{"podcast":{"title":"Beyond the Polls with Henry Olsen","slug":"beyond-the-polls-with-henry-olsen-1207991","podcast_index_feed_id":1207991,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5817286/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://ricochet.com/series/beyond-the-polls-with-henry-olsen/","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/9d698a06993577e393b01fec76b11092.jpg","author":"Ricochet","episode_count":161,"summary":"Each week Henry Olsen, columnist and senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, will talk about the presidential and congressional races with leading political journalists and analysts, people who are out in the field and won't give you media spin. Find out who's leading the pack and who's an also-ran, with Beyond the Polls with Henry Olsen. Listen to Beyond the Polls with Henry Olsen , along with more than 40 other original podcasts, at Ricochet.com . No paid subscription required.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-03T00:17:31.405632+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-the-polls-with-henry-olsen-1207991"},"episode":{"title":"Lone Star State Standoffs","slug":"lone-star-state-standoffs","published_at":"2026-01-23T00:11:33+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-the-polls-with-henry-olsen-1207991/lone-star-state-standoffs","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-the-polls-with-henry-olsen-1207991","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/lone-star-state-standoffs--69552842","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/3808868/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/69552842/beyond_the_polls_109.mp3","summary":"It's been said that there's no place like Texas, and this year's Senate primaries seem to confirm the suspicion. We've got a cast of characters that includes incumbent John Cornyn up against the likes of AG Ken Paxton and TX-38's Wesley Hunt on the one side, and a couple of young challengers like Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico hoping to shake things up for Democrats. To cover these big, bold, brash races and some of the 14 open House primaries, Henry sits down with Gromer Jeffers of The Dallas Morning News. Plus, Henry takes a close look at a few ads coming out of the race for Mikie Sherrill's old seat, New Jersey 11.","meta_description":"It's been said that there's no place like Texas, and this year's Senate primaries seem to confirm the suspicion. We've got a cast of characters that inclu…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2540,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/beyond-the-polls-with-henry-olsen-1207991/episodes/lone-star-state-standoffs/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-the-polls-with-henry-olsen-1207991/lone-star-state-standoffs.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}