A Dem Strategist Calls Bullshit on Biden Polling Doom
Inside the Hive
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Host Brian Stelter talks with Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg about Joe Biden’s chances in the 2024 general election. Rosenberg’s approach to politics relies heavily on data, and he explains why he’s optimistic for Democrats about 2024. He also tells Stelter why he believes the campaign will be brutal and offers advice to the Biden campaign.
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| 0:32.3 | read watch and hear. Vanity Fair. Simon, what is President Biden's central problem as he heads into the 2024 election season? |
| 0:55.0 | I see it more as a challenge than a problem, |
| 0:58.0 | but I think that we underestimate sometimes how unsettled the world is. |
| 1:02.0 | COVID, Ukraine war, war in the Middle East, high inflation. |
| 1:06.2 | It's been a bumpy time and it's so it's taken a lot to persuade the American people that we're getting to the other side but I think he's got a |
| 1:13.8 | strong case to make and I think we're going to have a good election next year. |
| 1:16.6 | That's Simon Rosenberg, a Democratic strategist and 30-year veteran of politics and media. |
| 1:22.4 | He founded the New Democrat Network. and 30-year veteran of politics and media. |
| 1:23.2 | He founded the new Democrat network, but last year he shut it down. |
| 1:27.4 | He now is posting on Substack at Hopium Chronicles, and if you're wondering what Hopium is, well, we're going to get into that. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm Brian Stelter, and this is inside the Hive from Vanity Fair. |
| 1:38.0 | And today, we're going inside the Democratic Machine, |
| 1:42.0 | President Biden's re-election campaign, his strengths. the challenge facing |
| 1:49.6 | facing Biden's re-election campaign, his strengths, his weaknesses, and as Simon |
| 1:47.4 | just said, the challenge facing Biden and his allies. |
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