After the Convention High, the Question Will Be: Will Your Vote Count?

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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With Kavita in attendance at the DNC, David Rothkopf joins Norm to discuss to the highs of the convention in Chicago. What steps are next for Harris in the final push towards Election Day? How can the party capitalize on its electrifying convention and drive up voter turnout? Find out right here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	August is to be here and that means that the weather and the election cycle are heating up.
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0:26.8	today at the DSR Network.com slash by. That's Beat the Heat at the
0:32.2	DSR Network.com slash by. Now please enjoy the show. This is my
0:45.0	words matter with Norm Ornstein.
0:48.0	We've got the votes and screw the rest of you.
0:52.0	And Dr. Kavita Patel.
0:54.0	These might be some of the smaller moments,
0:56.0	you know, with all the bombshells didn't catch people's eyes. So, Hello and welcome to Words Matter. I am not Dr.
1:24.4	Kavita Patel. I am David Rothkoff stepping in for Dr. Kavita Patel who is at the Democratic
1:31.2	National Convention, a subject we will turn to in a moment.
1:34.5	Of course, because this is words matter, I am joined by the host of words matter.
1:40.2	Norm Arnstein, how are you today norm I am very upbeat today David I after last
1:48.6	Wait a minute who is this who is this I'm talking to? It's a quite a turnaround, but I thought last night was as nearly perfect a convention evening as I have ever seen.
2:06.0	And I'm still cautiously optimistic, one thing this morning a good friend a terrific political scientist
2:17.6	named Alan Abramowitz at Emory has a model which has been actually better than most of the other models at looking at
2:26.2	election the election landscape and he said this morning that it's there's a slight edge to Kamala Harris but it's predicted to be a very close
2:38.1	election. So and then I looked at Nate Cohn's breakdown and Kamala Harris has made substantial gains
2:48.0	with a number of populations, but none to speak of with older white men, with white men generally, and we need a little bit more there. Maybe Tim
3:05.9	Waltz will help but the I you know a unified party unbelievably unified when you get Joe Manchin and AOC and Bernie Sanders all on the same page.
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