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Beyond The Bubble
From McClatchy's Washington bureau, Kristin Roberts and Alex Roarty host a weekly look at what's happening inside the D.C. political bubble—and what that means for the battleground states beyond.
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A holiday siesta
With the election (mostly) behind us, Beyond the Bubble is taking a holiday break. We’ll return with new episodes in the new year. In the meantime, th...
Trump's dubious and dangerous refusal to concede
Join McClatchy's Alex Roarty, David Catanese, and Michael Wilner as they discuss the merits, or lack thereof, of the president's legal challenge to ov...
President-elect Joe Biden
Join McClatchy’s Alex Roarty, Adam Wollner, David Catanese, and Francesca Chambers for a special episode of Beyond the Bubble, as they discuss the Dem...
Ugh, the polls
Join McClatchy's Alex Roarty and Kristin Roberts, the Miami Herald's Bianca Padró Ocasio and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's Bud Kennedy as they discus...
The election is here!
Join McClatchy's Kristin Roberts, Alex Roarty, David Catanese, and Adam Wollner for a special pre-election episode of Beyond the Bubble. They'll talk...
How Trump and Biden each think they can get to 270
Join McClachy's Kristin Roberts, Francesca Chambers, and Alex Roarty as they size up how each party's presidential nominee can most easily reach 270 e...
The state of play in Arizona
Join McClatchy's Kristin Roberts, Dave Catanese, and Alex Roarty as they discuss the battleground state of Arizona and why Joe Biden is holding a lead...
The state of play in Georgia
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Tia Mitchell joins McClatchy’s Kristin Roberts and Adam Wollner to break down the presidential race in Georgia, a n...
The state of play in Michigan (and the whole Upper Midwest)
McClatchy's Kristin Roberts and Alex Roarty are joined this week by Tim Alberta, Politico Magazine's chief political correspondent, to debate the batt...
The state of play in North Carolina
Join McClatchy's Kristin Roberts and Alex Roarty and the Charlotte Observer's Jim Morrill as they discuss the all-important battleground of North Caro...
The state of play in Florida
The Miami Herald’s Bianca Padró Ocasio joins McClatchy’s Kristin Roberts and Adam Wollner to break down how the 2020 presidential race between Donald...
Why Woodward's revelations might matter
Join McClatchy's Kristin Roberts, Francesca Chambers, and Alex Roarty as they debate whether Bob Woodward's new book will hurt Donald Trump's chances...
Biden and Trump go head to head on law and order
Join McClatchy’s Alex Roarty, Adam Wollner and Brian Murphy as they break down Joe Biden’s speech responding to President Donald Trump’s law and order...
RNC aftermath: The GOP (finally) settles on an anti-Biden message
Join McClatchy's Alex Roarty, Michael Wilner, and Francesca Chambers as they discuss the GOP convention that was and whether or not Donald Trump' s ca...
DNC aftermath: Did Joe Biden do enough?
Join McClatchy's Alex Roarty, David Catanese, and Adam Wollner as they discuss Biden's big acceptance speech, why the convention seemed intent on elev...
Does Harris' selection change the presidential race?
Join McClatchy's Kristin Roberts, David Catanese, and Alex Roarty as they discuss the politics of Kamala Harris as Joe Biden's running mate. What does...
Why Biden is expanding the battleground map
Join McClatchy's Adam Wollner, Francesca Chambers and David Catanese as they break down President Donald Trump and Joe Biden's diverging ad spending s...
Pandemic politicking and veepstakes drama
Join McClatchy's Alex Roarty, Francesca Chambers, and Adam Wollner as they talk about how the pandemic has changed the way campaigns are run ... at le...
Why Biden is underperforming with Hispanic voters (plus, Kristin's triumphant return)
Join McClatchy's Alex Roarty, David Catanese, and Kristin Roberts (making her long-awaited return to the program) as they discuss whether or not Trump...
