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The Chuck ToddCast
The Chuck ToddCast is back! If you're looking for smart, no-nonsense political conversation, you've come to the right place. The Chuck ToddCast goes beyond the headlines, featuring conversations with top reporters, insiders, and newsmakers from D.C. to the heartland. No scripts, no spin—just real discussions about what’s shaping our politics and why it matters.
Episodes
The Chuck ToddCastChuck’s Commentary - What To Watch For On Election Night + Democrats’ Dirty Trick In Alaska
The New York Times reported Wednesday that operatives tied to Mary Peltola’s campaign and the DSCC actively recruited the second Dan Sullivan onto…
The Chuck ToddCastFull Episode - What To Watch For On Election Night + The Midterm Story Everyone Is Missing… State Governments
The New York Times reported Wednesday that operatives tied to Mary Peltola’s campaign and the DSCC actively recruited the second Dan Sullivan onto…
The Chuck ToddCastInterview Only w/ Reid Wilson - The Midterm Story Everyone Is Missing… State Governments
Reid Wilson — founder of Pluribus News and GM of enterprise news at State Affairs — joins the Chuck ToddCast for the midterm story nobody in…
The Chuck ToddCastChuck’s Commentary - Trump’s Closing Message Couldn’t Be Worse + Trump’s Politics Receives International Rejection
Chuck Todd zooms out to a global pattern: Trump-aligned right-wing leaders have now lost in Brazil, Serbia, Hungary and Israel, all on massive turnout. Lula…
The Chuck ToddCastFull Episode - Trump’s Closing Message Couldn’t Be Worse + Can An Independent Win Montana’s Senate Seat?
Chuck Todd zooms out to a global pattern: Trump-aligned right-wing leaders have now lost in Brazil, Serbia, Hungary and Israel, all on massive turnout. Lula…
The Chuck ToddCastInterview Only w/ Seth Bodnar - Can An Independent Win Montana’s Senate Seat?
Seth Bodnar — Green Beret, former GE executive, and former University of Montana president now running for Senate as an independent — joins the…
The Chuck ToddCastTHE Ohio State: Woody Hayes, Michigan, and the Birth of a Dynasty (Part 1)
Chuck Todd and J.A. Adande explore how the Buckeyes became a college football powerhouse and the complicated legacy of legendary coach Woody Hayes. From the…
The Chuck ToddCastSuper Tuesdays - The Worst Version Of Trump We’ve Seen In An Election Year… One Week Out From The Midterms
One week out, Chuck Todd and Chris Cillizza go hunting for the counterfactual — the actual data that would tell a Republican this election isn’t…
The Chuck ToddCastChuck’s Commentary - There’s No Evidence That Disproves The Blue Wave + Candidate Trump Would Destroy President Trump
Chuck Todd can’t find a single tea leaf that cuts against the blue wave. Early voting in Texas shows Latino turnout running ahead of the 2024…
The Chuck ToddCastFull Episode - There’s No Evidence That Disproves The Blue Wave + The “Packers Model” For Local Development?
Chuck Todd can’t find a single tea leaf that cuts against the blue wave. Early voting in Texas shows Latino turnout running ahead of the 2024…
The Chuck ToddCastInterview Only w/ Thomas Nelson - The “Packers Model” For Local Development?
