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, in a scandal that could harm the Trump transition. He picked a reliable replacement, who is more qualified but comes with baggage of her own. Plus, a look at what Trump wants to do with the DO…

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 trying to get around background and security checks and whether some of the most outlandish cabinet choices could even pass scrutiny from the Senate. Also, get ready for MORE MIMS! New episod…

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 to enact his policies and a resounding rebuke of Kamala Harris, although it may be more about Joe Biden. Grant breaks down who voted for Trump, what this means about our ideas about the way Am…

Election Day Countdown: TOMORROW When will we know the results of the election. Today's min is a swing state by swing state breakdown of what things look like when it comes to counting the votes. This is also the last daily mini episode for a while. The plan was always to do the dailies up until the election and then go to just the weekly full epis…

Election Day Countdown: 1 Day Kamala Harris makes a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live and Trump praises a crude joke about Harris before performing a simulated sex act on stage while running for president. We're down to the wire people. Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagram: @mimsnewspod TikTok: @mimsnewspod Substack: mims…

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 are afraid to tell the people in their lives they might be voting differently Grant unpacks why and what it says about where we are right now. Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Insta…

Election Day Countdown: 3 Days Believe it or not, there are still undecided voters out there. Grant takes a look at what we know about people who haven't made up their minds yet, what they say are their reasons and what it could mean for the election. Plus, Grant talks to Mary Anna Mancuso,(@mancusomaryanna) a Republican strategist and spokesperson…

Election Day Countdown: 4 Days Happy Halloween! With the election just a handful of days away, people are freaked out and fearful of what might happen. Today's mini is a breakdown of just how scared we are, why we're so scared and what we can do about it. If you are having harmful thoughts get help here, https://mentalhealthhotline.org/ Follow alon…

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. She strikes a bipartisan tone hoping it will be enough to win on Election Day. Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagram: @mimsnewspod TikTok: @mimsnewspod Substack: mimsnewspod.…

Election Day Countdown: 6 Days Elon Musk has become one of the most prolific spenders and supporters for Donald Trump and one of his latest schemes has been called illegal. But his campaign activity is hiding a much more dangerous way Musk is engaging in this election. Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagram: @mimsnewspod TikTok: @mi…

Election Day Countdown: 7 Days The Department of Justice announces there were more attempted hacks into the presidential campaigns, this time from Chinese hackers. It's the latest round but the elections are still safe from interference, at least this kind. Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagram: @mimsnewspod TikTok: @mimsnewspod Su…

Election Day Countdown: 8 Days Donald 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 with some troubling historical context. Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagram: @mimsnewspod TikTok: @mimsnewspod Substack: mimsnewspod.substack.com YouTube: youtube.com/@MIMS…

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 reproductive rights. She's joined on stage by Beyonce and gives a fiery speech before her closing address next week. Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagram: @mimsnewspod TikTok: @mim…

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 they can vote, which votes count and who can make an election officials. The majority are meant to gum up the works before election day to sew doubt. Grant takes a look at the election that'…

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 for the first time. The town hall is also a chance for voters to reevaluate the curves they've been grading Harris and Trump on. Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagram: @mimsne…

Election Day Countdown: 12 Days A pair of bombshell stories dropped Tuesday interviewing Fmr. General and Chief of Staff John Kelly laying out Trump wishing to be a dictator and praising Hitler. It's a doozy. Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagram: @mimsnewspod TikTok: @mimsnewspod Substack: mimsnewspod.substack.com YouTube: youtube…

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 combination of shoring up the support there and making sure they don't let any other state slip away without scaring Democrats off. Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagram: @mimsn…

Election Day Countdown: 14 days Donald 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 employment history but it's also a diversion from two pretty bad news cycles for his campaign. Still, there's plenty of real things to talk about from it. Follow along on social media X: @mimsne…

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 a key question in this race. Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagram: @mimsnewspod TikTok: @mimsnewspod Substack: mimsnewspod.substack.com YouTube: youtube.com/@MIMSnewspod Bl…

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 voting by mail is safe and actually a good thing. Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagram: @mimsnewspod TikTok: @mimsnewspod Substack: mimsnewspod.substack.com YouTube: youtub…

Election Day Countdown: 17 Days This week Donald Trump said he wants to send the military after political opponents and Democrats raising the alarm for people who study authoritarians and fascists. But is Trump actually a fascist? Grant breaks it all down. Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagram: @mimsnewspod TikTok: @mimsnewspod Sub…

Election Day Countdown: 18 Days Kamala Harris goes on Fox News for a hostile interview on an unfriendly network and makes her starkest pledge yet to not be Joe Biden. Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagram: @mimsnewspod TikTok: @mimsnewspod Substack: mimsnewspod.substack.com YouTube: youtube.com/@MIMSnewspod Bluesky: Granthermes.bsk…

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, many of whom have been wavering in their support for Democrats. Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagram: @mimsnewspod TikTok: @mimsnewspod Substack: mimsnewspod.substack.com You…

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 fashion. Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagram: @mimsnewspod TikTok: @mimsnewspod Substack: mimsnewspod.substack.com YouTube: youtube.com/@MIMSnewspod Bluesky: Granthermes.b…

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 Madrid from the episode from September 27th, "Trump and Harris in the Borderlands" comparing the immigration policies of Trump and Harris. The Ryan Samuels Show Modern-day politics discussion…

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 to do that in 50 years. But the president's health is about more than just whether they take blood pressure medicine or have back pain. It's about what their health says about the rest of us. …

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 time with different, but just as dangerous implications Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagram: @mimsnewspod TikTok: @mimsnewspod Substack: mimsnewspod.substack.com YouTube: yo…

