Jon Ralston

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269 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 19 Jan

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The Rachel Maddow Show · For Trump's opponents, a model for finding their fight to stop him · 19 Jan 2026 podcast

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Yeah, I actually started interviewing him about six months before he died.

As you know, he died at the end of 2021.

And it's almost unreal to me, Rachel, that it's finally coming to fruition.

I thought it should be X number of pages.

The editors thought it should be X minus pages.

200 pages, you know how that goes.

And so it's been quite an odyssey getting to the threshold of publication.

And I'm pretty excited that it's finally going to be out there in the world.

You know, as you were reading that somewhat breathtaking introduction, Rachel, I was thinking, as I've thought a lot in the last year or two, of something very simple, which is what would Harry do?

And I think he would have been very, very frustrated.

By the way, he was even frustrated when I interviewed him, I think,

about what the Democrats were doing in Washington, including his good friend Chuck Schumer, who they're both very, very different people.

Listen, the cliche about Harry Reid, as you know, is he was in his youth a boxer.

And so people use the boxing metaphors for him all the time.

But Harry Reid loved a good fight.

But he didn't fight, he didn't punch just for the sake of punching.

There was always an end goal, and that was kind of the duality of the guy, is that he was going to get there in the hurly-burly and flail away, but he always had an end point in mind.

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