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Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes
Politics has never been more chaotic, and most podcasts just add to the noise. Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes cuts through it.Grant is an AP Award-winning journalist with over a decade of on-the-ground reporting on the biggest political stories, scandals, and elections in America. Twice a week, he takes the stories dominating the headlines and breaks them down in plain English — no jargon, no spin, no shouting.If you care about what’s happening in this country but you’re exhausted by how…
Episodes
- Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes
MAKE MORE SENSE: Talking Immigration with Presente's Matt Nelson
Hey folks, Grant is out sick this week so you're getting the full conversation with Matt Nelson from the grassroots organizing group Presente all about how…
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Pardons, Pete and Patel
Welcome to the first Midweek episode!Joe Biden does a 180 on his promise not to pardon his son Hunter and it's caused some controversy. It also gives us some…
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Trump's Justice Department Shuffle (with Jonathan Bernstein)
Donald Trump's original pick for Attorney General, Fmr. Rep. Matt Gaetz drops out of the running after bombshell reporting and bad meetings with US Senators…
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All The King's Men (And Women)
Trump is choosing his cabinet and close advisors at warp speed. Grant breaks down some of the most high profile positions. Plus, how the Trump team is already…
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Trump Takes America (with Matthew D. Taylor)
Donald Trump wins the 2024 election with numbers we haven't seen in decades from a Republican President-elect. His victory was a decisive mandate from voters…
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MIMS MINI 72: When Will We Know?
Election Day Countdown: TOMORROWWhen will we know the results of the election. Today's min is a swing state by swing state breakdown of what things look like…
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MIMS MINI 71: Everybody's A Joker
Election Day Countdown: 1 DayKamala Harris makes a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live and Trump praises a crude joke about Harris before performing a…
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MIMS MINI 70: Liar, Liar
Election Day Countdown: 2 days A new survey out explores who's lying to their loved ones about their choice for president. Spoiler, younger voters and women…
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Who’s STILL Undecided/Climate Change and Our Votes with Mary Anna Mancuso
Election Day Countdown: 3 DaysBelieve it or not, there are still undecided voters out there. Grant takes a look at what we know about people who haven't made…
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MIMS MINI 69: The Election Scaries
Election Day Countdown: 4 DaysHappy Halloween! With the election just a handful of days away, people are freaked out and fearful of what might happen. Today's…
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MIMS MINI 68: Harris Closes
Election Day Countdown: 5 days Kamala Harris gives her closing argument speech on the National Mall, from the same place where Trump incited the Jan 6 attack…
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MIMS MINI 67: We Need To Talk About Elon
Election Day Countdown: 6 DaysElon Musk has become one of the most prolific spenders and supporters for Donald Trump and one of his latest schemes has been…
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MIMS MINI 66: Another Campaign Hack
Election Day Countdown: 7 DaysThe Department of Justice announces there were more attempted hacks into the presidential campaigns, this time from Chinese…
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MIMS MINI 65: Trump Plays The Garden
Election Day Countdown: 8 DaysDonald Trump is set to hold a rally at Madison Square Garden. It's meant to kick off his final push in the race but it's coming…
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MIMS MINI 64: Harris, Abortion and Beyonce's America
Election Day Countdown: 9 Days Kamala Harris holds a rally in Houston, TX continuing to make the Lone Star State the national center for the fight over…
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We'll See You In Court with Liz Dye
Election Day Countdown: 10 Days There are more than 165 lawsuits already filed across the country, but mostly in the swing states surrounding who can vote, how…
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MIMS MINI 63: Harris Says THE Thing
Election Day Countdown: 11 Days Kamala Harris does a town hall on CNN that was supposed to be a debate, except Trump declined. There, she calls him a fascist…
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MIMS MINI 62: Trump Wishes For Hitler's Generals
Election Day Countdown: 12 DaysA pair of bombshell stories dropped Tuesday interviewing Fmr. General and Chief of Staff John Kelly laying out Trump wishing to…
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MIMS MINI 61: Cracks In The Wall
Election Day Countdown: 13 Days The Harris campaign is starting to get nervous about its blue wall states, mainly Michigan and the next two weeks will be a…
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MIMS MINI 60: You Want Fries With That?
