A Shocking and Predictable Election

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🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It’s been a strange election—Trump being shot at on stage; Biden dropping out—but also a very familiar one, with the same issues, same rhetoric, and same deadlocked, dysfunctional Congress waiting on the other side. How long will the political Groundhog Day last—and what will it take to break this cycle? Guests: Osita Nwanevu, contributing editor at the New Republic and columnist at The Guardian. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:16.4	I've been thinking about this article that Politico published a couple weeks back.
1:22.2	It was titled The Elections October Surprise may be arriving shortly.
1:25.2	This headline made me laugh when I read it. It was so brazenly speculative, like a promo for news that didn't exist yet.
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