Badlands Daily: 11/4/26 - Midterm Bloodbath, Trump’s Veto Power & the Two-Party Fight
The morning after the midterms, CannCon and Ashe in America unpack a rough night for Republicans: Keisha Lance Bottoms taking Georgia, Iowa flipping, Talarico beating Ken Paxton in Texas, Abdul El-Sayed winning in Michigan and Susan Collins losing in Maine, with NBC projecting a 258 to 177 House. Ashe reminds everyone that public power only gets its legitimacy from real elections, and argues near-record turnout undercuts the story that the base stayed home. They walk through Trump's New York Times, CBS and Politico interviews, where he says he wasn't on the ballot, will work with Democrats…
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