Chaos: Why Schumer Can't Contain Democrats' Radical Base

About this episode

The episode discusses the dominance of the left-wing of the Democrat party in primaries and Chuck Schumer's challenges ahead of the November elections.

The left-wing of the Democrat party is dominating primaries. Despite Chuck Schumer's best efforts to win in November, the radicals seem to be coming out on top. In the lightning round, Trump lightly roasts the NASA administrator and Jasmine Crockett just won't go away. Plus, King of the Hill returns! #Platner #MaineSenate #Midterms2026 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Hosts: Josh Holmes, Comfortably Smug, Michael Duncan, John Ashbrook

Topics covered

• Democrat party
• primaries
• political radicals
• Chuck Schumer
• Trump
• Midterms2026
• King of the Hill

Keywords

• Democrat party
• Chuck Schumer
• Trump
• Jasmine Crockett
• Midterms2026
• political radicals
• King of the Hill

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NASA

Books & works: King of the Hill

Places: Maine

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