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Biden, We Have a Problem

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Media And Politics, Society & Culture, Fight For Democracy., American Politics, White Supremacy In Politics, Multiracial Democracy, Social Justice Podcast, Wajahat Ali, Danielle Moodie, Politics, U.s. Politics Podcast, Racial Justice, Democracy Podcast, Political Commentary, Defending Democracy, Political Podcast, News, Progressive Politics Podcast, Government

4.8703 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Whether it's Gen Z organizing on college campuses and in the streets or the Muslim community in Michigan telling Biden not to come or Black Pastors saying they're having trouble aligning their parishioners with Biden on genocide in Gaza--every critical constituency of the Democratic Party is ringing a 5-alarm bell--and on this week's episode Waj and Danielle ask, is anyone in Biden world listening?!?


Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali

 

Executive Producer: Adell Coleman

 

Senior Producer: Quinton Hill

 

Distributor: DCP Entertainment



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0:00.0

Welcome to Democracy-ish.

0:12.0

I'm Danielle Moody.

0:14.0

And I'm Wajaj, here we are back again.

0:19.0

You know, we've made it to another to another democracy-ish week

0:23.2

in America. And I got to tell you that over the weekend, the New York Times posted a story

0:32.3

that had me think about our show, think about our work, and the fact that everything that we have

0:41.0

been saying, and you always joke and you say, you know, we're never wrong. We're never wrong.

0:47.2

And so the New York Times is like echoing the things that we've been saying in an article over the

0:52.8

weekend entitled black pastors

0:55.8

pressure Biden to call for a ceasefire in Gaza several black pastors pastors that together

1:04.7

lead about 15 million congregants around the country are saying that they are struggling with telling

1:16.7

their parishioners to vote for Joe Biden, that they believe that, quote, he has lost his way,

1:26.4

that this administration has lost their way.

1:29.6

And they say that, quote, black faith leaders are extremely disappointed in the Biden administration on this issue.

1:38.4

And we've talked about it.

1:40.3

It's going to be very hard to persuade our people to go back to the polls and vote for

1:46.4

Biden. What do you make of this? And the fact, again, when folks are listening to this,

1:55.6

happy Black History Month. This is the beginning of Black, the shortest month of the year, folks. Shortest month of the year

2:01.4

is we're now in February that this type of alarming article is coming out now. Well, that

2:11.0

alarming article coincides with all the polls that have come out recently that have shown

2:15.7

that Democratic voters, the overwhelming majority of them, are against the war, demand to ceasefire, that with young voters, I mean,

2:24.8

the one that came out yesterday, it was just shocking, like what, 70 plus percent of young voters,

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