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Sep 2022
42m 44s

A User's Guide to the Midterm Elections

The New York Times
About this episode
Today marks the unofficial start of the campaign for the midterm elections. This year’s midterms will be the first major referendum on the Biden era of government — and a test of how much voters want to reinstall the Trump wing of the Republican Party. On today’s episode, Astead W. Herndon, a political reporter and the host of our new podcast, “The Run-Up, ... Show More
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