2024 Election Sunday: Cross-Party Endorsements, A Race In Stasis

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Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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🗓️ 6 October 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On Sundays between now and the election, we're going to dip into the 2024 race to talk about the latest events -- plus offer some historical perspective.

And these will all be video episodes! So if you'd like to watch the conversation, visit our YouTube page.

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Today, Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss Liz Cheney's endorsement of Kamala Harris, whether notable endorsements change the election, and why this race feels like it's in a bit of a state of stasis.

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0:00.0	3, 2. 1. Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.
0:06.8	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:08.8	And shout out to everyone who is watching this on our YouTube page.
0:15.2	I think people know that.
0:16.0	Do they know that?
0:17.0	We have a YouTube page.
0:18.0	Occasionally we do these video episodes when there's a special occasion.
0:21.2	I guess a Sunday before the general election counts as a special
0:26.8	occasion, right? Nicole Hammer or Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson,
0:29.6	Bresley. Hello, Jody. Yes, I feel like the entire run up to the election at this point now is a special occasion.
0:38.0	I think we did our October surprise episode and I think every day in October will bring new terrible surprises.
0:46.0	We shall see him. We have one more October surprise related episode coming up where we're going to look back at 2008 and the financial crisis there and John McCain's reaction to that.
0:55.2	But we've decided that on Sundays between now and the election and then maybe just a little past the election,
1:01.7	so that's four or five episodes.
1:03.7	We're going to do this, which is get together
1:05.8	on a weekend warning and kind of mostly talk
1:08.2	about this year's election.
1:10.0	I know we're a history podcast.
1:11.2	I know you can get takes about this year's election, lots of other places, but we also know that a lot of our listeners want to hear what we think about the election.
1:18.5	We have things to say about this year's election.
1:20.5	And moreover, you know, I really, one of the goals of this show was to kind of like give people and give ourselves a little historical lens through which to process the moment.
1:30.0	And so we will of course talk a little bit about some historical stuff that feels like it can break down this week.
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