In This Episode
Trump lashes out at everyone after his midterm defeat, Democrats see opportunities and challenges in the Midwest and Florida, and the party debates how best to take on Trump in 2020. Then Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum talks to Jon and Dan about the recount effort, and what he learned by running against America’s mini-Trump.
Show Notes:
Trump’s Post Election Meltdown
- Washington Post: Five days of fury: Inside Trump’s Paris temper, election woes and staff upheaval
- New York Times: Forget Excuses. What Counts Is Winning Elections.
- New York Times: The Midterm Results Are a Warning to the Democrats
- Axios: Trump’s next chief of staff (unless he’s not)
- Huffington Post: Swamp Thing
- Talking Points Memo: Nick Ayers, 36-Year-Old Pence Aide, Re-Emerges As Favorite To Replace Kelly
- New York Times: Trump Considers Staff Shake-Up in White House and Homeland Security
- Politico: Top Pence aide resurfaces as leading candidate to replace Kelly
- Washington Post: Young Nick Ayers has full-grown plans for a Republican return to the White House
- Washington Post: Trump is preparing to remove Kirstjen Nielsen as Homeland Security secretary, aides say
- New York Times: Trump Considers Staff Shake-Up in White House and Homeland Security
- Daily Beast: 26 Democrats Demand Besieged Homeland Security Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen Resign
- CNN: Deputy national security adviser Mira Ricardel forced out of White House
- Politico: White House dumps senior official after clash with Melania Trump
Looking at 2018 through the prism of 2020
- Medium: What Happened Last Tuesday: Part 2 — Who Did They Vote For?
- New York Times: Weak Spots in Democrats’ Strong Midterm Results Point to Challenges in 2020
- Bloomberg: Florida Democrats Stung by Midterms Pin Hopes on Demographics
- Vox: Would ex-felon voting rights have flipped Florida for Democrats? It’s possible.
- Washington Post: How a badly designed ballot might have swayed the election in Florida
- Daily Beast: GOP Triumph in Florida Leaves Democrats Terrified of 2020
- Politico: ‘Soul crushing’: Trump wave bewilders Florida Democrats
- Washington Post: How a badly designed ballot might have swayed the election in Florida
- NPR: What 2018 Elections Could Tell Us About The 2020 Presidential Map
- Pew Research Center: Key takeaways about Latino voters in the 2018 midterm elections
- RealClearPolitics: Florida Exit Polls Reveal Tough 2020 Fight for Trump
Midwest
- New York Times: The Death of the Midwest Democrat Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
- Bloomberg: Stinging Defeats in the Rust Belt Flash a 2020 Warning for Trump
- Washington Post: Four ways the midterm results challenged conventional wisdom
- NBC News: Democrats show signs of life in Rust Belt, Midwest states that gave Trump Electoral College win
- Washington Post: The midterms gave Democrats clear marching orders for 2020 – Op-Ed
- Wall Street Journal: The Midwest Is the Democrats’ Key – Op-Ed
- NBC News: Almost six in 10 Americans believe Trump should not be reelected
Debate over how to engage Trump
- Daily Beast: Democrats See a Path to Victory in 2020: Ignore Trump
- Vox: Hillary Clinton’s press secretary on why beating Trump in 2020 is harder than you think
- New York Magazine: Democrats Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Run an Anti-Trump Campaign in 2020
- Vox: What the 2018 results tell us about 2020
- Crooked: DON’T FORGET IMPEACHMENT; IT MUST BE ON THE TABLE
- CNN: 2018 rewrote the main rule of US politics
- Washington Post: Trump’s xenophobic fearmongering backfired in 2018. What will he do in 2020?
- New York Times: A Left-Flank Protest on Day 1 Signals a Democratic House Divided
- Washington Post: The House Democratic majority risks the same dysfunction as the Republicans. But do Americans care?
Andrew Gillum
- Campaign website
- Vox: In the midterm elections, the GOP strategy was racism. In key races, it worked.
- New York Times: As Florida Recount Swirls, Andrew Gillum Is Taking a Public Stand on Voting Rights
- The Atlantic: House Progressives Celebrate a ‘New Kind of Centrism’
- New York Times: Do the Math. Moderate Democrats Will Not Win in 2020.
- The Atlantic: The Democrats’ Deep-South Strategy Was a Winner After All
- New Yorker: What Andrew Gillum’s Midterm-Election Loss in Florida Signals for the Democratic Party
