Beardos, weirdos and a Kansas pastor's Senate run on Pod Save America
The newest episode pairs Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer on Trump's campaign swing with an interview with Rev. Adam Hamilton, who is running to be Kansas' first Democratic senator in nearly a century.
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Trump CRASHES the Midterms. Republicans Aren’t Happy About It.
Fifteen hours after it went up, "Trump CRASHES the Midterms. Republicans Aren't Happy About It." was already pulling in more views each day than anything else on the channel. Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer cover a lot of ground in it: Pete Hegseth announcing that beardos, weirdos and wimps are no longer welcome at the Department of War, Trump stumping with Ken Paxton in Texas, his love of data centers in a TIME interview, and Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt's mix-up while questioning Jack Smith. The hour closes with Rev. Adam Hamilton, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Kansas, explaining why he calls himself both a liberal and a conservative.
The Schmitt moment carried over from midweek. The most watched of the week's fifteen uploads is a shorter take with Tommy Vietor and Brian Tyler Cohen, and its comment section keeps returning to that hearing, including an exchange between Smith and Amy Klobuchar that some viewers say they are replaying.
The week opened in Austin, at the Texas Tribune Festival, with all four hosts live on stage and Tejano singer Bobby Pulido talking about his House race in Texas's 15th district.
All of it added up to about three million views, and the channel's daily pace is running close to three times its usual level. Several neighbors in political commentary are busy too, with Legal AF, Really American and Jesse Dollemore well above their own norms.
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