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Astead Herndon

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“Yeah, but when it comes to prices, when it comes to how that's feeling and the clarity of how much that matters more than other things, I love hearing that firsthand.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, no, it's wild out here. I feel like when I was outside, when I was doing a lot of that reporting, Walmart parking lots, my favorite. And so we'll have them there too.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, we just talked to one in Arizona who was telling us about mass organization among young people who have done a lot of the grassroots pushing back against Trump's deportation policies. We're collecting stories from them about the World Cup and about like the ways that was kind of logistically changing some of their communities, but also bringing a sense of like optimism and a sense of representation to parts of their states that they like, you know, that felt unseen. And so I really like them as a touchstone to the ground. I really like them as a way that we get a sense of original reporting outside the bubble. But I'm excited to get even more things from them. But, you know, we expect them to be a gas station this summer and talking to people at, you know, the pumps.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so I think people should temper some of the expectations with that. But to answer the core question, are the conditions there and whether the first things we should look at? We should look at this president's massive unpopularity and particularly the pain he's driving to people's pockets. That will be the most important factor.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's all bad signs. I think the second thing you think about with the midterms is like the candidate quality and those individual races. And Democrats have basically gotten the candidates they mostly want. That also helps them in these sort of things. And so I think that when we're looking at the seeds here, all the signs do add up to something that would be a better night or at least the conditions are right for Democrats to do what they hope to do in the midterms. I guess to me We still go back to that structure question because it can be a blue wave or a blue trickle or whatever. But the way that we have drawn these maps means that if that doesn't happen in a concerted area for like of, you know, if that doesn't happen in these three Arizona house districts, you might still be thinking about only a one or two seat majority. And so that's the hard part about these midterms is that the pure expression.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The easiest thing for the midterms is the popularity of the press then. And I would say what kind of gas prices are, you know? And I think in the trend direction that we're in and the tariff to inflation direction that we're in.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That type of willingness to do what you came there to do and show that proof point, I think is a lasting impact of the post-2024 era for Democrats.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of color votes, they'll learn that that's not something that's inherently off putting to them. And then the second thing I think they know is they know that there are some of these structures that baked in their power. And so I think if you're a Democrat, that has to be amongst the priorities. But if there is some more willingness for the party, at least exercise its power.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, for a more muscular rethink of some of these structures for a project 2028-ish, you know, 2029 sort of thing where they're thinking about how they even use things Like the federal workforce or how they restore those types. And so I'm like, that type of kind of 360 rethink, I think, allows there to be more solutions on the real structural things you're identifying. But without that, that is where Republicans know they have permanent root. They're not as worried about their waning electoral advantages because one, you know, eight years ago thought they couldn't win any working.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“At least more equitable. They weren't able to pass those things. I think if you're a Democrat, what I do think is more true now, though, is a willingness to use power and a willingness to pull the levers in ways that I think traditionally, I think it took them a long time of seeing Donald Trump do that to embrace that themselves. And so I think if there is a Democratic president in 2028, there will be a much more concerted push for a”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, you're right that it was an impressive kind of short term push for things like Virginia to happen. I think they fought Democrats to semi-neutral or even close to leading for when it comes to this year's midterms. But the long-term population shifts, the trends towards Republican areas will be bad for Democrats in the Electoral College. You know, the Senate kind of proportion gap will be harder and harder for them to find their way to things like 60 votes. And I think, you know, even we think about the court packing that Donald Trump is engaged in, that obviously is difficult to wind back with lifetime appointments. And so obviously the kind of structures of government have given Republicans, I think, a clear advantage in the sort of long-term power sustainability. But Democrats have known some of these challenges. There was the reason why the John Lewis Act was supposed to be a top priority for the Biden administration in terms of like trying to have a national bulwark against Jerrymandering and trying to make Congress.