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Transcript: Mamdani Thumped New York’s Billionaires and the Times
And so if we’re in this united front and there’s different factions, and there’s somebody on fire, one of the factions, you give them the…
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Transcript: Angry Trump Snaps at GOPers as Scale of Losses Sinks In
Sheppard: I mean, I think that they’re pretty vast, I think—partly because what you’ve seen in these very disparate elections—and I think…
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Transcript: Dems Dominated In Virginia and New Jersey Because of Trump
If only—it looks like Sliwa’s number dropped a lot, and it was like a two-man race. It appears Zohran’s gonna be about 50 and Cuomo around…
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Transcript: Trump Press Sec Awkwardly Undercuts Him after SNAP Tirade
Dayen: Yeah, I mean, this is how the entire shutdown has gone, really—at least politically. First, Trump said, I’m going to cut off…
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Transcript: MAGA Rages over Tucker Carlson’s “Sick” Moment with “Nazi”
So the Groypers are basically the followers of Fuentes. They’re more or less neo-Nazis. They subscribe to an extremely racist, extremely…
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Transcript: Trump ICE Raids Worsen as Dem Gov Drops Bombshell Warning
So, like, it’s powerful because the numbers are large and because people leave that feeling like, I have hope, that was fun, we’re going…
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Transcript: Senator Tina Smith Says Dems Need Big Ideas Like Mamdani’s
But what I believe more is that the Democratic Party cannot just be the anti-Trump party. We have tried that, and look where we are. And…
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Transcript: Trump Ballroom Fiasco Worsens as Economic Data Gets Brutal
Sargent: Yeah. You brought up these numbers—Gallup numbers—showing that Democrats kind of have this advantage on the economy in a sense,…
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Transcript: Marjorie Taylor Greene Eruption Wrecks Trump Shutdown Scam
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 29 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This…
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Transcript: The GOP May Lose Next Week’s Elections—Thanks to Trump
All the variability is gonna go into this to some degree—like how well you can actually, take advantage of these conditions that we tend…
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Transcript: Trump’s Crazed Rant over Cognitive Test Shows His Decline
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 28 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This…
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Transcript: Elite Colleges Reject Trump’s Authoritarian “Compact”
So often people haven’t looked at the details of that, but the people that have said, Oh, it doesn’t sound so bad, right? And some people…
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Transcript: Jamie Raskin’s Harsh New Takedown of Trump Lays MAGA Bare
His fate depends on Trump pardoning him. So, it’s another invitation for a bribe, basically. Litman: Exactly. When you make everyone’s…
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Transcript: Trump Press Sec Goes Full Cult as Ballroom Fiasco Worsens
It belongs to the National Park Service because it’s a national heritage site. It’s a place of history; it’s a place of meaning. I don’t…
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Transcript: MAGA Farmers Suddenly Shocked Trump Screwing Them So Badly
But because this is having a direct impact on people’s paychecks, because it’s having a direct impact on their bank accounts, and last,…
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Transcript: Deep in Texas Trump Country, No Kings Cleverly Shames MAGA
She was not someone who would have shown up—I didn’t ask her—but I don’t think she’s someone who would have shown up for the Women’s…
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Transcript: Trump Fury at Dems Grows as Brutal New Shutdown Poll Hits
And so I do think that part of what’s driving this is they’re scared. They’re losing. They don’t feel like this stuff is working. They…
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Transcript: How Chicago Is Fighting Trump’s Outrageous ICE Policies
And, we can’t ignore the fact that cities like Chicago, like Oregon, like L.A., are living in day-to-day fear from its own government. We…
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Transcript: Trump Boat Bombings Darken as Official Suddenly Resigns
I actually did a little video today—to self-promote for the moment—talking about, you know, how Mike Johnson is effectively dissolving…
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Transcript: MAGA Dope Jim Jordan Accidentally Exposes Trump’s DOJ Scam
That, to me, I think, is really a terrible thing to contemplate—that they’re actually manipulating an aspect of the system that is there,…
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Transcript: Trump Erupts in “Mad King” Tirades as Presser Goes Awry
Sargent: Right. This is the, this is the, on unslakeable narcissist theory of Donald Trump, basically, which is that he sort of exists in…
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Transcript: MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—Exposing Trump as Weak
The problem, though, is that in their media ecosystem they will just seize on some little incident to make it true that these protests…
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Transcript: Trump ICE Raids Worsen as Pritzker Drops Bombshell Warning
Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.…
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Transcript: Dems Will Stay Weak Until They Stop Obsessing Over Polls
And so here we are now, and this is an argument that I’m having, obviously, live. If we believe that our job right now — and I believe it…