{"podcast":{"title":"The Daily Punch","slug":"the-daily-punch-1373025","podcast_index_feed_id":1373025,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/daily-punch","website_url":"https://punchbowl.news/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/1ae4e08c-568c-11eb-b60f-03cfd1d66f70/image/19825ac50fa7028f20a2c32e81f7cff4.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Punchbowl News","episode_count":1517,"summary":"Weekday mornings, The Daily Punch brings you inside Capitol Hill, the White House and Washington for an unfiltered look at the key players and stakes of all major issues of the day. Power. People. Politics. Hosted by Punchbowl News founders, journalists and best-selling authors Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T08:17:51.536470+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-punch-1373025"},"episode":{"title":"What Collins and Platner told us in Maine","slug":"what-collins-and-platner-told-us-in-maine","published_at":"2026-05-18T10:20:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-punch-1373025/what-collins-and-platner-told-us-in-maine","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-punch-1373025","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/BUBNW8787552672.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/BUBNW8787552672.mp3","summary":"In Maine, a state that could decide the Senate majority, GOP Sen. Susan Collins is touting her mastery of Washington’s power and influence system, while Democrat Graham Platner wants to burn that system to the ground. Anna and Jake discuss Andrew Desiderio’s on-the-ground reporting, breaking down the key dynamics to watch in the high-stakes race. Plus, it’s crunch time for the GOP’s reconciliation bill. Watch this episode on YouTube here! Punchbowl News is on YouTube⁠. ⁠⁠⁠Subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to our channel today to see all the new ways⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠we’re investing in video.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter at ⁠⁠punchbowl.news.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"In Maine, a state that could decide the Senate majority, GOP Sen. Susan Collins is touting her mastery of Washington’s power and influence system, while D…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":606,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-daily-punch-1373025/episodes/what-collins-and-platner-told-us-in-maine/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-punch-1373025/what-collins-and-platner-told-us-in-maine.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}