6 - But Can He Win? (w/ Malaika Jabali and Ben Tulchin)

Hear the Bern

Bernie 2020

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🗓️ 14 May 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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What does it mean to be "electable"? Do voters really gravitate toward "safe" (read: white, male, and centrist) candidates? How much do policies matter to voters? And can Bernie beat Trump? To answer these questions and debunk some persistent polling myths, Briahna talks to Malaika Jabali, a public policy attorney and writer, and Ben Tulchin, president of Tulchin Research and the campaign’s pollster. Malaika's Current Affairs article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/10/the-color-of-economic-anxiety (https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/10/the-color-of-economic-anxiety) Rural Organizing poll on rural voters: http://ruralorganizing.org/polling-brief-2018-national-rural-survey (http://ruralorganizing.org/polling-brief-2018-national-rural-survey) Pew poll on non-voters: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/06/01/dislike-of-candidates-or-campaign-issues-was-most-common-reason-for-not-voting-in-2016/ (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/06/01/dislike-of-candidates-or-campaign-issues-was-most-common-reason-for-not-voting-in-2016/)

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0:00.0	Electability. It's the word of the week, the litmus test of the season.
0:06.0	And it's no wonder. In 2016, Americans across the political spectrum were bowled over by the election
0:12.1	of a president who had been a media
0:13.6	punchline for decades from the Simpsons. As you know we've inherited quite a budget
0:18.8	crunch from President Trump. How bad is it Secretary Van Houghton? We're broke!
0:25.0	To Home Alone.
0:26.0	Excuse me, where's the lobby?
0:28.0	Down the hall and to the left.
0:30.0	Thanks.
0:31.0	To the occasional McDonald's ad, co-starring Grimmus.
0:34.0	Together, Grimmus, we could own this town.
0:37.0	Now, looking down the barrel of another four years of right-wing Supreme Court appointments, draconian border
0:45.1	policies, and catastrophic indifference to the climate crisis, the chief
0:50.0	priority of many left-leading motors is a Democratic primary candidate who can get
0:55.0	Trump out of office. In a recent poll a full 92% of Democrats say defeating
1:00.9	Trump is the most important quality in a 2020 candidate.
1:05.2	But what exactly does that take? What makes a candidate likely to be electable?
1:11.1	And given how poorly pundits and prognosticators predicted who was
1:14.9	electable in the last election, how should we be thinking differently about
1:19.6	this question in 2020. This is Here the Burn.
1:33.0	A podcast about the people, ideas, and politics that are driving the Bernie Sanders'
1:39.0	20 campaign and the movement to secure a dignified life for everyone living in this country.
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