About this episode

John discusses the collapse of Graham Platner's Senate campaign and Trump's impact on the World Cup with Alex Wagner and Will Leitch.

John welcomes back two blue-chip friends of the pod—Alex Wagner, host of Crooked Media’s “Runaway Country” and MS Now senior political analyst, and New York magazine columnist, MLB.com national correspondent, and Deadspin founder Will Leitch—to discuss, respectively, the spectacular self-immolation of Graham Platner’s Senate campaign in Maine and Donald Trump’s unwelcome intrusion into an otherwise wondrous World Cup.

People in this episode

Host: John Heilemann

Guests: Alex Wagner, Will Leitch

Topics covered

• political campaigns
• World Cup
• media analysis
• Trump
• Maine politics

Keywords

• Graham Platner
• Donald Trump
• World Cup
• Alex Wagner
• Will Leitch

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Crooked Media, New York magazine, MLB.com, Deadspin

Places: Maine

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