Thomas Nelson — Outagamie County Executive, former Wisconsin state assemblyman, and author of The Green and Gold Standard: A People’s History of…
The Chuck ToddCastChuck’s Commentary - ALL The Election Indicators Favor Democrats + J.D. Vance Defends The Indefensible
Chuck Todd opens on the Wedgewood Polls scandal — a firm that admitted this week it fabricated its data as an “experiment,” after Mallory…
The Chuck ToddCastFull Episode - ALL The Election Indicators Favor Democrats + Media Consolidation, Private Equity & Shadow Banking
Chuck Todd opens on the Wedgewood Polls scandal — a firm that admitted this week it fabricated its data as an “experiment,” after Mallory…
The Chuck ToddCastInterview Only w/ William D. Cohan - Media Consolidation, Private Equity & Shadow Banking
Wall Street journalist William D. Cohan — author of the New York Times bestseller Money to Burn, on Leon Black and the rise of Apollo — joins the…
The Chuck ToddCastChuck’s Commentary - Corruption Might Be The Dems’ Best Closing Argument + The Most Disgusting Campaign Ad Of The Cycle
Chuck Todd argues corruption may be the Democrats’ best closing argument, drawing the 2006 parallel: the Mark Foley scandal gave Republican voters…
The Chuck ToddCastFull Episode - Corruption Might Be The Dems’ Best Closing Argument + The Founding Father You’ve Never Heard Of
Chuck Todd argues corruption may be the Democrats’ best closing argument, drawing the 2006 parallel: the Mark Foley scandal gave Republican voters…
The Chuck ToddCastInterview Only w/ Scott Greenberger - The Founding Father You’ve Never Heard Of
Stateline executive editor Scott Greenberger joins the Chuck ToddCast to argue for a founder most Americans have never heard of. In The Forsaken Founder…
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Super Tuesdays - Corruption Is Now A Top Voting Issue: That’s Bad News For Trump & Republicans
With 14 days left, Chuck Todd & Chris Cillizza make the argument that should scare Republicans most: corruption has climbed to the number two or three issue…
The Chuck ToddCastChuck’s Commentary - Trump’s Treasonous Capitulation To Putin + Cat 1 Blue Wave Or Cat 5 Blue Tsunami?
Chuck Todd argues the environment hasn’t moved an inch and the only real question is whether this is a Category 1 blue wave or a Category 5 tsunami…
The Chuck ToddCastFull Episode - Trump’s Treasonous Capitulation To Putin + Rebuilding Newsrooms In The Deep South
Chuck Todd argues the environment hasn’t moved an inch and the only real question is whether this is a Category 1 blue wave or a Category 5 tsunami…
The Chuck ToddCastInterview Only w/ Andy Lack - Rebuilding Newsrooms In The Deep South
Andy Lack — the former NBC News and MSNBC chairman who founded Mississippi Today and Deep South Today, and has now committed $12 million to nonprofit…
The Chuck ToddCastThe Kevin Harlan Interview
Kevin Harlan joins Chuck Todd and J.A. Adande for the final chapter of Dynastic's Green Bay Packers series. Growing up in Green Bay as the son of longtime…
The Chuck ToddCastChuck’s Commentary - How America Can Produce Another “Leader Of The Free World” + Republicans Risk Losing Latinos For Decades
Chuck Todd opens with Saturday’s fourth No Kings rally and the question of whether protest energy converts to turnout — noting the movement may now…
The Chuck ToddCastFull Episode - How America Can Produce Another “Leader Of The Free World” + Higher Ed In The Age Of AI
Chuck Todd opens with Saturday’s fourth No Kings rally and the question of whether protest energy converts to turnout — noting the movement may now…
The Chuck ToddCastInterview Only w/ Dr. Ayanna Howard - Higher Ed In The Age Of AI
Dr. Ayanna Howard — the former NASA JPL roboticist who became Spelman College’s 12th president in August — joins the Chuck ToddCast to argue…
The Chuck ToddCastChuck’s Commentary - Republicans In Triage Mode As The Map Gets Worse + Elon’s Insane Campaign Spending
Chuck Todd maps a map that keeps getting worse for Republicans: they’re not defending Trump, and they’re trying to convince voters they…
The Chuck ToddCastFull Episode - Republicans In Triage Mode As The Map Gets Worse + Ranking Colleges By ROI Rather Than Prestige
