# The Daily Herold: 7/9/26 - Election Overhaul Deep Dive and Platner's Exit

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Podcast: [Badlands Media](https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-6674661)
Published: 2026-07-09T19:03:55+00:00
Episode link: https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/e/the-daily-herold-7926-election-overhaul-deep-dive-and-platners-exit/
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## Resource

Jon Herold works through a New York Times deep dive on the many ways Trump is using federal power to try to shape the 2026 midterms, walking through nationalization efforts, redistricting battles, election security cuts, and ongoing fights over voter rolls in states like Georgia and Minnesota. He shares some skepticism about whether these efforts have produced any real world results yet and invites the chat to weigh in. There is also a look at Graham Platner's Senate campaign collapsing under new allegations, Trump's on camera reaction to it, fresh testimony from Lance Twigs in the Tyler Robinson case, and a couple of business headlines including a wave of new chip manufacturing investment. Sponsor breaks and some lively back and forth with the chat round things out for a fairly dense Thursday show.

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