The Chuck ToddCast

Dmitri Mehlhorn — Democratic strategist, Atoll Society co-founder, and author of the new novel Archipelago of Light — joins the Chuck ToddCast to walk through the war games he runs simulating a contested 2028 election. Three teams: Institutionalists, Nationalists, and Capitalists. The Nationalists win a lot of them, and the mechanics are grimly instructive — they pump up progressives to generate backlash, offer carrots and sticks to capital, and find that every norm broken makes the next break easier. Mehlhorn argues the midterms are the rehearsal: get voters accustomed to challenging results now, delegitimize the process before 2028, and exploit a speaker's latitude not to seat delegations if things are close. His core warning is that our biggest failure has been a failure of imagination — and that taking power back has to be the singular issue in 2028. 

Timeline:

00:00 Dmitri Mehlhorn joins The Chuck ToddCast 

01:00The simulation, the three factions, and how it works

04:00 Why the Nationalists keep winning

08:45 The predictable playbook of authoritarians

12:15 What happens if 2028 is disputed

20:30 Building the game with AI and historical autocrats

23:15 The midterms as practice for 2028

29:15 The next 75 days and seating the winners

32:00 Texas, Hungary, and what actually deters authoritarians

42:15 The urban/rural divide and echoes of pre-WWI

46:45 Is the constitutional period already over?

54:30 Alarmism vs. vigilance — and what gives him hope

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Under four weeks out, Chuck Todd argues this has been the strangest campaign season he can remember — not because Democrats are overperforming, but because of how Republicans are behaving. Red-state Democrats have successfully separated themselves from the national brand and are no longer disqualified simply for being Democrats. Meanwhile almost no Republicans have sought distance from an unpopular president, and Chuck argues GOP candidates in red states have simply forgotten how to persuade anyone. Trump has never been good at defending a record — only at blaming someone else — and in Texas there's no Democrat to blame. Now Trump's running against lived experience at the pump. Chuck points to Thom Tillis calling his Hegseth confirmation vote the biggest regret of his career, estimates 30 Republican senators would dump Trump on a secret ballot, and compares the party to passengers in a car with a drunk driver that nobody will take the keys from. Every race has gotten worse for Republicans except Maine — and Trump may be the Democrats' single best asset over the final four weeks. 

Finally, Chuck presents his ToddCast Top TEN list of senate races most likely to flip, having to add more races as the map has expanded for Democrats. He also answers listeners’ questions in the Ask Chuck segment.

Timeline:

00:00 Chuck Todd’s introduction

04:30 A strange campaign season with four weeks to go

06:15 How red-state Democrats separated from the national brand

08:30 The Republicans who won't appear with Trump or Vance

11:30 Red-state Republicans have forgotten how to persuade

14:30 Running against lived experience at the pump

19:15 Fear of Trump's ire, and the seats he couldn't flip

21:15 Tillis, Hegseth, and the 30 senators who'd dump Trump on a secret ballot

25:30 Trump's behavior and the permission slip for exhausted voters

30:45 Every race has gotten worse except Maine

35:15 Why Trump may be the Democrats' best asset 

37:45 ToddCast Top TEN senate seats most likely to flip

38:30 #1 North Carolina

39:15 #2 Alaska

41:00 #3 Ohio

42:45 #4 Texas

44:30 #5 Maine

46:30 #6 Kansas

47:15 #7 Iowa

49:00 #8 Michigan

52:00 #9 Nebraska

54:15 #10 South Carolina

59:00 Ask Chuck

59:30 How could a future administration remove political loyalists?

1:04:00 What could be lost amongst turmoil at the Kennedy Center?

1:08:30 Can dinner table discussion become important for election momentum?

1:12:30 Do Republicans think NFL Ken Paxton ads are effective?

1:16:45 Skeptical of Hinojosa winning, is this a mirage?

