Somehow it has already been two years into a Trump presidency, and America is facing midterm elections. Will Democrats win in a landslide? We also delve a little deeper at the political faultlines behind the Jamal Khashoggi story – is Turkey taking advantage of his death? And last, is the use of wild animals in circuses really the great injustice that campaigners say it is?
America is going to the polls again. This November, the House of Representatives and a third of the Senate are facing re-election in the mid-terms. Some predict that the Democrats will win in a landslide and retake control of the currently Republican Congress. But Freddy Gray, editor of Spectator USA, writes in this week’s cover that the Democrats aren’t in for such an easy ride. Freddy joins the podcast together with Leslie Vinjamuri, Head of the US and the Americas Programme at Chatham House. Freddy argues that the Democrat response to Kavanagh has incensed the American right to vote Republican:
‘Often in midterms the problem for the incumbent party is getting their own vote out.
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