THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

Trump Rages at Pollsters as Latest GOP Losses Reveal Surprise Weakness

President Trump erupted Thursday in a wild rage on Truth Social [https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115702382320619583] in which he appeared to blame pollsters for failing to register his world-historical success. “When will Polls reflect the Greatness of America at this point in time?” he fumed. Notably, this comes just after Democrats scored big wins in the Miami mayoral race and elsewhere, which analysts see as a sign that the Latino vote is shifting hard away from Trump. Not coincidentally, a new poll [https://apnews.com/article/trump-poll-approval-economy-immigration-inflation-crime-9e5bd096964990e040bc4bacd9fcac21] has Trump’s approval on immigration plunging below 40 percent. We talked to William Saletan, staff writer at The Bulwark, about his great new piece [https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-attack-somali-americans-vile-fascism] on Trump’s open agenda of ethnic persecution. We discuss the relationship between Trump’s racism and his unpopularity, what the latest GOP losses show about the collapse of the MAGA coalition, what to make of the GOP’s open embrace of full-bore ethnonationalism, and why it’s (somewhat) heartening that the public is rejecting it so decisively. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio [https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Trump Erupts in Fury as GOPers Humiliatingly Defy His Plot to Rig 2026

In today’s episode, we talk to Representative Jamie Raskin about President Trump’s corrupt scheme to gerrymander the 2026 midterms—and about Raskin’s new ranked-choice-voting plan. Trump’s rage is growing as Indiana Republicans keep resisting his pressure to gerrymander their state, and he exploded [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/indiana-state-senators-advance-gop-drawn-congressional-map-rcna247996] in a wild Truth Social rant over the weekend. Yet for now, state Senate Republicans appear dug in [https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/08/trump-indiana-senate-republicans-redistricting-00680141]. Worse for Trump, other Republicans are now beginning to argue [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/08/why-some-republicans-are-sweating-their-partys-redistricting-plan/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY1MTcwMDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY2NTUyMzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjUxNzAwMDAsImp0aSI6IjU5NmQxY2VjLTZjMzYtNGFiOS1hYjU0LTY4ZjMyNGRhYzI5OSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI1LzEyLzA4L3doeS1zb21lLXJlcHVibGljYW5zLWFyZS1zd2VhdGluZy10aGVpci1wYXJ0eXMtcmVkaXN0cmljdGluZy1wbGFuLyJ9.t6bWPjZ-g3UZP11TkJxIq1wQAFyNsCW87QxxSjGHkEc] that his scheme is backfiring. Why? Because Trump is hurting Republicans so badly that those whose seats are made somewhat less safe by gerrymandering might now be at risk. Raskin sees an opening to offer another way: Today he’s introducing a new bill that would require ranked choice voting in congressional races across the country. He tells us about the proposal, discusses how Trump’s gerrymandering chaos shows why ranked-choice is a better alternative, and urges Democrats to fight GOP tactics with hardball of their own.  Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio [https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Hegseth Defense in Total Collapse as Leaks on Strike Grow More Damning

Pete Hegseth’s defense of the killing of two men clinging to an incapacitated boat is falling apart on multiple fronts. Lawmakers who saw video of this horror are letting it be known [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/us/politics/boat-strike-shows-survivors.html] that the two men were waving before their execution, suggesting they were either surrendering or beckoning for rescue. And other leaks confirm [https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/politics/suriname-boat-strike-bradley] that the boat very well might not have been bound for the United States to begin with. Meanwhile, some Republicans are abandoning him [https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5636737-don-bacon-pete-hegseth-criticism/] or acquiescing to legislative language [https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/08/ndaa-boat-strikes-congress-hegseth-without-funds-00680679] that denies Hegseth funding until video is made more widely available to lawmakers, suggesting his position is weakening. We talked to Tess Bridgeman, co-editor-in-chief of the Just Security website and former national security lawyer in the Obama administration. She explains why Hegseth’s position is untenable, why the entire bombing campaign is illegal, why it’s critical that oversight pin down President Trump’s role, and what the prospects are for true accountability later.  Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio [https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Trump Press Sec Goes Full Cult as Spin on Mental State Flies Off Rails

Under persistent questioning about President Trump’s unfitness for office at his latest cabinet meeting, White House press secretary offered one of the ugliest defenses we’ve ever seen. She singled out Trump’s vile racist attack [https://www.npr.org/2025/12/02/nx-s1-5629305/trump-says-he-doesnt-want-somalis-in-the-u-s-urges-them-to-go-back-to-their-homeland-and-fix-it] on Somalis, and praised it [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/politics/trump-sleep-cabinet-meeting.html] as an “epic moment” that put an “exclamation point” on that meeting “for the whole world to see.” Never mind that Trump appeared to fall asleep [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/politics/trump-sleep-cabinet-meeting.html] there, and in that rant about Somalis, called them “garbage” who “contribute nothing” and suggested he wants them all out of our country, even though many are American citizens. We talked to Vedant Patel, a former State Department and White House official. We discuss what it means that Leavitt went full cult in giving White House sanction to his ugly bigotry, why the targeting of Somalis is so ghoulish, and what Trump really intends when he threatens denaturalization and “remigration [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/30/remigration-trump-far-right-europe/],” as he is now doing [https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115625427648743414]. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio [https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Angry Trump Unravels over 2026 Woes as GOP Panic Grows: “Flashing Red”

Democrats have signaled that they’re running in the 2026 midterms on “affordability.” This week, Trump unleashed several angry, wild-eyed rants about their “affordability” message. In one [https://x.com/atrupar/status/1996324579757756524], he raged that this message is a “con job.” In  another [https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1995901843470213194], he seethed that it’s a “Democrat scam.” He’s angry because these attacks are working, and because he knows it means the GOP’s midterm woes are getting much worse. And right on cue, in this week’s special election in Tennessee that Republicans won, the vote shifted [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/us/politics/tennessee-special-election-trump-midterms.html] 13 points to the left relative to 2024. That shocked Republicans into a panic: Representative Elise Stefanik openly fretted [https://x.com/Olivia_Beavers/status/1996280463233606054] that Republicans are “underperforming.” Senator Ted Cruz urged [https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/02/tennessee-election-republican-midterms-fallout-00674124] Republicans to sound the “alarm.” And a senior GOP strategist called [https://x.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1996050113043558650] the result a “flashing red warning.” We talked to Amanda Litman, the president of Run for Something [https://runforsomething.net/], which is recruiting candidates across the country. She digs into the special election results to explain why they’re good news, details how Democrats can keep the momentum going through 2026, and reflects on what could still go wrong. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio [https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]