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Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

Rick Wilson & Graham Platner

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson examines why Democrats are failing to register voters.
Graham Platner details his run for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine against Senator Susan Collins.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:04.6

Hi, I'm Molly JongFast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discuss the top political headlines with some of today's best minds.

0:13.5

And Representative Nancy Mace canceled the speech after just eight people showed up.

0:19.3

We have such a great show for you today.

0:21.4

The Lincoln Project Zone, Rick Wilson, joins us to discuss why Democrats are failing to register voters.

0:28.3

Then we'll talk to Graham Platner about his run for the Democratic nomination in the main Senate race against Susan Collins.

0:39.5

But first, we have the most important stories that aren't getting the attention they deserve.

0:45.2

So, Molly, Mr. Trump and Governor Westmore are going back and forth.

0:50.8

Governor Moore is talking about also doing a redistricting in the great state of

0:56.7

Maryland to retaliate against Texas. What do you see in here? If you're a governor and you're a

1:03.0

Democrat and you want anyone to ever respect you ever again, you need to join this arms race,

1:09.7

I don't like it. I don't think anyone likes it.

1:13.0

But as Obama said, as Eric Holder, who is the man who pretty much is the most interested in

1:21.7

nonpartisan redistricting, there are no choices at this moment. Democrats need to fight fire with fire. They need to redistrict just the way Republicans are doing. So Texas is going to do it. California needs to do it. Maryland's got to do it. New York needs to do it. Every state needs to fight back. Democratic states need to fight back. And look, there's a shot. There's a chance that if Democrats

1:46.3

fight back, that the Supreme Court, which are huge cowards, will say that everyone needs to stop

1:52.9

doing this. But if Democrats don't fight back, then the Supreme Court, which is delightfully

1:58.1

Trumpy, and by delightfully, I mean, annoyingly, that red court will, in fact, do what their mango God King wants.

2:06.3

And so it's really important to remember that, you know, Trump is a bully.

2:11.0

And if you don't push back, you will forever be in his grips.

2:16.0

And so here we are, Westmore trades barbs with Trump over threat to send troops to Maryland.

2:21.4

You know, we are watching this federal take down of D.C.

2:24.7

There are armed guards on the street.

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