Jim Antle, executive editor of the Washington Examiner magazine, brings to life its pages in the show Inside Scoop. Each episode features exclusive insight from the article authors and expert analysis.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is winding down his long political career, affirming he will not be running for president again in 2028. Antle gives his analysis on how the self-proclaimed socialist is reshaping the Democratic Party in his image for his final political act.
“Sanders may be old, but [Mayor Zohran] Mamdani, [Graham] Platner, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and many of the primary winners for the House seats this year are young,” Antle said. “These people can be the future of the Democratic Party, and in some cases, with the exception of the mayor of New York, they could run for president in Sanders’s place.”
Next in the show, Antle sits down with Michael M. Rosen, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, to discuss the impact of the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, the current state of Iran’s nuclear capabilities, and President Donald Trump’s next steps when it comes to Iran.
“A lot of the launchers that had been entombed because of the bombing, the Iranians have now managed to dig them out,” Rosen said. “And to dig out, not just the launchers, but the missiles that had been buried underground. So, there’s still work to be done unfortunately, but it did make a big dent.”
Rosen emphasized Trump faces several strategic decisions in negotiations with Iran, including maintaining oil sanctions, preventing Iranian proxy conflicts from shaping the talks, ensuring the removal of nuclear material from Iran, and supporting Iranians challenging the regime.
“Maybe it’s the beginning of the end, or maybe it’s the end of the beginning, I’m not quite sure,” Rosen said. “But this [memorandum of understanding] that’s been signed, it’s the start, it’s not the end of anything.”
Finally in the show, Jay Caruso breaks down how activists don’t want candidates to make decisions or exercise judgment anymore, they just want someone who will vote along party lines. Despite Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-TX) long conservative voting record and support for Trump, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won the Senate primary decisively with 63.8% of the vote.
Caruso argues many primary voters preferred a candidate they believed would always support the movement’s agenda, regardless of controversies surrounding him.
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“With the Senate majority on the line and a reliable vote within reach, activists have concluded that character concerns are a luxury reserved for competitive ideological battles, not party-line confirmation fights,” Caruso said.
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