Who Do Voters Hate More? A Midterm Roundtable.

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

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🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Less than a week out from election day, and more than 20 million people have already cast their votes – a record number of early voters for a midterm election. But it isn’t so surprising when you consider the stakes: inflation at a 40-year high, economists saying we’re heading towards a recession, and the largest crime surge across America in decades. Just to name a few small issues voters may be thinking about. Midterms are typically hard for the party in power, but President Biden’s approval numbers are among the worst for a first-term president. Given this, many are predicting a red wave. And yet, Republicans have problems of their own: candidates who spent their primaries trying to out-MAGA each other and continue to pedal election denial conspiracies, others who seem entirely unfit to serve, and, of course, since Roe v Wade was overturned this summer, many young voters, especially women, are particularly motivated this election cycle to vote against the GOP. So what’s going to happen on Tuesday? Will Democrats keep control of the Senate? The House? What races should we be watching? Could Oregon go red for the first time in decades? Today, as voters head to the ballot box, a roundtable with Mary Katharine Ham, Josh Kraushaar, and Batya Ungar-Sargon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.8	I'm Barry Weiss, and this is honestly.
0:35.0	CNN's latest poll of polls shows Democrats and Republicans in a dead heat for
0:40.0	control of the House of Representatives.
0:42.0	Early voting kicked off today in the critical swing state.
0:44.8	We're less than a week out from election day,
0:46.8	but more than 20 million people have already cast their votes.
0:51.0	2022 could be the third federal election in a row setting new records for
0:56.4	voter turnout and that isn't so surprising when you consider the stakes.
1:00.3	Most economists polled by the Wall Street Journal believe the U.S. is headed towards a recession in the next year.
1:06.0	If so many economists and politicians from both political parties saw it coming,
1:10.0	why didn't Joe Biden see inflation coming?
1:12.0	I can't tell you how many times I've seen gas pumps and grocery store aisles in political
1:17.0	ads this year.
1:17.8	One of the most divisive issues in this year's midterm elections, crime in America.
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