196: ELECTION PREVIEW with Molly Jong-Fast, Mark Leibovich, Jessica Taylor, & Jeremy Peters

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🗓️ 3 November 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Live from New York, it’s our pre-election podcast. After a contentious and exhausting election cycle, we have made it to Election Day. Last week, we gathered with some of our favorite guests to help us understand what we might see in the coming days and weeks. Can we finally vanquish Donald Trump? Can he actually win? And if so, what does that mean for America? We’re joined by Jessica Taylor from the Cook Political Report to break down the Senate races around the country. We also talk to Jeremy Peters from the NYT about undecided voters and what they might be looking for as they head to the polls. Plus, our friends Mark Leibovich from The Atlantic and Molly Jong-Fast, host of the Fast Politics Podcast, discuss what is at stake in this election and how we move forward as a country.

Read Jessica Taylor’s latest for the Cook Political Report: https://www.cookpolitical.com/about/staff/jessica-taylor

Read Jeremy Peters in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/by/jeremy-w-peters

Listen to Molly Jong-Fast’s podcast, Fast Politics: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fast-politics-with-molly-jong-fast/id1645614328

Read Mark Leibovich in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/author/mark-leibovich/

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, we got a great one today, and this time I mean it.
0:10.2	We recorded in front of a live audience at the City Winery in New York City, and the audience
0:16.2	loved hearing from my guest, Jeremy Peters of the New York Times, Jessica Taylor from the Cook Political Report, plus Molly Jong Fast, host of her Fast Politics podcast, and Mark Lieberovich of the Atlantic.
0:30.2	It's a great one.
0:32.4	Finally.
0:34.1	We recorded it on Monday, so a few things have happened since our president joe biden made a small gaff
0:41.6	during an interview he commented on comedian tony hitchcliff who at trump's madison square
0:50.2	garden event joked that there was an island of garbage floating in the ocean, Puerto Rico.
0:56.5	You see the joke there?
0:59.5	Well, in an interview, a pissed off Biden said the only garbage was Trump supporters.
1:06.0	And I'm thinking he meant the comedian who said the joke and anyone who laughed at it.
1:11.7	But our candidate is Kamala Harris, who Trump calls Kamala, you know, to show his disrespect.
1:19.2	That's a funny joke, huh?
1:21.3	Mispronouncing her name, isn't it?
1:24.3	And, of course, Trump's called the people around Kamala scum and garbage also Robert Kennedy
1:34.8	Jr., the anti-vaxer announced that Trump is going to make him head of health and human
1:41.5	services if Kennedy were to be put in charge of HHS, he would be leading
1:46.5	the Executive Department that oversees the Center for Disease Control and Prevention,
1:52.1	the Food and Drug Administration, and the National Institutes of Health, among others.
1:58.0	In the meantime, Kennedy is an honorary co-chair on the Trump transition team
2:03.3	and claims to be, quote, deeply involved in helping to choose the people who can run FDA, NIH, and CDC.
2:11.7	You will remember that when he was running for president, Kennedy was endorsed by the American
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