All posts tagged "Al Hunt"

A journalist who covered Republicans' post-Watergate collapse firsthand warned the party is now in far worse shape, and he blamed one man.

Al Hunt, a veteran political journalist who co-hosts "Politics War Room" with Democratic strategist James Carville, said on Wednesday's episode of the Politicon show that President Donald Trump has left the GOP in a deeper hole than the one Richard Nixon dug.

Hunt recalled covering the 1974 midterms as a young reporter, after Nixon was forced from office....

Democratic political strategist James Carville joked about Trump's cognitive decline but predicted that he'll never be able to forget one thing.

Journalist Al Hunt, host of the Politicon podcast, was interviewing Carville in a Wednesday episode when he mentioned how Trump's "cognitive decline is so apparent." Hunt pointed to Trump's late-night Truth Social firestorm earlier in the week.

"He's slipping more than we've said," Hunt said. "He put out 55 messages, most of them bizarre."...