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Under four weeks out, Chuck Todd argues this has been the strangest campaign season he can remember — not because Democrats are overperforming, but because of how Republicans are behaving. Red-state Democrats have successfully separated themselves from the national brand and are no longer disqualified simply for being Democrats. Meanwhile almost no Republicans have sought distance from an unpopular president, and Chuck argues GOP candidates in red states have simply forgotten how to persuade anyone. Trump has never been good at defending a record — only at blaming someone else — and in Texas there's no Democrat to blame. Now Trump's running against lived experience at the pump. Chuck points to Thom Tillis calling his Hegseth confirmation vote the biggest regret of his career, estimates 30 Republican senators would dump Trump on a secret ballot, and compares the party to passengers in a car with a drunk driver that nobody will take the keys from. Every race has gotten worse for Republicans except Maine — and Trump may be the Democrats' single best asset over the final four weeks. 

Then, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain joins the Chuck ToddCast to discuss How Bright the Path Grows, out October 13th, which tells the story of the Black women who built the 1963 March on Washington and were then written out of it. There's abundant footage of the men who spoke that day; there's no class photo of the women who organized it. Chatelain's central figure is Anna Hedgeman, the march coordinator who noticed no women were scheduled to speak — the original plan had the wives of civil rights leaders simply take a bow. She argues sexism functioned not just as oppression but as deliberate political strategy, and makes the point most Americans miss: King's final speeches challenged capitalism itself, and conservatives who now celebrate "I Have a Dream" took decades to get there. Plus Rosa Parks' financial ruin, why reparations never break through, and whether AI will sanitize history further.

Finally, Chuck presents his ToddCast Top TEN list of senate races most likely to flip, having to add more races as the map has expanded for Democrats. He also answers listeners’ questions in the Ask Chuck segment.

Timeline:

00:00 Chuck Todd’s introduction

04:30 A strange campaign season with four weeks to go

06:15 How red-state Democrats separated from the national brand

08:30 The Republicans who won't appear with Trump or Vance

11:30 Red-state Republicans have forgotten how to persuade

14:30 Running against lived experience at the pump

19:15 Fear of Trump's ire, and the seats he couldn't flip

21:15 Tillis, Hegseth, and the 30 senators who'd dump Trump on a secret ballot

25:30 Trump's behavior and the permission slip for exhausted voters

30:45 Every race has gotten worse except Maine

35:15 Why Trump may be the Democrats' best asset 

40:00 Marcia Chatelain joins The Chuck ToddCast

41:00 Writing women back into the March on Washington

44:30 Sources, threads, and what the march was really about

49:30 How "I Have a Dream" got sanitized — and who gets remembered

52:30 Anna Hedgeman and the women who weren't allowed to speak

55:30 Who thought the march failed, and the case for incrementalism

1:02:30 Diane Nash, Rosa Parks, and the economic retribution against activists

1:09:30 Why reparations hasn't broken through

1:14:00 AI, erasure, and the risk to original sources

1:25:30 Elites, education, and the threats to the Smithsonian

1:32:45 ToddCast Top TEN senate seats most likely to flip

1:33:30 #1 North Carolina

1:34:15 #2 Alaska

1:36:00 #3 Ohio

1:37:45 #4 Texas

1:39:30 #5 Maine

1:41:30 #6 Kansas

1:42:15 #7 Iowa

1:44:00 #8 Michigan

1:47:00 #9 Nebraska

1:49:15 #10 South Carolina

1:54:00 Ask Chuck

1:54:30 How could a future administration remove political loyalists?

1:59:00 What could be lost amongst turmoil at the Kennedy Center?

2:03:30 Can dinner table discussion become important for election momentum?

2:07:30 Do Republicans think NFL Ken Paxton ads are effective?

2:11:45 Skeptical of Hinojosa winning, is this a mirage?

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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain joins the Chuck ToddCast to discuss How Bright the Path Grows, out October 13th, which tells the story of the Black women who built the 1963 March on Washington and were then written out of it. There's abundant footage of the men who spoke that day; there's no class photo of the women who organized it. Chatelain's central figure is Anna Hedgeman, the march coordinator who noticed no women were scheduled to speak — the original plan had the wives of civil rights leaders simply take a bow. She argues sexism functioned not just as oppression but as deliberate political strategy, and makes the point most Americans miss: King's final speeches challenged capitalism itself, and conservatives who now celebrate "I Have a Dream" took decades to get there. Plus Rosa Parks' financial ruin, why reparations never breaks through, and whether AI will sanitize history further.

