Life after Trump: Elections show political adjustments as Trump fades from relevance
5/6/202642 min
Pete Buttigieg, former secretary of transportation and former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, talks with Jen Psaki about the burden of Donald Trump on Republican candidates, even in red states, and how politicians are recalibrating their approach to voters as Donald Trump loses both relevance and any popularity he once enjoyed.
Dr. Amy Acton, Democratic candidate for governor of Ohio, talks with Jen about what she's hearing from voters in her state.
Jen Psaki takes a closer look at how Donald Trump's vanity project ballroom, which no one asked for, has ballooned in cost and...
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Jen Psaki· Host0:29
Okay, everyone, obviously it is another election night in America. It seems like they're coming all the time now. They're all exciting. They tell us something every time. And there are a number of interesting races happening tonight that have been happening today. We're going to dig into a bunch of them and talk about what they mean for November, and also talk to some of the candidates who are at the center of all of this action. But we just, we just have to start with the state of Indiana, where the results of the Republican state senate primaries are still pouring in, and they will still continue to pour in through the course of this show. And that is a sentence that I never thought I would have to say on this show, because normally, a Republican primary election for state senate seats in Indiana is, is really not the kind of thing that would be national news. But this is not a normal primary because Donald Trump decided to put his political energy and an enormous amount of resources motivated by venom into an effort to oust more than a half a dozen Republican state senators who