A Look Ahead To The Issues, Questions And Politics Of The 2024 Election

Diane Rehm: On My Mind

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🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In less than two weeks, the Iowa Caucus will kick off an election year like no other.

Donald Trump is the clear favorite to win this first contest in the GOP nominating process, leading his Republican rivals by nearly 50 percentage points.

Yet, Trump’s nomination is not a given. He has been barred from the primary ballot in two states and faces legal challenges to his candidacy in more than a dozen others. And there is the matter of the four pending criminal court cases that have resulted in 91 criminal charges.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden’s approval ratings have dropped to a record low and he is currently trailing Trump in national polls.

“There are two conflicting things here,” says Susan Page, Washington bureau chief for USA Today and a veteran political reporter who has covered 11 presidential campaigns. “A high level of dissatisfaction with the two candidates and also a sense that this election is of such great consequence.”

Susan Page joins Diane for a preview of the questions, issues and legal arguments at the center of the 2024 presidential campaign.

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0:00.0	I am Diane on my mind a look ahead to the 2024 presidential race.
0:14.0	That's sent two weeks away from the Iowa Caucus.
0:18.0	We're kicking off an election season like no other.
0:22.0	Donald Trump leads his GOP rivals by nearly 60%. He also faces
0:30.0	91 criminal charges across four cases.
0:35.0	He's been removed from primary ballots in two states
0:39.3	for participating in an insurrection.
0:43.0	Meanwhile, Joe Biden's approval ratings are at a record low.
0:49.0	So there are two conflicting things, a high level of dissatisfaction with the two candidates,
0:54.8	and also a sense that the election is of such great consequence.
1:00.0	Susan Page is the Washington Bureau Chief of USA Today.
1:05.7	She joins me for her preview of presidential politics
1:10.2	in 2024.
1:25.0	Susan Donald Trump is now asked the Supreme Court to keep him on the primary ballot in Colorado, could these 14th Amendment challenges
1:30.0	prevent Trump from becoming the Republican nominee?
1:36.4	Probably not, probably not because he has such a,
1:41.2	I mean, politics is uncertain things happening and expect but Donald Trump is in such a commanding position to win the Republican nomination that it is hard to imagine the handful of states in kind of difference. But I would say we have never seen in this country in a campaign where decisions
2:06.7	by the Supreme Court are going to make so much difference in the election overall because it's not only the 14th Amendment cases, it's the cases about
2:15.7	presidential immunity and other issues. We've just never seen the courts be as important in some ways
2:22.4	as the campaigns in who's going to be the next president.
2:26.5	David French in his morning's New York Times.
2:31.2	I don't know whether you saw it says that, you know, we cannot make a decision about whether to keep him on or off the ballot because we are afraid of the
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