Alex Wagner & Will Leitch: Platner’s Implosion & Trump’s Red Card
Alex Wagner & Will Leitch: Platner’s Implosion & Trump’s Red Card  
Podcast: Impolitic with John Heilemann
Published On: Mon Jul 13 2026
Description: John welcomes back two blue-chip friends of the pod—Alex Wagner, host of Crooked Media’s “Runaway Country” and MS Now senior political analyst, and New York magazine columnist, MLB.com national correspondent, and Deadspin founder Will Leitch—to discuss, respectively, the spectacular self-immolation of Graham Platner’s Senate campaign in Maine and Donald Trump’s unwelcome intrusion into an otherwise wondrous World Cup.