Alex Vindman
Former Director for European Affairs for the United States National Security CouncilWikipedia
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Sep 11, 2026
Phil IttnerGUEST
I think of Fiona Hill.
Phil IttnerGUEST
I think of Alexander Vindman.
Phil IttnerGUEST
I think of all these guys who could have been really helpful in this time of crisis.
Phil IttnerGUEST
And instead, these two bumpkins, these two.
Mike MadridHOST
It's Latino independent voters are clearly the key to all this.
Mike MadridHOST
Ask Javier Becerra, ask James Tallarico, ask Alex Vindman in Florida, ask Espaillat, Congressman Espaillat in New York.
Mike MadridHOST
If you have an open primary, these Latino voters can show up.
Chuck RochaHOST
Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the Latino Vote Podcast, coming to you live from Rocha Studios here in Washington, D.C. Mike Madrid, are you in your mama's kitchen? My God.
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Mike MadridHOST
Ask Javier Becerra.
Mike MadridHOST
Ask James Tallarico.
Mike MadridHOST
Ask Alex Vindman in Florida.
Mike MadridHOST
Ask Espaillat, Congressman Espaillat in New York.
KatieAUDIENCE
Their, their vitriol about Russiagate.
KatieAUDIENCE
It's, uh, the, the first line in this article is, "Alexander Vindman lost to Angie Nixon in Florida Democratic senatorial primary on Tuesday, making a long overdue end to the worst liberal mass delusions of the Trump era: Russiagate."
Thom HartmannHOST
Right.
KatieAUDIENCE
So as I said to Mateo, I know The Intercept tends to be a bunch of kids that are too cool for school, but, you know, it's, it's a very interesting site.
Jessica TaylorPANELIST
We saw an upset a couple of weeks ago in Florida.
Jessica TaylorPANELIST
where Democrats expected Alexander Vindman to win, but he was upset by another Democratic Socialist candidate there, Angie.
Jessica TaylorPANELIST
Anyway, he was upset by another Democratic.
Jessica TaylorPANELIST
Andy Dixon or
Peter SchorschGUEST
I, I, I don't get it either.
Peter SchorschGUEST
Um, you know, I, I would point to Alex Vindman against Ashley Moody.
Peter SchorschGUEST
Like, he was trying to campaign against her rather than focusing on his primary against, uh, Andy Nixon, by campaigning on Hope Florida, and obviously he fell, um, he fell short of that.
Peter SchorschGUEST
The problem is it just see- this is a, I don't want to say it's media generated.
Chris SalcedoHOST
Uh, then there's the, the, the victories of the socialists.
Chris SalcedoHOST
You know, we just saw this, this socialist come out of nowhere with very little funding, uh, beat Al- uh, Alexander Vindman.
Chris SalcedoHOST
Oh, say can you see, as Rush Limbaugh used to say about Vindman.
Chris SalcedoHOST
He was well-financed.
Mark ZaidPANELIST
How many times in the last few years we have seen polls in real time not be able to predict a particular election? We saw it recently in Michigan as to how close that Senate race actually was when it was supposed to be a blowout.
Mark ZaidPANELIST
We saw it in Florida with my former client, Alex Vindman, frankly, getting trounced by his DSA opponent, which wasn't supposed to happen.
Mark ZaidPANELIST
I mean, so many times we have seen and had news stories about how inaccurate these polls are.
Mark ZaidPANELIST
And yet we see these things, which are nothing but clickbait.
Mark ZaidPANELIST
It gets you at the starting lineup.
Mark ZaidPANELIST
And maybe that person shouldn't be in the starting lineup.
Mark ZaidPANELIST
Uh, and I, It's just people make decisions because so much of it is driven by fundraising nowadays more so than ever before, which is why we keep seeing millionaire, billionaire clients come in or people come in as candidates because they can afford it and they don't have to worry about, you know, is their primary party, whether it's Republican or Democrat, going to back them up? Or can they do initial fundraising to get their initial messages out there? So I just it drives me crazy to see these ridiculous polls.
Mark ZaidPANELIST
There are some actual good candidates on both sides who aren't that well known and and just need to be, you know, have an opportunity to to be discussed.
Matt GormanPANELIST
think? It's no longer the pressure valve that you can always hit to release the pressure on Democrats.
Matt GormanPANELIST
I mean, ask Alex Vindman, Diana DeGette, Dan Goldman.
Matt GormanPANELIST
These are impeachment figures, and Trump won.
Matt GormanPANELIST
How that works out, they all lost their primaries this time.
Steve AbramowiczHOST
August 18th, 2026, the Democratic Senate primary.
Steve AbramowiczHOST
On one side, retired Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman.
Steve AbramowiczHOST
Now, you remember Vindman? He became a progressive hero, a podcast circuit staple after his role as a key witness in Trump's first impeachment.
Steve AbramowiczHOST
For years, this man built his brand as the anti-Trump warrior.
Steve AbramowiczHOST
He launched his own podcast, Why It Matters.
Steve AbramowiczHOST
He was everywhere, mainstream shows, left-wing shows.
Steve AbramowiczHOST
You couldn't swing a cat without hitting Alexander Vindman on a screen somewhere he positioned himself as the premier trump antagonist in democratic politics the expert witness the permanent prosecutor and the result folks the result was a demolition state representative angie nixon a progressive democrat socialist with a fraction of his national media platform a fraction of his name recognition a fraction of his money defeated Alexander Vindman in a race that was not supposed to be competitive, not close, not contested, demolished.
Steve AbramowiczHOST
The voters of his own party looked at the media darling, the podcast empire, the anti-Trump warrior, and said, no thank you.
Shashank JoshiGUEST
And you can see Mamdani's enormous king-making influence in some of those races in the last few months, but also in places like Michigan with Al-Said and in others.
Shashank JoshiGUEST
Having said that, we can point to so many other places where the opposite is true, right? For every sort of case of Florida where you see someone like Alexander Vindman, a centrist national security type lose, you have other cases like David Crowley who comes out on top and wins an election.
Shashank JoshiGUEST
You have many centrist or independent candidates who are sort of doing extremely well.
Shashank JoshiGUEST
So I think what we need to do is look at the midterms and understand how do candidates outperform, perform or outperform their national parties, and how do they outperform their expectations? Will you see El Said in Michigan able to perform in a tough state as a progressive candidate running with outspoken foreign policy views and do extremely well.
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