Election Day Countdown: 14 daysDonald Trump stages a photo op to work the fry station at McDonald's. It's a dig at Harris as he continues to lie about her…
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MIMS MINI 59: Exhaustion and Discipline
Election Day Countdown: 15 Days With two weeks left in the campaign Trump and Harris are feeling it. Trump's exhausted and Harris is still struggling to answer…
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MIMS MINI 58: Record Breaking Early Voting
Election Day Countdown: 16 Days Early voting has started in 47 states and people are VOTING. Several swing states have broken records and Grant breaks down why…
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Is Trump Really A Fascist? A Breakdown
Election Day Countdown: 17 DaysThis week Donald Trump said he wants to send the military after political opponents and Democrats raising the alarm for people…
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MIMS MINI 57: Harris Breaks Up With Biden
Election Day Countdown: 18 DaysKamala Harris goes on Fox News for a hostile interview on an unfriendly network and makes her starkest pledge yet to not be Joe…
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MIMS MINI 56: Harris Takes To The Airwaves
Election Day Countdown: 19 days Kamala Harris joins Charlemagne Tha God in Detroit to hold a national radio town hall and make a huge appeal to black voters…
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MIMS MINI 55: Trump's PA Musical
Election Day Countdown: 20 days The normal minis are back! Donald Trump holds a town in PA that goes off the rails and Trump appears to be lost, in an alarming…
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Make More Sense: Latino Voters with Mike Madrid
Election Day Countdown: 21 Days A little break for the regularly scheduled mini episodes because Grant's out sick. This is the extended conversation with Mike…
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MIMS MINI 54: The Presidential Physical Fitness Test
Election Day Countdown: 22 Days Kamala Harris releases her physical report while Trump has yet to release his. If he doesn't, he'd be the first candidate not…
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MIMS MIN 53: WTF Is JD Vance Talking About?
Election Day Countdown: 23 Days JD Vance sits down with the New York Times and trots out a new line to avoid saying Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, this…
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The Most Expensive Election Ever with Brian Boyle
Election Day Countdown: 24 days This one is all about the almighty dollar. Who's got what, who's giving it and why is it so hard to know those things as the…
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MIMS MINI 52: No we can't control the weather...
Election Day Countdown: 25 days Hurricane Milton makes landfall in Florida, killing 9 people so far and stranding thousands of others. While rescue and…
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MIMS MINI 51: Trump Trouble
Election Day Countdown: 26 DaysBombshell stories are out about Trump this week. One abotu his declining mental abilities and what that might mean if he becomes…
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MIMS MINI 50: A Hurricane Of Helene Lies
Election Day Countdown: 28 DaysLies and misinformation have been running rampant surrounding the rescue and recovery work being done in the wake of Hurricane…
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MIMS MINI 49: Kamala Calls A Media Blitz
Election Day Countdown: 28 daysKamala Harris kicks off a two day whirlwind of media appearances and interviews including Call Her Daddy, Howard Stern, The…
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MIMS MIN 48: As I Was Saying...
