Sahil Kapur

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197 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 29 Jul

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Here's the Scoop · Dr. Fauci Pleads the Fifth; How Long Can Mitch McConnell Stay Out of the Senate? · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

That's a crucial moment, kind of a pivot point here, because if McConnell were to relinquish his seat before August 3rd, then Kentucky law says there needs to be a special election to fill out his seat for the rest of this term.

If it's after August 3rd, where for any reason he were to step down, there would not be a special election.

That seat would just stay vacant until November when it's coming before voters anyway.

And McConnell, of course, is retiring at the end of this year.

Thanks, Yasmin.

Here's the Scoop · Democrats Race To Replace Platner; Is the Iran War Maxing Out the Pentagon’s Budget? · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

Hey, Yasmin, what a race.

So first off, the details are very murky about what comes next.

What they've chosen to do, it seems, is a nominating convention where they have a process of selecting delegates and people who would cast these votes and have the candidates try to vie for the support of those delegates.

They have not announced when that is, although what I'm hearing from sources early on is that it's going to be probably as close to July 27th to that deadline as they can manage it because they already have so little time and they want to give these candidates the maximum amount of time as possible.

You've got a lot of them getting in already

And like I said, the details are murky, but there's a ton of interest from Maine Democrats in this nomination.

Yeah, Patrick Dempsey is not interested in that race, but he seems to be the only one who isn't.

There are

There's so many Maine Democrats who are interested.

First off, I think we can look to the runners-up in the very crowded primary for governor.

Nirav Shah is one of them.

He worked for the Maine CDC in prior years.

He was a runner-up in the governor primary.

Yeah.

Shanna Bellows, I'm told, the current—

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