The Political Landscape a Month Before Election Day

Isaac, great to have

you.

Yeah, thanks for having me, man.

Always glad to come on.

Well, and as you look ahead at this midterm election, it does seem like things are changing pretty quickly right now.

Just things are shifting.

People start to pay attention after Labor Day.

But now here we are about a month after Labor Day.

What are you seeing? What is happening right now?

Yeah, it's a really interesting landscape.

I mean, I think a lot of things that didn't seem possible six or 12 months ago, like Democrats retaking a Senate majority, now feel like they're at least plausible.

They have a path to get there.

There are some issues that I thought would maybe be resolved by now that are still on the table.

I think chief among them is the conflict in Iran, which You know, President Trump has been promising was going to come to an end any day now for several months and seems to be something that is driving a ton of disaffection among his voters.

And there's also related to that this this really interesting phenomenon among Republican candidates who are in contested races.

You know, there's a midterm year or so.

We have everybody in the House is up for reelection.

There's not that many competitive races.

And then we have a few Senate races, the people who are on the six year cycle in twenty twenty six.

And we're starting to see just a little bit in this homestretch of some Republicans distancing themselves from President Trump, which, again, two years ago was unfathomable given that he had just pulled off this kind of miraculous political comeback and had retaken the party with zero questions about it.

And I think there's enough trouble in his polling numbers that some Republicans in Congress are, you know, scraping his endorsement from their website, distancing themselves a little bit from him on the Iran war.

So it's an interesting time to be right now.

Now, when you talk about the Iran war as an issue, do you think that that is because people are actually thinking about the hot war that is going on in the Middle East or just the fact that it's impacting their gas prices here in the United

States? I think it's twofold.

I think for the diehard MAGA Trump base.

Isaac, great to have

you.

Yeah, thanks for having me, man.

Always glad to come on.

Well, and as you look ahead at this midterm election, it does seem like things are changing pretty quickly right now.

Just things are shifting.

People start to pay attention after Labor Day.

But now here we are about a month after Labor Day.

What are you seeing? What is happening right now?

Yeah, it's a really interesting landscape.

I mean, I think a lot of things that didn't seem possible six or 12 months ago, like Democrats retaking a Senate majority, now feel like they're at least plausible.

They have a path to get there.

There are some issues that I thought would maybe be resolved by now that are still on the table.

I think chief among them is the conflict in Iran, which You know, President Trump has been promising was going to come to an end any day now for several months and seems to be something that is driving a ton of disaffection among his voters.

And there's also related to that this this really interesting phenomenon among Republican candidates who are in contested races.

You know, there's a midterm year or so.

We have everybody in the House is up for reelection.

There's not that many competitive races.

And then we have a few Senate races, the people who are on the six year cycle in twenty twenty six.

And we're starting to see just a little bit in this homestretch of some Republicans distancing themselves from President Trump, which, again, two years ago was unfathomable given that he had just pulled off this kind of miraculous political comeback and had retaken the party with zero questions about it.

And I think there's enough trouble in his polling numbers that some Republicans in Congress are, you know, scraping his endorsement from their website, distancing themselves a little bit from him on the Iran war.

So it's an interesting time to be right now.

Now, when you talk about the Iran war as an issue, do you think that that is because people are actually thinking about the hot war that is going on in the Middle East or just the fact that it's impacting their gas prices here in the United

States? I think it's twofold.

I think for the diehard MAGA Trump base.