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Hello, hello, happy Monday, and while every Monday is unique and special in its own way.

Today marks the beginning of an extraordinarily

busy week in politics and the beginning of an extraordinarily important year.

So tomorrow, of course, you know, we're going to see elections in several states, what they often

call off-year elections. These, of course, will set us up for the midterm elections, which

take place, guess what,

exactly one year from today. The midterms have the power to shape a presidency, to shape the country.

And so today, on this special occasion, we've got a very special episode for you. That's right,

we're breaking format. We're focusing exclusively on politics today. And what better way to start us off than with our

Washington Bureau Chief Rick Klein? Hello, Rick. Hey, Brad, great to be with you. And our new director of polling, Emily, Guskin, Emily, you join us from the Washington Post. You're now running our polls. Welcome. Thanks for having me. So excited to be here. Oh, so excited to have you and excited to have you break down the numbers, Rick, real quick, can we just get an overview from your perspective

here?

How high are the stakes of this sort of midterm cycle? Yeah, Bradley, think about it. We're midway through the presidential election and the midterm. So it's a great point to just check in on things. And you think about the staggering array of things that have happened in the last year,

driven by Washington, driven by the executive branch, driven by Donald Trump, the norm-shattering

and often earth-shattering movements that we've seen affecting the economy, affecting

immigration and the border, you name it across the world foreign policy. Donald Trump has

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