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The Dispatch Podcast

Closing Arguments

The Dispatch Podcast

The Dispatch

News, Politics

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

The idea that Joe Biden will somehow heal America in a post-Trump era has become the closing argument of the Democratic candidate’s campaign. Will Biden’s “return to normalcy” pitch constrain his presidency? There’s a lot of ill will festering among congressional Democrats over coronavirus relief negotiations and the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Assuming post-Election Day Democratic majorities in both the House and the Senate, will Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi pull Biden further left? Our podcast hosts are here for the breakdown. With less than a week until Election Day, Sarah and the guys discuss both presidential candidates’ closing rally schedules, ongoing election litigation, and whether Mitch McConnell is the real savior of the Trump years.  Show Notes: -Tim Alberta and Chris Stirewalt on the Remnant, David’s French Press: “The Curse of ‘Pandemic Law’ Strikes the Electoral Process,” today’s Morning Dispatch: “Election Litigationpalooza,” and “How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk” by Josh Katz and Wilson Andrews in the New York Times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the dispatch podcast. I'm your host Sarah Isger joined as always by Steve

0:04.9

Hayes David French and Jonah Goldberg. This podcast is brought to you by the dispatch.

0:09.9

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0:28.8

what's happening there. Tickets are $100 and include a new complimentary subscription

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to the dispatch. We've got interviews lined up with congresswoman Liz Cheney, senator

0:38.0

Ben Sass, senator Tim Scott. We'll have more interviews panel discussions. We'll be announcing

0:43.4

them on that website. What's next event.com for all of your post 2020 election needs. This

0:52.3

week on the podcast, we are going to talk about Biden's closing argument, the rallies

0:58.6

and campaign schedules of the candidates, election litigation heading into Tuesday, and

1:04.4

the legacy of Mitch McConnell. Let's dive right in. Steve, we're coming to you on Biden's

1:24.2

closing argument. Yeah, really interesting to look at the argument

1:29.4

that he's been making increasingly over the past couple of weeks. It's been a theme of

1:33.4

his campaign, but he's now made it. I think the centerpiece of his closing argument. And

1:40.3

it's this, if Joe Biden is elected, he will be president, not of the red states, the blue

1:46.0

states, but the United States picking up on Barack Obama's 2004 convention speech. And

1:52.6

Biden presidency will heal America after a divisive and difficult four years. The question

2:00.3

I have is whether having closed with that argument, Joe Biden is constrained as president

2:08.3

if he wins. Will this keep him from being the Trojan horse for super progressivism that

2:17.7

some folks on the left want him to be? And I'll start that question with you, Sarah.

2:24.7

I think that's an interesting question. I think that is the question of the Biden presidency

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