Democracy Now! 2024-07-18 Thursday
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🗓️ 18 July 2024
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Headlines for July 18, 2024; Trump’s VP Pick J.D. Vance Espouses Economic Populism But Will He Actually Be a Working-Class Ally?; J.D. Vance Criticizes Biden’s Support for Iraq War in 2003 But Pushes Hawkish Policy on China & Iran; “More Radical Than MAGA”? Politico’s Ian Ward on J.D. Vance & the Future of the Republican Party; “White Trash” Historian Nancy Isenberg on J.D. Vance, “Hillbilly Elegy” & Class in America; COVID Forces Biden Off Campaign Trail as Pressure Grows for Him to Step Aside
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| 0:00.0 | And the From the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:21.6 | President Trump represents America's last best hope to restore what if lost may never be found again. |
| 0:28.0 | A country where a working class boy born far from the halls of power can stand on this stage as the next |
| 0:35.7 | vice president of the United States of America. |
| 0:39.9 | Ohio Senator JD Lance formally accepts the Republican Vice Presidential nomination |
| 0:46.9 | to run with Donald Trump. |
| 0:48.9 | The man Vance once described is America's Hitler. |
| 0:52.9 | In a populist anti-immigrant address, |
| 0:56.0 | Vance attacked Joe Biden for supporting free trade agreements |
| 0:59.6 | and the Iraq war. |
| 1:01.3 | Will there excerpts of Vance's RNC speech and look at his views on domestic |
| 1:06.0 | and foreign policy? |
| 1:08.0 | Together we will send our kids to war only when we must. But as President Trump showed with the |
| 1:15.5 | elimination of ISIS and so much more when we punch, we're going to punch hard. |
| 1:20.0 | All that and more coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now. |
| 1:39.2 | This is War Peace and the Presidency, breaking with convention. I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 1:45.0 | President Biden's tested positive for COVID and cancelled a campaign speech Wednesday |
| 1:50.5 | evening as he headed back to Delaware to self isolate. The White House |
| 1:54.9 | says Biden has mild symptoms and is being treated with the antiviral drug |
| 1:59.8 | Pexlove. Biden was set to address the UNIDOS conference in Las Vegas to appeal to Latin |
| 2:06.2 | next voters. |
| 2:07.6 | Earlier in the day, an unmasked Biden was seen greeting supporters with close physical contact just hours before news of the |
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