Does Trump Need To Keep His Promises To Keep His Voters?
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🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
With fewer than 50 days until Inauguration Day, President-elect Donald Trump spent the long holiday weekend inviting more people to join his administration. But for Democrats, the conversation is still very much backward looking, as the party litigates why it lost the 2024 election despite delivering on a lot of its promises from four years ago. Matt Yglesias, who writes the Substack newsletter ‘Slow Boring,’ explains why ‘deliverism’ didn’t deliver for Democrats in 2024.
And in headlines: President Biden pardoned his son Hunter, a new drug to seek authorization to fight the AIDS epidemic, and The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees suspended deliveries into Gaza through a key crossing.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, December 2nd. |
| 0:03.5 | I'm Jane Koston, and this is Water Day, the show that is coming back strong from the holiday weekend and definitely didn't eat too much stuffing and pie. |
| 0:11.1 | That definitely didn't happen. |
| 0:13.0 | Write that down. |
| 0:18.3 | On today's show, President Biden pardons his son Hunter ahead of sentencing later this month. |
| 0:23.3 | And good news in the pursuit to end the AIDS epidemic. |
| 0:27.0 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:28.8 | It's December, and we're less than 50 days away from President-elect Donald Trump taking office. |
| 0:33.6 | Over the weekend, Trump forged ahead with more appointment announcements. |
| 0:37.4 | He nominated Charles Kushner, the father of Trump's son-in appointment announcements. He nominated Charles Cushner, |
| 0:39.0 | the father of Trump's son-in-law, Jared, to be ambassador to France. Trump pardoned him in 2020. |
| 0:44.6 | And he named a new head of the FBI, Cash Patel. He worked for Trump on the National Security Council |
| 0:49.8 | before becoming chief of staff to the acting defense secretary at the end of Trump's first term, |
| 0:54.3 | and he is very, very, very, very weird. |
| 0:57.6 | But among Democrats, the party is still litigating why Vice President Kamala Harris |
| 1:01.8 | lost the election last month. |
| 1:03.6 | On Sunday, Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy told meet the press he thinks Democrats need to push a more |
| 1:07.9 | populist message going forward to win back working class voters. |
| 1:11.6 | I think some of the most important things that Joe Biden did were taking on the big corporations, |
| 1:17.0 | going after their monopoly power, helping consumers with some of the really egregious fees and |
| 1:24.4 | gimmicks that those companies used to hurt us. I wish the Biden campaign and the |
| 1:29.1 | Biden White House and the Harris campaign talked more about what they did to break up corporate |
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