Political Gabfest: Is Kyrsten Sinema Toast?

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🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss Krysten Sinema leaving the Democratic party; Republicans’ good turnout, poor performance midterms; and the new documentary, Pelosi in The House. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Pelosi in the House Here are this week’s chatters: John: Watch Richard Nixon’s Watergate speeches at the Miller Center’s website. Emily: Jessica Blatt Press for The Philadelphia Citizen: “Hey, Phillly! Let’s Hire A Mayor!” David: Courtney Kan, Nick Miroff, Scott Higham, Steven Rich and Tyler Remmel for The Washington Post: “Cartel Rx: Fentanyl’s Deadly Surge: From Mexican Labs To U.S. Streets, A Lethal Pipeline”; The EverCrisp apple For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John get philosophical in preparation for the annual Political Gabfest Conundrum episode. Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at [email protected]. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Research by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:08.4	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest.
0:20.0	December 15th, 2022, the Is Cinema Toast edition.
0:25.0	I'm David Plotts of CityCast and Washington DC is a great and dreary day here in Washington DC.
0:31.9	But there's always sunshine in my life because
0:35.8	shining radiantly from New York City is John Dickerson of CBS Primetime. Hello, John Dickerson.
0:43.2	You know of Kirsten Sinema Ran in France, she'd be Sinema French Toast.
0:48.7	Sinema Verite and then also a beacon, a beacon of warmth and gladness in the darkness
0:56.7	that is impending winter is Emily Bass, a lot of the New York Times magazine and Yale University Law School from Philly today.
1:02.6	Hello, Emily. Hello, so glad to be in Philadelphia.
1:06.7	This week on the Gap Fest, what does it mean that Republicans actually won the popular vote in November and pretty handily?
1:14.4	Then how will Kirsten Sinema's defection affect the Senate and how it will affect the 2024 election and how it will affect Arizona?
1:24.1	Then we will use a fascinating new documentary about Nancy Pelosi to assess her legacy, plus of course we'll have cocktail chatter.
1:33.0	It's time to explore. This is your opportunity to discover what's out there for you and realize what you are made to do.
1:38.8	It's time to achieve, learn more, realize your potential and become who you are made to be.
1:44.8	It's time to create, make new friendships, discover new passions and become the best version of you.
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2:00.8	So it comes data from the election this week, primarily in the form of a long article by Emily's New York Times colleague, Nate Kohn, that Republicans won the popular vote in 2022 pretty handily.
2:14.8	The narrative has been what a win for the Democrats. They just narrowly lost the House, held the Senate with room to spare, with Sinema asterisk next to it, and took some governors, races, took some state legislatures back.
2:29.8	But it turns out that if you add up all the votes, Republicans won by two points.
2:35.8	So John, did we get the whole story wrong? Was this, in fact, a good election for Republicans and the media has been misunderstanding it?
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