Mark Halperin

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Next Up with Mark Halperin · How the 2026 Midterms Will ACTUALLY Unfold for Republicans · 17 Sep 2026 podcast

But I think the more likely outcome is not that kind of centrist uh center centered uh uh conventional wisdom. voice-verified

It's it's over here or it's over here. voice-verified

It's on the extreme of one side or the other, which is to say, either we're going to see a blue tsunami, the size of uh Connecticut, I like to say, uh that um wipes out not just all the races that are currently thought of as competitive, but others. voice-verified

So in the Senate, we voice-verified

see Republicans lose uh not just places like Ohio, North Carolina, Maine, Iowa, but we also see them lose maybe places like Kansas and South Carolina that Republicans could lose up to eight voice-verified

say Senate seats, which would give them the majority there quite easily. voice-verified

And then the same thing on the House side, most of these conventional wisdom analysts say voice-verified

I if it's a Trump plus seven, plus eight, plus nine, plus ten or more district, it's not gonna be in play. voice-verified

Uh well, I think if if this tsunami happens, um you're gonna see you're gonna see uh people who aren't expected to lose and themselves don't expect to lose, maybe lose. voice-verified

What's the evidence for that? voice-verified

What's what what's the data that suggests that? voice-verified

Well, private polling is what I always try to look at. voice-verified

The public polling uh kind of leans in that direction. voice-verified

Here's uh real clear politics uh average, F seven, please. voice-verified

Uh what does it say about where the House is? voice-verified

Uh the so-called generic ballot, uh, which party uh would you prefer control Congress? voice-verified

Eight point lead uh in the average of the recent polls. voice-verified

That's a big lead. voice-verified

Uh we've seen bigger ones, and some of the polls this year have it bigger. voice-verified

But eight-point lead usually leads towards a tsunami, the president's approval rating, the history as I mentioned, and then voice-verified

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