Kurt Bardella

Let's meet my panel for this hour.

Senior advisor to the Texas Democratic Party, Kurt Bardella.

Republican strategist, Leslie Shedd.

CNN political commentator, Karen Finney.

You put those things together, it's a pretty deadly mix, along with now Donald Trump, of course, cozying up to Vladimir Putin and watching his toddlers are being killed while they're in their strollers in public parks in Ukraine.

Let's bring in the publisher of the Watchdog Report on Substack and senior communications advisor for the Texas Democratic Party, Kurt Bardella.

He's also former House Oversight Committee spokesman for Republicans.

Kurt, thank you so much for being with us.

And if Democrats take control of Congress, they will be judged in twenty eight.

by how they did on the issue of costs.

Elise Jordan and Kurt Bardella, thank you both so much.

It's great having you on.

Tiana Lodescher, political commentator at the Washington Examiner.

And Kurt Bardella, co-host of Politicon's Party Lines and senior comms advisor for the Texas Democratic Party.

So as we mentioned, the approval rating right now sits there.

at 33%, which means 66% of people are saying no bueno, they are not into what Trump is selling.

We're at war in Iran, and there's all hell breaking loose with costs in the economy.

Kurt Bardella is a former Republican press secretary in Congress.

He made time for us on the road to tell us what this means for the Trump administration.

It is not a good sign.

Well, let me just tell you,

Mr. Kurt Bardella,

that this is where I I like chop this up to celebrity shouldn't get involved in politics because no one cares.

Mm hmm.

Practically political.

Dave Spencer, Ashley Davis.

I'm Kurt Bardella.

We'll talk to you all next week.

And my panel joins me now.

[laughs] Kurt Bardella, uh, what do you see as the driving reason between this shift towards Democrats in these final weeks?

Well, you know, a lot's been made about the financial advantage Republican campaigns have heading into the final stretch here, but the, the clear thing here is the economy has calcified in the minds of the voters.

And no matter how much money and the avalanche of ads that we're seeing play out, it doesn't do anything to move the needle away from the expectations that Donald Trump Republicans initially said at the beginning of the year.

Welcome to this week's episode of Practically Political.

I'm Kurt Bardella, joined as always by Ash Davis and Dave Spencer.

We are less than 30 days until the midterms.

And before we get into all the nonsense and all the political craziness of the campaign silly season, we do want to acknowledge the anniversary of October 7th, especially with the latest backdrop and drama of that, I guess, called attempted hijacking to whatever crazy means that was going to end up happening the other day.

Great view for Ashley Davis.

Dave Spencer.

I'm Kurt Bardella.

This is Practically Political.

Welcome to this week's episode of Practically Political.

I'm Kurt Bardella, joined by Ashley Davis, Dave Spencer.

A lot's going on, as always, as we head into the final stretch of the midterm elections.

It's officially October and we're going to have a lot to talk about.