Federal Fallout: The 2026 Midterms Edition

Hi everyone, I'm Sam Shirazi and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia Elections. This episode, we will do a summer check-in to see what's going on and get a little bit of a heat check on the state of the race right now. 00:13.52 Sam Shirazi Obviously, we're in the middle of July. That is typically a slower time on the campaign trail. Partly that's just because people are on vacation and enjoy...

Hi, everyone. I'm Sam Shirazi, and this is Federal Fallout 2025 Virginia Elections. This is a special bonus episode looking at some business rankings tanking in Virginia. 00:12.05 Sam Shirazi So, for context, CNBC every year puts out a list of the best states for business, and in previous years, Virginia has been number one, but this year, the top honors goes to North Carolina, our neighbors to th...

Hi, everyone. I'm Sam Shirazi, and this is Federal Fallout. Today, we will have an interview with former Republican Delegate Tim Anderson. He is now the GOP nominee in the 97th House of Delegates District in Virginia Beach. 00:14.22 Sam Shirazi And I'm happy to have the incumbent Democrat Michael Figgins on as well. But today we have Tim Anderson. Thank you for joining me. 00:22.16 Tim Anderson Th...

Hi everyone, I'm Sam Shirazi and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia Elections. This episode we will go over the reconciliation bill that has been passed by Congress and talk about how it might affect the Virginia elections this year. 00:13.93 Sam Shirazi But first, I just wanted to note a couple pieces of news. One is about 11th District firehouse primaries that happened last Saturday. I wa...

Hi everyone, I'm Sam Shirazi and this is federal fallout to 2025 Virginia elections. This is a special bonus episode where we will go over the 11th district special election that is happening for the congressional seat in Fairfax County. 00:15.92 Sam Shirazi Now, just for some background, the former congressman for that district, Jerry Connolly passed away and that was a huge loss for Virginia. An...

Hi everyone, I'm Sam Shirazi and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia Elections. This is a special bonus interview of Joe Szymanski. 00:11.73 Sam Shirazi Joe, thanks for joining. 00:13.35 Joe I appreciate you having me on tonight, Sam. Thank you very much. 00:16.42 Sam Shirazi Yeah, so one of the things I respect about Joe is he's he's able to be very objective in his political analysis, whic...

Hi, everyone. I'm Sam Shirazi, and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia Elections. This is a special bonus episode looking at some pretty shocking results in the New York City mayor primary. 00:12.72 Sam Shirazi And you might think this is a podcast about Virginia elections. Why am I talking about a primary for a local office in New York City? Well, the reason why is there was a pretty shocki...

Hi everyone, I'm Sam Shirazi and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia Elections. This episode we will go over the Virginia primary that happened on Tuesday and I also wanted to look ahead to November and some lessons that could be learned from the Virginia primary. 00:14.77 Sam Shirazi Now, I did a podcast appearance on the Virginia Press Room with my friend Michael Lee Pope, who has that pod...

Hi everyone, I'm Sam Shirazi and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia Elections. This is a special bonus episode where I'm going to quickly go over some of the things that happened on the in the Virginia primary. I will do a longer episode during my regular podcast which will come out Saturday morning, but I did want to just kind of do this quick podcast. 00:19.54 Sam Shirazi As you can proba...

Hi Everyone, I’m Sam Shirazi and this is a special bonus episode to give you some of my primary predictions before the virginia primary and i wanted to do this because people asked me and i thought it'd be interesting to kind of give you my take on what's going to happen and Now, honestly, I'm not a huge fan of predictions for various reasons. One, and think it's inherently very difficult to make...

Hi everyone, I am Sam Shirazi and this is federal fallout the 2025 Virginia elections, this is a special bonus episode looking at potential foreign policy fallout in the Virginia elections and i'm going to be talking more so about the historical fallout and three Virginia elections in 2001. Sam Shirazi, 2005 2021 and obviously the reason i'm bringing this up is because of the conflict right now be...

Hi Everyone I'm Sam Shirazi, and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia Elections. This episode, we will have our first return guest with Chaz Nadecombe. 00:11.51 Sam Shirazi Chaz, thanks again for coming back. 00:13.29 Chaz Nuttycombe Hey, Sam. It's so good to be back. Thanks for having me on. 00:16.38 Sam Shirazi Yeah. So before we turn to Virginia and the primaries on Tuesday, I did want to...

Hi everyone, I'm Sam Shirazi and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia elections. This is a special bonus episode to go over some recently released Virginia campaign finance reports. 00:12.89 Sam Shirazi So I'm going to go over three basic things. One, I'm going to look at the big picture governor numbers for the Democrats and the Republicans. Then I'm going to look at the upcoming Democratic...

