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The Run-Up

Do Not Invite Donald Trump or Joe Biden on This Date

The Run-Up

The New York Times

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

If you had just a few minutes to win someone’s affection, how political would you get? Would you dive right in, or avoid politics altogether? The Run-Up went speed dating in suburban Philadelphia to find out. Usually when we’re out in the field, we’re at rallies or campaign events – places where people are vocal about their political beliefs. But for many participants at the dating event, talking politics was a complete turn off. This got us thinking: How do political divisions — the things that seem so present on the campaign trail and in polling — actually play out in people’s personal lives? We turned to two of our colleagues -- Anna Martin, host of the Modern Love Podcast, and Jessica Grose, a writer for the Times Opinion section -- for perspective and additional reporting from the intersection of love and politics.

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0:00.0

I'm Radia and I'm out here because of her.

0:08.0

We're cousins.

0:09.0

No, we're just trying a different way to meet people.

0:12.0

I mean, we've been trying to do new websites and it hasn't been working,

0:15.4

so we thought, let's give this a try to see maybe have better luck.

0:18.4

The struggle is real.

0:20.4

Do you care about politics or issues or things like that? Do they come up?

0:25.0

Do you, does it matter?

0:27.0

You know what? I will say if it's like super extreme.

0:31.0

You know what I mean? and you can't respect as an adult someone else's opinion.

0:37.0

You know what I mean but like if you're hardcore like one way I can't you know you're saying does it matter that someone agrees

0:46.8

with you or it just really matters if they disagree you know I think and this might I mean whatever I think it's a hardcore disagree

0:59.2

for me that's what you don't want to see. That's the deal bring. Exactly.

1:03.1

Yeah.

1:04.1

We can disagree, but if you're riding hard, like this is, you know,

1:09.2

one of your family members, I can't.

1:11.8

Is that about an individual candidate? We're talking

1:13.2

Donald Trump. It's about individual issues. Is it like abortion or guns? Is

1:17.1

there certain things that matter at the top of that list? Things that I run into on

1:21.3

the apps. I don't know about this but usually someone will

1:25.4

ride for a candidate right now is Donald Trump and anything he says is gold

1:30.4

right and it's like come on you know what I mean? Like nothing,

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