The Next Level

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.

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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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Sarah and JVL talk:
Elon dropping another $76m on the election
Fake pollsters
Trump grifters getting cut loose by Big Orange
But the big story is Vivek Ramaswamy working with a woman who aided and abetted a pedophile-rapist. You know the ad we’re talking about. Sarah did a focus group with Ohio Trump voters. They all knew about the ad. And what they told Sarah is . . . not great for Vivek.
If you have questions for Tim, Sarah and JVL, send them to nextlevel@thebulwark.com and they may answer them on an upcoming episode of TNL.