Checks and Balance: Coalition control

Checks and Balance from The Economist

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🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The Democrats used their convention this week to showcase the breadth of the coalition built to oust President Trump. Republican defectors shared a platform with leftists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But climate, minority rights, even capitalism, are all areas of disagreement. Can Joe Biden unite the party?

Host John Prideaux, The Economist's US editor, with Jon Fasman, Washington correspondent, and Charlotte Howard, New York bureau chief.

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0:00.0	Today is the day the war is only.
0:03.2	The newly crowd queen waves from the belt.
0:05.2	The eagle has landed.
0:06.2	The Apollo 11 has tearing down the Berlin war.
0:08.7	Since 1929, the Marks Investment Trust's mission has been to help investors grow their wealth.
0:15.0	We aim to do this today by taking a three-dimensional approach to growth, cyclical growth,
0:20.0	rapid growth, and steady growth.
0:22.0	The Worldwide Web. Wall Street in turmoil. rapid growth and steady growth.
0:23.0	The World Wide Web.
0:24.0	Wall Street is in turmoil as stocks crap.
0:26.0	The Monks Investment Trust managed by Bailey Gifford,
0:29.0	capital at risk.
0:30.0	In the run-up to the 1984 elections, a bunch of ambitious political consultants decided the Democrats
0:38.6	needed a clean break with the discredited politics of the past.
0:43.0	Their data showed a charismatic young candidate
0:45.8	could turn out a new generation of voters.
0:48.8	They persuaded Joe Biden to complete the paperwork
0:51.6	for the New Hampshire primary.
0:53.0	In the end, he decided not to run that year, but it was a tentative toe dipped into presidential politics.
0:59.0	Biden's first proper presidential run was in 1988.
1:02.0	The Democrats current
1:03.6	totem of youth, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, wasn't born until the
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