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Echoes of the 1994 Midterms in 2022 with Steve Kornacki

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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Chris Hayes: Midterm elections have their own distinct structural features and how those play into the political landscape. He says being a Democrat or Republican means roughly the same thing now, it just didn't exist like that before. Hayes: The starting point for what you might think of as a modern midterm is the 1994 midterms in which New Gingrich leads the Republicans to an overwhelming victory two years into Clinton's term.

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