Chuck Todd maps a map that keeps getting worse for Republicans: they’re not defending Trump, and they’re trying to convince voters they…
The Chuck ToddCastInterview Only w/ Paul Glastris - Ranking Colleges By Value Rather Than Prestige
Washington Monthly editor-in-chief Paul Glastris joins the Chuck ToddCast to make the case that the entire college rankings industry is measuring the wrong…
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Super Tuesdays - Republicans Reek Of Panic & Desperation As The Midterms Loom
Three weeks out from the midterms, the richest man on earth spent a weekend laundering a fabricated story about a Senate candidate’s mental health into…
The Chuck ToddCastChuck’s Commentary- Are We Underestimating The Democratic Wave? + Pete Hegseth Is A Sick, Broken Man
Three weeks out, Chuck Todd reads a Pew survey that gives Republicans nothing: Trump at 30% approval — his lowest of the second term and on par with…
The Chuck ToddCastFull Episode - Are We Underestimating The Democratic Wave? + The Case Against AI Doomerism
Three weeks out, Chuck Todd reads a Pew survey that gives Republicans nothing: Trump at 30% approval — his lowest of the second term and on par with…
The Chuck ToddCastInterview Only w/ James Pethokoukis - The Case Against AI Doomerism
AEI senior fellow James Pethokoukis — author of the Faster, Please! newsletter — joins the Chuck ToddCast to argue that America’s AI anxiety…
The Chuck ToddCastChuck’s Commentary - Could Democrats Actually Win 270+ House Seats? + The Scott Bessent Mess At The Treasury
Chuck Todd opens with the Wall Street Journal's brutal profile of Scott Bessent — built on 30-plus interviews describing outbursts, a thrown briefing…
The Chuck ToddCastFull Episode - Could Democrats Actually Win 270+ House Seats? + Wargaming An American Coup
Chuck Todd opens with the Wall Street Journal's brutal profile of Scott Bessent — built on 30-plus interviews describing outbursts, a thrown briefing…
The Chuck ToddCastInterview Only w/ Dmitri Mehlhorn - Wargaming An American Coup
Dmitri Mehlhorn — Democratic strategist, Atoll Society co-founder, and author of the new novel Archipelago of Light — joins the Chuck ToddCast to…
The Chuck ToddCastChuck’s Commentary - Trump Might Be The Democrats’ Best Midterm Asset + It’s Been A Strange Campaign Season…
Under four weeks out, Chuck Todd argues this has been the strangest campaign season he can remember — not because Democrats are overperforming, but…
The Chuck ToddCastFull Episode - Trump Might Be The Democrats’ Best Midterm Asset + Black Women Built The 1963 March on Washington… Then Were Written Out Of It
Under four weeks out, Chuck Todd argues this has been the strangest campaign season he can remember — not because Democrats are overperforming, but…
The Chuck ToddCastInterview Only w/ Marcia Chatelain - Black Women Built The 1963 March on Washington… Then Were Written Out Of It
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain joins the Chuck ToddCast to discuss How Bright the Path Grows, out October 13th, which tells the story of the…
The Chuck ToddCastThe Green Bay Packers: How They Became the NFL’s Most Enduring Dynasty (Part 2)
Chuck Todd and J.A. Adande trace Green Bay from the Ice Bowl and first Super Bowls through the post-Lombardi struggles and the franchise’s eventual…
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Super Tuesdays - It’s Not A Blue Wave… Voters Just REALLY Don’t Like Republicans
Twenty-eight days out, Chuck Todd and Chris Cillizza stress-test their own assumptions: if everything points one direction, what could still be wrong? They…
The Chuck ToddCastChuck’s Commentary - Voters Don’t Like Democrats… But They Want To Fire The Republicans + Pete Hegseth Needs To Be Impeached
A month out from the midterms, Chuck Todd separates the garbage polls from the real ones and lands on the NYT/Siena swing-state data: Democrats are winning or…
The Chuck ToddCastFull Episode - Voters Don’t Like Democrats… But They Want To Fire The Republicans + How Can Democrats Win In The South?
A month out from the midterms, Chuck Todd separates the garbage polls from the real ones and lands on the NYT/Siena swing-state data: Democrats are winning or…
The Chuck ToddCastInterview Only w/ Jennifer Palmieri - How Can Democrats Win In The South?
