Could Biden Blow It?

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🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Has the Biden campaign succumbed to a false sense of complacency around the state of the 2020 race? There is still a lot of game left to play and events yet to occur that will alter the trajectory of the race, but is the Democratic candidate nimble enough to meet them? Source

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0:00.0	music
0:24.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Tuesday August 4th, 2020. I am John
0:29.7	Fodhwards, the editor of commentary. I invite you as always to join us at
0:33.8	commentarymagazine.com where we give you a few free reads and ask you to
0:38.5	subscribe with me as always a decade of editor A Greenwald Hyah. Hi John,
0:43.5	associate editor Noah Rothman, Hynawa. Hi John. And yet again back from her
0:50.3	vacation senior writer Christine Rosen, Hykristine. Hi John. Okay I want to
0:55.4	read you guys something that popped up in my memories on Facebook. If you guys
1:01.4	are on Facebook you know that every day now they send you something that you
1:07.3	posted on the day on that date in previous moments, you know previous years.
1:14.8	And this is what came up for August 4th, 2016. Quote. This is something I wrote
1:21.5	posted on Facebook. Most likely Trump is finished. National poll last night, 49
1:27.9	39 Clinton. State polls. New Hampshire 4732. Michigan 4132. Pennsylvania 4938. If
1:38.6	these numbers track it all with reality Republicans will lose the house and send
1:42.4	it as well. Near extinction level event for GOP. Wake up Trumpkins you burn
1:48.1	down the joint. So oddly enough if you look at today's polling in so that was a
1:59.8	poll that had Trump down by 10 on August 4th, 2016. And in the real clear politics
2:07.2	average today hold on. In the real clear politics average today Biden is up 7
2:18.0	point four. So Biden is arguably doing worse than Trump is doing better than he
2:30.8	was in 2016 today August 4th. And Biden is doing worse than he'll actually it's
2:39.8	not worse because he's at 49 in the in the average. And as I cited those terrible
2:48.4	polls in Pennsylvania Michigan and New Hampshire. So of course he won Pennsylvania and Michigan
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