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298: The unbearable nothingness of Kamala Harris

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Reynolds, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the emptiness of the Democrats, Britain’s broken borders and the crusade against ‘racist’ buildings.

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0:00.0

Hello and we're delighted to be

0:04.0

we have spike's editor Tom Slater.

0:05.6

Hello and we're delighted to be joined by from the MCC Brussels

0:08.8

Jacob Reynolds.

0:09.6

Yeah, thanks for coming on.

0:11.6

We've got loads to talk about this week. The Democratic National Convention is in full swing.

0:16.7

We'll be discussing Yvette Cooper's two crackdowns on extremism and immigration.

0:21.6

And finally, we'll ask if a building can be racist.

0:25.0

So the Democratic National Convention is happening this week.

0:33.1

Kamala Harris, by the time this goes out, will have been officially nominated

0:36.4

as the Democrats presidential candidate. There's been a lot of talk about how joyous Kamala's candidacy is.

0:45.0

It's worth perhaps reflecting on the fact that she's the candidate without ever having done a major interview.

0:50.0

She's not really announced a policy platform.

0:52.0

We're not really clear about what ideological

0:54.4

direction she wants to take the party in. And of course there was no primary either. But Tom, are you feeling

0:59.8

the joy nonetheless? I'm not, but I dare say I'm not the main target audience for it but I mean you do it has

1:06.9

been fascinating the kind of gap between the enthusiasm and the reality I mean

1:12.4

Camilla Harris is basically just a sort of quite empty husk of a machine politician.

1:16.3

I mean, when she ran for the presidency last time around, all of her program was all very left-wing,

1:20.8

because then Sanders was in the assancy rather now this time around she's trying to strike a much more

1:27.6

kind of centrist note and basically try and say very little at all really about what it is that she

1:32.3

plans to do.

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