Politics Podcast: If The Midterms Have been Tomorrow, Republicans Would possibly Be In Hassle

Rep. Jerrold Nadler gained his Manhattan main towards fellow Rep. Carolyn Maloney in a stroll on Tuesday. And in downtown Manhattan, the previous federal prosecutor and lead counsel in Trump’s first impeachment inquiry, Dan Goldman, pulled out a victory in a crowded area.

Elsewhere within the state, Democrats overperformed in two particular elections, together with a win in New York’s nineteenth District, which is 4 share factors extra Republican than the nation, in keeping with FiveThirtyEight’s partisan lean metric.

On this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discusses what these outcomes imply for the midterms this fall and the place different indicators of the political setting are pointing.

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