Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/ReutersListen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.Parading Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in front of microphones as he suffers a series of embarrassing physical ailments is just cruel—to both the American public and McConnell himself, according to The New Abnormal co-host Danielle Moodie on this week’s episode.And it’s not just Mitch McConnell—it’s true of Sen. Dianne Feinst
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyListen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.Republicans on Fox News and elsewhere are going wild after seeing Donald Trump’s mugshot last week.Jesse Watters, for instance, said on The Five that the quadruple-indicted former president looks “hard”—while claiming that the image is already managing to endear him to Black voters.It’s an extremely offensive insinuation, The New Abnormal host
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/ReutersListen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.The crowd was awful and obnoxious. The questions were, well, questionable. In fact, according to co-host Andy Levy on this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, even by presidential debate standards the first Republican primary debate of the 2024 election was “particularly stupid.”But of all the candidates to take the stage, one clearly