A four-time Paralympian running for the Senate in Iowa fills Jon Stewart's week
Josh Turek, who won his first campaign by six votes, sat down for the full conversation, and the episode passed 400,000 views in five days.
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Blue Wave On the Prairie? w/ Josh Turek | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart spent his podcast week in Iowa, at least in conversation. His guest on "Blue Wave On the Prairie? w/ Josh Turek" is the four-time Paralympian now running as the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate there, and the episode gave Turek room to lay out what he calls "prairie populism": how Iowa voters are reacting to Trump, how he works across the aisle, and the kitchen-table policies he says can bring people together.
The full episode passed 400,000 views in five days and is still the busiest thing on the channel by a wide margin. Around it came a string of cuts from the same talk. One looks at tariffs and the war in Iran, which Turek says hit Iowa harder than any other state. Another covers Medicaid privatization. "Six Votes" goes back to the margin of his very first win, and Stewart's listener mailbag adds a question about "useful idiots" and, inevitably, the Sixers in six.
The comment section reads like a map of the state. Iowans write in from Des Moines, Sioux City and the rural southwest. One remembers serving Turek and his team at a coffee shop. Others talk about long drives to the nearest clinic.
The audience itself held steady: daily views sat right at their usual level, and about 2,000 new subscribers arrived over the week. Among political channels of a similar size, it was a middle-of-the-pack week, while Katie Phang and Pondering Politics ran well above their own norms.
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- 878,000 ▲ 2,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
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- 9
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- 408,901
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- 196,340
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