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Will the Midterm Elections End Trump?

Hadi Rahim

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What are Midterm Elections? Can Democrats win them? Will they stop Trump?

This video is Episode 10 of my "Progressive Primers" series, which explains US politics from a Progressive perspective.

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0:00 Intro
1:13 What are Midterms?
3:53 House of Representatives
5:34 Gerrymandering
9:11 Senate
12:13 North Carolina / Roy Cooper
13:10 Maine / Graham Platner
18:17 Ohio / Sherrod Brown
19:36 Alaska / Mary Peltola
20:23 Georgia / Jon Ossoff
21:00 Michigan / Open
23:17 Texas / James Talarico
26:02 Will Midterms Even Stop Trump?
27:33 Outro

Sources other than those on screen:

The Constitution of the United States
California 52-0 Gerrymander: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/up...

Election maps from Wikipedia

Congress getting nothing done: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...

Gerrymandering: https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/07/ger...
(Yeah, technically, Elbridge Gerry found that map "disagreeable," but he still signed off on the map so I credit him as "doing gerrymandering."

NC Gerrymandering: https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/loc...

VA Supreme Court Strikes Down Gerrymandering: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/us...

Half the population lives in 9 states: https://ic.institute/2025/02/26/just-...]s-make-up-more-than-half-the-u-s-population/

Cook Political Report on Georgia Senate: https://www.cookpolitical.com/senate/...

Texas Demographics: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fac...

Trump winning Hispanic men: https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/exi...

Music: Washington Post March by John Philip Sousa

20 Comments

@paintedporpoise 3 months ago Pinned

Do you promise not to go on a geocidal murder spree if I subscribe and you pass BiBi?

@LakeGameCreepr 3 months ago

the goal for the midterms is a win so big it gives the big man a heart attack

@Hiljaa_ 3 months ago

"the state of Israel comes to me in my dreams" that's an insane statement, Jesus Christ man

@metavisiongaming 2 months ago

I forgive that woman. She observed the evidence, acknowledged her mistake, and called herself an idiot. Change happens one person at a time. 😄

@kennyminnekens9337 3 months ago

Alternative title: Why the 2 party system sucks and needs to be abolished

@sentero1856 1 month ago

Considering how deep we are, the lady that openly called herself an idiot gave me more hope than anyone else.

@HappyLarry. 3 months ago

Voting for him 3 times, and only realising it's a bad choice after all that, is such an American thing. Spending an eighth of a human life going to bat for a man that was so obviously evil, and only figuring it out after a decade. Astounding.

@YikesMC 3 months ago

0:43 or like... dies? He's so anti-woke he keeps falling asleep in meetings, bro has one foot in death's door

@inthexis2088 1 month ago

That’s was the single most effective “please subscribe” bit I’ve ever seen

@captainwilliam3920 3 months ago

Hot take: Alaska is an easier win for democrats than Ohio

@lolNah-b9e 3 months ago

Remember, even if trump gets impeached, it’s not over! We still have to deal with Vance. Stay strong everybody.

@ekim_rs 3 months ago

America's two-party system is the problem

@QwerYT4819 3 months ago

Thanks for producing a factual video that blames the whole system, rather than falsely attributing the failures of the system to a single person. Your contributions to political awareness will not go unappreciated.

@colinz226 3 months ago

honestly lady, you changed your mind.

That makes you smarter than a whole hell of a lot of people.

@dellyell27 2 months ago

Damn it Platner, I had lots of hope for you… 😔

@koldonn1111 3 months ago

I honestly think Talerico has a shot not just because Trump is so unpopular, but also because his Latino popularity is going down the shitter.

@luminousherbs 3 months ago

10:52 If you take a very bad-faith interpretation of Article V, you could abolish the Senate by shrinking it to 0 seats. This would ensure equal suffrage of exactly 0 senators per state.

@thabigfig 2 months ago (edited)

13:16 the Plattner bit aged like milk 😭😭😭

@The4isCosmic 3 months ago

Trump negotiated the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Biden followed through on it and took all the flak. Even Trump blames Biden for leaving behind equipment etc.

Am I the only American aware of this? Afghanistan was a waste of time the moment Osama went into hiding in Pakistan, our regional "ally"....

@JakeGB-s2j 3 months ago

The electoral college doesn't feel like a democratic institution. It feels like a piece of worldbuilding from a fictional society from a dystopian novel.