Timeline:

00:00 Marcia Chatelain joins The Chuck ToddCast

01:00 Writing women back into the March on Washington
04:30 Sources, threads, and what the march was really about
09:30 How "I Have a Dream" got sanitized — and who gets remembered
12:30 Anna Hedgeman and the women who weren't allowed to speak
15:30 Who thought the march failed, and the case for incrementalism
22:30 Diane Nash, Rosa Parks, and the economic retribution against activists
29:30 Why reparations hasn't broken through
34:00 AI, erasure, and the risk to original sources
45:30 Elites, education, and the threats to the Smithsonian

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Chuck Todd and J.A. Adande trace Green Bay from the Ice Bowl and first Super Bowls through the post-Lombardi struggles and the franchise’s eventual rebirth with Brett Favre, Reggie White and Aaron Rodgers. 

The Green Bay Packers became an NFL dynasty under Vince Lombardi. But what happened when the man who built it left? It’s the story of how the Packers built a dynasty that endured across generations.

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Twenty-eight days out, Chuck Todd and Chris Cillizza stress-test their own assumptions: if everything points one direction, what could still be wrong? They work through all three counterfactuals — the Republican money advantage, a polling miss, and the fact that it's October 6th and not November 2nd — and find the money argument weakest, since the GOP has owned the airwaves for six weeks with no discernible movement. That sets up the episode's central frame, borrowed from Charlie Cook: this is a red undertow, not a blue wave, because the fight is happening in light-red and formerly purple states where Republicans own the status quo and there's no Democrat left to blame. The weekend's five New York Times/Siena polls back it up — Talarico at 51 in Texas, Kansas tied, and Ashley Hinson clinging to a one-point lead in the race Chuck calls the most predictive on the board. He also floats a tinfoil-hat theory about who benefits from leaked audio making Ken Paxton look ungrateful, a day before Politico published exactly that. Plus the Kalshi board and where Susan Collins is underpriced, Ted Cruz firing back at JD Vance, Flávio Bolsonaro's first-round win and what it signals about a Trump on the 2028 ballot, and Trump posting Tom Cotton's cell number over daylight saving time. 

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Timeline:

00:00 Twenty-eight days out — and the case that we're all wrong

04:00 Red undertow, not blue wave: why the map explains everything

08:00 Five NYT/Siena polls, and the one race Chuck would want to know

14:00 Iowa as the tell — and the Republicans who are one turnover away

16:00 The tinfoil hat theory about Paxton, and the money pit called Texas

20:00 Talarico at 51 — the point where money stops mattering

26:00 The Kalshi board: 48 seats, Collins as the value & overpriced governors

35:00 If Collins wins, it's one of the great holds of all time

39:00 A little 2028: Vance baits Cruz, and why Rand Paul is the real threat

45:00 Night golf, $90 checks & the rise of the "meatloaf Republicans"

51:00 Bolsonaro's son wins round one — and the Trump 2028 question

53:00 Baseball playoffs, the ball off the roof & a Packers team with no line

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A month out from the midterms, Chuck Todd separates the garbage polls from the real ones and lands on the NYT/Siena swing-state data: Democrats are winning or tied in Alaska, Iowa, and Kansas, Talarico is over 50, and Rob Sand holds a double-digit lead. His key insight is that voters aren't embracing Democrats — they're firing Republicans, with affordability driving everything and millennials the most squeezed group in the country. He also hits a Ken Paxton ad that basically says "support the team" without ever mentioning Paxton, Trump doxxing Tom Cotton over daylight saving time, and Hegseth's new Pentagon Office of Religious Affairs, announced at Quantico with the line that "the real battle is spiritual." Chuck calls that last one what happens in theocracies, and says Hegseth deserves impeachment. 

Finally, Chuck hops into the ToddCast Time Machine to revisit Earl Warren’s appointment as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and why it’s important for justices to have experience in the political system  as elected officials. He also answers listeners’ questions in the “Ask Chuck” segment and recaps the weekend in college football. 

