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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

A Ka-meh-la Town Hall

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.65.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

The vice president spent 90 minutes with CNN last night at a town hall just as polling information was suggesting she is on a downward slope. We evaluate her performance and try to explain why the "Trump as fascist" line of attack doesn't seem to have the oomph the Harris campaign wants. And why the Biden administration is now acting in ways that seem to portend a Russian victory in Ukraine. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hope for the best.

0:09.0

Extract the worst.

0:11.0

Some bring champagne, some die of furs.

0:14.0

A-a-furs.

0:15.0

No way of knowing which way it's going.

0:19.0

Hope for the best expect the worst of the

0:22.0

for the best the worst of the band. I'm

0:27.4

Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Thursday, October 24, 2024.

0:30.5

I am John Pothor, the editor of Commentary magazine with me as always executive editor.

0:35.6

A B Greenwald, Hi Abe.

0:37.0

Hi, Abe.

0:37.0

Hi, Abe.

0:37.1

Hi, Abe.

0:38.1

Washington Commentary columnist and Director of Domestic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, Matthew

0:43.9

Connetty, hi Matt, hi John, and Matt's colleague at AEEI, the author of

0:49.7

the Extinction of Experience and our media commentary columnist Christine Rosen.

0:53.7

Hi Christine.

0:54.7

Hi John.

0:55.7

Kamala Harris went and spent 90 minutes with Anderson Cooper in a town hall last night

1:00.9

in the critical battleground swing epicenter turning point state of

1:08.2

Pennsylvania where she spoke to such people as an undecided voter who was a political science professor at Swarthmore College, which is an oxymoron.

1:20.0

There is no such thing as a undecided swing, you know, voter who was either a

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