Big Take DC
Hosted by David Gura and Sarah Holder and Saleha Mohsin · Bloomberg and iHeartPodcasts
4.4from 28 ratings
- 98
- Episodes
- 98
- Transcribed
- 28
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 419M
- YouTube views
About Big Take DC
This special series from Bloomberg's flagship daily news podcast Big Take offers a timely and urgent conversation on the US midterms every Wednesday through November 4th. Each week, David Gura and Sarah Holder host a panel of Bloomberg editors, reporters and opinion columnists to unpack the battle to control the US Senate, how the races could shape the next U.S. presidential election and how the results of this election cycle could ripple through the global economy. For more episodes of Big Take, listen here. (swap.fm/l/wK8aVE0MdtUOyVRZ7tBG)
- Publisher
- Bloomberg and iHeartPodcasts
- Category
- government · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 3 Jan 2024
- Latest episode
- 28 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
98 of 98 episodes have a transcript.
28 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Inside a recent episode
Was the US Republicans' Redistricting Effort a Texas-Sized Mistake?
Published 28 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And at the time, everyone thought that would really benefit Republicans because there were way more states where Republicans had enough control, including in state legislatures. That if Republicans were successful, there were more maps that they could redraw. There were more districts they could gerrymander. But Democrats did respond in part with the California measure. And there were sort of a smaller number of Democratic states where they could take steps of their own to carve out a seat here, carve out a seat there. But it's sort of rippled across the country and probably over a dozen states, certainly. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on Big Take DC
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Julie Fine
- Josh Wingrove
- Dana Hull
- Bill Allison
- Amanda Gordon
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 419,108,275
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.3 / 5
- 18 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 10 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 84 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 93
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 96
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Questions about Big Take DC
Who hosts Big Take DC?
David Gura and Sarah Holder and Saleha Mohsin host the show. Published by Bloomberg and iHeartPodcasts.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes weekly, based on its RSS feed.
Does Big Take DC take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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