00:00.47 Sam Shirazi Hi everyone, I'm Sam Shirazi and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia Elections. Today i will be interviewing Lauren Burke, the founder of Black Virginia News. Lauren, thank you for joining me. 00:12.86 Lauren Thanks, Sam, for having me. You're great. And I love being on your podcast. 00:17.47 Sam Shirazi Yeah, I remember once i you had me on Pod Virginia and you were int...

00:00.74 Sam Shirazi Hi, everyone. I'm Sam Shirazi, and this is Federal Fallout, the 2025 Virginia elections. This episode, we will go over why the Virginia elections matter and go over some of the history of the Virginia elections over the last 20 years. 00:14.88 Sam Shirazi And the reason and I want to do this podcast is... Because I talked about the fallout between Donald Trump and Elon Musk. a...

00:00.47 Sam Shirazi Hi, everyone. I'm Sam Shirazi, and this is Federal Fallout, the 2025 Virginia elections. This is a special bonus episode where we we will go over another type of fallout, and that is the breakup between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. 00:14.96 Sam Shirazi And we will see how all this will impact the 2025 Virginia Okay, so for some background, obviously during the last election, El...

00:00.66 Sam Shirazi Hi everyone, I'm Sam Shirazi and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia Elections. This episode we will talk to Lowell Feld who runs Blue Virginia, the go-to Democratic blog in Virginia. 00:13.78 Sam Shirazi I find that Lowell is well regarded on both sides and people on both sides cite his blog, which I think that's usually a sign someone, if someone's more partisan, that...

00:00.70 Sam Shirazi Hi everyone, i amm Sam Shirazi and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia Elections. This episode we will go over the Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General Democratic primaries which are heating up right now. 00:14.13 Sam Shirazi And I will first go over the Lieutenant Governor primary, and then i'll go over the Attorney General primary. So we are less than three weeks a...

00:00.85 Sam Shirazi Hi everyone, I'm Sam Shirazi and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia Elections. This episode I will be interviewing Dr. Mark Downey. He is the Democratic candidate in the 69th House of Delegates District in the Yorktown area. 00:17.69 Sam Shirazi This is a seat Democrats are targeting and was narrowly carried by President Trump by a little over one points in November. Th...

00:00.70 Sam Shirazi Hi, everyone. I'm Sam Shirazi, and this is Federal Fallout, the 2025 Virginia elections. This episode, we will go over two new Virginia polls, talk about early voting picking up, and finally, we will talk about Elon Musk perhaps exiting the political stage. 00:17.57 Sam Shirazi But first, I wanted to note the passing of Congressman Jerry Connolly. This is an immense loss for N...

00:00.46 Sam Shirazi Hi, everyone. I'm Sam Shirazi, and this is Federal Fallout, the 2025 Virginia elections. This episode, I will be checking in on the Federal Fallout because obviously the premise of this show has been that what's been going on in Washington, D.C is going to affect the Virginia elections this year. And I've been covering other topics and they're all very interesting, but I haven...

00:00.47 Sam Shirazi Hi everyone. I'm Sam Shirazi and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia elections. There is now an American Pope and I'm interviewing the Pope of Virginia politics. That's Michael Lee Pope. He is a reporter and host of another great Virginia politics podcast, the Virginia Press Room. 00:19.25 Sam Shirazi Definitely check that one out too. That's usually comes out Monday mor...

00:00.72 Sam Shirazi Hi everyone, I'm Sam Shirazi and this is Federal Fallout, the 2025 Virginia elections. This episode, we will go over the primaries in the House of Delegates. So to start off, I should note that there are not actually a lot of primaries this year in Virginia. 00:16.98 Sam Shirazi There are and only nine on the Democratic side and eight on the GOP side. So remember, there are 10...

00:00.47 Sam Shirazi Hi everyone, I'm Sam Shirazi and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia Elections. This episode I will be interviewing Kevin Holst. He is the Executive Director of the Democratic Lieutenant Governors Association. So Kevin, thank you for joining me. 00:16.24 Kevin Holst Thanks for having me on. 00:18.16 Sam Shirazi So just to begin, could you please talk about your backgroun...

00:00.51 Sam Shirazi I'm Sam Shirazi and this is federal fallout the 2025 Virginia elections this episode, we will go over some of the sleeper races in the House of delegates more so on the democratic side. In terms of seats that they are trying to flip and the reason I'm doing this episode is because they have found candidates in all 100 races in the Virginia House of Delegates. 00:20.43 Sam Shir...