Surveying Trump's Wreckage
The Commentary Magazine Podcast
Commentary Magazine
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🗓️ 7 December 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Get ready for some harsh language as we discuss the final nail in the coffin of the Republican wave and the question of whether the GOP is on the verge of healing itself or spending 20 years in the relative wilderness politically. Give a listen.
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| 0:00.0 | music |
| 0:24.3 | Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcasts today is Wednesday December 7th 2022. |
| 0:29.6 | I'm John Buhlords the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor |
| 0:34.7 | Abe Greenwald. |
| 0:35.7 | Hi John. |
| 0:36.7 | Media commentary columnist and American enterprise institute fellow Christine Rosen |
| 0:42.0 | Hi Christine. |
| 0:43.0 | Hi John. |
| 0:44.0 | An associate editor and author of the rise of the New Puritans Noah Rothman high Noah. |
| 0:48.0 | Hi John. |
| 0:49.0 | Okay so it's all over. |
| 0:51.5 | Democrats now have netted a one seed gain in the 2020 midterm senate elections and have |
| 0:59.4 | a total control of the Senate including committees at an extra Democrat on every committee which |
| 1:05.7 | now means that there will be a mad rush of nominations for the federal judiciary which |
| 1:14.5 | otherwise could have been blocked in committee by by Republicans and it's really an amazing |
| 1:21.9 | achievement that the Donald Trump has pulled off. |
| 1:27.4 | So let's just go through this a little bit okay. |
| 1:32.3 | There were four Senate races this year in states that flip from Trump to Biden in 2020. |
| 1:40.5 | Democrats have carried three of those four Senate races. |
| 1:45.5 | There were five governors races in those states Democrats carried four. |
| 1:53.9 | And races as I count them that could have gone either way in the house. |
| 1:59.1 | The Trump endorsed candidates lost seven out of seven of those races. |
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