On the Ground with Joe Trippi

Since 1998 – yes, nearly three decades – Texas has been under one-party rule. And Republicans who have controlled the state for almost thirty years certainly feel entitled to keeping their power. Harvey Kronberg, who publishes Quorum Report, one of the definitive publications about Texas politics, has been covering the Lone Star state for years. With the primaries now in the rearview, Kronberg spo...

Joe Trippi is On the Ground in Texas. In a year when Texas Democrats are seeing openings while Republicans see divisions with the polarizing presence of Ken Paxton at the top of the ticket, Carlos Sanchez emerges as a uniquely positioned voice from the heart of the Lone Star State. The former public affairs director for Hidalgo County — Texas's seventh-most populous county with over 870,000 reside...

It’s a new episode of On the Ground with Joe Trippi, and this time Joe’s on the ground in Texas, where all eyes are watching the U.S. Senate race between Ken Paxton and James Talarico. But as his guest, Gilberto Ocañas can attest, there’s a lot more going on in the Lone Star State. Ocañas is a veteran of four presidential campaigns and one of the first Latinos to run statewide campaigns in Texas....

It’s all new episode of On the Ground with Joe Trippi, and this time Joe’s on the ground in Texas, where all eyes are watching the U.S. Senate race between Ken Paxton and James Talarico.

Few non-Iowans know Iowa the way Joe Trippi does. He’s worked on campaigns there for decades. For this show, Joe comes to us from the historic Hotel Fort Des Moines, where many presidential campaigns have gathered on the night of the Iowa caucuses. He was joined by a rising star in the Democratic Party, state Rep. Josh Turek, who’s running for the open U.S. Senate seat. A Democrat hasn’t represent...

“A year ago, nobody would have thought that the Democrats would be in the position that they’re in now. It’s a reach to say that they are within striking distance of the majority, but they’re in a better position than they were,” Tom Beaumont, national politics writer with The Associated Press, tells Joe Trippi on this latest edition of On The Ground with Joe Trippi.

In 2011, a then-19-year-old Zach Wahls stood before the Iowa House Judiciary Committee during a debate over marriage equality. Wahls, who has two mothers, proudly spoke up to fight back against the attacks on LGBTQ+ families. Now, at 34, Wahls is a Democratic Iowa State Senator and is running to represent the Hawkeye State in the U.S. Senate. He joined Joe Trippi for another installment of On The...

In 2018, after helping uncover and prosecute the Hot Lotto fraud scheme — the biggest lottery-rigging case in U.S. history, Rob Sand ran for Iowa state auditor. He unseated the Republican incumbent and becoming one of the very few Democrats to hold that office in the last century in a state that’s rapidly turned red. and was reelected in 2022 by a razor‑thin margin and ended up as the only Democra...

In this premiere episode, Joe speaks with Laura Belin, one of the most essential Iowa-based political reporters on Earth. She’s been called “probably the hardest-working — and perhaps the best — political reporter in the state” and “one of the best investigative reporters in the state.” If you want to know anything about the current state of politics in the Hawkeye State, Laura is your go-to.