Episode 4 — Gregg Jarrett + Leaders & Laggards

The Leaderboard Podcast

WINNERS. LOSERS. LAWFARE.

Gregg Jarrett  ·  Matt Towery  ·  John Hall

Fox News Legal Analyst Trump Investigations Comey Indictment Indiana Sweep Rubio’s Breakout Inflation Warning

Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett joins Matt and John to break down the Trump investigations, Comey’s indictment, and the intersection of law and politics. Then it’s Leaders & Laggards time. Trump sweeps Indiana, Rubio owns the briefing room, Farage shakes England, and Democrats accidentally run a Republican campaign ad.

Tonight at 6pm ET

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Episode Scorecard

Leaders & Laggards
Leaders ▲
1
Donald Trump
Trump-backed candidates swept Indiana (incumbents and challengers) plus redistricting wins in Virginia. The country is following his lead whether the media admits it or not.
2
Marco Rubio
Walked into the White House briefing room and owned it. For the first time, Rubio looks comfortable in his own skin: a natural successor alongside Vance.
3
Spencer Pratt
Running for LA mayor and tearing it up. Delivered a devastating debate performance so personal and passionate the mayor skipped the next one. And then Democrats ran an ad attacking him for... wanting more police.
4
Nigel Farage
Reform UK won hundreds of council seats in England. The current PM may have to step down. Farage is putting the UK first, and the pollsters never saw it coming.
Laggards ▼
1
Inflation
Numbers came out bad. Gas prices still punishing Americans. As a pollster, you can’t head into midterms with inflation climbing and internal party strife.
2
John Thune
Failure to kill the filibuster. Failure on recess appointments. Stands in front of cameras pretending to cooperate while Democrats openly plan to stack the Supreme Court.
3
UK Pollsters
Completely missed the Reform UK surge. Never saw it coming. Maybe a harbinger of things to come. Sound familiar?
4
LA Democrats
Ran a campaign ad attacking Spencer Pratt for wanting more police and less taxpayer-funded housing for undocumented immigrants. Essentially a Republican ad with a Democratic logo on it.

Also on the Board

Deep Cuts

01
Gregg Jarrett on Law, Politics & Golf
Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett sits down with Matt and John. He knows as much about golf as he does about politics and the law; Matt wants him on his scramble team.
02
AOC’s Playbook
She said it out loud: transform America. Stack the Supreme Court. Add Puerto Rico and DC as states. Kill the filibuster. Matt and John explain why Thune’s inaction hands them the tools to do it.
03
Virginia’s Court Grab
After losing twice on redistricting, Virginia Democrats want to set the Supreme Court retirement age at 54 so they can clean house and install their own justices.
04
Georgia & Texas Races
Matt breaks down the Georgia governor’s race (Jackson vs. Jones), the Senate battle (Collins vs. Dooley), and why Paxton looks unstoppable against Cornyn in Texas despite Thune’s millions.
05
The Empty Studio
Matt shows up to do Laura Ingraham’s show and nobody’s there. Gets so fired up improvising that Trump tweets the clip. Matt didn’t find out for two days.

Spencer Pratt doesn’t believe we should have more social workers dealing with crime. He thinks we should have more police. I thought, holy hell, that’s a perfect ad to defeat the mayor.

Matt Towery, on the worst campaign ad of the cycle