Is 2020 just 2016 all over again? (No)
Join McClatchy's Adam Wollner, Alex Roarty, and Brian Murphy as they debate whether Joe Biden's polling lead on Donald Trump is as solid as it appears...
#NeverTrumpers turn on their own
Join McClatchy's Alex Roarty, Francesca Chambers, and David Catanese as they discuss why some anti-Trump Republican operatives are working against not...
What a Trump comeback would look like
Join McClatchy's Alex Roarty, Francesca Chambers, and MIchael Willner as they discuss how President Donald Trump, whose poll numbers have plummeted ov...
The Bolton bombshell — does it matter?
Join McClatchy's Alex Roarty, Francesca Chambers, and Dave Catanese as they discuss whether or not the stunning allegations made in John Bolton's book...
Can Trump bounce back?
Join McClatchy's Adam Wollner, David Catanese and Michael Wilner as they discuss whether President Donald Trump can rebound from a dip in the polls or...
Hear from the journalists covering the protests
Join McClatchy's Alex Roarty, The State's Joe Bustos, and The Miami Herald's Carl Juste as they discuss the protests that have erupted across the coun...
But is it different this time?
Join McClatchy's Alex Roarty, Francesca Chambers, and Adam Wollner as they debate whether Donald Trump's much-criticized campaign against Joe Scarboro...
Trump's puzzling vote-by-mail jeremiad
Join McClatchy's Alex Roarty, David Catanese, and Francesca Chambers as they discuss the recent controversy surrounding President Trump's denunciation...
Democrats love to criticize Biden's campaign. Do they have a point?
Join McClatchy's Alex Roarty, Adam Wollner, and David Catanese as they discuss the reasons why many Democratic strategists have been eager to give (un...
Gone to Carolina in my mind
Join McClatchy political correspondent Alex Roarty, McClatchy White House correspondent Francesca Chambers, and McClatchy North Carolina correspondent...
Where the battleground map stands six months out
Join McClatchy's Adam Wollner, David Catanese and Michael Wilner as they break down the prospects of President Donald Trump and Joe Biden in key swing...
Trump, the pandemic, and the African-American vote
Join McClatlchy's Alex Roarty, Francesca Chambers, and Adam Wollner as they discuss how President Donald Trump's pandemic response has angered even so...
The veepstakes cometh
Join McClatchy's Alex Roarty, David Catanese, and Francesca Chambers as they discuss the burgeoning speculation over who Joe Biden will pick to be his...
The primary's (officially) over. Let's get to the general election
Join McClatchy's Alex Roarty, Adam Wollner, and David Catanese as they mark the official end of the Democratic presidential primary — and the beginnin...
Which governors are thriving, and which are struggling amid the pandemic?
Join McClatchy's Kristin Roberts, Adam Wollner, and Alex Roarty as they discuss the always complicated, often fraught relationship between the nation'...
Joe Biden in a time of coronavirus
Join McClatchy's Alex Roarty, David Catanese, and Adam Wollner as they debate the challenge facing Joe Biden as he tries to communicate to the public...
Even coronavirus can't stop this primary
Join McClatchy's Kristin Roberts, Adam Wollner, and Alex Roarty as they participate in a special social-distancing episode of Beyond the Bubble. But e...
Biden is on the cusp of winning the primary — and somehow that's not the biggest story in politics
Join McClatchy's David Catanese, Alex Roarty, and Kristin Roberts (calling in from Miami) as they try to make sense of how Joe Biden effectively clinc...
Part 2: No really, what just happened?
On Part 2 of a special breakdown of one of the wildest weeks in recent American political history, McClatchy political correspondents Alex Roarty and...
Part 1: No really, what just happened?
Join McClatchy political correspondents Alex Roarty, Emily Cadei, and David Catanese as they process one of the wildest weeks in recent American polit...
Biden's firewall and Bernie's challenge: The state of play in South Carolina
Political correspondent Alex Roarty takes Beyond the Bubble on the road to Columbia, S.C., to talk about the primary there with The State newspaper's ...