entry into the manosphere. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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