Answered from Blue Tsunami! · Pod Save America · 2026-11-04
The Pod Save America hosts said Republicans were blaming everyone but Trump, with Ron DeSantis pointing at Kristi Noem and Noem tweeting that the party had been too successful in Trump's first year. Tommy Vietor argued that 2028 hopefuls are kissing the ring and blocking a real reckoning. The hosts debated whether members of Congress, now freed by Trump's lame-duck status, will break with him on tariffs and the war, and warned this could be the first half of a two-part wave like 2006 and 2008.
“We were too successful the first year of the Trump administration. We cared too much.” Kristi Noem · at 42:13 — open in the transcript →
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