Election Day Countdown: 29 Days. Trump returns to Butler, PA to the same place where he was nearly killed by a shooter back in July. He struggled to find the…
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MIMS MINI 47: 30 Day Check In
Election Day Countdown: 30 DaysWith just a month to got before election day it's time for a breakdown of where the polling is, where voters are, where the…
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The Plot(s) Against The 2024 Election with Tina Barton
Election Day Countdown: 31 Days For months election workers and officials have been worried about attempts to undermine the 2024 election from Donald Trump…
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MIMS MINI 46: Jack Smith Unsealed
Election Day Countdown: 32 Days Jack Smith is allowed to unseal his latest version of the January 6th/2020 Election case against Trump and it's shocking…
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MIMS MINI 45: Vance Code Switches As Walz Wobbles
Election Day Countdown: 33 DaysTim Walz and JD Vance met on the debate stage last night. JD Vance was a very different kind of candidate than we've seen before…
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MIMS MINI 44: Vance And Walz Prep For A Folksy Face-off
Election Day Countdown: 34 DaysJD Vance and Tim Walz meet on the debate stage tonight in what looks like the last debate the campaigns will have before…
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MIMS MIN 43: A Strike And An October Surprise
Election Day Countdown: 35 DaysDockworkers up and down the East Coast and Gulf Coast are preparing to strike which after negotiations have stalled for months…
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MIMS MINI 42: Congress Failed FEMA, Then Helene Hit
Election Day Countdown: 36 DaysAfter hurricane Helene the storm has killed dozens, stranded thousands and cost billions of dollars in damage. But as it was…
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MIMS MINI 41: Harris’ Flips The Script On The Border
Election Day Countdown: 37 Days Kamala Harris visits the US Southern border in the swing state of Arizona and gives a speech that has the potential to upend…
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Trump and Harris in the Borderlands with Mike Madrid
Election Day Countdown: 39 DaysWhile Kamala Harris is visiting the border to talk immigration, Grant breaks down what both candidates are proposing to do on…
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MIMS MINI 40: Harris Reframes on the Economy
Election Day Countdown: 39 DaysKamala Harris reframes her economic proposals and sits down for her first network interview. Support the showFollow along on…
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MIMS MINI 39: Biden U.N.wavering
Election Day Countdown: 40 Days President Joe Biden gives his final address as president to the U.N. General Assembly where he focuses on peace, climate change…
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MIMS MINI 38: Trump’s Best Numbers In Weeks
Election Day Countdown: 41 Days Trump gets some of the best polling numbers he's seen in weeks in AZ, GA, and NC. A breakdown of what they mean and the state…
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MIMS MINI 37: Congress Makes A Deal?
Election Day Countdown: 42 Days Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) says the House will be voting on a new bill to fund the government until December with…
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MIMS MINI 36 - Harris Trolls Trump
Election Day Countdown: 43 DaysHarris says she's agreed to another debate as Trump says he's still not doing one. Should there be another debate? Is Trump…
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MIMS MINI 35: Changing The Count
Election Day Countdown: 44 daysA look at the changes that might be coming to Nebraska and are coming to Georgia that could alter the entire presidential…
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The Company Candidates Keep with Brian Hughes
Election Day Countdown: 45 days Grant talks about the people in and out of the orbits of Trump and Harris who have made headlines this week and how that could…
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MIMS MINI 34: Johnson Runs The Play and Congress Runs Out The Clock
Election Day Countdown: 46 Days Republicans tank their own government funding bill as Democrats refuse to cross party lines, with just 11 days to a shutdown…
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MIMS MINI 33: Harris On Her Own
Election Day Contdown: 47 days Kamala Harris sits down for her first big solo interview. Grant breaks down the policies she talked about, what she didn't talk…
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MIMS MINI 32: Tone Deaf and Toning Down
Election Day Countdown: 48 Days As the investigation into the alleged second assassination attempt on Trump, the Republicans are blaming Democrats for fanning…
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MIMS MINI 31: Another Assassination Attempt
Election Day Countdown: 49 Days There was another alleged attempt on Trump's life. This time it was thwarted by the Secret Service. While the shooter is in the…
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MIMS MINI 30: Misinformation Conversation
Election Day Countdown: 50 Days Back after a day of technical difficulties! Grant talks to Harvard PHD Candidate and former Politico journalist David Beavers…
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They're Eating The Cats And Dogs with Ryan Enos
Election Day Countdown: 52 Days There's been fallout from the debate good, bad and really bad. Grant talks to Prof. Ryan Enos (@RyanDEnos) the Director of the…
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MIMS MINI 29: Shutdown Showdown... Again
Election Day Countdown: 53 daysGrant takes a break from the presidential race to talk about the looming government shutdown, the fight in Congress and the one…
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MIMS MINI 28: Harris Prevails, Trump Flails
Election Day Countdown: 54 DaysKamala Harris had a huge night on the debate stage as Donald Trump had maybe one of his worst debates. A recap of what might be…
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MIMS MINI 27: Debate Day
Election Day Countdown: 55 DaysIt's debate day! What might be the only debate we get from this election cycle. Grant breaks down how the candidates are…