The Next Level

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Sarah and JVL are still coming to grips with the enormity of this week.
Feelings!
These Democrats are good, actually.
Ways the Democratic Congress will be able to make the world better even with Trump still in office.
Is Hegseth cooked?
How long will Rubio wait?
Can JD outfight Trump?
Is MAGA trying to force Alito to resign?
All that and we take time to make Susan Collins wear the clown suit she made for herself.
And then, at the end? Well, don’t leave early. This is a top 2 percent episode. Instant classic.

Election night delivers a stunning rebuke of Donald Trump as Democrats seize control of Congress and score extraordinary victories in Texas, Kansas, South Carolina, Maine, Ohio and beyond. Tim Miller, Sarah Longwell, JVL, and the Bulwark team react to the results in real time, joined by Pete Buttigieg, Ro Khanna, Lis Smith and others to break down the races, MAGA’s meltdown, and what comes next for Trump.
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Sarah and JVL are ready for midterms.  
- Early voting numbers and the possibility of a Republican turnout collapse.
- Why gas prices might be Trump’s biggest problem.
- JD Vance getting the “pugnacious” treatment from the New York Times.
- Peggy Noonan’s MAGA redemption fantasy.
- Haley Stevens’ jaw-dropping weekend.
It’s the last Secret Podcast before Election Day. The hopium is flowing.

Full episodes of the Secret Podcast are available exclusively for paid members of The Bulwark on Apple Podcasts, YouTube and Substack. 
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This is it: The last Friday Secret before the elections.

JVL has complaints!

Sarah has solutions!

Are the polls right or wrong?

Will Sarah ever read the Triad?

And at the very end, we have the surprise you’ve been waiting for . . .

Tim, Sarah, and JVL are back together for their last Next Level before Election Day. They discuss Marco Rubio helping Flavio Bolsonaro take refuge in the United States after losing Brazil's presidential election, RFK Jr's wildly racist comments about Arabs in Michigan, and the continued fallout from Vivek Ramaswamy's ghoulish ad against Amy Acton.
Then: a Kansas City Star report finds Roger Marshall’s own hometown turning on him, and Susan Collins is running a snobby ad against Troy Jackson. The gang runs through the whole Senate map and how big the Democratic wave could get, then they react to reports that Pete Hegseth has his eye on Marsha Blackburn’s Senate seat. And finally, after seeing the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary, Tim is soft-on-crime. Again.
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