The sometimes fleeting status of Roll Call’s Most Vulnerable Incumbent list

It’s been a weird election cycle, and one only has to look at Roll Call’s Most Vulnerable Incumbents list to see the multiple storylines playing out. Jason Dick talks with Mary Ellen McIntire and Daniela Altimari about who’s on the list, who’s leaving the list and why making a House list is so difficult. (Spoiler alert: It’s redistricting.)

Show Notes:

• The most vulnerable senators of 2026, less than 6 months before Election Day
• Cassidy loses GOP primary in Louisiana as Trump-backed Letlow, Fleming make runoff
• Louisiana Senate approves new map that would scrap majority-Black district
• Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen announces retirement after GOP dismantles his district
• Supreme Court turns aside Virginia redistricting request
• Roll Call Factba.se, the all-things-White House database
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