Clinton’s Rivals

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🗓️ 14 November 2014

⏱️ 20 minutes

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“Once you identify a candidate who is really making a case against Clinton, interesting things can happen,” Ryan Lizza, who wrote about Hillary Clinton’s potential Presidential opponents in this week’s magazine, says on this week’s Political Scene podcast. “The history of these open primaries is that the dominant front-runner always gets challenged.” Lizza joins Evan Osnos and the host, Dorothy Wickenden, to discuss the challenges that Clinton may face as a candidate, both from within her party and from the Republicans. They talk about the reasons that Obama was able to defeat Clinton in 2008, the legacy of her vote for the Iraq War, and the expectation that her campaign will disparage the Obama Administration. They also discuss how Obama’s agreement with China on carbon emissions may play out, environmentally and politically. Of this, Osnos, who has written about China’s clean-energy initiatives for the magazine, says, “Since China and the United States account for almost half of the world’s greenhouse-gas emissions, this now gives permission to other countries to be more ambitious in their own targets.”

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1:11.6	This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.
1:17.3	It's Thursday, November 13th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.
1:22.8	Hillary Clinton, with 2016 on her mind, has been sounding a bit like a populist.
1:27.7	You should not have to be a grandchild of a governor, a senator, a secretary of state, or a president
1:34.9	that have the same opportunity that we were given in previous years, both for somebody
1:41.1	who will understand that and deliver for you.
1:54.5	In that campaign ad, the former First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State was speaking on behalf of Martha Coughley, who ended up losing her race for Governor of Massachusetts last week.
2:04.6	Ryan Lissa and Evan Osnos join me today to talk about the challenges Clinton faces both from within her party and from Republicans in the next couple of years.
2:15.0	Also, one of the big issues will be foreign policy, obviously, and we're going to talk a little bit about how Obama's agreement this week with China on carbon emissions is going to play out.
2:19.3	So, Ryan, you have a piece in this week's issue about Hillary and her pesky potential challengers. None of them really seems like a plausible nominee, as you
2:25.1	point out. And I think my favorite line in the piece is from a Democratic strategist saying,
2:30.5	if you get a deft insurgent, they may not win, but an insurgent could torture this poor woman.
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