What Next - Is Trump Losing His Touch?

The GOP just held a midterm convention that was centered around the one thing their base seems to really like: Donald Trump.

The only problem is that pretty much everyone outside the GOP is blaming Trump for rising inflation, a foreign war, and a stagnating economy—and, oh yeah, Trump won’t be on the ballot.

Guest: Greg Sargent, host of “The Daily Blast” podcast and a staff writer at The New Republic.

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Podcast production by Evan Campbell, Madeline Thames-Ducharme and Patrick Fort.

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