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Hello and welcome to this late night address to Congress reaction edition of the 538 Politics Podcast.

It's a quarter past midnight, and we have wrapped up watching President Trump's address to the joint session of Congress, as well as Alyssa Slotkin's

reaction, Democratic response to that address. I will also say that perhaps like you, during the

address, we got some news related to 538's future or read news about 538's future.

We have not heard anything formally yet.

At the beginning of this night, we set out to watch the address to Congress and the reaction

and record a podcast afterwards.

And so that's what we're going to do.

You know, we will update you with what we know

when we know it. But in this moment, we're going to do what we've been doing for a little over

nine years and record a 538 politics podcast. And here with me to do that are none other than senior elections analyst,

Nathaniel Rakech. Welcome to the podcast, Nathaniel. Hey, Galen. It's great to be here with you.

Also here with us is former 538 colleague, Mary Radcliffe. Welcome back to the podcast. Mary,

I'm so glad you made time for us this late Tuesday. No, it's early Wednesday morning.

Yeah, I'm glad to be here. I was excited to get the chance to come hang out and talk about the fake state of the union with y'all.

The fake state of the union, truly the best kind. And in this case, the longest address of its type in American history.

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