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Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri

Chuck Todd on Bill Clinton's Revival Tour and Kamala's Achilles' Heel

Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri

The Ringer

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4.41.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Tara is joined by NBC’s Chuck Todd on the third day of the DNC to talk about the state of the Kamala Harris campaign and the legacy of notable Democrats in the convention’s history. They compare Kamala’s current position in the race to the Obama and Clinton campaigns when they were at the same stage, discuss the VP’s relationship with the media, and break down her path to the 270 electoral votes she’ll need to win the presidency in November. For more of Tara’s reporting, please sign up for her newsletter, 'The Best and the Brightest,' at puck.news/tarapalmeri and use the discount code TARA20. Host: Tara Palmeri Guest: Chuck Todd Producer: Chris Sutton Production Supervision: Conor Nevins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Brian Curtis from The Ringer, and I want to tell you about the Press Box podcast.

0:06.0

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0:17.6

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0:24.0

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0:27.5

Let us help you sort it out.

0:29.5

Join us on the press box. Hi, I'm Tara Paul Mary. I'm Puck's Senior Political Correspondent, and this is, somebody's got to win.

0:56.7

So it is the third night of the Democratic National Convention, and who are the Democrats wheeling out or dusting out or just dragging out of the

1:06.1

closet that they've stuffed them in since the start of the Me Too movement in 2017?

1:10.5

Bill Clinton. Sure he has a very spotty reputation to say the least as a friend of Jeffrey Epstein,

1:17.0

but he is probably one of the most effective communicators on the economy.

1:22.0

And he might be an effective messenger to older white males who are soft on

1:28.0

Comel Harris and who she probably needs to win over

1:31.0

to reassemble the Obama Coalition.

1:33.9

It's not just young people, African Americans,

1:36.4

Hispanics, she also needs to win some of these older white men

1:40.2

in the Rust Belt.

1:41.2

And who better than talk to them than Bill Clinton?

1:44.0

It's the economy stupid after all.

1:46.0

And yes, this might be a sign that the party is ready to move on

1:51.0

from the Me Too movement. We'll see how women respond to that. So there's

1:55.1

no better guest to talk about this than Chuck Todd, whose first convention was Bill

2:00.9

Clinton's back in 1992 when he was seen as a lightweight governor from Arkansas.

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