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One week after Donald Trump’s historic upset victory, both parties are preparing for what comes next. Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor and 2004 presidential hopeful, has put forward a bid to return as Democratic National Committee chair. He talks about the lessons of this year’s campaign and what role the DNC could play in the …
Read moreEpisode #154: For Now, the GOP is United, the Dems Aren’t
The election is over and, in case you missed it, Donald Trump won. Lisa Desjardins of the PBS NewsHour and Greg Giroux of Bloomberg explain what happened, how it happened, and what’s next. A more detailed conversation with Neal Conan follows which, before the edits, was mostly he and Ken saying “wow” to each other …
Read moreEpisode #153: A Nine Point Trump on the Richter Scale
We lead off the Political Junkie Presidential Election Special with reports from Mara Liasson, the national political correspondent for NPR, and Aaron Blake, a political reporter with the Washington Post. Both weigh the impact of early voting, organization and the effects of FBI Director Comey’s letter to Congress about additional Clinton emails. Two veterans of the Cook …
Read moreEpisode #152: The 2016 Presidential Election Special
Less than two weeks to go now, and while most surveys show Hillary Clinton with a lead, Donald Trump insists that despite the “rigged” system and the questionable polls, he is going to surprise a lot of people on Election Day. Janet Hook of the Wall Street Journal lays out where the race stands and what we can expect …
The final Clinton-Trump debate is over, and Aaron Blake of the Washington Post is here with his take on what it means for the campaign. We’ve spent the past several months talking about how Americans feel about their choices in this election, so we thought we’d take a trip overseas. Hilde Restad, an associate professor …
The most surreal and vicious presidential debate is now in the history books, and it came in the wake of some lewd comments Donald Trump made in 2005 that was released 48 hours before his encounter with Hillary Clinton in St. Louis. Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post tries to make sense of it all. Trump’s apparent decline …
With the vice presidential debate between Mike Pence and Tim Kaine now history and the second presidential debate just days away, NPR’s Ron Elving makes a special visit to the Political Junkie to assess the campaign, the media coverage and how much he misses working with Ken. Then we hear from two surrogates for the …
The first presidential debate is in the books. Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post offers analysis of the debate’s high and low moments, ridiculous claims and mistruths, and what it all means. Right after the debate, Hillary Clinton headed to North Carolina, a key battleground state that is also experiencing tight Senate and gubernatorial contests. Laura Leslie of TV station WRAL …
With the first presidential debate just days away — and anticipation growing — we hear from communications specialist Ruth Sherman as to what Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump need to do to advance their candidacy. Speaking of Trump, he had an extraordinary announcement last week: Not only was Barack Obama born in the U.S. (which he had …
Presidential debates don’t necessarily decide who will occupy the White House. But history has shown that regardless of what effect they do have, they are often memorable — for better or worse. Our “Great Moments in Presidential Debates” special starts with Alan Schroeder, an expert on the subject, assessing Ronald Reagan‘s great lines in his 1980 …
Read moreEpisode #145: Great Moments in Presidential Debates