Dan Balz: From Democratic Bloodbath to Republican Bloodletting

About this episode

John welcomes legendary Washington Post political scribe Dan Balz to discuss the results of the midterm elections and their implications for the incoming Congress and the GOP heading into 2028. Armed with the results of a sweeping survey of 90,000 voters by the research firm NORC in partnership with the Post in the week before Election Day, Balz parses the key factors behind the collapse of Donald Trump’s coalition and the Republican Party more broadly; the challenges ahead for presumptive Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer and House speaker Hakeem Jeffries; and the daunting new reality faced by JD Vance in the suddenly wide-open race for his party’s presidential nomination.