Super Tuesdays with Chris Cillizza and Chuck Todd

About Super Tuesdays with Chris Cillizza and Chuck Todd

Longtime political analysts Chris Cillizza and Chuck Todd discuss the latest political news and how those stories will affect upcoming elections.

Publisher

iHeartPodcast

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Jul 2026

Latest episode

10 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

20 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Nov 2026

   Trump & Republicans Didn’t Just Lose This Election… They Beat Themselves

   Chuck Todd’s MVP of the midterms is John Roberts. In the first Super Tuesday after Democrats swept the House, the Senate and a majority of governorships, Chuck and Chris Cillizza go straight to superlatives — five best-run campaigns, five worst, five most overrated ideas, five biggest ironies — and the thread through all of them is that Republicans beat themselves. Mid-decade redistricting is Chuck’s worst campaign of the cycle: maps drawn off Trump’s 2024 numbers blew up in South Texas and South Florida, while the Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act helped produce what may be the largest Black midterm turnout on record. Plus the best-run campaign nobody mentioned on election night, the case that polling isn’t broken (paying for polling is), why Trump’s voters showed up and declined to vote Republican, what Stephen Miller replacing Susie Wiles means for the next two years, and a personal account of Miami’s loss at Notre Dame. Timeline: 00:00 The first post-election show, and the five best-run campaigns of the cycle 08:00 Ayotte, Colom, Andrews, Ossoff — and why Talarico didn’t make the list 14:00 Five worst campaigns: redistricting, Paxton, and Vivek Ramaswamy 20:00 Marshall, Platner, and whether any Democrat actually blew it 25:00 Overrated ideas: vouchers, third parties, and super PAC money 30:00 Polling isn’t broken, and the Roberts court as a turnout machine 36:00 Voter ID everywhere, a red undertow, and the Schumer question 44:00 Media winners and losers, and Silicon Valley’s failed bet 50:00 Why the Miller pick is catastrophic, and the Sun Belt’s takeover 56:00 South Bend: the call, Catholics versus Convicts, and the ghosts of 1988 1:04:00 Notre Dame deserved it, a tribute to a friend’s mother, and 100,000 subs See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

2. 

   3 Nov 2026

   Democrats Are Winning SEVEN Senate Seats… Or The Polling Industry Is BROKEN

   It’s Election Day, and Chuck Todd and Chris Cillizza arrive at a binary: either Democrats pick up seven Senate seats tonight, or the polling industry has to be blown up and rebuilt. The final Times/Siena polls put Democrats ahead in all seven states that will decide the Senate, with only Iowa and Alaska inside a point, and the final NBC survey has Democrats up seven, independents going Democratic by 21, and Trump at 40 percent approval — his worst of either term. Their real question is whether the political class is underselling it, since every predictive metric points the same way and Chuck thinks the polling error is as likely to break toward Democrats as against them. Plus: a walk back through one deranged cycle, Chuck’s coma test for why Iowa tells the whole story, what a sweep actually means in Washington, why leading with impeachment would be the dumbest available move, and Miami at Notre Dame. The Projection, their election-night stream with Decision Desk HQ, starts at 6 p.m. Eastern. 18+ only. Restrictions and eligibility requirements apply. Event contract trading involves significant risk and is not appropriate for everyone. Please carefully consider if it is appropriate for you in light of your personal financial circumstances. Kalshi products are not available in all jurisdictions. See kalshi.com/regulatory (http://kalshi.com/regulatory) for more information. Sign up today to get $25 in bonuses when you trade $25: SUPERTUESDAYS http://kalshi.com/r/ (http://kalshi.com/r/SUPERTUESDAYS)SUPERTUESDAYS Timeline 00:00 Election Day, Chuck’s playlist, and one genuinely crazy midterm cycle 08:00 Liberation Day, Virginia as the forecaster, and the chart behind the collapse 14:00 The final polls: how the electorate moved, and a pollster’s own warning 20:00 Either Democrats pick up seven seats, or the polling industry is dead 28:00 Kalshi’s last coin flip, Chris Murphy, and the Iowa coma test 34:00 If there’s a wave: tariffs first, impeachment last, and can Jeffries govern? 44:00 The Projection at 6 p.m., and Catholics versus Criminals See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

3. 

   27 Oct 2026

   The Worst Version Of Trump We’ve Seen In An Election Year… One Week Out From The Midterms

   One week out, Chuck Todd and Chris Cillizza go hunting for the counterfactual — the actual data that would tell a Republican this election isn’t what it looks like — and come back with exactly one: a polling error. “That’s a hell of a thing to bank on.” Chuck argues this is the worst version of Trump we’ve ever seen in an election year, a candidate reduced to the Nobel committee and calling Abdul El-Sayed a “jihadist” in Michigan, while his own top economic adviser went on Fox Business to call the affordability crisis a myth eight days out. Plus: why Democrats may run better in red states than blue, how Republicans sat on their money until it was too late to define Talarico, how Ohio got away entirely, what the Ramaswamy ad says about where the line is, and the new Times/Siena 2028 numbers. Plus their election-night announcement with Decision Desk HQ. 18+ only. Restrictions and eligibility requirements apply. Event contract trading involves significant risk and is not appropriate for everyone. Please carefully consider if it is appropriate for you in light of your personal financial circumstances. Kalshi products are not available in all jurisdictions. See kalshi.com/regulatory (http://kalshi.com/regulatory) for more information. Sign up today to get $25 in bonuses when you trade $25: SUPERTUESDAYS http://kalshi.com/r/ (http://kalshi.com/r/SUPERTUESDAYS)SUPERTUESDAYS Timeline: 00:00 One week out: what could still change this, and the red-state theory 07:00 The worst version of Trump, and a party that won’t say “affordability” 13:00 Hunting for the counterfactual, and why every Republican ad is nostalgia 19:00 The money came too late: how they let Talarico define Paxton 24:00 Kalshi: Iowa, Maine and Kansas as the three most divided markets 30:00 Where the line is on the Ramaswamy ad, and building a firewall 36:00 Adding states to the 2028 map, and Minnesota’s outlier year 44:00 Times/Siena 2028: Harris at 12, Vance at 33, and a wide-open field 52:00 “All the Projection”: the election-night announcement with Decision Desk HQ 58:00 The World Series, the sports equinox, and a two-Hurricane Heisman problem 1:05:00 Newsphere, one more show on Election Day, and sign-off See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

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