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's like doesn't fall on that same litmus desperometer as kind of political elites do so they're imposing these tests that I don't think is where voters are, you know, it's”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Pass your own version of envision that isn't someone who is, you know, so I, you know, I think about the Michigan senator, Alyssa Slocking as someone, even, you know, she was having that back and forth with Assam Piker about whether to come to Michigan or not. And I remember a response being like, you know, I don't want to go on the stream because of how this person's talked about me for a long time. I'm thinking like that gets, that's like a clear way to articulate what I think is someone who is, you know, trying to show themselves as fighter and all those things wants to stay distant from far left, but does not want it to be because she can't handle those questions or she finds you like, but it's, you know, so I'm saying like there's a way that I think you can show your values, show clarity in those values, and also not make the far left or the growing progressive lane inherently off-putting to you, right? Like, I think that this next year will be an effort to build that coalition, but it's going to be difficult because we see these litmus tests pop.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, I think they're coming to things, though, with a desire for political creativity. I think they're not seeing the system as is. And I think you have to pitch from the premise of that sort of change. And what I would also say, though, is like, it feels like Democratic base has recognized that the normal shell game of kind of electability is not something they're inherently deferential to. So I don't think you can just say, you know, as they're finding out in Maine, as they may find out in Michigan, that this person's supposed to win and this person went in the electorate just follows. I feel like a lot of people feel like they have been told the right thing to do for too long and that walk them into a Donald Trump, you know. And so that kind of thumb on scale, particularly from the DSCCs of the world, is not what's working. Now, does that mean that there could be no modern candidate that wins? Absolutely not. Like, I think that that means you need to be someone who”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think you can't do is waffle or naming the villains on affordability crisis or inflation or things like that. And I think there are issues that have such root among electorate. They become litmus tests for authenticity on, well, you speak truthfully about villains. I think Epstein's part of that. I think APAC money is part of that now. I think there's ways that you have to show yourself as being trustworthy to follow through on said ideas around electability. But more than anything, I think that the conversation about where to fall on this ideological spectrum inherently leads them in bad directions because if you're putting your finger to the wind and saying that's where you're starting from and how do I calibrate that correctly to where people are, that's the wrong process.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Prices and that makes a lot of sense. But I think you can also have clarity in the Zoran way, and that makes a lot of sense in that place.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I remember being in Iowa in 2019 and meeting this guy who was so torn between Bernie and Mike Bloomberg. And I remember thinking like, what, you know, what's the consistency here? And you talk to people for a long enough time. And the consistency is not in that ideological spectrum, mind. He's not pro billionaire one day and anti-billionaire next day. He basically liked a guy with strongish beliefs who he felt he'd do what they cared about. No matter if what they cared about seemed to be at odds with one another. And I say that to say when we talk about this kind of ideological fight, I think the Democrats' biggest problem is clarity of beliefs no matter what those beliefs are. So I think you can own a kind of moderate lane in Mikey Sharoway and show that, you know, I'm going to grow a national emergency to lower your electricity.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Love the question. The only unfair part here is he stole the good answer with George Clooney. I'm definitely team outsider as underrated. I'm definitely think that there is appetite for someone who represents a clean break. I think things like experience have actually decreased in importance around the electorate and creativity and ideas like we talked about matter more. So I think that name ID plus legitimacy on like some liberal credentials So he took Clooney, I'll take McConaughe or maybe like a brown version of people I gotta down on the rock these days I was just plus one his cluny. I think that's a good call. I think that's the exact type of lane I'm talking about.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that kind of know kings ish shift. I'm like, it hasn't been necessarily maybe it's become a little more progressive, but it's certainly become more activist. It certainly became more less passive for, I think, the traditional democratic playbook. And so I think those shifts are some of what we're seeing in Maine. And I think what we're seeing across the country.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Than the individual brand of their party. And I think that's a change right now because of how invested the Democratic basis. I think a big shift that's happening is that the most interested parts of the Democratic basis, most people who are most politically new savvy, have become so much more activisty, so much more invested. They want a fight.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He explained it. He was clear about it, but I think also there is a growing acceptance that real people or real candidates have passed, that they have lived on the internet like the rest of us, and they have said and done stuff on the internet that they may have regretted. And if I think folks feel that kind of authentic explanation from you, they're willing to hear it. I think the Susan Collins example is an important one because Republicans have kind of given her a little bit of space to just run her own race, right? Like she's had her tissue with Donald Trump. He's, you know, necessarily talked about it, but they'll find a way to obviously financially and kind of rally around. What I think is just shows, though, is that the excitement, the energy, the new ideas are coming from the Democratic side right now. You're not seeing kind of Republican midterm candidates who have really gotten their bases on fire. They're still kind of living in the Donald Trump personality shadow. And so people like Graham Platinar are bigger, I think.