Could Kamala Harris Be a Trump-Level Cultural Phenomenon?
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 26 July 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss the start of Kamala Harris’s Presidential campaign and the surge of excitement among Democrats on the Internet and at rallies. Plus, who might be her running mate and how Republicans plan to launch “racist, misogynist” attacks against her.
This week’s reading:
- “Biden’s Exit, Harris’s Moment,” by Susan B. Glasser
- “Why Did Progressive Democrats Support Joe Biden?,” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- “Kamala Harris Should Tell Her Family’s Story,” by Jay Caspian Kang
- “J. D. Vance’s Sad, Strange Politics of Family,” by Jessica Winter
- “Was Biden’s Decision to Withdraw ‘Heroic’?” by Isaac Chotiner
- “Kamala Harris, the Candidate,” by Doreen St. Félix
- “Who Should Kamala Harris Pick as Her Running Mate?” by Amy Davidson Sorkin
- “J. D. Vance’s Radical Religion,” by Paul Elie
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| 0:00.0 | Did you see about J.D. Vance getting accustomed to his plane, that he doesn't know where to stand and how to kind of talk to reporters in the back of the plane? |
| 0:11.0 | I feel like he doesn't know how to talk in general. |
| 0:13.7 | The whole cat lady thing, I mean, you know you've like screwed up when you've got Jennifer |
| 0:18.1 | Aniston involved in politics in your first week as a candidate. |
| 0:21.8 | Yeah, you can't describe that as a success. |
| 0:24.0 | I mean, could he have picked a more efficient way |
| 0:28.2 | to alienate half of the American population? |
| 0:31.0 | Well, I don't know. |
| 0:32.4 | I have a slightly controversial position on this. |
| 0:34.9 | Oh, because of the cat thing? I feel that he could have made it even worse if he'd gone |
| 0:39.6 | after people who have dogs. Give him time, Jane. |
| 0:44.0 | No, Jane, that's Donald Trump's role. |
| 0:47.0 | See, Donald Trump hates dogs and J.D. Vance hates cats. |
| 0:50.0 | So between them, they hate all pet owners. So they've got it covered. The anti-pet ticket. |
| 0:55.1 | All right. |
| 0:57.1 | Welcome to the political scene a weekly discussion about the big questions in |
| 1:01.8 | American politics I'm Evan Osnos and I'm joined |
| 1:04.5 | by my colleagues Susan Glasser and Jane Mayer. Good morning Susan. |
| 1:09.1 | Hey there, great to be with you. |
| 1:10.8 | Hi Jane. |
| 1:11.3 | Hey, Evan. It has been a week that felt like a month. We're barely a hundred days away from the presidential |
| 1:26.0 | election and the brand new Kamala Harris campaign is riding a surge of energy as it sets out to make |
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