Eric Holder and David Frum on the midterms pass 100,000 views in thirteen hours
The former attorney general's conversation about voting rights and gerrymandering is moving far faster than anything else The Atlantic posted around it, including a Radio Atlantic episode on the same midterm map.
The AtlanticStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 145,665 views a day, 35 times a normal first day on this channel (4,214).
How Trump Could Threaten the 2026 Elections (With Eric Holder) | The David Frum Show
Four thousand or so: that is roughly what an upload on The Atlantic's channel collects in its first full day. The newest episode of The David Frum Show passed 108,000 views in thirteen hours, a pace of about thirty-five times that usual start.
It stands out even more because the rest of the channel has been running below its normal daily pace. A Radio Atlantic episode on the midterm mess, posted two days earlier, has drawn under 20,000 so far. On the same day as Frum's episode, a light "Behind the Byline" profile of David Brooks, pizza preferences included, sat at a couple of thousand.
The episode comes in three parts. Frum opens with the fallout from Chinese president Xi Jinping's state visit to the United States, including what the description calls President Trump's embarrassing behavior at the dinner. Then comes Eric Holder, attorney general under Barack Obama, on the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, the redistricting battles and whether the 2026 midterm elections can be expected to be free and fair. They also discuss how an attorney general should respond to an unlawful order from a president. Holder has spent years since leaving office on redistricting as chair of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, so the gerrymandering chapter comes from someone who has worked on it directly.
In the comments, several viewers return to Holder himself, and one long thread comes from a viewer who says they once disagreed with Frum, a conservative and former George W. Bush speechwriter, and now listen to him regularly. Others single out the habit that closes every episode. This time the book is "Agrippa," a novel by Robert Harris.
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- Channel
- The Atlantic
- Subscribers
- 980,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 308,890 (on a normal day: 519,686)
- Video published
- September 30, 2026
- Video views so far
- 108,154 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 145,665
The numbers
The numbers show one episode running far ahead of a channel that is otherwise moving at a slower pace than usual.
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