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65 days until the midterms and there's a shake-up in the Senate race! Tune into Inside Politics Sunday to hear Manu Raju's exclusive reporting on the battle for the Senate majority. Can Democrats turn red states blue? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today's show begins as President Trump is preparing to award the Artemis II crew the Congressional Medal of Honor. The four astronauts went farther into space than any humans before them, circling the moon on a 10-day mission and bringing home never-before-seen-images from deep space, completing the first crewed journey to the moon in more than half a century.    Learn more about your ad...

Texas has long been the Democrat's white whale. And this year it's also the Republican's bulwark. President Trump will visit the Lone Star State today to help the keep a Senate seat red. And House Speaker Mike Johnson is visiting four districts central to the GOP holding onto the House.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podc...

Today we remember a legend who lived outside politics, someone who crossed the political divide in an almost divine way. Dolly Parton - singer, songwriter, actress, philanthropist, businesswoman and global icon - died at the age of 80 after a brief battle with cancer. Simply put, there will never be another like Dolly Parton. Her music spanned generations, global bord...

Canada just laid out its sweeping retaliatory tariffs - up to 50% on hundreds of American products. It's the latest move in what's quickly becoming a full-out trade war between the US and its northern neighbor. CNN's Kevin Liptak begins our coverage from the White House.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podca...

Join Manu Raju and top political reporters as they analyze President Trump's grip on the GOP, the latest from Washington, and the shifting political tides. Tune into Inside Politics for the story beyond the headlines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There are just 75 days to go until the midterm elections. And as we turn from a bruising primary season toward the general election, the battle for control of the Senate could be changing. A brand new analysis from the Cook Political Report shows Democrats may have a new path to the Senate majority, and it runs through Texas.  Learn more...

Florida voters deliver a powerful reminder of one of politics most enduring lessons, notably espoused by the late House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "All politics is local." Last night, Florida voters in both parties showed why O'Neill's political mantra really still holds up. Big names and big money collided with something even more powerful: ho...

Voters in four states are hitting the ballot box today for key governor, House and Senate primaries in Wyoming, California, Alaska and Florida. The wildest races are - no surprise - in the Sunshine State, which has an open governor's race, a Senate seat up for grabs, and House races full of col...

President Trump is sending a new, stark message to the world about where his loyalties lie. He ordered the Pentagon to scale back joint military exercises with South Korea because of his "very good relationship with" North Korea's Kim Jong Un. This move undercuts a key American ally with tens of thousands of US troops stationed there.  &n...

The Democrats are reshuffling the primary calendar for 2028. What could it mean for the party’s future? Is it time for independent candidates to save the day? Tune in as we explore the potential impact on progressives and moderates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When a Russian-born American citizen named Ilya Beloozerov is gunned down by the FBI in 2024, the authorities refuse to say why they’d killed him. CNN’s Isabelle Chapman embarks on a sprawling investigation that takes her from the Mississippi parking lot where he died to Washington, D.C. to unravel the mystery: Why did Ilya abru...

Luigi Mangione just pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges in connection to the 2024 murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. To file that plea, Mangione had to describe, in his own words, what happened. "I shot Mr. Thompson and he died. I knew what i was doing was illegal." Our coverage begins with CNN's Kara Scannell outside the courtroom.  &nbsp...

The midterms just got a fresh dose of inflation - not ideal for the party trying to keep control of Congress. The new numbers show signs that price pressures are easing, but only at the margins. Wholesale prices - what producers charge before those costs reach consumers - rose 4.7% over the past year. While a slowdown from June's 5.5%, that's ...

Politicians love to say, "The only poll that counts is election day." In the last 24 hours, Wisconsin reminded us why that cliche actually matters. Last month, moderate Democrat David Crowley dropped out of the Badger State gubernatorial race. Today, he accepted his party's nomination for governor. Crowley's razor-thin vict...

Competing visions collide in the last major test of the Democratic party's direction before November. Today, Americans in six states are hitting the polls in key primaries across the country. The biggest story is out of Wisconsin, where state Assemblywoman and Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong's upstart campaign has...

What's more likely, a Democratic senator in Texas or a Republican senator in Georgia? We reveal results of a brand new CNN analysis pointing to nine seats that are most likely to flip. To win control of the Senate, Democrats must keep all their seats while flipping four more.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join Manu Raju this Sunday on Inside Politics as we dissect a week of fierce political battles across the Midwest, with exclusive insights from top political insiders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Todd Blanche is now officially on track to be the next attorney general of the United States after Senator Bill Cassidy, a man whose political career President Trump effectively helped end, announces that he will support Blanche on the Senate floor. Cassidy's decision will give Blanche the votes he needs to be confirmed.    Learn more about your ad choi...

Progressive Democrat Abdul el-Sayed says his win in yesterday's Michigan Senate primary shook the world. Now his party is mapping the aftershocks. The first challenge is to unite behind el-Sayed following the incredibly heated and divisive race against moderate Haley Stevens. His GOP opponent, former representative Mike Rogers, waste...

Progressive Democrat Abdul el-Sayed prevailed in the Michigan Senate primary, but will that complicate his party's path back to power? It was a very close race - just one point separating el-Sayed from his opponent, Congresswoman Haley Stevens - but the victory is monumental for the progre...

\Embattled Republican Congressman Max Miller is calling for an ethics investigation into himself. He says he wants to clear himself from the disturbing allegations of domestic abuse from his ex-wife, Emily Marino, the daughter of the senior Senator from Ohio, Bernie Marino. CNN's Lauren Fox has the details on this unusual situat...

President Trump's pick to be the nation's top law enforcement officer is now on the fast track to Senate confirmation after Republican holdouts John Cornyn and Thom Tillis said they'll vote to confirm Todd Blanche at tomorrow's committee vote. That ends a two-week standoff between the lame duck senators and the White House over...

The stakes are high in Michigan. With only two days until the primary, will Michigan Democrats choose pragmatism or progressivism? Tune into Inside Politics with Manu Raju for deep insights on how this race could redefine the Democratic Party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As today's show begins, President Trump is holding a Cabinet meeting at Camp David. Among the participants is Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general. He wants to drop the "acting" from his title and get confirmed by the Senate. But two Republican senators are blocking Blanche because the White House won't commit to killing the president's so-called anti-weaponizati...