DNC, Day 1

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🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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There was yelling, chanting, attacking, and speechifying. It was the first night of the Democratic National Convention. How do we think it went for Kamala Harris? And what do we make of Joe Biden's late-night farewell? We agree a little, disagree a little—and, yes, we complain. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hope for the best.
0:09.0	Expect the worst.
0:11.0	Some bring champagne, some die of furs.
0:15.0	No way of knowing, which way it's going.
0:19.0	Hope for the best expect the worst.
0:22.0	Welcome to the it's the editor of Commentary magazine with me as always executive editor
0:33.6	Aig Greenwald. Hi Abe. Hi John. And we have a full house today senior
0:37.8	editor Seth Mandel. Hi Seth. Hi, John. Media commentary columnist Christine
0:42.4	Rosen, hi Christine. Hi John. Media Commentary columnist Christine. Hi, Christine.
0:44.0	Hi John.
0:45.0	And Washington Commentary columnist Matthew Continental columnist Matthew Continental.
0:47.0	Hi Matt.
0:48.0	Hi, John.
0:49.0	I'd like to take this opportunity to start off with a correction as a reader informed me I said that only
0:55.6	one Democratic ticket prior to this year featured a non-senatorial VP candidate in that I mentioned 1972, but as a astute reader
1:08.6	inform me, 1984's vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro was a house member.
1:16.2	So that makes three Democratic tickets since 1960 which have not featured a Senate sitting or former senator as the VP selection.
1:26.8	Interestingly enough, 1972 and 1984, the Democrats both lost.
1:33.0	Why didn't lose?
1:35.0	Didn't just lose, Matt.
1:37.0	Yes.
1:38.0	25 points in 1972.
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