Biden Has A Gen X Problem
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 22 December 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, political correspondent Susan Davis, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:17.0 | Hey there it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamar Keith. I cover the White House. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm Susan Davis, I cover politics. |
| 0:27.4 | And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. |
| 0:30.3 | President Biden's re-election bid has a generational problem, and it might not be the one you're thinking of. |
| 0:36.5 | While JinZ is lukewarm on giving Biden another term, Gen X may in fact be the most hostile toward the president. |
| 0:45.5 | Are we allowed to talk about Gen X? |
| 0:46.8 | You like never talked about Gen X. |
| 0:48.0 | This might be the first pod. |
| 0:49.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.4 | The forgotten generation. |
| 0:52.4 | Definitely. Well, okay, so let's just skip ahead to the full disclosure part. I think technically speaking |
| 0:58.4 | all three of us in this podcast are members of Generation X |
| 1:02.3 | though I don't think any of us really claim it because we're all on the cuss. |
| 1:06.0 | We're X-enials as we've talked about in the polls previously, in the pod previously. |
| 1:10.0 | We are either very old millennials or very young Genexers. Yeah, very young Gen X. And while I want to be very young. |
| 1:17.0 | I want my MTV. |
| 1:21.0 | Yeah, well truly and I wanted to have music videos. Correct. So let's get to the |
| 1:26.3 | story here. Our latest polling data shows Gen Xers have the highest |
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