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 2024 election looks like it's on pace to be the most expensive election ever. Grant talks to Brian Boyle from American Promise, a non-partisan, non-profit group looking to put guard rails back …

Election Day Countdown: 25 days Hurricane Milton makes landfall in Florida, killing 9 people so far and stranding thousands of others. While rescue and recovery efforts are happening there and across the US Southeast, the conspiracy that the US Government created the hurricanes is still swirling. Let's do a little more debunking. Follow along on so…

Election Day Countdown: 26 Days Bombshell stories are out about Trump this week. One abotu his declining mental abilities and what that might mean if he becomes the oldest president in history. The other is a few stories from Bob Woodward's new book about how Trump deals with foreign leaders, including secretly giving Vladimir Putin COVID tests whe…

Election Day Countdown: 28 Days Lies and misinformation have been running rampant surrounding the rescue and recovery work being done in the wake of Hurricane Helene. Let's do some debunking. HELENE AID Florida: https://www.volunteerflorida.org/donatefdf/ Georgia: https://www.directrelief.org/emergency/hurricane-helene/https://www.directrelief.org/…

Election Day Countdown: 28 days Kamala Harris kicks off a two day whirlwind of media appearances and interviews including Call Her Daddy, Howard Stern, The View, The Late Show, Univision and 60 minutes. It's a blend of traditional media and and not so traditional that are all signals to where the campaign is focusing its attention with less than a …

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 right tone and then picked up right where he left off. He was also joined on stage by Elon Musk, who made his first appearance on the campaign trail. Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewsp…

Election Day Countdown: 30 Days With just a month to got before election day it's time for a breakdown of where the polling is, where voters are, where the money is and where it's going. Plus a couple of curveballs that could be headed the candidates' ways in the next 4 weeks. Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagram: @mimsnewspod Tik…

Election Day Countdown: 31 Days For months election workers and officials have been worried about attempts to undermine the 2024 election from Donald Trump, the GOP, their supporters and foreign actors. Trump and Republicans have continued to sew doubt and fight in courts while foreign adversaries target the campaigns. On the local level, thousands…

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. Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagram: @mimsnewspod TikTok: @mimsnewspod Substack: mimsnewspod.substack.com YouTube: youtube.com/@MIMSnewspod Bluesky: Granthermes.bsky.social Foll…

Election Day Countdown: 33 Days Tim 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 and Walz was a bundle of nerves. So how did it all shake out... Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagram: @mimsnewspod TikTok: @mimsnewspod Substack: mimsnewspod.substack.com …

Election Day Countdown: 34 Days JD Vance and Tim Walz meet on the debate stage tonight in what looks like the last debate the campaigns will have before election day. There will no doubt be some fireworks between the two as they fight over the other's record, their pasts and the future they're promising. It will also be a display of two vastly diff…

Election Day Countdown: 35 Days Dockworkers up and down the East Coast and Gulf Coast are preparing to strike which after negotiations have stalled for months. The strike would mean billions of dollars in shipping lost and could mean weeks of backlogged goods. It would also impact the race for the presidency in a big way, just weeks before voters h…

Election Day Countdown: 36 Days After hurricane Helene the storm has killed dozens, stranded thousands and cost billions of dollars in damage. But as it was bearing down on the gulf coast, Congress removed funding for disaster relief from its bill to keep the government open, failing millions of Americans. HELENE AID Florida: https://www.volunteerf…

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 the race and how Americans understand politics. Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagram: @mimsnewspod TikTok: @mimsnewspod Substack: mimsnewspod.substack.com YouTube: youtube.com…

Election Day Countdown: 39 Days While Kamala Harris is visiting the border to talk immigration, Grant breaks down what both candidates are proposing to do on immgration and border security. Plus, an interview about winning over Latino voters with Mike Madrid, Co-founder of the Lincoln Project and author of the new book The Latino Century: How Ameri…

Election Day Countdown: 39 Days Kamala Harris reframes her economic proposals and sits down for her first network interview. Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagram: @mimsnewspod TikTok: @mimsnewspod Substack: mimsnewspod.substack.com YouTube: youtube.com/@MIMSnewspod Bluesky: Granthermes.bsky.social Follow Grant: X: @GrantHermes Ins…

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 and A.I. He talks about reaffirming support for Ukraine, holds back on Israel as things ramp up in the middle east and has a call to legacy for other world leaders. Follow along on social me…

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 of the race in those states. Plus a little bit about how to and how not to understand polls and what we mean when we say paths to victory. Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagra…

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 just a week to go before a government shutdown in a close election. What could go wrong? SAVE ACT primer episodes Mims Mini 34 Mims Mini 29 Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Insta…

Election Day Countdown: 43 Days Harris says she's agreed to another debate as Trump says he's still not doing one. Should there be another debate? Is Trump right not to do it? Does it even matter? Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagram: @mimsnewspod TikTok: @mimsnewspod Substack: mimsnewspod.substack.com YouTube: youtube.com/@MIMSne…

Election Day Countdown: 44 days A look at the changes that might be coming to Nebraska and are coming to Georgia that could alter the entire presidential election. It's more exciting than it sounds. CHECK YOUR VOTING STATUS/REGISTER TO VOTE: https://vote.gov/ Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagram: @mimsnewspod TikTok: @mimsnewspod …

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 affect the campaign. He also talks with Dr. Brian Hughes from American University's Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) about the rise in political violence in the …

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. Follow along on social media X: @mimsnewspod Instagram: @mimsnewspod TikTok: @mimsnewspod Substack: mimsnewspod.substack.com YouTube: youtube.com/@MIMSnewspod Bluesky: Granthermes.bsky.social …