Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on what this week’s elections mean for Trump and Democrats
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🗓️ 31 March 2025
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| 0:00.0 | We're fewer than 100 days into the new Congress, but elections are on a lot of minds this week. |
| 0:06.6 | Two key congressional seats are up for grabs in Florida, and as we heard earlier, so is a swing seat on Wisconsin State Supreme Court. |
| 0:14.6 | Plus, President Trump is talking openly about staying in office for a constitutionally prohibited third term. For more, we are joined by |
| 0:23.2 | our Politics Monday team. That is Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara |
| 0:29.3 | Keith of NPR. Good evening. So nice to see you both. Great to see you. Let's talk about the |
| 0:35.4 | Supreme Court case. Dima touched upon this in her very good report. |
| 0:39.1 | But, Amy, how much can you read into the results of a single state's Supreme Court race? |
| 0:44.8 | Right. |
| 0:45.1 | This far away from the 26 midterm elections. |
| 0:49.4 | You've got to be careful not to read too much on it, especially the topics and the issues that folks are talking about |
| 0:54.5 | today are unlikely to be the topics we're going to talk about and be talking about in November. |
| 0:59.0 | One thing, though, that is going to be really important is to look at turnout. |
| 1:02.4 | Now, what we've known in this Trump era is that in lower turnout elections, which a state |
| 1:07.7 | Supreme Court race in April normally is, Democrats tend to have an |
| 1:12.3 | advantage now. And that is because the Democratic base voter tends to be older, they tend to be |
| 1:19.6 | higher educated, more affluent. Those are voters who show up in election after election. |
| 1:24.9 | Trump's core base are people that don't always show up in off-year elections. |
| 1:29.4 | They show up in presidential elections. So this is a really big test to see if the Trump coalition |
| 1:35.2 | is actually going to turn out. And Elon Musk is spending a lot of money doing just that, |
| 1:41.3 | arguing that they can actually get those people who normally aren't paying |
| 1:47.1 | much attention to politics without Donald Trump off of the couch and into the voting place. |
| 1:54.4 | Because Elon Musk cuts both ways in that regard. I mean, he can be a big driver for the MAGA |
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