Ben Rhodes

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12,021 appearances 36 recordings 12 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 4d ago

Ben Rhodes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 32 in all, peaking in Feb 2026 with 5.

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Pod Save the World · Don Jr.’s Big Fat Russian Wedding · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

I mean, even the Iraq War was like hanging on for a while there. voice-verified

Yeah, to your point, this quickly. voice-verified

But then I think if you go into the hood, like the independent number – voice-verified

is both politically relevant because those tend to be swing voters and because those tend to be people that are making like a judgment based on what they're seeing. voice-verified

And so that's 75% disapproval. voice-verified

Because again, I'm not a polar coaster co-host, Tommy, but I do know that because of the intense partisanship in this country, voice-verified

The Republican number is inflated. voice-verified

The Republicans get a call. voice-verified

There's a certain percentage of Republicans, which is more than 50%, that literally like – I mean I love the people who's – the remaining 19% who don't say that it's caused prices to go up. voice-verified

Those people fill up their – those are literally people that – voice-verified

To quote Trump, like he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue. voice-verified

So you have to account for the fact that like the Republican number is inflating what are already horrific numbers because there are people that probably don't like the Iran war but are just going to say they support whatever Trump's doing. voice-verified

Yeah, and so that matters here too. voice-verified

It's also a message to the Democratic Party, and I've been banging this drum. voice-verified

We both have. voice-verified

Are the Democrats against the war? voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Do you really feel that? voice-verified

Like, do you have a sense that Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, like, it's weird to me that the war is not more prominent in the Democratic Party's messaging. voice-verified

disaster. voice-verified

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