Balls to the Walz

The Josh Marshall Podcast

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🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Kate and Josh discuss VP Kamala Harris' veep pick and the first few weeks of her campaign.

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0:00.0	Hi dear listeners, this is Kate Riga. I'm here to make a quick pitch that you consider becoming a TPM Prime member.
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0:36.2	We couldn't do it without you. Oh, Hi this is the is not an incredibly long period of time, but right now it is an incredibly long period of time because
1:16.5	we're in a different political world than the one that we joined you for two weeks ago ago two weeks ago we were two or three days into
1:27.3	Kamala Harris's presidential campaign we had had the you know that initial burst of political contributions that I think ended up being something
1:37.8	like upwards of $100 million in what 24 hours or 36 hours.
1:42.4	I don't remember the exact amount, but a what was a
1:45.0	a, a, a major rush of political giving and that certainly sort of pretended what was to come, but we didn't have a clear sense of that yet.
2:00.3	At that point we didn't, you know, we didn't have any feedback from public opinion data obviously
2:06.2	you know small contribution giving has become a sort of virtual voting in contemporary politics.
2:15.2	It's a way, you know, your candidate has a good debate,
2:19.3	you raise a bunch of money.
2:21.0	Often sometimes bad things happen, and you raise a bunch of money. Often sometimes bad things happen and you raise a bunch of
2:24.5	money. When someone tried to shoot President Trump there was a big rush of giving
2:29.6	after the abysmal debate performance that knocked Joe Biden out of the race there was a there
2:36.1	was a you know a burst of giving not not comparable to what we saw later with Harris but
2:40.8	it's it's a way to show support, show all sorts of things.
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