Jennifer Palmieri — former Obama and Clinton communications director and host of Crooked Media's Long Play, the documentary series traveling six Southern…
The Chuck ToddCastChuck’s Commentary - Trump’s Republican Party Is Infected With Intellectual Rot + The Best Polling Issues Favor Democrats
Chuck Todd opens with the attempted hijacking of a Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight and the reminder that history turns as much on what almost happened as what did…
The Chuck ToddCastFull Episode - Trump’s Republican Party Is Infected With Intellectual Rot + How Democrats Can Compete In Florida Again
Chuck Todd opens with the attempted hijacking of a Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight and the reminder that history turns as much on what almost happened as what did…
The Chuck ToddCastInterview Only w/ Angie Nixon - How Democrats Can Compete In Florida Again
Florida State Rep. Angie Nixon — the Jacksonville union organizer and DSA member who upset Alex Vindman in the Senate primary despite being outraised…
The Chuck ToddCastChuck’s Commentary - The Circus In The Senate Judiciary Committee + Vouchers Failed… How To Really Fix Public Schools
Chuck Todd opens by correcting Jon Stewart, who made him a punchline Monday — before turning to the circus at Tuesday's Jack Smith hearing. Missouri Sen…
The Chuck ToddCastFull Episode - The Circus In The Senate Judiciary Committee + The Elections That Changed The World
Chuck Todd opens by correcting Jon Stewart, who made him a punchline Monday — before turning to the circus at Tuesday's Jack Smith hearing. Missouri Sen…
The Chuck ToddCastInterview Only w/ Dana Bash - The Elections That Changed The World
CNN chief political correspondent Dana Bash joins the Chuck ToddCast to discuss The Elections That Changed the World, out September 22nd, which she wrote with…
The Chuck ToddCastSuper Tuesdays - Trump Keeps Playing The Hits While The Iran War Tanks The Economy
Thirty-five days out, Chuck Todd and Chris Cillizza open on a president playing the hits: Trump spent the weekend at a football game and a golf tournament…
The Chuck ToddCastChuck’s Commentary - Trump Has Become The Entire Election + We Need To Update The 25th Amendment
Chuck Todd zeroes in on a president who has become the entire election: Trump spent the weekend at a football game and a golf tournament while Americans…
The Chuck ToddCastFull Episode - Trump Has Become The Entire Election + Trump Screwed The Ag States… Can Democrats Win Them Back?
Chuck Todd zeroes in on a president who has become the entire election: Trump spent the weekend at a football game and a golf tournament while Americans…
The Chuck ToddCastInterview Only w/ Tom Vilsack - Trump Screwed The Ag States… Can Democrats Win Them Back?
Former Agriculture Secretary and two-term Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack — the longest-serving USDA secretary of the modern era, now CEO of the World Food…
The Chuck ToddCastThe Green Bay Packers: How a Small Town Built an NFL Dynasty (Part 1)
Chuck Todd and J.A. Adande go back to the unlikely beginnings of one of the NFL’s most iconic franchises. From Curly Lambeau and the team’s unusual…
The Chuck ToddCastChuck’s Commentary - Trump’s “To The Victor Goes The Spoils” Diplomacy + Republicans Know How Bad The Midterms Will Be
Chuck Todd argues you don't need a poll to read the midterms — Republican behavior tells you everything. JD Vance is conceding things aren't going well…
The Chuck ToddCastFull Episode - Trump’s “To The Victor Goes The Spoils” Diplomacy + How Independents Can Break The Logjam In D.C.
Chuck Todd argues you don't need a poll to read the midterms — Republican behavior tells you everything. JD Vance is conceding things aren't going well…
The Chuck ToddCastInterview Only w/ Adam Brandon - How Independents Can Break The Logjam In D.C.
Adam Brandon — who ran FreedomWorks for over a decade and now co-founded the Independent Leadership Council alongside Joe Manchin — joins the Chuck…
The Chuck ToddCastChuck’s Commentary - The Susan Collins Story Is An Indictment Of The System + Top 5 WORST Issues To Support
Chuck Todd digs into ProPublica's bombshell on Susan Collins, which details how her office steered millions in federal contracts to defense firm Navatek while…
The Chuck ToddCastFull Episode - The Susan Collins Story Is An Indictment Of The System + All The Wrong Moves That Led To Trump
Chuck Todd digs into ProPublica's bombshell on Susan Collins, which details how her office steered millions in federal contracts to defense firm Navatek while…
The Chuck ToddCastInterview Only w/ Anthony Scaramucci - All The Wrong Moves That Led To Trump
Anthony Scaramucci returns to the Chuck ToddCast with All the Wrong Moves, out September 22nd, which argues Trump is a symptom rather than the disease &mdash…