Talking Senate Races With Stephen Neukam

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8 • 966 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Bakari is joined by Axios congressional reporter Stephen Neukam to talk about the state of swing-state Senate races (2:18), before digging into the Maryland race between Larry Hogan and Angela Alsobrooks (11:15). They then discuss the prospect of having more Black senators than ever and the potential impact of that on the Senate (13:39). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Stephen Neukam Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.
0:07.0	I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.
0:15.0	And welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast.
0:18.0	Today we bring you another brilliant guest to talk about everything that's chaotic around this world of politics.
0:23.3	We are officially in the midst.
0:25.3	We're in the fourth quarter of Silly Season, as we call it.
0:27.8	But I have with us today, Stephen Newcombe.
0:29.4	How you doing today, brother?
0:31.2	Good man.
0:31.8	How are you?
0:31.8	Thanks for having me on. Appreciate it. Beautiful painting behind you. I'm in DC. Widely known as one of the most beautiful places in the world. So we start each one of our shows by having our guest walk us through the arc of their
0:46.3	careers and you've covered the congressional beat now for a few outlets.
0:50.5	So talk to each of your career stops since finishing up at the University of Maryland.
0:55.0	Yeah, I'm a Maryland boy. I did undergrad in Jersey, so came home for grad school.
1:02.0	I went to the hill, the outlet the hill. came home for grad school.
1:02.7	I went to the hill, the outlet the hill
1:05.2	on the breaking news team as a young reporter
1:08.3	trying to get my foot in the door in Washington.
1:11.2	And then I was at the messenger for its short lifespan of about eight to nine months and I
1:17.2	covered that the house, McCarthy's demise and Johnson's rise. And and since February I've been with Axio is covering Senate Democrats and
1:27.2	Chuck Schumer so that's what we're rocking on right now.
1:31.0	Why did you choose to cover the United States Congress? I mean that's a lot of
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