Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren on the State of Our Democracy

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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At the 2020 New Yorker Festival, earlier this month, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Elizabeth Warren joined Andrew Marantz to talk about the Presidential race, and how Joe Biden should lead if he wins the election. Plus, Dexter Filkins on the fierce electoral battle taking place in Florida, the largest of the swing states. With a large elderly-voter population and many distinct Latino communities, the state is demographically unique. Filkins spoke with the former sSenator Bill Nelson and others, including The New Yorker’s Stephania Taladrid, who has been reporting on the Latino vote in different states.

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0:00.0	This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:08.4	Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick.
0:12.2	Earlier this month, Representative Alexandria Acacio-Cortez and Senator Elizabeth Warren
0:17.6	joined us for the annual New Yorker Festival.
0:20.1	It was, for reasons you know only
0:22.4	too well, a virtual festival. And with the 2020 election just weeks away, the state of American
0:28.8	democracy was and is on everybody's mind. Here's Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
0:36.7	speaking with Andrew Morrance of the New Yorker.
0:41.0	I'm just going to get right to it.
0:43.6	This isn't, you know, a time for small talk.
0:46.5	This is a pretty perilous moment in our history.
0:49.6	So I think we should just start right with it.
0:53.1	We obviously have a health crisis and economic crisis
0:56.8	as a result of that, a reckoning over racial justice in this country. And on top of all that,
1:02.8	we have a democratic legitimacy crisis. When we've come this far in terms of breaking of norms and seeing all these abnormal signs
1:14.0	that our democracy is in peril and that this administration seems to have authoritarian impulses.
1:20.7	What are you looking for as more red flags as we move toward this election?
1:25.6	What are you looking for in the coming weeks that will tell
1:28.5	you that we have really crossed an irreversible line? And what can you both do as members of Congress
1:34.9	to try to safeguard what we have left of our democracy? I guess, Senator, we can start with you on
1:40.9	this. Well, I don't think it's about the red lines in the next 24 days.
1:47.4	How long have we got now?
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