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'Once-in-a-generation event: Historic election a shocking repudiation of Trump & the MAGA movement'

Erin Ogunkeye is pleased to welcome Adam Jentleson, President of the Searchlight Institute and author of Supermajority: How Democrats Can Build Lasting Power, For Jentleson, the Democrats' sweeping midterm victory represents far more than the familiar backlash against an incumbent president. "This is a once-in-a-generation event." But electoral breadth presents a governing dilemma. Can a coalition stretching from progressive reformers to culturally conservative Democrats translate its diversity into legislative action? "Pluralism is not just a political strategy. It is actually a moral good in

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Tale of 2 midterms: Republican redistricting 'backfired' while Democrats 'exceeded all expectations'

Following a resounding Midterm election defeat, Is MAGA Losing Its Grip on the Republican Party? Erin Ogunkeye is pleased to welcome Bryan Lanza, Republican strategist and Partner in Mercury's Washington DC office. "The big thing about MAGA was confrontation, in your face," explained Lanza. But following a veritable blue wave, he believes the electorate has delivered a warning: "We need to move beyond that." While Donald Trump has acknowledged the Democratic victory, at times combative, at times conciliatory, Lanza argues that the president must begin his final two years in office reversing da

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Trump focused on 'what's important to him': 'Tone-deaf for a normally shrewd populist operator'

Erin Ogunkeye is pleased to welcome Doug Heye, Republican strategist, founder of Douglas Media, and former Communications Director for the Republican National Committee (RNC). As Americans head to the polls, Republicans face a challenge that goes beyond the familiar electoral backlash against an incumbent president. For Heye, Donald Trump's greatest political vulnerability may lie in the widening gap between his rhetoric of economic success and voters' everyday financial anxieties. "For a lot of voters, they see him focused on what's important to him, not what's important to them," Heye explai

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Israeli 'unity government': Efrat Shapira expects Herzog will urge rival camps to form a 'coalition'

Erin Ogunkeye is pleased to welcome Efrat Shapira Rosenberg, Israeli Radio/TV Host, Columnist, Podcaster and Educator. Following a deadlocked Israeli election, “everyone is saying who they’re not going to sit with, but no one is actually saying who they will sit with.” As President Isaac Herzog prepares to consult parliamentary factions over the formation of a new coalition, the impasse reveals tensions that extend beyond the familiar confrontation between Benjamin Netanyahu and his political opponents. According to Shapira, co-host of the highly popular Israeli politics podcast Miflaget Hamak

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Heading into the midterms, 'no US president in recent times has been as unpopular as Donald Trump'

Erin Ogunkeye is pleased to welcome Richard Johnson, Senior Lecturer in US Politics at Queen Mary University of London. He says that "Donald Trump is damaged goods at this point in his presidency." With this uncompromising assessment, Johnson takes us through the political forces shaping the 2026 US midterm elections. Far from assuming that Trump's formidable campaigning instincts can once again mobilize Republican voters, Johnson questions whether the president's political influence has become a liability for the very party he once transformed. He points to a potentially significant realignme