Author: Briahna Joy Gray

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This week, Intercept D.C. bureau chief Ryan Grim returns to Bad Faith to explain everything we need to know about Nancy Pelosi stepping down from her leadership position in the house. Why, two years after force the vote, have progressives still not contemplated a left candidate for leadership? Will likely minority leader Hakeem Jefferies be a bigger threat to progressive interests than Nancy Pelosi? Why are conservatives so willing to openly fight for leadership, while squad members continue to fall in line? Why wont progressives ever Force The Vote?

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Democrats avoided a red wave and held onto the Senate, but they didn't avoid a red wave in New York. If they had, they, they might have held on to the house as well. New York State Assembly member Zohran Mamdani and journalist on the NY beat Ross Barkan rejoin Bad Faith podcast to explain the bloodbath in NY. Who is at fault? DCCC chair Sean Patrick Maloney, who pushed Mondaire Jones out of his district and then lost? Is the the state party's fault for dropping the ball on the redistricting battle that caused Maloney to flee his own district? What role did Kathy Hochul's pivot right on crime play? And will there be any accountability for blue dog malfeasance?

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

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