Chris and Chuck Chop It Up

The 2028 Race Starts Now! 🏃

* How Donald Trump’s foreign policy vision will outlast him 🌎⏳ * Marco Rubio: Anakin Skywalker or Darth Vader? 🧑‍🚀⚔️😈 * The Ricky Bobby rule of presidential politics 🏁🇺🇸 * The Texas Senate primaries 🤠🗳️🔥 * Reflections on Jesse Jackson Jr. 🕊️🧠 * Our favorite Winter Olympic sport! ❄️🥇

Did JD Vance Just Blow His 2028 Shot? 🎯💥

* What’s the next piece of good news for Trump in Iran? 🇮🇷🤔 * How to get Trump to do what you want isn’t super complicated 🎯🧠 * The Iran war — and the political prediction markets 📊💰🌍 * What we’re watching for in the Texas primary 👀🗳️⭐ * What the Clinton-Sanders primary in 2016 can tell us about Crockett-Talarico 📚🔎 * Is Kansas in play for Democrats in the Senate? 🌻🗳️🔵 * The biggest problem for independent candidates 🚧🗳️ * Chuck has a baseball card! ⚾️😄

Which Trump shows up for State of the Union?

* Our takes on how Democrats should act at the SOTU speech 🔥🎤 (Chuck gets fiery!) * What the official Democratic response has in common with Spinal Tap drummers 🥁🎸 * Is this the year of the independent candidate? 🗳️🤔 * The “impeach vs don’t impeach” divide among anti-Trumpers ⚖️🔥 * Chuck’s theory that we are entering an era of reform [https://chucktodd.substack.com/p/the-reform-era-is-beginning] 🏛️🔄 * Why you should read up on the late 1800s to understand today’s politics 📚🕰️ * Who wins the Texas Senate primaries next week? 🤠🗳️ And some three-dimensional checkers on the general election. ♟️ * Cribbage Talk! 🃏📊 * My unbridled optimism about spring training baseball ⚾🌤️

Donald Trump is spiraling 🌀

This week Chuck and I talked about: * Trump’s colossally bad first six weeks of 2026 🤦‍♂️🔥📉 * Lines in the sand on Trump 🏖️⚔️🚫 * How Trump turned the GOP into the kleptocracy party 💰🐘😬 * This amazing New York Times op-ed [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/opinion/trump-nixon-watergate-radford.html] on Nixon 📰✨👀 * Why Jasmine Crockett vs. Ken Paxton is the Senate race we deserve 🥊🏛️🍿 * A long sidebar about the craziness of the Carter presidency (and Chuck’s favorite presidential memoir revealed!) 📚🤯🇺🇸 * Pete Buttigieg has a problem 🚨🧩👔 * How the Super Bowl went to script 🏈📜😐 * Our breakdown of Bad Bunny’s performance 🎤🐰🔥 * Best and worst Super Bowl ads [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/arts/television/super-bowl-ads-ranked-2026.html] (plus Chuck’s love/hate relationship with de-aging technology) 📺🏆💀❤️ * How sports gambling is the societal problem not enough people are talking about 🎰⚠️🗣️

Donald Trump's 'Groundhog Day' Presidency

In this episode Chuck and Chris talk about: * How everything is political now 🏛️🧠🔥 * Gavin Newsom’s tell-all 2028 book 📘👀🇺🇸 * Politicians’ sell-by date ⏰📉🗳️ * How gun control explains Trump’s current polling with Republicans 🔫📊🐘 * What if Susan Collins decides NOT to run… 🤔🏃‍♀️🗳️ * The “Trump Sheikh-Down” > Teapot Dome 💰🛢️😳 * The ONE argument Democrats need to make to win in November 🎯🗓️🔵 * What Jeff Bezos doesn’t get about the Washington Post 📰🤷‍♂️🚀 * Our Super Bowl predictions! 🏈🔮🎉