A veteran of Washington’s election-forecasting scene says Donald Trump’s Republican Party is in for a “hell of a beating” in the midterms as voters head to the polls. Charlie Cook has been calling the races since Reagan was reelected in 1984, and he told The New Republic’s Greg Sargent that he has never seen an…

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the November 3 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. Charlie Cook has been forecasting elections for 42 years. His first…