Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes
A weekly news podcast breaking down the biggest story of the week with independent reporting and expert interviews hosted by experienced journalist Grant Hermes.
Episodes
95 episodes
Trump's Justice Department Shuffle (with Jonathan Bernstein)
Donald Trump's original pick for Attorney General, Fmr. Rep. Matt Gaetz drops out of the running after bombshell reporting and bad meetings with US Senators, in a scandal that could harm the Trump transition. He picked a reliable repla...
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All The King's Men (And Women)
Trump is choosing his cabinet and close advisors at warp speed. Grant breaks down some of the most high profile positions. Plus, how the Trump team is already trying to get around background and security checks and whether some of ...
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Trump Takes America (with Matthew D. Taylor)
Donald Trump wins the 2024 election with numbers we haven't seen in decades from a Republican President-elect. His victory was a decisive mandate from voters to enact his policies and a resounding rebuke of Kamala Harris, although it may be mor...
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MIMS MINI 72: When Will We Know?
Election Day Countdown: TOMORROWWhen will we know the results of the election. Today's min is a swing state by swing state breakdown of what things look like when it comes to counting the votes. This is also the last daily ...
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MIMS MINI 71: Everybody's A Joker
Election Day Countdown: 1 DayKamala Harris makes a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live and Trump praises a crude joke about Harris before performing a simulated sex act on stage while running for president. We're down to the wire...
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MIMS MINI 70: Liar, Liar
Election Day Countdown: 2 days A new survey out explores who's lying to their loved ones about their choice for president. Spoiler, younger voters and women are afraid to tell the people in their lives they might be voting differen...
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Who’s STILL Undecided/Climate Change and Our Votes with Mary Anna Mancuso
Election Day Countdown: 3 DaysBelieve it or not, there are still undecided voters out there. Grant takes a look at what we know about people who haven't made up their minds yet, what they say are their reasons and what it could mean for...
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MIMS MINI 69: The Election Scaries
Election Day Countdown: 4 DaysHappy Halloween! With the election just a handful of days away, people are freaked out and fearful of what might happen. Today's mini is a breakdown of just how scared we are, why we're so scared and what w...
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MIMS MINI 68: Harris Closes
Election Day Countdown: 5 days Kamala Harris gives her closing argument speech on the National Mall, from the same place where Trump incited the Jan 6 attack. She strikes a bipartisan tone hoping it will be enough to win on Electio...
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MIMS MINI 67: We Need To Talk About Elon
Election Day Countdown: 6 DaysElon Musk has become one of the most prolific spenders and supporters for Donald Trump and one of his latest schemes has been called illegal. But his campaign activity is hiding a much more dangerous way Mu...
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MIMS MINI 66: Another Campaign Hack
Election Day Countdown: 7 DaysThe Department of Justice announces there were more attempted hacks into the presidential campaigns, this time from Chinese hackers. It's the latest round but the elections are still safe from interference,...
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MIMS MINI 65: Trump Plays The Garden
Election Day Countdown: 8 DaysDonald Trump is set to hold a rally at Madison Square Garden. It's meant to kick off his final push in the race but it's coming with some troubling historical context.
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MIMS MINI 64: Harris, Abortion and Beyonce's America
Election Day Countdown: 9 Days Kamala Harris holds a rally in Houston, TX continuing to make the Lone Star State the national center for the fight over reproductive rights. She's joined on stage by Beyonce and gives a fiery speech ...
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We'll See You In Court with Liz Dye
Election Day Countdown: 10 Days There are more than 165 lawsuits already filed across the country, but mostly in the swing states surrounding who can vote, how they can vote, which votes count and who can make an election officials...
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MIMS MINI 63: Harris Says THE Thing
Election Day Countdown: 11 Days Kamala Harris does a town hall on CNN that was supposed to be a debate, except Trump declined. There, she calls him a fascist for the first time. The town hall is also a chance for voters to reevalua...
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MIMS MINI 62: Trump Wishes For Hitler's Generals
Election Day Countdown: 12 DaysA pair of bombshell stories dropped Tuesday interviewing Fmr. General and Chief of Staff John Kelly laying out Trump wishing to be a dictator and praising Hitler. It's a doozy.
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MIMS MINI 61: Cracks In The Wall
Election Day Countdown: 13 Days The Harris campaign is starting to get nervous about its blue wall states, mainly Michigan and the next two weeks will be a combination of shoring up the support there and making sure they don't let ...
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MIMS MINI 60: You Want Fries With That?
Election Day Countdown: 14 daysDonald Trump stages a photo op to work the fry station at McDonald's. It's a dig at Harris as he continues to lie about her employment history but it's also a diversion from two pretty bad news cycles for ...
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MIMS MINI 59: Exhaustion and Discipline
Election Day Countdown: 15 Days With two weeks left in the campaign Trump and Harris are feeling it. Trump's exhausted and Harris is still struggling to answer a key question in this race.
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MIMS MINI 58: Record Breaking Early Voting
Election Day Countdown: 16 Days Early voting has started in 47 states and people are VOTING. Several swing states have broken records and Grant breaks down why voting by mail is safe and actually a good thing.
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Is Trump Really A Fascist? A Breakdown
Election Day Countdown: 17 DaysThis week Donald Trump said he wants to send the military after political opponents and Democrats raising the alarm for people who study authoritarians and fascists. But is Trump actually a fascist? Grant ...
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MIMS MINI 57: Harris Breaks Up With Biden
Election Day Countdown: 18 DaysKamala Harris goes on Fox News for a hostile interview on an unfriendly network and makes her starkest pledge yet to not be Joe Biden.
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MIMS MINI 56: Harris Takes To The Airwaves
Election Day Countdown: 19 days Kamala Harris joins Charlemagne Tha God in Detroit to hold a national radio town hall and make a huge appeal to black voters, many of whom have been wavering in their support for Democrats.
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