
S5 Ep25: 2024 Trump Voters on the "Epstein Files"
The Focus Group Podcast is still on hiatus, but the Trump administration's walkback of the promised "Epstein Files" this week got us curious about how voters were thinking. The Bulwark's own Will Som...
12 Jul 202525min

S5 Ep24: Do the Next Right Thing, Change the World (with Heather Cox Richardson)
Our season finale is a bit of a pep talk. America is in a precarious place, but Americans everywhere are speaking up against the authoritarian threat. Historian extraordinaire Heather Cox Richardson j...
28 Jun 20251h 1min

S5 Ep23: Cuomo vs. Mamdani (with Harry Siegel)
The New York City mayoral primary is "dumb" and getting lots of "dumb attention," at least according to our (radically candid) guest. Democratic voters face a choice between disgraced former Gov. Andr...
21 Jun 202559min

S5 Ep22: 'This Country is Effed' (with Jonathan Cohn)
Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill is moving through Congress, and you may be surprised by some former Trump voters' reactions. Bulwark in-house policy wonk Jonathan Cohn joins Sarah to talk about the ...
14 Jun 202553min

S5 Ep21: New Jersey's (Very) Odd Year (with Amy Walter)
The Democratic primary for New Jersey governor is crowded, and Democratic voters all over the map. But as always, they're united in wanting a candidate who can fight the Trump administration effective...
7 Jun 202559min

S5 Ep20: Democrats on Biden's Decline
Sarah had a busy travel schedule this week, so we're bringing you some raw audio. With the recent revelations about Joe Biden's mental state during his term, we asked a couple of groups of Democrats w...
31 Mai 202538min

S5 Ep19: Congress: Trump's Super-Staffers (with Annie Karni)
Donald Trump is looking to pass his Big, Not-So-Beautiful Bill through Congress. To do it, he needs to get it past congressional Republicans. So what do Republican voters think of congressional leader...
24 Mai 202545min

S5 Ep18: Liberal Order Elegy? (with Ian Ward)
JD Vance is one heartbeat away from the presidency, and he's a big part of the Republican Party's future. It turns out, his ideas are also part of the reason the second Trump term has been a lot more ...
17 Mai 202558min



















