Buckling up for 2024

In The Thick

Futuro Media

News, Politics

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Julio and guest co-host Fernanda Santos discuss Mike Pence launching his 2024 bid and the latest with Cop City in Atlanta. In our roundtable, Astead Herndon, national political reporter for The New York Times and host of The Run-Up podcast, and Sabrina Rodríguez, national political reporter for The Washington Post, join Julio to delve deeper into the growing number of Republican presidential candidates. They also unpack the likelihood of a Biden/Trump rematch in 2024 and the already growing apathy among voters.

ITT Staff Picks:

“This is a global struggle against fascism, it’s a global struggle against the militarization of the police and state violence against folks whose dissent is being oppressed,” says Atlanta organizer Jasmine in an interview about Cop City on the Movement Memos podcast from Truthout.
David A. Graham unpacks Mike Pence’s presidential campaign, in this piece for The Atlantic.
Michael Barajas talks about two Republican-backed bills that are threatening election administration in Texas’ largest county, in this article for Bolts magazine.

Photo credit: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, Meg Kinnard

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0:00.0	Futuro.
0:07.0	From Futuro Media and PRX, it's in the thick podcast about politics, race, and culture.
0:14.2	I'm Julio Ricardo Varela.
0:16.0	And I'm Fernanda Santos.
0:17.8	Yes!
0:18.8	Fernanda Santos editorial director of a Futuro Media Fernanda, it's always good to have you.
0:25.4	You know, here we are in the summer of 2023 and we're already talking about 2024.
0:31.0	Not even summer yet.
0:32.6	And we are talking about 2024.
0:33.6	Not even summer.
0:34.6	Oh, look at you being all technical and journalist and fact check yummy.
0:39.0	This is why you're the editorial director of Futuro Media.
0:41.6	You're right.
0:42.6	It is late spring.
0:44.2	And you know, here we are talking about 2024 because former vice president Mike Pence
0:50.9	filed paperwork on Monday declaring his candidacy for president.
0:56.0	And he, yes, he's running as a Republican.
0:58.8	And you know, this is a party that includes people who've called for him to be hang.
1:05.5	They call for his hanging outside during the January 6th insurrection.
1:10.8	Remember that?
1:11.8	So this he's running against his former running mate who said, yeah, let's, it's totally
1:18.4	cool.
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