WTH Is Going to Happen in the Midterms & 2024? Karl Rove predicts...
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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We're just shy of a month out from the 2022 midterm elections, a race that promises the GOP at least a leading edge in the House, if not a tsunami. And perhaps even a Senate win. But there remain critical unknowns: What will happen with the cohort of Trump-endorsed nominees, none of whom seem the best and the brightest their state has to offer? Trump cost the GOP the Senate once before; will that happen again, and will he pay for it this time? And then, the million-dollar question: depending on how this race goes, what will 2024 look like?
All these questions and more on today's episode with Karl Rove. Rove is a columnist for the Wall Street Journal. He is the co-founder (with former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie) of American Crossroads, a major Republican 527. He is also the author of The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.0 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. What hell's going on? |
| 0:01.1 | Who in God's name knows what it's all about? |
| 0:23.6 | Markis. |
| 0:24.6 | Mark, what the hell is going on? Mark, what the hell is going on? |
| 0:41.9 | Well, Danny, we're about a month away from the midterm elections, and we're having an interesting race. |
| 0:46.6 | We've got the historical averages that in an off-year election, the president's party has lost on average since 1934, 28 House seats and |
| 0:55.5 | four Senate seats. And this is not an average election. Joe Biden is, if you look at the 538 |
| 1:01.7 | polling average, he is the most unpopular president in the history of presidential polling |
| 1:07.4 | going all the way back to Harry Truman. And presidential approval is historically |
| 1:12.5 | the number one indicator for how a party is going to do. We've got a series of crises in this |
| 1:17.9 | country that are almost unprecedented in their confluence between record inflation, record gas prices. |
| 1:24.7 | And as we speak, a two million barrel per day OPEC cut. Oh, gosh. Right when it's |
| 1:30.4 | designed to bite. That was intentional. I feel that. I feel that is correct. I think so. I mean, |
| 1:36.2 | we've got a record crime wave in American cities, worst border crisis in American history. War in Ukraine. |
| 1:42.7 | China misbehaving, North Korea firing off missiles. This should be |
| 1:48.4 | an historic red wave. I don't think it's going to be quite as historic as it should be. |
| 1:54.1 | Because Donald J. Trump. Exactly. Who is desperately trying to lose the Republican Party, the Senate, for the second time in a row. |
| 2:05.2 | So let's, let's, good news first, because we don't want to lose our listeners. |
| 2:09.7 | We don't want to lose our listeners who like Donald J. Trump. |
| 2:11.8 | As most listeners know, I'm not saying this out of a deep hostility for Donald J. Trump. |
| 2:16.9 | I think I've bent over backwards to be very fair to the president and call out his accomplishments in office. January 6th. And all the rest of it. I know. And I've also called him out for January 6th. And all the rest of it. I try to call balls and strikes with Donald J. Trump. This is a series of balls, if I may say so. Boy, oh boy. You know, the, first of all, Republicans are going to win the House of Representatives. |
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