All Things With Kim Strassel: The Senate Balance of Power

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🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The stakes for control of today's 50-50 Senate are nearly as high as the presidential race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Where are Republicans and Democrats placing their bets? On this episode of All Things, Senate Leadership Fund and One Nation CEO Steven Law talks about the truth of "candidate quality" and the GOP's slate this time around; efforts to convince voters that Democratic incumbents are “living a lie” as moderates; the money game; and how issues like inflation, immigration and women's sports are playing at the state level. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.2	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is All Things with Kim Strasso, a Potomac Watch podcast.
0:37.0	Welcome to All Things, a podcast with Potomac Watch and the Wall Street Journal.
0:42.3	I am here this week with Stephen Law. He is the CEO of the Senate
0:46.4	Leadership Fund and One Nation, both of them very big players in Senate elections and he's doing it in again this year.
0:54.7	Welcome Stephen, thank you so much for being here with us today.
0:59.1	I want to talk first a little bit about the landscape out there and in particular about money. We'll dive
1:05.3	into some of these Senate races that you guys are playing in soon. There's been a lot of
1:10.2	conversation right now ever since Kamala Harris got named the nominee
1:14.3	about the enthusiasm she is generating the money that she has been raising and then
1:20.6	I've seen some headlines recently from legacy media saying that Republicans are ringing their hands out there as to a deficit in terms of dollars by Democrats and Republicans.
1:33.0	As you look out in terms of what you are doing in these Senate races, what's the actual
1:37.9	picture out there?
1:38.9	Yeah, I think the money gap is concerning, but it has been this way for quite some time.
1:44.0	Democrats have a few different advantages in this arena.
1:47.4	First of all, they have an overwhelming advantage
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