Astead Herndon
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6,554 appearances
61 recordings
8 series
first heard Oct 2025
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He seems to be growing some power in the White House, and there are folks who are increasingly calling for him to re-emerge as maybe a Republican Party voice for the post-Trump era.
I wanted to know, are you one of those folks?
Sort of.
When you said you were a Marco fanboy, where does that begin?
And I think that was certainly the Rubio logic.
Well, you know, obviously this runs up against the buzzsaw that is Donald Trump.
As a Rubio fanboy, or at least self-described, at least initially.
I mean, how did your feelings change about him in that first term of Trump?
You know, the other issue that comes to mind when we think about kind of what defined Rubio was initially his openness to immigration reform and leading the Gang of Eight and initial congressional discussions around a comprehensive immigration bill.
Donald Trump fundamentally changed the Republican positioning on some of those issues.
Like, if we think about the larger lane of Republicans that that version of Rubio represented, is there a version of Republicans that in the kind of looking forward that you think get backed
to that kind of openness to a pathway to citizenship or a non-Steven Miller version of immigration reform?
as clear as Marco Rubio's influence policy-wise in this second term of Donald Trump.
But this also feels like a term that is defined more by the scope of their policy ambitions rather than the kind of guardrails that may have been in place for the first term of Trump's administration.
For the Rubio fans, like, does he get credit for adult in the room or should he be blamed because there seems to be fewer adults in the room?
When you think about the broader Republican electorate, obviously the never-Trump wing has had, frankly, a math problem that the majority of Republicans have supported or at least followed along with Donald Trump and his chosen candidates.
What is your level of confidence that enough non-Trump Republican votes still exist?
Enough non-America-first Republican votes still exist?
Well, let me just ask about Vance also.
I guess this is the same question in a different way.
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