Timeline:

00:00 Chuck Todd’s introduction

06:00 Separating the real polls from the garbage

09:15 Inside the NYT/Siena swing state numbers

13:00 Voters aren't embracing Democrats — they're firing Republicans

16:45 Millennials, Gen Z, and the generational split

20:00 The Democratic brand problem nobody has solved

23:30 Paxton's "support the team" ad and the rot in Republican politics

27:00 Trump's denial, Hassett's spin, and the $90 Medicare checks

31:45 Trump doxxes Tom Cotton over daylight saving time

35:30 The Atlantic on Kash Patel and the 2020 fraud hunt

41:45 Hegseth's Office of Religious Affairs and an ideological military 

57:30 ToddCast Time Machine  Earl Warren sworn in as chief justice

58:00 We’re suffering from a lack of diversity of experience on SCOTUS

1:00:30 Last elected politician on the court left 50 years ago. Earl warren

1:02:00 Eisenhower offered Warren a quid pro quo for seat

1:05:00 Warren knew Brown v Board needed to be 9-0

1:08:30 Eisenhower came to regret appointing Warren

1:10:30 Warren court reshaped constitutional law & expanded rights

1:15:45 We’ve screened out political experience for SCOTUS justices

1:17:15 Last Democrat to install a chief justice was Harry Truman

1:21:00 Ask Chuck

1:21:15 Can’t get into baseball… what am I missing?

1:26:00 Best comedic political impressions?

1:29:45 What do you make of Carnegie Mellon’s expansion into Miami

1:33:00 Thank you for interview about Marian Anderson

1:34:30 Could commit to constituent service be persuasive?

1:38:45 College football recap

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A month out from the midterms, Chuck Todd separates the garbage polls from the real ones and lands on the NYT/Siena swing-state data: Democrats are winning or tied in Alaska, Iowa, and Kansas, Talarico is over 50, and Rob Sand holds a double-digit lead. His key insight is that voters aren't embracing Democrats — they're firing Republicans, with affordability driving everything and millennials the most squeezed group in the country. He also hits a Ken Paxton ad that basically says "support the team" without ever mentioning Paxton, Trump doxxing Tom Cotton over daylight saving time, and Hegseth's new Pentagon Office of Religious Affairs, announced at Quantico with the line that "the real battle is spiritual." Chuck calls that last one what happens in theocracies, and says Hegseth deserves impeachment. 

Then, Jennifer Palmieri — former Obama and Clinton communications director and host of Crooked Media's Long Play, the documentary series traveling six Southern states — joins the Chuck ToddCast to argue the South is now the epicenter of American politics and Democrats have spent years writing it off. One-party rule has bred civic disengagement, she says, and the region gets treated as a monolith when it's anything but. Her sharpest point: Democrats are overinvesting in Maine and underinvesting in Mississippi, where Scott Colom has a real path. She also makes the case that if Greg Abbott loses, it'll be over education, that Gina Hinojosa is running a smart campaign, and that religion remains the biggest obstacle Democrats face in a region where life is faith, family, and football. 

Finally, Chuck hops into the ToddCast Time Machine to revisit Earl Warren’s appointment as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and why it’s important for justices to have experience in the political system  as elected officials. He also answers listeners’ questions in the “Ask Chuck” segment and recaps the weekend in college football. 

Timeline:

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00:00 Chuck Todd’s introduction

