181: The Atlantic's Frank Foer and Elaina Plott Calabro on Harris and Biden

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🗓️ 28 July 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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This past week, we saw President Joe Biden drop out of the Presidential race and VP Kamala Harris emerge as the new nominee for the Democratic Party. The Atlantic's Frank Foer wrote the book "The Last Politician" about Joe Biden's consequential first term and Elaina Plott Calabro, also from The Atlantic, has interviewed Kamala Harris multiple times. We recap some of Biden's biggest accomplishments and examine the radically changed political landscape since Joe Biden withdrew from the race. How will the Trump campaign adjust to run against Kamala Harris? Can she sustain the excitement around her campaign all the way to November? P

Read Elaina's latest on the Trump vs Harris campaign: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/kamala-harris-prosecutor-president/679226/

Read Frank's latest on Biden's exit from the race: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/bidens-greatest-strengths-proved-his-undoing/679179/

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, we got a great one today, you know, for a change.
0:08.9	Two riders for the Atlantic, not the Atlantic monthly anymore, because their website changes
0:13.8	all day, every day.
0:15.6	So just the Atlantic.
0:17.7	Our old friend Frank Four, who's in the pantheon of great frank and guests, been on many
0:23.0	times before, and Elena Plot Calabro making her debut on the podcast and talking today about
0:30.6	an historic week in American history, the first African American hyphen South Asian American to be the presidential nominee of a major political party,
0:41.9	or any political party for that matter.
0:44.8	Also, she's a woman, the second female nominee of a major political party.
0:51.2	Vice President Kamala Harris is the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party, creating a lot of
0:57.4	excitement, raising $126 million in the first four days of her candidacy. As I record this on Friday
1:04.8	morning, we were about to enter the seventh day of her campaign. I'm sorry I don't have the latest
1:10.2	total, but maybe even more importantly,
1:13.0	since President Biden withdrew from the race, Harris has closed the gap to one percentage
1:18.7	point among likely voters in the New York Times, Sienna College poll, in a head-to-head matchup
1:24.8	with Donald Trump and leads him by one point when Robert Kennedy
1:30.6	Jr. is included in the poll. So here we go with about 100 days left in the campaign. It could
1:39.2	not be closer. Of course, this will be won or loss in the battleground states, which still trend slightly toward
1:47.0	Trump, I think. The Times-Sianapult didn't break that down. And I'll bet Pennsylvania,
1:53.4	Michigan, and Wisconsin are now toss-ups. So here we go. Meanwhile, I just want to say something about President Joe Biden, who withdrew from the race last Saturday and spoke to the nation on Wednesday evening.
2:10.4	A painful speech for him, for sure.
2:13.5	You know, as I listened to him, I was struck by what a consequential president he's been,
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