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Bruce Wolpe on what Trump will do after the ‘profound result’ of the US midterms - podcast

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Political editor Tom McIlroy speaks to Bruce Wolpe – a senior fellow at the United States Studies Centre and a former congressional staffer during the Obama era – about the seismic win by the Democrats in the US midterms. Wolpe reflects on the candidates who drove the ‘blue wave’ in this cost-of-living election and shares his predictions for the erratic US president’s next steps – and the retribution that could be coming for defence secretary Pete Hegseth

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