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Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

254: Debate Prep with Bob Shrum

Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

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4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

James and Al call out the Republican congressional caucus, review the political situation in Israel, mark Juneteenth, remember Willie Mays, and welcome veteran political strategist Bob Shrum.  They discuss the format of the upcoming presidential debate, Biden’s prospects, how he should handle the age issue, Trump’s weaknesses, the importance of debate prep, the power of a well-made point, and look back on famous debate moments from Nixon v. Kennedy, to Romney v. Obama.  Will a strong performance by Joe be enough to blow the race wide open?

Email your questions to James and Al at politicswarroom@gmail.com or tweet them to @politicon.  Make sure to include your city– we love to hear where you’re from!

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0:00.0

Hello and I'm Al Hunt.

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This is.

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This is a

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and Hello and welcome the Politics War Room with James Carville and I'm Al Hunt.

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This week our guest is the director of the Center for Political Future and Practical Politics

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at the University of Southern California Political Mastermind Bob Strum. political mastermind

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Bob Schramm. Now remember we love taking your questions so writing the politics

0:29.1

forum at email dot com or send a tweet to add political for next week's show. We'll get to as

0:35.6

many as we can but don't forget to tell us where you're from. Please check out

0:39.2

the link to our sponsors, the great Washington Post, in our episode show notes.

0:44.3

We thank you for supporting the post and these sponsors

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it really helps make this podcast happen.

0:49.7

Please tell your friends about us and remind them

0:51.6

to subscribe on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get. your out there to read Tom Friedman's New York Times column this week on the existential danger

1:05.5

that Israel faces.

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An unresolved Gaza, rising unrest on the West Bank, Hezbollah threatening war from Lebanon, all due to the

1:16.0

selfish and stupid policies of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

1:21.0

His priority is only staying in office and not having to face a

1:25.8

criminal trial when he leaves. He's sacrificing the country's long-term security,

1:31.1

alienating much of the world from the Jewish state, creating strains with

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its main ally of the United States and undermining Joe Biden, who last October, after the

1:41.5

Hamas terrorist attack, went to Israel to eloquently come to

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