Sam Gringlas

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253 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 15 Sep

Sam Gringlas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The NPR Politics Podcast · What's Trump's beef with Senate Republicans? · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

And then, you know, even after all of this blowback, though, from Senate Republicans, Trump doubled down again on social media, saying that the Republican Party will never win another election.

I will sadly be the last Republican president.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune and the Republican Senate must not let this carnage happen.

Yeah, and I think part of this goes into the relationship that Senate Majority Leader John Thune has with the president versus the relationship that House Speaker Mike Johnson has.

Johnson is pretty much willing to go along with what President Trump wants, whereas Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who has this really narrow majority in a chamber where you got to get 60 votes to accomplish most pieces of legislation, Thune is often in the position of having to tell the president no.

Yeah, I mean, they don't have this longstanding relationship.

Thune doesn't come from the MAGA wing of the party.

He is very focused on preserving the institution of the U.S.

Senate.

But, you know, Senator John Kennedy this week described Thune as a golden retriever.

No one really dislikes them.

So many dogs.

Yes.

This is a canine heavy episode, which I am all about.

But, you know, I don't think this is about Thune and Trump having personal beef necessarily.

It is simply that Thune has to be in this position of telling Trump no.

And he's been really clear repeatedly that the votes just aren't there to pass the Save America Act.

Just take a listen to this recent appearance on Fox News.

Though this is complicated by the fact that there are a handful of Senate Republicans, notably Senator Mike Lee of Utah, who keep saying, no, this is possible.

For a few of them, it is.

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