Midterm roadblocks send Gershkovich and Carpenter's Bulwark Daily soaring

A day after Bill Kristol's Idaho episode broke out, a second Bulwark Daily took off, while the channel and most political commentary channels around it ran below their usual pace.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 254,243 views a day, 13 times a normal first day on this channel (20,011).

Trump’s Midterm Plans Keep Hitting Roadblocks (Evan Gershkovich & Amanda Carpenter) | Bulwark Daily

The Bulwark has a second fast-moving Bulwark Daily in as many days. "Trump’s Midterm Plans Keep Hitting Roadblocks (Evan Gershkovich & Amanda Carpenter) | Bulwark Daily" passed 100,000 views well before its first day was half over.

A new upload here usually gathers a modest crowd on day one, and this episode is on course for about thirteen times that. It is climbing while the channel as a whole runs slower than normal. Nearby political channels are also in a soft patch, including Occupy Democrats, Cash Jordan and The Trump Report.

The title promises a look at how the president's plans for the midterm elections keep running into obstacles. It brings together two guests from different corners of political writing. Evan Gershkovich is a name many readers know from his reporting for The Wall Street Journal. Amanda Carpenter once worked as a communications director for Senator Ted Cruz and wrote the 2018 book "Gaslighting America."

Yesterday it was Kristol and a map of red-state Senate races. This time it is a two-guest panel, and the daily show is once again the part of the channel drawing the crowd.

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The numbers

The figures show how far this Bulwark Daily episode has moved past a normal first day, on a channel that is otherwise running below its usual pace.

the video's first day

usual first day here

20,011

this video

254,243

subscribers

1,780,000

total views

1,257,364,624

views per day

1,218,073

typical day: 1,644,127

the video

views

119,952

likes

2,703

comments

194

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Occupy Democrats

1,910,000

ContraPoints

1,910,000

The Bulwark

1,780,000

Cash Jordan

1,760,000

I've Had It

1,760,000

The Trump Report

1,670,000

As of September 30, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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