Dave Weigel
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Aug
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president is doing while you're paying so much for gas.
So what does that mean, just practically speaking?
Overall, polling and expectations are that Democrats are going to win the House, that they're going to gain seats in the Senate.
What happens in elections, and I'm not trying to not answer the question, it's just that having covered these stuff for 20 years,
in many midterms it's close through the summer and then after labor day it breaks in one direction and so what democrats are hoping is that there are stuff that's not competitive right now that becomes competitive now the caveat on that one is that you know no man steps in the same river twice that the same thing does not happen every election that's bad analysis but the other is that the
The legal and campaign financing regime that has been put into place in the last few years is very good for Republicans.
And so Republicans in 2010 had a cash advantage over Democrats, but Democrats had just a terrible turnout and donor coalition.
Go back if you want to be amazed at how little Democrats were able to raise for Ohio's Senate race in 2010.
They just they gave they gave up.
In the Trump era, Democrats had a ton of money and they've had Democrats who were out fundraising people who ended up beating them by 10 points.
They just did.
The Democratic donor base really woke up.
Democratic dark money was very efficient in the last few years.
It's basically two parts.
One, define the Democratic Party as dangerously radical, ready to undermine and destroy America.
They've got some experience in doing that.
And two, outspend them.
That's the strategy.
Pollsters, betting markets, they think that's not going to work.
They think that the downward pressure of a president polling at 35% in some competitive states, that prices being high...
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