What Next - Congress’s Purge Era
Slate News23 Apr

What Next - Congress’s Purge Era

Representatives Eric Swalwell, Tony Gonzales, and now Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick are out; Virginia is redistricting and Republicans are bracing for a tsunami of a blue wave in the fall midterms. What’s gotten into Congress all of a sudden?


Guest: Jim Newell, Slate’s senior politics writer.


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