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Yes, Democrats Could Win the Senate in 2026 (w/ Ron Brownstein)

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Senior CNN political analyst Ron Brownstein joins Bill Kristol to discuss the Democrats chances of winning the Senate during the 2026 midterms.

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0:00.0

Hi, Bill Crystal here. Editor Large at the Bullwork. Welcome to Bullwork on Sunday. Very pleased to be joined by Ron Brownstein.

0:06.9

Really, one of our best, maybe our best, political commentator, election analyst, a veteran of many cycles and many very intelligence and informative commentaries on our elections.

0:18.3

So, Ron, thanks for joining me. I should say you can read Ron at CNN, at Bloomberg, watch them on CNN, read his latest book.

0:26.3

Rock me on the water.

0:27.4

Lock me on the water on culture, music, movies in L.A. and 74.

0:33.4

L.A. in 1974, yep.

0:35.7

Yeah, that's very interesting.

0:36.5

I've read some of it.

0:37.3

And you and I discussed, actually, what's the discussion of all in the family yep, yeah. Yeah, that's very interesting. I've read some of it. And we and I discussed actually once the discussion of all in the family and

0:41.3

the late Rob Reiner and stuff and how important that was.

0:43.9

Do you discuss Springsteen in the book?

0:45.2

I can't remember.

0:46.3

Only briefly as kind of the turning of the page in 75 as cultural influence moved back to New York with the punks and born to run and a bunch

0:57.2

of other developments. But yeah, Patty Smith. But I did just write, you know, I wrote a piece this

1:01.7

week actually in Bloomberg looking at kind of the split screen. And this is true, Bill. I think

1:07.8

you would agree in almost every sector of society where the leaders of the entertainment industry, the people who own it, are bowing to Trump.

1:15.9

And you're seeing this tremendous mobilization among the artists, right? The people who create the popular culture.

1:21.7

And the same thing I think you're seeing in law firms, universities elsewhere. The people at the top are looking for ways to profit or get by through these kind of

1:31.5

assaults on the constitutional system.

1:33.3

And ordinary, you know, folks, if you count Bruce as an ordinary folk, are looking

1:38.5

for ways to push back on it.

1:40.4

As I pointed out on the story, you know, this was pretty much the model up and up through

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