Bill Scher

But everything is moving towards Democrats.

And, and here's the thing, Bill Scher, who I've had disagreements with before over at Washington Monthly, uh, walks through why you should actually believe the polls this time.

And even if you believe the polls, what we have said remains true, which is act as though you're 10 points down and the race is still winnable.

Yep.

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I'm Matt Lewis with the Washington Sun with the Washington Monthly's Bill Scherer.

And Bill, exciting stuff.

I want to talk in a minute about your column.

But here's a very important point.

Under the subheading Republicans in Crisis, at the bottom of that, uh, s- little short list, yes, Republicans have a money advantage, but if you wanna know why it's failing them, uh, Bill Scher over at Washington Monthly, uh, did the numbers.

It's this little thing...

We, we've been talking about this.

I agree.

What's interesting, I just talked to Bill Scher yesterday.

Yeah.

And Bill is saying that the Democrats running for Senate in Maine and Minnesota are underperforming.

Oh, we're just talking about the blue wave, obviously, and the elections going on.

The biggest reason, there's a piece from Bill Scher that we stuck in.

It's from Washington Monthly.

And the long and short of it is...

Cher is saying the biggest reason why people are pissed is the decline in real disposable income.

Yeah.

Which has been eaten up by inflation and eaten up by fuel costs, which all tag back to the tariffs from Trump and the stupid-ass war in Iran.

And here to share some thoughts on the, on the Trump TV and the, the, what's going on with the, uh, with, with banning Politico and MS now and CNN, but also what- What the midterms might look like.

I've asked our good friend, Bill Scher, to come share some thoughts with us.

Bill is the politics editor over at The Washington Monthly.

Bill, thanks for making time for us.

soon.Always.

Thank you so much

... our good friend Bill Scher.

I wanna hear your thoughts.

I'm Matt Robeson.

And today we're going to do what Michael Jordan used to do, jump in the air and decide what to do once we get there.

After the fact, I'm doing that with Washington Monthly's Bill Scherer, who I got to say, you and I were trying to decide which of the many exciting topics to get into today.

We've got a grab bag of like just fascinating stuff going on.

It's really hard to choose.

My pleasure.

Bill Scher is the politics editor of The Washington Monthly.

He is the host of the history podcast When America Worked: Did It Ever? [laughs] And the co-host of the bipartisan online show and podcast, The DMZ.

Welcome back, Bill.

We're rejoined by Lincoln Mitchell, who teaches political science and public policy at Columbia University.

Jamie Rowen, a professor of legal studies at the University of Massachusetts.

Bill Scher, who writes for The Washington Monthly.

And, oh, God, uh, who am I missing? Steven Pepere.