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The Erick Erickson Show

S15 EP73: Hour 2 - It All Matters More Now

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Everything matters now as we head into the midterms and both sides seem hell bent on putting their worst foot forward plus Transportation Secretary Duffy tries to clean up the absolute mess mayor Pete left the agency in when he left.

Transcript

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0:42.2

Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, hour two. Hello and welcome.

0:43.8

It is Eric Erickson here across the United States of America.

0:47.4

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0:57.6

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1:06.0

Now, we got to move on to important other news beyond Iran and everything else happening out there because, well, there's a lot of stuff happening.

1:18.8

But, but I want to talk about the midterms.

1:25.0

I have actually not done, contrary to popular opinion, a lot of raw politics, but we got to today.

1:35.7

One of my great frustrations with the faith team around the president is that they are so concerned about not getting

1:52.4

scraps from the table that they refuse to show the president tough love.

1:57.7

And that is a common pattern of people around the president.

2:07.6

They do not want to be blunt and tough with him because they are afraid he will turn his back on them.

2:09.3

And maybe that is the case.

2:19.9

But as we head to the midterms and the president continues to go off on social media, alienating people, I have to tell you that at some point, someone needs to have the blunt and frank conversations with the president of the United States about his

2:24.5

behavior. And for those who say you can't teach an old dog do tricks, I actually think you can,

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