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Today, Explained

The Art of the Steal

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

President Trump has a track record of election interference. And now he's threatening to nationalize or even cancel the midterm elections. This episode was produced by Kelli Wessinger and Avishay Artsy, edited by Jolie Myers, fact checked by Andrea López-Cruzado, engineered by Patrick Boyd and David Tatasciore, and hosted by Astead Herndon. A protester holding a "Stop the steal" placard during a pro-Trump demonstration. Photo by Paul Weaver/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Late last week, something rare happened.

0:03.8

There's growing outrage to a video that President Trump posted last night.

0:07.5

Video that included a racist clip of the Obama's depicted as monkeys.

0:11.7

This is totally unacceptable.

0:13.9

The president should take it down and apologize.

0:16.6

Praying it was fake because it's the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House.

0:21.2

The president should remove it.

0:23.1

Those are Republicans.

0:24.5

That never happens.

0:26.9

But the video wasn't just racist.

0:29.2

It was filled with conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.

0:33.3

And not a peep from Republicans on that.

0:36.9

Trump's 2020 obsession isn't a thing of the past.

0:40.3

It's driving new investigations and shaping how the White House

0:43.7

approaches the midterm elections later this year.

0:47.1

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