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One, I think she's totally right. There is insurgent energy, and Graham Plattner is writing that. A lot of those scandals that came out, a lot of folks thought would be kind of fatal for him. And every poll has a bigger and bigger margin from Janet Mills.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so, I think he's going to have first right of refusal. And if that flop happens, then floodgates open. But I think it's a big chance that flop happens.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I guess not. The first thing I felt about Republicans like six, eight months ago was that Vance was putting himself in a pickle. And I think that's everyone can see that now. But he has a lot of interpersonal clout in that world. And so more than the question of will the public want someone to run against him, I wonder if someone with credibility in Republican circles runs against him simply because they seem to like have liked the guy privately, you know, more than even publicly. And so I guess I don't have any other options yet or any folks who are catching mine yet because I think Republicans have been very deferential to him.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He also has particularly in the midterms he's been president and pretty much chosen the worst candidates possible for the purposes of building a bench. But I think Trump's lasting impact, honestly, is their primeness for an outsider, right? So I don't think when even Republicans think about bench, they're looking back to house members or someone on the rise in Congress. I think that even someone like, you know, I would put the RFK juniors, I would put Marco Rubio, of course. But I do think someone can make an argument for kind of principled version of Magga Ism. I don't know if that's a Marjorie Taylor Green. She's kind of been too anti-Trump in the last.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, he's changed who he is so many times for the purposes of ambition. I feel like we have to also say, who will the version of JD Vance in 2028 even be? We don't even know that.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, obviously it starts with JD Vance and others, but I definitely think that he is showing the difficulty of how to maintain the Trump coalition without Donald Trump, right? And so whether that is from a personality lens or I think from a principle's lens, like I think JD Vance has tried to give mangaism a set of principles and to pretend as if it's a kind of consistent thing. But then he finds himself on the wrong side of stuff like Iran war or stuff like Epstein files.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, in a world of difference, that kind of sameness and pointing to something actually but felt more powerful. So I can see why he made that argument.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Have heard people make this argument about the power of it be that kind of consistency in monoculture. I come from the most Protestant background ever and my father's a Pentecostal pastor. And so like all of a sudden, sometimes like Catholicism, I feel like I went to a Catholic college, I went to Marquette. And so I was sometimes learning the like kind of rituals and other things later than other people. And I remember someone making this point to me and I find it quite powerful. They're like, you could be in any part of the world and be any type of person. There's all these different disciplines and they are all based in the kind of same construction. And, you know, that kind of wavering of personality or theology that you could sometimes find among.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm like those type of things to me have an interesting question of like, does evangelicalism, does that wave of Christian nationalism retain its kind of primacy and Republican politics as we move forward? I think that's the question I have.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My question there like I find Trump's fight with the Pope to be like indicative of like his lack of his you know I think he chose better targets or at least that he was a he was a big enough figure that the targets he chose feel kind of small I think this Pope is a losing battle I think that's why you feel Van stepping away from it and honestly I think you know even the growth among Catholicism among American young people and things like that”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think that I have come to the kind of Pavlovian response with evangelicals that they stick with him. And partially that's because of my own reporting, they have the bar that they've set for to break with Trump is so high because it's not about his personal actions. It's barely about his policies. You know, when I talk to Al Moeller, conservative theological seminary a couple years ago for the show, He was saying that he was willing to back people who had stormed the capital in that midterm, even though he found that to be an anti-democratic move because he was so scared of the rise of gay and trans people on the other side. And so I'm like, if it's always that motivating factor, I think a lot of those folks always return back to conservative or Republican politics. I find the Catholic stuff really interesting, though. Like, I think that more than evangelicals.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, that was about a projection of a type of person. They want to make feel uncomfortable. So I think those numbers are a reaction to a message they intentionally tried to send about who is welcome here and not. And I don't think that was the issue that they were sent there to do, even if, you know, I would say discriminatory language or that type of rhetoric has been there the whole time.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. All the things we saw was a disconnect. And I just think in general, like they embrace a show we, you know, Stephen Miller won the 3,000 arrests.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would ask people, you know, they had mass deportations now signs at the RNC. Like, some of this was not a surprise, right? But I think people's assumption of who, right, always falls to, you know, the bad guy. Follow through on their promise of targeting violent criminals or people who have been convicted of a lease of crime. Right. And that's not what we saw, right? That's how we saw LA.