Luke Thomas Gets Political (LTGP)

Luke Thomas discusses the latest news in politics with his viewers.

Luke Thomas discusses replacing Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer as Democratic leadership in Congress. #democrats #congress #lukethomas

Luke Thomas: Abdul El-Sayed or James Talarico? A viewer who likes both asks why Luke has followed the Michigan Senate race so much more closely than Texas. Luke gives two reasons, and both came up on his CNN appearance that morning. The first is about the national environment. Trump canceled rallies in Kansas, Florida, and Iowa, planning to replace them with telerallies before partially walking it...

Luke Thomas discusses the Democrats in the House failing to impeach U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. #petehegseth #democrats #lukethomas

Luke Thomas discusses UFC CEO Dana White pretending to accept the offer of becoming U.S. press secretary by Donald Trump. #danawhite #donaldtrump #lukethomas

Pat McAfee went to Utah for the ESPN hype show and the university posted an Instagram reel of students doing lighthearted impressions of him. McAfee took it as a wound, and then invoked Charlie Kirk. A viewer asks how soft and self-absorbed the guy has become. Luke can barely tell the story without laughing, but he’s fair to McAfee: ESPN picks the schools it visits, it’s doing them a favor, and a...

Luke Thomas discusses the possibility of UFC CEO Dana White becoming U.S. Press Secretary after Donald Trump took to social media to ask him to do the job.

Luke Thomas discusses DSA mayors like Zohran Mamdani and Janeese Lewis George as well as DSA congressmen and women. #congress #cnn #lukethomas

Luke Thomas goes over all of the 2026 midterm elections including James Talarico, Abdul El-Sayed and so much more. #election #midterms #lukethomas

Luke Thomas gives an immediate reaction to the 2026 midterm election results.

Vivek Ramaswamy ran an ad attacking Amy Acton with her own estranged mother, and he’s now trailing by three to four points in a state the GOP should own. Luke breaks down what the Ohio governor’s race says about Ramaswamy, about Trump, and about a Republican Party that has lost the ability to police itself. Start with the man. In Luke’s telling, Ramaswamy made his fortune by dressing up a drug he...

Luke Thomas watches Anderson Cooper's CNN interview with Haley Stevens where she tries to explain endorsing Mike Rogers over Abdul El Sayed. #abdulelsayed #cnn #lukethomas

Luke Thomas discusses Rep. Haley Stevens, a Democrat, endorsing Mike Rogers, a Republican, for Senate instead of Abdul El Sayed. #abdulelsayed #michigan #lukethomas

Luke Thomas discusses the latest news in national and world politics in this podcast series. #election #trump #lukethomas

By Luke Thomas: Abdul El-Sayed took Mike Rogers apart in the Michigan Senate debate, and Luke breaks down exactly how it happened. Rogers had one play all night: Muslim, Muslim, Muslim. Associations, names, anything to Islamify his opponent for the voters he’s courting. Luke explains why that strategy told you more about Rogers than about El-Sayed. The more revealing pattern was what Rogers did on...

Luke Thomas: In August of 2025, I spoke to Zeke Hernandez, the Max and Bernice Garchik Family Presidential Professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. That conversation largely centered on Hernandez’s 2024 book, ‘The Truth About Immigration’, and how the scholarship around immigration was at odds with Pres. Trump’s early mass deportation efforts. Fourteen months...

Luke Thomas: Jerry Seinfeld has been confronted about the Gaza genocide more than once, and every time the answer is some version of the same thing: it’s great, or it’s not real, or it is real and so what. Luke calls Seinfeld sick, a monster, and someone who cannot be reasoned with morally. Then back to Seinfeld. Luke explains the difference between people who have a hard time letting go of what t...

Do Democrats lose because they’re too progressive or too centrist? A viewer hears both constantly and wants Luke to square the difference. His answer: most people have a propagandized, cartoon version of what progressive politics even is, and the Democratic Party has been run by the corporate center for fifty years. Luke starts with the two caricatures of the left that turn off persuadable voters:...

Luke Thomas discusses the need for the Democratic Party to prosecute all forms of corruption and law breaking if they take back the House in the midterms. That includes, but is not limited to Pete Hegseth. #petehegseth #aoc #lukethomas

Luke Thomas goes over the latest political news for viewers on the weekly edition of this podcast. #lukethomas #trump #election

Luke Thomas discusses on CNN whether Abdul El Sayed trying to prove his masculinity on the right's terms will be effective in generating support. #abdulelsayed #lukethomas #cnn

Luke Thomnas: Pro-Palestinian advocates protested Zohran Mamdani, and Luke thinks they were right to do it. A viewer assumes the protest against the New York City mayor must have been a psyop. Luke lays out why it makes perfect sense. Mamdani made a calculation. He wants to be the model of competent, transparent, affordability-focused governance, and that means playing ball with the system and the...

Historically, discussing the Israel lobby and its impacts in the United States has come with a variety of challenges. Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt earned enormous blowback in 2007 when they tried to simply argue there was such a thing as the Israel lobby. While now the existence of the loose federation of donors, organizations and activists isn’t necessarily contested, few actually...

Luke Thomas discusses the UFC airing multiple MAGA Inc. ads during their recent UFC Edmonton broadcast. #danawhite #donaldtrump #lukethomas

Luke Thomas discusses the latest political news around the midterms, the Fort Hood execution, Abdul El Sayed and JD Vance trading barbs and much more. 00:00:00 — Intro 00:01:01 — Financial Times UFC and Trump quote 00:01:24 — Weekly CNN appearances with Audie Cornish 00:02:59 — Remote host setup on today’s CNN show 00:04:50 — Michigan Senate race and progressive movement 00:07:19 — Scenarios if El...