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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Why Democrats Haven't Been Able To Stop Trump | A Conversation with Mike Nellis

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.8784 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

After two weeks of the government shutdown, it's clear the Democratic party is lost in the fight against MAGA. Steve Schmidt sits down with Mike Nellis to talk about the leadership on the left and why Chuck Schumer is leading the party astray.

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0:00.0

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0:04.4

Are you frustrated that Chuck Schumer has not made a demand that this stop is a condition

0:11.7

of opening the government?

0:13.6

It's been about the health care subsidies that in the end will put a hurt on the Trump voter.

0:21.4

That's the fault of Donald Trump.

0:24.6

And just to be cold-eyed about it, explaining me why the Democratic leadership isn't

0:30.3

extending a bailout of sorts, right, for consequences, right? That will go down on Donald Trump's watch and will refute

0:42.3

the nonsense of his rhetoric.

0:45.8

Yeah.

0:45.9

When everyone gets that in the United States, we don't have mask agents running around

0:55.4

and we're prepared to keep the government closed

0:58.3

until you cease the militarization of the cities

1:02.9

and the out of control federal thuggery.

1:08.8

Why isn't that the line that's been drawn as opposed to something that in the end

1:15.1

impacts a lot of people in Mike Johnson's district?

1:19.4

And I wish maybe there's a better way to get their attention.

1:23.7

But no one in the Democratic Party thus far has come up with one so i i i'm always frustrated

1:31.2

with everything it happens in washington i say that up front but i i think on the shutdown they've

1:36.5

done a better job than i've seen them doing a long time i'm saying it's like bb plus and i think that

1:40.9

making it about the health care subsidies was right, was the right framing.

1:44.5

It was simple enough for the America people to understand.

1:46.5

I think the more stuff that you try to add to it, the harder it gets for people to conceive what Democrats are talking about.

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