#13: The Democrats’ Big, Hot Mess
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2016
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Bernie Sanders’s surprising string of success raises questions of Hillary Clinton’s vulnerability now and in November. Listen in as Julio Ricardo Varela, Political Editor with the Futuro Media Group, leads a discussion with Daniella Gibbs Léger, Senior Vice President for Communications and Strategy at the Center for American Progress and Tarini Parti, Capitol Hill Reporter for BuzzFeed News.
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| 0:00.0 | When has Bill Clinton never spoken for only six minutes in front of a crowd? |
| 0:04.0 | I think that's the best question you've asked. |
| 0:06.3 | Hey, welcome to The Think, a podcast about politics in the I'm Julio Ricalo Guarela filling in for Maria Noosa, who is overseas attending a world leadership |
| 0:26.0 | conference. |
| 0:27.6 | Joining us from Washington, D.C. is Daniela Gibbs Leje's Senior Vice President for Communications |
| 0:32.3 | and Strategy at the Center for American Progress. |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome, Daniela. |
| 0:37.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:38.0 | Good to be here. Also in Washington, D.C. is Tarini Party, Capitol Hill reporter for BuzzFeed News, welcome back to the show, Terini. |
| 0:44.4 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:45.4 | All right, so let's get into this. |
| 0:46.7 | So Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton split Kentucky in a nail-bitter, and Bernie won Oregon |
| 0:51.8 | by 10 points. Clinton is still ahead by a large number of delegates, but for |
| 0:56.6 | someone up by this much she looks surprisingly vulnerable. Polls are |
| 1:00.8 | starting to turn toward the general election and there's been a lot showing whether |
| 1:04.9 | Hillary or Bernie would fare better against Donald Trump. |
| 1:08.3 | Clinton is up by single digits in every poll, two points, three points, four points. |
| 1:13.0 | But Bernie's up by 13, 12, even 16 points |
| 1:16.5 | in a recent CNN poll. |
| 1:18.0 | Kentucky, Oregon, all these polls |
| 1:20.4 | are the Democrats making a mistake |
| 1:22.1 | by uniting around Hillary Clinton? |
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