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NEW Season 1 Oct 30, 2026 · 9 min

What Next - The Surge: Can We Trust The Polls?

It’s the last Friday before the midterms and Democrats have every reason to finally stop panicking and start….merely fretting. This episode originally aired as a Slate Live on YouTube, produced in collaboration with Slate’s politics newsletter The Surge. There’s going to be another one of these just for Slate Plus listeners next Wednesday (11/4) at 12P ET! To register, click here. Guests: Jim Newell, Slate’s senior politics writer. Patrick Reis, Slate’s politics editor Lizzie O’Leary, What Next: TBD host This episode is member-exclusive. Listen to it now by subscribing to Slate Plus. By joining, not only will you unlock exclusive episodes of What Next —you’ll also access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the What Next show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Evan Campbell, Madeline Thames-Ducharme and Patrick Fort. Paige Osburn is the senior supervising producer of What Next and What Next TBD. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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