The Political Mike Podcast

Join me for a series of in-depth conversations on all things political. Moderated by Michael Taylor, @morelikemike on Instagram. Subscribe on YouTube!

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@SenroMonogatari @__Guntar__ We also missed out on paid family leave, expanding Medicare to cover vision and dental, the PRO Act, and a long term expansion of the child tax credit, and since we lost his seat anyway it was all for nothing.

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@SeeCraig @politico A. Adams is term-limited out of city council and I doubt a congressional race or statewide bid is in her future

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Happening now on #thepoliticalmike: interviewing Fmr. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn https://t.co/JzMjJcPBqw

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@LoganR2WH What about Texas if Cornyn retires?

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@dramaedy_queen @ferald_gord @JamieHacker10 Don’t forget people like Bacon who’ll have to run in Harris districts or people like Mike Lawler who plans on running for NY Governor and will be trying to moderate his image.

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@dream2flyhigher @blockedfreq Unclear. Historically, high-turnout events favor Democrats because low-propensity voters tended to lean Democratic, but Trump has shown surprising skill in flipping low propensity voters, or at least turning out GOP-leaning low propensity voters.

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@DiegoThrowaway @Hyuktankhamun @agraybee Iowa was Obama +9.5 in 2008 and Obama +5.8 in 2012, meaning in 2012 Iowa voted to the left of Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Colorado, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire.

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@droppingdimes25 @AEiffel95 @arsonist105 @USA_Polling In September of 2020 Biden was still actively contesting IA. I don’t think Harris has visited there this cycle.

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@ettingermentum @lxeagle17 Fayette going from R+31 in 2012 to Herschel Walker winning it by less than 500 votes in 2022

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@cami314la @CEOofSPY @djdfish @__Guntar__ @RogerBinion Beto challenged Cruz before shifting left on gun control and performed quite well considering 2018 was a brutal year for Senate Dems

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@FakeMAGAcover @SwannMarcus89 It’s not just about making up; Biden won Georgia by less than 12,000 votes in 2020. Turning out more pro-Harris voters in solidly red counties cuts into Trump’s margin and lowers how much Harris will need from Metro Atlanta.

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@DeliciousOreoz @AlayicQ @trump_kaputt @DanteAtkins If Trump had been convicted by the Senate, there would’ve been a separate (simple majority) vote to determine whether he could ever run for office again.

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@roddmcleod @joshtpm @JacobRubashkin @InsideElections @NoblePredictive That district also includes the Navajo Nation, of which Jonathan Nez is a former president.

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@brooklyncookie @WorkingFamilies Under fusion voting, in use in NY and CT, all votes for a candidate go to their total count regardless of party line. This wouldn’t hurt the Harris campaign.

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President Biden is putting boots on the ground in Israel.

Could this be the making of an October surprise?

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BREAKING: The U.S. is sending a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery to Israel, along with U.S. troops to operate the anti-missile system. https://t.co/o0KWYCOeXx

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@coconut_bot1 @SilentB123 @ImNotOwned This is inaccurate. Committees were tied until 2023. Any votes that tied in committee had to be advanced to the floor via discharge petition, including Justice Jackson’s nomination to SCOTUS, which tied 11-11 in Judiciary and advanced by a 53-46 vote.

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@BrettG09002618 @vanillaopinions Wisconsin’s legislature has had solid Republican majorities in both houses since 2010, which they used to gerrymander and preserve their majority. Recently the state’s Supreme Court tossed out the legislative maps and this will be the first election without the GOP Gerrymander.

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Among other revelations in Watergate reporter Bob Woodard’s new book, today we learned that Trump sent Covid tests to Putin at the beginning of the pandemic while tests were still hard to find.

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Thinking of the time I was sick at the beginning of the pandemic and never found out it was Covid because trump prioritized a murderous dictator over me

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Thinking of the time I was sick at the beginning of the pandemic and never found out it was Covid because trump prioritized a murderous dictator over me

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@lofiven @umichvoter Absentee ballots are sent out in the mail; for them to be counted they have to be sent back.