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because he made it quite clear by obnoxious tariff announcement, nobody won it and by a war to raise energy prices nobody wanted. And so I'm like, everyone gets that. That's the number one driver of that.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And true among even some Democrats who felt that that was something that was ignored under Biden. I think you also have to acknowledge when we talk to kind of folks who are in Latino communities, the faith-based community, that, you know, some of the pushes that was some of the pushes that were seen about like Democratic liberalism. I'm thinking about abortion rights. I'm thinking about LGBT rights had a backlash in certain areas, particularly a lot of faith-based areas that we saw alongside border. But I think the most important thing that's happened in the last two years is simply he just taking all of the accurate diagnosis and not focusing on solutions. And so it is not hard to follow who's to blame for rising prices right now.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I think another core point here is Donald Trump did have a diagnosis of a couple of problems, particularly border security that I think sometimes people conflated with his mass deportations push, which is unpopular, right? But like the less people coming across southern border is largely popular.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Richard Ginnell, I don't think so. At first, then, you know, if you've ever been to some of these places and you're looking at them as if they are having the feeling of connectivity with someone crossing the border in El Paso or Florida or other places, or, you know, like some of that's not always true, we should acknowledge that.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We've seen it in the special elections. We've seen it in places like New Jersey. It's been big shifts and kind of Latino voting communities. We just did an episode talking about immigration changes. And we were talking about reporters from Arizona who were talking about the 180 they've seen specific to Donald Trump's actions. I mean, I think when we talk about Latinos, you know, you have to talk about from a first place a diverse group who doesn't always see themselves in community. They always see themselves as a link.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I think Epstein for folks even more shocked because we knew the facts about his relationship with them. But he had presented himself as, you know, the poor man's rich man. And so that was core to his relationship with that base. And I think in that, even that Kanani conspiratorial universe that has gotten wrapped into a lot of this, they thought he was going to come back and open the floodgates for the Clinton crimes. And I think the reality of that has swallowed up a lot closer to home than they thought.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sure, for sure, for sure. Absolutely. I mean, what Tucker Carlson's doing is beyond just some principled critique of Netanyahu. Yeah, yeah, yeah.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sometimes because us of who have known Donald Trump to be a liar or be a manipulator or whatever the whole time, I think there can sometimes be a, oh, here they go again, just making content. They just say this and they make kids and make up. And certainly that might happen, but I think this is a little different because of just how fundamental No Forever Wars and specifically No regime change war with Iran was to Donald Trump's relationship to this world.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Goodbye with Epstein, which I think was a big factor in that too. And so I think that you get, you start to see some of those flavors I was talking to, you know, we have this Trump Maga radio host on, his name is John Fredericks, and he was admitting that, you know, if I could change, he was like, if I could change two things, it would be tariffs at Epstein. I'm like, those are big things.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is where it matters that Donald Trump's coalition was built off of more than just traditional Republicans. Because the people who are the most likely to break from him from the Iran war debacle are people who came to him for that kind of non-traditional reason. And when you look at like the Tuckers and all that world, their audience is mostly younger folks and people who would not define themselves as traditional Republican Party these days.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so, even as he flagrantly broke every other promise, even as he tariffed his way to inflation, even as he Doughth thinks that were clearly violation of campaign promises that they just accepted, they kind of held on to this piece as a reason of why he was still distinct. So when now that has blown up, I think that's why you're seeing some of this spill out. And it is, I think, an early indicator. We're starting to see some of this in numbers in the recent NBC poll that was released this week. I was looking at Trump's strongest level of approval rating among Republicans is at its lowest level yet. Yes, that's still like 79, 80, but he's usually in the 90s, right? He's usually in a kind of universal agreement among Republicans. The other thing I would say here is”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, I think for people who haven't lived and This is something that has motivated that group for a long time that they have talked about as the defining factor of why Donald Trump was not traditional Republicans.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Dr. Abdul El Sayed is making the progressive case for America first, and he's trying to settle the Democrats' ideological battle in the process. About”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Congresswoman Haley Stevens and Abdul El Sayed. A progressive Democrat and a moderate Democrat. In the end, it all comes down to the dreaded E-word. Electability. But in Michigan, one candidate is trying to turn the electability concept on its head.”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's a civil war happening in the Democratic Party, and if there's one place that that's playing out most clearly, it's in Michigan. A crucial Senate primary battle in Michigan that”
2026-04-27 · On with Kara Swisher · Life After Trump: Astead Herndon On What’s Next for American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT