Beyond Both Sides: The Morning After | Episode 37
Recorded at 7 a.m., about 11 hours after Michigan’s polls closed, this episode picks up where election night left off. Democrats ran the table: Jocelyn Benson is governor-elect, Abdul El-Sayed becomes the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate, and a flipped state House gives Democrats full control of Lansing again.
Allie Walker, Chris Moyer and John Truscott break down what happened and why. Was this a referendum on Donald Trump, and what do the wave elections of 1974 and 2006 say about what comes next? What should a new trifecta take on first, and how does it avoid signaling that Michigan…
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