Trump is 3-for-3 on his GOP revenge tour
The Playbook Podcast
POLITICO
3.9 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:34.6 | Today on the Playbook podcast, Donald Trump is sitting pretty after going three from three on his GOP revenge tour. |
| 0:42.8 | Representative Thomas Massey goes down in flames in Kentucky while other Trump-back candidates top their races in last night's primaries. |
| 0:50.4 | But there may be trouble ahead in Congress as the number of Republican rebels furious with the president continues to grow. |
| 0:57.6 | Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard. |
| 0:59.5 | And I'm Adam Wren, and it's Wednesday, May the 20th. |
| 1:04.6 | Adam, great to have you with us, our campaigns expert. |
| 1:07.4 | I hope you enjoyed last night as much as I did. |
| 1:09.9 | Yeah, we're actually getting real |
| 1:11.6 | insights and data from voters, Jack, and not just bloviating talking heads in Washington. |
| 1:18.0 | Who wants to hear from bloviating talking heads of Washington? He says through gritted teeth. |
| 1:23.9 | As a blovading talking head. Absolutely, yeah, yeah. But you're right. This is real numbers, real people getting out and really voting for people. |
| 1:31.1 | And, you know, Adam, we started this month, May, with big questions being asked about Donald Trump's |
| 1:36.2 | continued grip on the Republican Party. |
| 1:38.4 | Did he still have the power that he's held in the past as he approaches the inevitable lame duck status. Well, |
| 1:45.3 | I think we can comprehensively say two or three weeks later that yes, indeed he does. These are |
| 1:50.6 | great results for the presidents in terms of his power of the Republican Party, if nothing else. |
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