Michelle Cottle
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2,005 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 19 Sep
Michelle Cottle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Thanks.
Give me a word that sums up this midterm cycle for you and why.
Jamel.
I'll allow it.
Michael.
That's okay.
Well, it's like poetic license, that's what we're all about.
Uh, my friends, these insights are coming to you from my regular co-conspirator columnist Jamel Bowie, and from our brilliant opinion colleague, politics editor Michael Duffy, who is making his roundtable debut.
I'm Michelle Cottle, obsessive cover of national politics, and I'm gonna go with a midterm work.
word ulcer inducing, which I think really needs no explanation.
But it does give us, I think, the perfect segue into our top topic of discussion this week.
The Michigan primaries and the ongoing fight for the soul of the Democratic Party.
So obviously, this is not a new fight.
We've had insurgent progressives and moderate pragmatists locked in a tug of war for years.
This cycle has gotten red hot and it's bubbling up in some battleground areas you might not have expected.
This most definitely includes Michigan.
where the Democratic primary for US Senate came down to a brutal, expansive brawl between the left's Abdullah Said and the center's Haley Stevens.
And it ended this week with Al Saeed squeaking out a one point victory.
Now
Michael, you spent an awful lot of time talking with folks in Michigan while working on the choice, which for those unfamiliar is basically opinion's voter guide to some of the cycle's key races.
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