Checks and Balance: California vice
Checks and Balance from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 14 August 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
After a deliberately quiet few months, Presidential frontrunner Joe Biden seized the news cycle this week by announcing Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. We hear about what she really stands for. And we ask what her time as California’s Attorney General tells us about how she would wield power in practice.
John Prideaux, The Economist’s US editor, hosts with Charlotte Howard, New York bureau chief, and Washington correspondent Jon Fasman.
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| 0:33.1 | Batman and Robin, The Lone Ranger and Tonto, Mr Burns and Wayland Smithers. |
| 0:40.3 | This week America added a new name to the list of high profile sidekicks. |
| 0:44.6 | With 80 days to go, this is checks and balance. |
| 0:49.1 | I'm John Prido, the Economist's US editor and this is a podcast about the 2020 elections. |
| 0:58.0 | Each week we take one big theme shaping American politics and explore it in depth. |
| 1:04.0 | Today, who is Carmelah Harris? |
| 1:10.0 | Presidential Frontrunner Joe Biden now has his running mate and as far as many are concerned an air apparent as well. |
| 1:20.0 | It feels like the word we've heard the most since the decision was announced is first, |
| 1:26.0 | the first black woman on a major party ticket, the first Indian American as well, |
| 1:31.0 | the first Democrat from west of Texas to ever be on a presidential ticket, |
| 1:35.0 | the first time the Democratic ticket has not had an Ivy League graduate on it since 1984. |
| 1:40.0 | The list goes on. |
| 1:42.0 | Today we'll look at the Carmel-Lah Harris behind the headlines, |
| 1:45.0 | at her core beliefs, |
| 1:46.0 | we'll find out what her time as Attorney General of California tells us |
| 1:50.0 | and whether the new look for the Biden ticket will affect the polls. |
| 1:54.0 | With me as ever to discuss all of this are Charlotte Howard, the Economist's New York |
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