Is that your iPhone that you're using?

Yeah. I was going to say you can just put your stand on a bunch of books.

That's how I always end up doing this.

That's what I'm doing.

I actually would love to hear a rundown of like the books people use. This stack I almost don't want to say it because it's too. Well now you have to say it. It's a biography of Eleanor Roosevelt. Secret City which is about like the secret gay history of Washington and a

giant book called the art of Harry Potter. Nice! So all gay bucks.

Yeah, pretty much. Pretty much. Hello and

I'm Gailin Druk and happy New Year.

It's 2024, we are officially in a presidential election year, so buckle up folks.

And we have got a special start of the year edition of the podcast today. We're going to kick things off with a game of buy sell

whole so let me explain there are a lot of unknowns as we start the year who will win the party

nominations will a third party candidate break through

what will come of Trump's legal liability and ultimately who will win the

White House and also the House and Senate.

There are betting markets for just about all of these unknowns.

And so I'm going to ask my colleagues

to make an assessment of the going odds. That will address many of the known unknowns of

2024, but what about the unknown unknowns? What issues might motivate voters this year?

How will congressional dysfunction play out?

What about October surprises?

And will there be threats to democracy?

We're going to dig into some of the wild cards, or possible wild cards of 2024.

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