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Trailer: The Agora premieres September 17 · The Agora

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  Arthur Kline: Welcome to The Agora —
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  five voices,
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  five issues,
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  one republic.
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  Thirty minutes,
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  twice a week,
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  premiering Thursday,
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  September seventeenth.
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  I'm Arthur Kline.
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  Let's go.
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  Arthur Kline: LIGHTNING ROUND —
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  Mamdani's House sweep.
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  Eli —
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  durable realignment or New York anomaly?
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  Eli Navarro: [laughs incredulously]
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  "Anomaly" is exactly what they called the Tea Party before it devoured the Republican Party.
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  Safe-seat primaries are where a party decides what it actually believes.
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  That's not noise—
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  that's the signal.
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  Grant Mercer: Hold on,
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  Eli—
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  the caucus IS the brand.
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  Those three vote in Washington,
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  and every Arizona attack ad writes itself off their roll calls.
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  A caucus that relocates left nationalizes itself whether the median voter consented or not.
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  Nora Kessler: Grant,
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  no—
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  three freshmen don't rewrite a whole caucus's brand;
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  the nominee and leadership do.
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  These three change who's in the room,
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  not what Arizona's swing voter actually sees.
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  Arthur Kline: WRONG.
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  In this party,
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  the loudest backbencher is the brand now.
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  Sloane Barrett: Careful,
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  Arthur—
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  leadership doesn't "let" anyone anymore.
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  The primary stripped that gatekeeping.
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  Jeffries gets no vote on whether they're the brand—
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  the voters already cast it.
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  That's not a choice.
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  That's the new physics.
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  Arthur Kline: The Agora premieres Thursday,
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  September seventeenth.
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  New episodes Mondays and Thursdays,
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  five AM Eastern,
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  wherever you get your podcasts.
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  Be there.