Oct 1, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min · 19 segments
On this week's podcast, Matt talks with Chris Cillizza about his latest column at The Washington Sun: "I Almost Never Vote for Democrats. I’m Making an Exception This Year."…
Chris CillizzaHost
Matt LewisGuest
Who writes this? Besides, what bad, unconservative things could Democrats do? I mean, are they going to start another forever war in the Middle East, start socializing industries, raise the national debt to $40 trillion, cause abortion rates to rise, increase the cost of groceries and gas, pal around with socialists like Zoran Mamdani, suck up to communists like Chinese President Xi Jinping, nominate a bunch of weirdos, drunks, and inexperienced hacks to the cabinet, pursue self-enrichment, start building monuments to themselves, threaten to use the power of the government on their opponents? This is by our own Matt Lewis in the Washington Sun about how you are voting.
So where are we now? Would know that Matt has basically said sort of, you know, anyone but Republicans at this point is his is view.
so many of the things that I always go back to this, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, for example, campaigned on in 2012, which yes, was not yesterday, but also was not 50 years ago.
I don't think people realize the extent to which the Republican party, I think people are like, Oh yeah, Trump took it over, but he also totally transformed what it believes and, Talk about, and you, I think, are a really good barometer of that.
I always tell people when Matt and I first met, Matt was like a down the line, you know, pretty conservative Republican.
I'm going to put the, actually, I'll put the link to the piece in our chat while you're talking so people can read it themselves.
This has been a long evolution getting to the point of voting in 2026 where I'm basically going to vote Democrat just reflexively.
Who writes this? Besides, what bad, unconservative things could Democrats do? I mean, are they going to start another forever war in the Middle East, start socializing industries, raise the national debt to $40 trillion, cause abortion rates to rise, increase the cost of groceries and gas, pal around with socialists like Zoran Mamdani, suck up to communists like Chinese President Xi Jinping, nominate a bunch of weirdos, drunks, and inexperienced hacks to the cabinet, pursue self-enrichment, start building monuments to themselves, threaten to use the power of the government on their opponents? This is by our own Matt Lewis in the Washington Sun about how you are voting.
So where are we now? Would know that Matt has basically said sort of, you know, anyone but Republicans at this point is his is view.
so many of the things that I always go back to this, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, for example, campaigned on in 2012, which yes, was not yesterday, but also was not 50 years ago.
I don't think people realize the extent to which the Republican party, I think people are like, Oh yeah, Trump took it over, but he also totally transformed what it believes and, Talk about, and you, I think, are a really good barometer of that.
I always tell people when Matt and I first met, Matt was like a down the line, you know, pretty conservative Republican.
I'm going to put the, actually, I'll put the link to the piece in our chat while you're talking so people can read it themselves.
This has been a long evolution getting to the point of voting in 2026 where I'm basically going to vote Democrat just reflexively.
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