RealClearPolitics Podcast

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan and Carl Cannon discuss Tuesday's primary results, including self-proclaimed DSA member Angie Nixon’s surprise victory in the Democratic senate primary in Florida and the results of Alaska’s ranked voting contest. Also, current Sen. Darlene Graham and Rep. Ralph Norman faced off last night in a debate for the South Carolina Senate GOP nomination. Then, Rep. Jared Huffman...

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan and Carl Cannon preview today’s primary elections in Florida and Alaska. Then, they discuss the growing opposition to Flock surveillance cameras and Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley’s defense of the company’s practices. They also cover Illinois Governor JB Pritzker’s proposed 57 percent increase in passenger-vehicle highway tolls and GOP gubernatorial candidate Darren Ba...

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan and Carl Cannon discuss the Democratic National Committee’s weekend meeting in Austin, TX and the internal struggle between traditional Democrats and the party’s emerging socialist wing. Also, they talk about the Democratic Socialists of America celebrating the 100th birthday of Fidel Castro just in time for tomorrow’s Florida Democratic primary. Then, they discuss the o...

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, Emily Jashinsky and RCP White House correspondent Carolina Lumetta discuss the resignation of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and the Administration’s request that the Supreme Court intervene to implement President Trump’s executive order restricting the use of mail-in ballots ahead of the midterms. Next, Andrew, Tom and Emily discuss New York Mayor Zohran...

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan and Josh Kraushaar, editor in chief of Jewish Insider and a political analyst for Fox News Radio discuss the results of yesterday’s primary elections including South Carolina’s special election for the GOP senate nomination and the primaries for the governor’s race in Wisconsin. Next, they discuss New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani who is facing pushback over the rollout of t...

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan and RCP Senior Elections Analyst Sean Trende discuss today’s primary elections including new polling from South Carolina’s special election for the GOP senate nomination. Also, the Wall Street Journal reports states are making efforts to clean up their voting rolls in anticipation of attacks by the Trump Administration this fall. Then, Peter Berkowitz, author Explaining...

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan and RCP contributor and attorney Richard Porter preview tomorrow’s key primary races in Wisconsin and Minnesota and look at tomorrow’s special election to name a Republican candidate to replace the late Sen. Lindsey Graham in South Carolina on this fall’s ballot. Next, they discuss Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's (D-NY) remarks on the excesses of what she calls “Woke 1”...

Andrew Walworth, Carl Cannon and RCP national correspondent Susan Crabtree discuss Tucker Carlson and the possible formation of a third political party, and how Democrats are closing ranks behind Abdul Al-Sayed since his victory in Tuesday’s Democratic senatorial primary. Then, J. Peder Zane of RealClear Investigations joins the crew to discuss Anthony Fauci’s presidential pardon and the origins o...

Andrew Walworth, Carl Cannon and RCP White House correspondent Carolina Lumetta discuss what is happening in the U.S. Senate, which is staying in session to deal with issues including the SAVE America Act and confirmation of Todd Blanche as Attorney General. Then, Washington Post columnist and author of the Margin of Victory newsletter Henry Olsen joins the show to discuss lessons from Tuesday’s D...

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon and RCP Senior Elections Analyst Sean Trende discuss the results of key primaries held yesterday in Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, Virginia and Washington State. Then, they talk about “candidate quality” problems facing the GOP in the midterms, including Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) who dropped out last night after House censure over “persistent and inappropriate...

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan and Carl Cannon discuss today’s key primaries in Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, Virginia and Washington State. Then, former Secretary of Education and senior advisor with Bellwether Education Partners Jim Peyser joins the guys to discuss what is behind the “Mississippi Miracle,” the remarkable improvement in reading and math by Mississippi students, as evidenced in the late...

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan and Carl Cannon discuss this weekend’s summit meeting of the Democratic Socialists of America in Chicago, and they also discuss coverage of the storming of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the tip of North Africa by 50,000 Moroccans. Then, RCP White House correspondent Carolina Lumetta joins the guys to discuss President Trump’s statements about US Attorney for the Distri...

