Alaska Senate race under investigation, high airfares loom over midterms, more | The Takeout
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[0:00] The House of Representatives soon under
[0:02] new management. It looks that way. Why?
[0:05] Because more seats keep appearing on the
[0:07] Democrats radar screen. The chair of the
[0:10] Democratic Congressional Campaign
[0:11] Committee, Susan Delbenny, joins us.
[0:14] Chris Cenounu is not running for the
[0:15] Senate New Hampshire. His brother John
[0:17] is. Chris, former governor of New
[0:19] Hampshire, now runs the airline
[0:21] industries lobbying shop. and he'll tell
[0:23] us about his brother's race and also why
[0:26] it appears that airlines prefer to fly
[0:28] with empty seats rather than lower
[0:30] airfares.
[0:32] New numbers and insights on early voting
[0:34] from our political data specialists
[0:37] Anthony Salvanto and Zach Donini.
[0:47] Hello everyone. I'm Major Garrett in New
[0:49] York. Still in New York. Welcome to the
[0:51] Takeout. Okay, Alaska, it's a story not
[0:55] because it's the biggest scandal in
[0:56] American politics. It is and it's not
[0:58] even close, but it is an example of
[1:01] cynical deception. That's not new in
[1:04] politics. But the situation there speaks
[1:06] to something I think that's important
[1:08] that's not being discussed much. Why did
[1:11] Democrats think they needed a candidate
[1:13] with the same last name as incumbent
[1:15] Republican Senator Dan Sullivan to win?
[1:18] [music] Did they think Alaska voters
[1:20] were so unfocused? so confusable as to
[1:23] fall for the other Sullivan, a political
[1:25] cipher in this campaign who appears
[1:27] nowhere and says nothing.
[1:30] Did they not think a campaign about
[1:32] ideas might be better? ideas like I
[1:35] don't know the war in Iran developing
[1:37] energy resources in Alaska, healthc care
[1:39] corruption, P