Ben Rhodes

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Pod Save the World · Xi’s Just Not That Into You · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

So thanks so much for joining us. matched

All right, just to kind of set the stage a little bit, before you get into the findings, just tell us a little bit about who you guys polled, in what states, what you were looking for in this poll. matched

Okay, so let's jump into these findings, which I think are very relevant both to the campaigns that are ongoing and then also, frankly, in framing. matched

the presidential campaign that will start shortly after the midterms. matched

You and I have gone back and forth a bit on this polling. matched

Why don't you just start by talking a bit about how front and center national security concerns are and foreign policy concerns are for voters. matched

Usually that's kind of a secondary issue after economic issues. matched

What did you find about the salience of what Trump and the United States is doing around the world in the poll? matched

Yeah, and I mean, that's a credit, I guess, to people. matched

And it's also, I think, a testament to the fact that matched

even more so than other foreign policy failures or misadventures in the past, right? matched

I mean, tariffs correlate directly to prices going up. matched

People feel that. matched

The war in Iran, even more so than past wars that the United States has fought, has had this direct inflationary impact. matched

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It's a good sign that people get that these foreign policies are fundamentally economic policies. matched

I want to dig into a couple of other issues, which is that one of the issues that has emerged as a growing source of concern to Americans in the midterm elections is artificial intelligence, AI. matched

That has really taken off in the last couple of weeks as these kind of hyperbolic warnings have come from some of the various companies. matched

You worked a bit on AI in the Biden years, so you're familiar with that terrain. matched

At the same time, that doesn't yet really bear out in this polling in the sense that matched

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