October 28, 2026
Wednesday on the RealClearPolitics podcast: Carl Cannon, Tom Bevan, and Andrew Walworth break down another indecisive result in yesterday's Israeli election, and theorize how President Trump will respond to a Republican midterm loss. Has anything been done to increase public trust in elections? Democratic strategist Dane Strother joins the show to talk about whether the president's support is enough to drag Ken Paxton over the line in Texas, and what it means that Trump and Vance are campaigning for Republican candidates in states like Montana. Plus, does the flood of AI-generated ads this year really change anything about our political culture?...
October 26, 2026
Monday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, RCP contributor and author of "A Declaration of Independents," Greg Orman joins Carl Cannon, Tom Bevan, and Andrew Walworth to discuss the Justice Department's suit to block the certification of Alaska’s Senate results if the incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan loses because voters pick the "other" Dan Sullivan. They also look at how the Jeffrey Epstein scandal is fueling Democratic ads in the Kansas Senate race and House races across the country. RCP columnist Peter Berkowitz joins the program to discuss Israel's elections tomorrow and how the results could impact the future of US/Israeli relations. Finally, the panel asks if Democrats have reached "Musk derangement syndrome," with people advocating nationalizing SpaceX and calling for congressional investigations, and looks at new Gallup polling on how Republicans, Democrats, and independents rank key American values, including patriotism, equality, and freedom....
October 23, 2026
Friday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Carl Cannon, Tom Bevan, and Andrew Walworth discuss the Trump administration standing behind Vivek Ramaswamy after one of his campaign ads for Ohio governor received bipartisan backlash for going "too far," Carolina Lumetta reports on her trip to Ohio for a campaign stop with the vice president, and new polling that says Americans aren't afraid of socialism anymore. Plus, the Trump administration is holding up Nick Shirley as an example for a program that rewards "whistleblowers" and people who report government fraud, and the group shares their picks for this week's "You Cannot Be Serious" roundup of unbelievable headlines. Listen live weekdays at 11:00 a.m. Eastern on SiriusXM's Megyn Kelly Channel 111, or on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or other platforms....
October 22, 2026
Thursday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Carl Cannon, Tom Bevan, and Andrew Walworth discuss a spicy debate in the Michigan Senate race and the Kansas Senate race remaining unexpectedly close. RCP elections analyst Sean Trende joins the show to discuss a new poll of ten House races and the razor-thin Senate race in Texas. He also gives us a few more races to watch early on election night and discusses the polling industry in general. Listen live weekdays at 11:00 a.m....
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October 21, 2026
"If you're willing to be so empathetic as to erase your survival instinct, you probably passed the curve, right?" Gad Saad told the RCP podcast. "If we don't wake up to it, our grandchildren will hate us."...
October 05, 2026
RCP co-founder Tom Bevan, on Friday's RealClearPolitics podcast, compares the messaging we're seeing from the president and vice president about the economy going into the 2026 midterm elections. "Trump is out there just saying, look, everything's great," he said. "I don't think the economy is as bad as Democrats are portraying... But perception is reality, and the perception out there is that the economy has issues."
"Trump is unwilling to acknowledge those issues....
October 05, 2026
RCP senior elections analyst Sean Trende offers a few explanations for why Republicans aren't doing backflips on their way to the voting booth in 2026:
SEAN TRENDE: Yeah, I feel like we do this every few years, right? Whether it's a Republican or a Democrat, if people are a little upset about the economy, the president doesn't want to say, "Well, yeah, I've done a bad job." So he goes around and talks up the positive aspects, leaving members of Congress kind of in the lurch. It's a tough position for Republicans, and even if gas prices come down, it takes a while for those kinds of expectations to reset. That's a real problem for Republicans in this midterm election....
September 29, 2026
RCP co-founder Tom Bevan said on Monday's RealClearPolitics podcast that Democratic candidates' polling leads going into the midterm elections are starting to eclipse the margins of error, but the real deciding factor will be whether the price of gas starts going back down in the next four weeks. "Even if you don't believe the polls are fully accurate, they're getting to the point where they'd have to be wrong by 4 or 5 points to give Republicans a chance of holding the Senate," he said. Republicans are behind by 8.4 points in the latest RCP Average of the Generic Congressional Vote and 8 points in the Georgia Senate race. A pollster at the National Republican Senatorial Committee meeting last weekend apparently told party leaders they still have a chance to gain seats in the Senate....
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