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The Ezra Klein Show · 2026-11-07 · 69 min · 12,102 words

How the Democrats Did It

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This is A. G. Sulzberger. I'm the publisher of the New York Times. And I'm also a former reporter who's watched with a lot of alarm as our profession has shrunk in recent years. Normally, this is where I'd ask you to subscribe to the Times. But today, I'm encouraging you to support any news organization that's dedicated to original reporting. Whether that's your local newspaper, a national paper, or the New York Times, what matters most is that you subscribe to a real news organization doing firsthand fact based reporting. And if you already do.

Thank you. This election was full of so many extraordinary democratic campaigns. Lifted, yes, by uh a wave that kind of Trump set into motion. But

To get over the finish line in so many places, Democrats had to run the right candidates and they had to run in very, very different ways in very different places. And I want to spend an episode looking at some of the ways they ran. And what that can reveal about the Democratic Party that will emerge out of the selection. The lessons the Democratic Party will take going into the next election. There's already like you can feel these efforts at factional inviting beginning among Democrats.

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