Alex Wagner

Because if we have all learned anything from 2016 and 2024, overconfidence really fucking sucks.

I'm Alex Wagner, and this week on Runaway Country, how many blue chickens do Democrats be counting right now? Are there places they might not actually hatch? To get the best estimate, I'm talking to polling maestro Nate Silver, co-host of Crooked Media's newest show, Still Counting, and author of the Silver Bulletin Substack.

Will you have the wrong polling area for Democrats in the wrong places? I mean, certainly we're not going to be at a point where anyone should be feeling confident about anything until the votes are counted.

But first, we're getting up close and personal in the state of Maine, where incumbent Susan Collins and her challenger Troy Jackson are neck and neck.

Thank you, Alex.

That's our show for this week.

Please don't forget to check out our episodes and rapid response videos on our YouTube channel, Runaway Country with Alex Wagner.

And if somehow you're not sick of me yet...

And believe me, they're gonna be scraping away at it for the last two weeks of this campaign.

Alex Wagner is an MSNBC senior political analyst, the host of Crooked Media's Runaway Country podcast, author of The Steal: Four Right-Wing Hardliners, One Republican Presidency, and the Raid on America's Courts.

Nikki McCann Ramirez is a politics reporter for Rolling Stone.

And they both join me now.

So we'll see what happens.

Yep.

Alex Wagner, Nikki McCann Ramirez, thank you both.

You can catch Alex on Crooked on MSNBC Saturday at 10:00 PM Eastern.

The Vipa was born in the ashes of Robert Bork's failed Supreme Court nomination.

And if you haven't read Alex Wagner's book, The Steel, get on that.

She talks all about the Borking of Robert Bork, and it's fantastic.

But as part of Bork's confirmation process, journalist Michael Dolan obtained and published a list of videos that Bork had rented from his local video store — And I'm sure Dolan probably thought maybe there'd be something sketchy in there.

Especially, like, these are promises Trump made.

And, you know, I just read Alex Wagner's book, her new book out there.

I can't remember what it's called.

But it's about how.

Trump resorting to weaponizing his Justice Department [whooshing] against the voter amid signs that voters will hold him and his party responsible for the dumpster fire of a presidency we're all witnessing day by day is where we begin today with some of our favorite experts and friends.

Senior political analyst, host of the Runaway Country podcast, author of the Substack How The Hell, Alex Wagner joins us for the hour.

Here at the table, voting rights attorney and Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias is here, and John Bis ingen, Bis...

I, I practiced and I still got it wrong.

Not talked about enough Asian country.

Shout out to Alex Wagner, Hisham Bharucha, our homies who are Burmese.

Shout out to Su.

Yeah.

And it makes it harder when you see her saying that to think that she would do all these things that would endanger children.

In Ohio, we looked at some of these ads with Alex Wagner on the show a few weeks ago.

Sherrod Brown has been running just a more traditional ad responding that just rebuts the facts of them-

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