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Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, Oct. 23, 2026

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The Republican Party is facing a crushing new reality. In the upcoming midterms, it is almost certainly going to lose control of the House, and it could lose the Senate as well. Join moderator Jeffrey Goldberg, Leigh Ann Caldwell of Puck. Stephen Hayes of The Dispatch, Zolan Kanno-Youngs of The New York Times and Nancy Youssef of The Atlantic to discuss this and more.

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