What's that song? I'm tired of using technology. I'm tired of using technology

Is that a real song and I just like ordered I just make up for slayers because I hate technology a deaf punk

No, this was the song it was not the deaf punk song

Do you remember them?

That's the anthem of the pandemic right?

Maybe we can pay 50 cent a million dollars and use that as our theme song today

Hello and welcome to the 538 politics podcast. I'm Galen Rook

We've got more election results to discuss on today's show Virginia and New Jersey held their primaries for state elections last week

And Democrats choices in Virginia seem to continue a trend the parties primary voters are choosing more establishment candidates over further left options and in New Jersey

Republicans rejected the most ardently trump aligned candidate for governor

We'll discuss what those races can tell us about where the parties are headed in the Biden years

And we're also going to talk about the politics of taxes which will be way more interesting than that sounds

I promise pro-publica just released a major investigation

Detailing how little the wealthiest Americans pay in taxes and that comes as Republicans and Democrats in the Senate

We're already haggling over how to pay for a potential infrastructure package

So what are the current fault lines on taxes and what does that tell us about where any compromise might be found

And we've also got a good use of polling or bad use of polling example for you

So let's get to it here with me to discuss it all our politics editor sir frostensen. Hello Sarah

Hey, gailon also here with us is elections analyst Jeffrey Scally. Hey Jeff. Hey, Gailon

And Washington correspondent for the Atlanta journal constitution to Mitchell. Hello, Tia. Hey

Good to have you with us. I should just like stipulate we spent so long trying to connect us all on our like remote technologies this morning

Starting a podcast like early on a Monday recording a podcast early on a Monday is always an aggressive way to start a week

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