'Troubled' candidates burden GOP already saddled with Trump's baggage

Podcast: The Rachel Maddow Show · Rachel Maddow, MS NOW

Opublikowano: 2026-08-04

With midterm elections fast approaching, the Republican Party, already compromised by Donald Trump's cratering popularity and track record of criminality and immorality, is dealing with multiple candidates mired in damaging personal scandals. Rachel Maddow takes a look. James Talarico, Democratic candidate for Senate from Texas, talks with Rachel Maddow about not taking the bait on culture war issues Republicans use to try to pit Americans against each other, and the efforts he's making to reach out to his state's large Black constituency, as well as the immigrant community being terrorized by ICE. Rachel Maddow considers w...