Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

Despite normally blue-state New Jersey's surprisingly strong turnout for the Republican presidential candidate this election season, the Garden State is sending a new, Democratic senator to Congress.On Today's Show:Andy Kim, U.S. Representative and Senator-Elect (D NJ), talks about the election results and his plans for his move to the senate.

As more detailed information comes out about the election results, Democrats are left to consider their losses.On Today's Show:Astead Herndon, New York Times national politics reporter, host of their politics podcast "The Run-Up" and CNN political analyst, offers his analysis of Trump's win, after spending months during the campaign talking to voters across the country.

The day after the end of the 2024 election season has left us with a president elect, and a lot of questions about how we got here. On Today's Show:Maria Hinojosa, president and founder of Futuro Media, anchor and executive producer of Latino USA, and co-host of the podcast In the Thick, and Benjy Sarlin,Washington bureau chief at Semafor, react to the news that Donald Trump has decisively won the election.Note:  This podcast was recorded at 10 AM on 11/6/24. Some information, including the 'pending' status  of Congressional races, may be out of date by the time of publication. 

On Election Day, we cover some of the 'states to watch' in tonight's early election returns, as well as legal challenges to the vote count that might be mounted in the days that follow.On Today's Show:Elie Honig, senior legal analyst at CNN, New York Magazine columnist, former New Jersey and federal prosecutor and author of Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away With It (Harper, 2023), offers legal analysis of lawsuits Trump supporters have already filed to challenge election results and explains how the justice system may respond to bad actors trying to contest the results and sow chaos this time.

On 'Election Day Eve,' some analysis around soem late-breaking polling and what they suggest about the gender spread among presidential voters this year. On Today's Show:Susan Page, USA Today Washington bureau chief, discusses the latest national political headlines as Election Day looms. 

What's at stake for war and peace in this presidential election?On Today's Show:Bob Woodward, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, associate editor at The Washington Post and the author of many books, including his latest, War (Simon and Schuster, 2024), talks about his reporting on what to expect from Trump and Harris on foreign policy -- and responds to the controversial decision by the Post not to endorse a candidate.

WNYC’s election series “America, Are We Ready?” looks at the state of election coverage during this very abnormal campaign season.On Today's Show:Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger, co-hosts of WNYC's On the Media, discuss the decisions by several major newspapers to pull their candidate endorsements, the role of mis- and disinformation and more.

Election Day is under a week away, with many states in the midst of early voting, and the polls remain closer than ever.On Today's Show:Philip Bump, national columnist for The Washington Post and the author of The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America (Viking, 2023), talks about the latest news from the campaign trail, where both Harris and Trump are making their closing arguments to voters.

Climate change doesn't only mean keeping global temperatures down. The UN is also exploring the need to prevent species extinction and ecological collapse. On Today's Show:Benji Jones, an environmental correspondent at Vox covering biodiversity and climate change, reports from Colombia and COP16, the UN conference with the goal of preserving biodiversity, on progress, funding and the relationship to climate change.

On Today's Show:Lucia Starbuck, political reporter and host of Purple Politics Nevada at KUNR, talks about the issues animating voters in the swing state of Nevada, what the polls show about Trump and Harris's chances of winning the state, and the unique political dynamics at play.