David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart discuss recent primary results showing voters prioritizing pocketbook issues, the upset in Florida’s Democratic Senate primary, and political fallout as President Trump publicly attacks allies and faces controversy around a staff aide.
Economic concerns — inflation, gas and grocery prices, insurance costs — are dominating voter priorities in recent primaries.
In Florida, state legislator Angie Nixon beat Alexander Vindman despite far less campaign spending, signaling voters favored a local, retail campaign focused on everyday issues.
Republican contests are testing President Trump’s influence as he campaigns openly for preferred candidates and critiques allies.
Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. Now, to unpack this week's midterm primary results, President Trump's lashing out at key allies and more, we turn to Brooks and Capehart. That's where we saw the Democratic Socialist candidate Angie Nixon beat the former Army intelligence officer Alexander Vindman.
She had this disastrous debate in which she came right out and said, I'm not that informed on national security. Partly that's because the kissing up the foes is partly about testosterone. (Laughter) Amna Nawaz: I want to turn to the international stage, a bunch of stories we have been covering this week, and pull them all together, because we have seen the president lash out at key allies across the planet in very different ways.
That's "The Atlantic"'s David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW. Let's go to Florida first, the Democratic Senate primary. Jonathan, Democratic voters say again and again they want a fighter.
David Brooks of The Atlantic and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including how progressive wins in Michigan could signal a leftward turn in the Democratic Party's base, congressional Republicans facing allegations of misconduct and President Trump's latest moves against birt
It’s about ‘kitchen-table populism’: focusing on Americans’ day-to-day economic struggles This year’s Democratic primaries look and sound a lot more populist than usual. Brian Poindexter , a union iron worker running on a “workers first” message, won a House primary outside Cleveland. Sherrod Brown is mounting a Senate
Democrats fought over age and ideology, while Republicans tested the value of President Donald Trump’s endorsement.
As they cast ballots in the Democratic Senate primary, voters said they were concerned about data centers, health care, Israel and the war with Iran.
David Brooks of The Atlantic and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including President Trump's trade war and dispute with Canada, the legal fight over mail-in ballots, the public backlash to AI and data centers and the loss of Dolly Parton.
David Brooks of The Atlantic and Kimberly Atkins Stohr of the Boston Globe join William Brangham to discuss the week in politics, including the surprising result in Wisconsin's Democratic primary, the status of 'woke' politics in America and the stalemate between the U.S. and Iran.
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