Michael Smerconish
American radio host and television presenterWikipedia
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Nov 3, 2026
Maya MacGuineasGUEST
Cheers.
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Michael Smerconish for Independent Minds.
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Listen weekdays on SiriusXM's POTUS, Channel 124, and anytime on the SiriusXM app.
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I've given my blood, my sweat, my tears to this island.
Kevin MillerHOST
By the way, earlier we were talking about Michael Smirconish and this whole vibe, are you buying into this, where the governments around the world are urging you to stockpile food and water.
Kevin MillerHOST
Well, what about lead? What about ammo? What about it, Smirk?
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Some will remember the Cold War era fears.
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Americans taught to duck and cover, build fallout shelters and stockpile food in case of a nuclear attack.
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join Michael Smerconish right here in the middle.
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This is the Smirconish podcast for independent minds.
Michael SmerconishHOST
Can we please just for a moment put aside the midterm election? It's not my favorite story.
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Michael SmerconishHOST
Our daughter is older than our three sons.
Michael SmerconishHOST
And at some point she would be in charge if we were to go out.
Michael SmerconishHOST
And now you're saying, Michael, the midterm election wraps up on Tuesday.
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What the hell are you talking about on the POTUS channel on the Thursday before? I'm talking about my favorite story of the day, and it is in the New York Times, and it is under the headline, oh, shnikes.
Michael SmerconishHOST
It's the best way to support the program.
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The Michael Smerconish Program.
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Listen weekdays at 9 a.m. East on POTUS, Sirius XM Channel 124, and anytime on the Sirius XM app.
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Michael SmerconishHOST
Hi, it's Michael Smerconish.
Michael SmerconishHOST
Welcome to Book Club with Michael Smerconish, a collection of Michael's favorite interviews with authors from the last 30 years through today on the air on radio.
Michael SmerconishHOST
What sets my book club apart is that I actually read the books.
Michael SmerconishHOST
Kate Bennett is a CNN reporter, the only journalist whose sole focus is the first lady and first family.
Michael CohenHOST
And now for the main event.
Michael CohenHOST
My next guest on Mea Culpa, Michael Smerconish, began his political career at the age of 29, working as a staffer for then President George Herbert Walker Bush.
Michael CohenHOST
Since those early days, he has become one of the preeminent voices of American talk radio and an island of centrist sanity in what has become a sea of growing extremism on the air.
Michael CohenHOST
He is the host of the eponymously titled Smirconish, which airs Saturdays on CNN, and is the host of the daily Michael Smerconish program on Sirius XM's POTUS channel.
Michael CohenHOST
He joins me today on mea culpa as Trump attempts to rewrite the story of his own corrupt history in Ukraine with the GOP, only to be happy to indulge.
Michael CohenHOST
The politics of this war are only beginning to reverberate at home.
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However, you know, I was on your Sirius XM POTUS Channel 124 program the other day, and I heard that We did very, very well in terms of ratings.
Michael CohenHOST
I have people that are following and tracking this crap for me.
Michael SmerconishHOST
Why history might not repeat itself.
Michael SmerconishHOST
I'm Michael Smerconish in the Philly Burbs.
Michael SmerconishHOST
We've read the polls.
Michael SmerconishHOST
We've heard from the pundits.
Michael SmerconishHOST
Use that as a starting point.
Doug SosnikGUEST
Well, Michael, thank you for having me back.
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There are a series of numbers that we look at on the run up to an election to get an idea of what the outcome might look like.
Doug SosnikGUEST
And for an incumbent party, in this case, obviously it's the Republicans, the direction of the country is one of the first things that we look at.
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Michael SmerconishHOST
The best I can do is to cut that tape.
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And I just gave you a wide berth because I think that was such a valuable insight.
Michael SmerconishHOST
What Doug Sosnik is saying is, Michael, don't go looking at Clinton in 94. with a 46% approval rating, Republicans gaining 54 seats, and then logically say, well, if Trump has only a 33% approval, it means that the pickup by Democrats is gonna be even larger.
Michael SmerconishHOST
Or, Michael, don't go looking at Obama with a 45% approval rating in 2010, where Republicans gained 63, And say to yourself, Trump's at 33.
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There's a pill version of Ozempic! Get ready to vote on today's daily poll question at Smirconish.com.
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But first, Michael explains it for you right here.
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Welcome to the Smirconish podcast from Sirius XM for
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independent minds.
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All right, go vote.
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See ya.
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Michael Smerconish for Independent Minds.
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Listen weekdays on Sirius XM's POTUS, channel 124, and anytime on the Sirius XM app.
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And the jokers on the right.
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And join Michael Smerconish right here in the middle.
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This is the Smirconish Podcast for independent minds.
Michael SmerconishHOST
He's looking very dapper today.
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Many anticipate gridlock if it's Democratic control of one of both houses while the president is in the White House.
Michael SmerconishHOST
Might the art of the deal allow something to get done, even if now it's Democrats controlling one or both chambers?
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I assign a very low probability to that, Michael, because I think the Democratic Party is going to have the attitude of, we can do so much more and get so much more when we control the White House, too.
Mark HalperinGUEST
And I think they will up the posture, no matter how much outreach they get from Donald Trump.
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