If you haven’t already heard, Hillary Clinton is hosting a new pop-up podcast with Kara Swisher focused on the looming midterms. In the debut episode of High Stakes, the pair discusses everything from the year’s biggest Senate races to Pete Davidson keeping his Hillary tattoo to the weirdness of new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia. Below are some highlights.

. On not caring what people think

So how did this new series come about? Swisher explained part of the origin story. “We were at a dinner, and you were so sharp and fresh on a lot of the things, and one of the tropes about you is that people don’t really know you,” she said.

Clinton: I feel like I’m a walking Rorschach test, and people see what they want to see in me, what they’re capable of seeing in me, or what is familiar to them. I understand that my presence, my arrival on the public scene in such a dramatic way when Bill was elected president, then when I ran for the Senate — first of all, I was the First Lady, I wore pants, and I tried to reform health care. It was very confusing to people, and I get that, but I made the choices that I thought were right for me and that I was trying to help serve my country and all the rest of it.

When I ran for the Senate, it was like, “Oh my gosh, I don’t know what to think about her.” Trying to create a kind of 360-degree holistic picture of me has been very hard, because I came into people’s consciousness at a time when tropes and caricatures and stereotypes about women in politics and First Ladies and all of that were pretty........

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