Today's edition of GPB's "Political Rewind" works backwards from the early Friday morning vote in the U.S. Senate that killed – for now – the Republican effort to repeal Obamacare.

I’m rather proud of this one. Even as host Bill Nigut questioned whether yours truly had climbed out on a limb by predicting the ouster of White House chief of staff Reince Preibus – it had already happened.

If you couldn’t catch it live, click here to listen now:

Today’s additional panelists: GOP strategist Chip Lake; Heath Garrett, former chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson; and Democratic activist Blynne Olivieri.

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. (center) is flanked by GOP whip Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. (left) and Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, as Thune speak to reporters at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, July 1, 2025. Earlier Tuesday, the Senate passed the budget reconciliation package of President Donald Trump's signature bill of big tax breaks and spending cuts. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

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