06:00 Separating the real polls from the garbage

09:15 Inside the NYT/Siena swing state numbers

13:00 Voters aren't embracing Democrats — they're firing Republicans

16:45 Millennials, Gen Z, and the generational split

20:00 The Democratic brand problem nobody has solved

23:30 Paxton's "support the team" ad and the rot in Republican politics

27:00 Trump's denial, Hassett's spin, and the $90 Medicare checks

31:45 Trump doxxes Tom Cotton over daylight saving time

35:30 The Atlantic on Kash Patel and the 2020 fraud hunt

41:45 Hegseth's Office of Religious Affairs and an ideological military 

58:00 Jennifer Palmieri joins the Chuck ToddCast

1:00:15 Why the South became the epicenter of American politics

1:04:45 The South isn't a monolith — and Democrats keep treating it like one

1:12:15 No opposition, no primaries: what one-party rule does to a state

1:18:45 Georgia's civil rights legacy and the decisions still shaping it

1:21:30 Mississippi's path, and why Democrats are investing in the wrong places

1:28:45 The Latino vote and the transformation of Texas

1:30:30 Education, Abbott, and the Hinojosa campaign

1:36:15 Faith, family, football — and the Democratic communication problem

1:45:30 Talarico, the rising floor in Texas, and the brand problem

1:53:15 Why Jon Ossoff has had a very good 2026

1:56:00 ToddCast Time Machine  Earl Warren sworn in as chief justice
1:56:30 We’re suffering from a lack of diversity of experience on SCOTUS
1:59:00 Last elected politician on the court left 50 years ago. Earl warren
2:00:30 Eisenhower offered Warren a quid pro quo for seat
2:03:30 Warren knew Brown v Board needed to be 9-0
2:07:00 Eisenhower came to regret appointing Warren
2:09:00 Warren court reshaped constitutional law & expanded rights
2:14:15 We’ve screened out political experience for SCOTUS justices
2:15:45 Last Democrat to install a chief justice was Harry Truman
2:19:30 Ask Chuck
2:19:45 Can’t get into baseball… what am I missing?
2:24:30 Best comedic political impressions?
2:28:15 What do you make of Carnegie Mellon’s expansion into Miami
2:31:30 Thank you for interview about Marian Anderson
2:33:00 Could commit to constituent service be persuasive?
2:37:15 College football recap

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Jennifer Palmieri — former Obama and Clinton communications director and host of Crooked Media's Long Play, the documentary series traveling six Southern states — joins the Chuck ToddCast to argue the South is now the epicenter of American politics and Democrats have spent years writing it off. One-party rule has bred civic disengagement, she says, and the region gets treated as a monolith when it's anything but. Her sharpest point: Democrats are overinvesting in Maine and underinvesting in Mississippi, where Scott Colom has a real path. She also makes the case that if Greg Abbott loses, it'll be over education, that Gina Hinojosa is running a smart campaign, and that religion remains the biggest obstacle Democrats face in a region where life is faith, family, and football. 

Timeline:

00:00 Chuck Todd’s introduction

02:15 Why the South became the epicenter of American politics
06:45 The South isn't a monolith — and Democrats keep treating it like one
14:15 No opposition, no primaries: what one-party rule does to a state
20:45 Georgia's civil rights legacy and the decisions still shaping it
23:30 Mississippi's path, and why Democrats are investing in the wrong places
30:45 The Latino vote and the transformation of Texas
32:30 Education, Abbott, and the Hinojosa campaign
38:15 Faith, family, football — and the Democratic communication problem
47:30 Talarico, the rising floor in Texas, and the brand problem
55:15 Why Jon Ossoff has had a very good 2026

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Chuck Todd opens with the attempted hijacking of a Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight and the reminder that history turns as much on what almost happened as what did. With 33 days to the midterms, Ken Paxton got caught on tape at a private event calling Trump's midterm convention a negative — and is now in full cleanup mode, nervous about having crossed the president. Chuck returns to the Eric Schmitt debacle as a window into the intellectual rot of the Trump-era GOP: nobody in the room double-checked the facts, because loyalty is now valued over competence and the conclusion arrives before the evidence. He also unpacks Trump's White House AI summit, where six tech CEOs signed a one-page "morally binding" accord and Trump formally renamed AI "superintelligence" by executive order — a self-policing pact that does nothing for Republicans whose own voters are frightened of this technology. 

Finally, he answers listeners’ questions in the “Ask Chuck” segment and previews the upcoming weekend in college football.

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Timeline:

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00:00 Chuck Todd’s introduction

08:00 The attempted hijacking and the history that almost happened

11:45 Paxton caught on tape, and a campaign in cleanup mode

17:45 The Schmitt incident and the intellectual rot of the Trump GOP

27:30 Trump's AI summit, the "superintelligence" rebrand, and a self-policing pact

31:15 The issues polling best don't help Republicans at all

36:30 An economic backdrop the GOP can't ignore

39:45 The off-ramps Trump won't take

43:00 Voter exhaustion, instability, and what comes after a wipeout 

00:52:30 Ask Chuck

00:52:45 Book recommendation about the “butterfly effect” in history

00:54:30 Thoughts on your monologue on fixing public ed

00:56:15 Why aren’t Democrats putting more resources into Texas?

01:00:45 Would you have a former FBI agent on the pod to discuss changes at FBI?

01:02:00 Can a self-described Democratic socialist like AOC win in America?

01:07:00 College football preview

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