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan and Carl Cannon discuss the recent hacking of water treatment facilities in Minnesota and other states, which have been attributed by some to Iranian-backed groups. They also talk about President Donald Trump announcing a breakthrough in the Gaza peace process. Then, Byron York, chief political correspondent for The Washington Examiner, joins the guys to discuss the stat...

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan and Carl Cannon discuss New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s release of the names, addresses and assessed property values of 960,000 New Yorkers who he says may be subject to the new “pied-a-terre tax” aimed at high net worth, part-time city residents. Also, new polling shows Democratic Socialists have broad support inside the Democratic Party, but would not fare well in...

Andrew Walworth, Carl Cannon and RCP contributor and attorney Richard Porter discuss today’s Senate hearing on the origins of Covid with Anthony Fauci, who answered every question from the committee by asserting his fifth amendment rights. Then, RealClear Investigations senior reporter James Varney joins Andrew and Carl to discuss his latest article “Biden Bucks: Climate Change Funds a Bonanza for...

Andrew Walworth, Carl Cannon and RCP Senior Elections Analyst Sean Trende discuss last night’s debate for the Michigan Democratic Senate nomination, the governor’s race in Wisconsin where DSA candidate Francesca Hong leads in some polls for the Democratic nomination, and the Senate race in Minnesota. Then, they discuss Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s announcement yesterday that new government-run grocery s...

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Carl Cannon discuss the release of select passages from Anthony Fauci’s private diary by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Fauci’s upcoming Senate testimony, scheduled for Wednesday. Fauci was a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, and Chief Medical Advisor to the President from January 2021 to December 2022. Then, RCP White House correspondent Carolina Lumetta...

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Carl Cannon discuss President Donald Trump’s recent complaints about GOP Senate Leader John Thune regarding passage of the SAVE America act, and reports that the President is considering a “massive attack” on Iran bigger than those carried out during Operation Epic Fury. They also discuss Maine Democrats who will meet this weekend and will likely name Troy Jackson a...

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Carl Cannon discuss yesterday’s House vote to ban stock trading by members of Congress, and the controversy caused by the Trump Media and Technology Group announcement that they will sell early access to the President’s social media posts for as much as $100,000 per month to investors who can then trade on the information before it is known by the general public. Th...

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Carl Cannon discuss New Jersey governor Mikie Sherill’s announcement yesterday that the state found 6,600 non-citizens on its voter rolls, and President Donald Trump’s approval of U.S. assistance to Saudi Arabia for the development of a civilian nuclear power program, which critics fear could lead to a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Then, Democratic strategis...

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Carl Cannon preview today’s primaries in Arizona and discuss the changing definition of who constitutes working-class voters in modern America. Then, RCP national correspondent Susan Crabtree joins the guys to discuss California politics, including new polling in the governor’s race and First Lady Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s response to reports of a federal investigati...

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Carl Cannon discuss the state of the race to replace Graham Platner as the Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine and South Carolina’s race for the GOP Senate nomination following the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham. Then, RCP White House correspondent Carolina Lumetta joins the guys to discuss the Administrations’ reaction to four American deaths in the Iran War ove...

RCP Contributor Richard Porter joins Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Carl Cannon to discuss last night’s address to the nation by President Trump on election integrity, and Thursday’s remarks by Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s on communism at a ministerial level meeting called by The State Department on the resurgence of political terrorism. Then, the guys discuss last night’s Democratic candidat...

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Carl Cannon look forward to tonight’s televised address by President Donald Trump where he reportedly will reveal new information about the 2020 elections, and discuss Todd Blanche’s two-day confirmation hearings for Attorney General before the U.S. Senate. Then, Charles McElwee, editor of RealClear Pennsylvania, joins the guys to discuss the future of Senator John...

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Carl Cannon discuss the death of man in Florida who was killed by a tractor trailer yesterday in Florida as he was fleeing immigration authorities, the third death in less than a week involving ICE agents. Also, the Michigan senate primary becomes the latest battleground between the Democratic Socialists and Progressives within the Democratic Party. Next, John Teich...