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The Gist

Two Countries, at the Cost of One

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, by any previous standard, we'd be saying that President Donald Trump lost the midterms, plain and simple. In the interview, Tuesday's midterms saw red states get redder and blue ones bluer. If results like those keep repeating themselves, Slate panelists—Dahlia Lithwick, Jamelle Bouie, and Jim Newell, hosted live in New York by Mike Pesca—say America could soon feel like two distinct legal worlds. In the Spiel, Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker was a tight end at the University of Iowa! And uh, that tells us nothing about his character. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.7

It's Friday, November 9, 2018 from Slated to the Gist I'm Mike Pesca.

0:47.5

You know, going back to 1900, maybe further, I just went back to 1900, there were 13 times

0:53.0

a president gets elected to find his party in control of the House of Representatives.

0:58.0

Of those previous 13 times, nine times the president managed to hold the House during

1:03.6

the midterms and four times the president lost it.

1:07.6

This time, Donald Trump lost more seats to lose his party the House than any Republican

1:13.2

since Herbert Hoover, and for that guy, it was a certain crash that happened between

1:19.0

his election in 1928 and the midterms of 1930.

1:22.5

Now George W. Bush is not in that category of president whose party lost the House the

1:28.0

first time they voted after being elected.

1:31.5

That happened the second time for George W. Bush's second midterm elections.

1:36.6

And George W. Bush went out there the next day and he acknowledged defeat the press conference

1:42.6

that he gave is pretty much known for one word.

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