“Voters want to hear people talk about normal bread-and-butter issues.”

August 18, 2026

Jim Messina, CEO of The Messina Group, joins Bloomberg’s Balance of Power with Kailey Leinz and Joe Mathieu. They discuss what voters are looking from candidates in the 2026 midterms, how progressives and DSA candidates might fare in the general, and why the DNC calendar for the 2028 presidential primary turned out the way it did.

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