Don’t Sleep on the Swing Voter

Clock It with Symone & Eugene

MS NOW, Eugene Daniels, Symone Sanders Townsend

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Biden needs to walk and chew gum at the same time — addressing the concerns of the base while speaking to the undecided.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to How to win 2024. We are recording this episode on Wednesday, May 22nd.
0:16.0	I'm Jennifer Pulmeri and I'm here with my co-host Claire McCaskill. Hi Claire.
0:19.8	Hey Jen. So it's almost summer and the first debate is in a month.
0:25.8	I know it's wild.
0:26.8	Crazy.
0:27.8	But this is commencement season.
0:30.6	This is that time of year which I always looked forward to.
0:35.0	Lots of invitations to do college and high school commencements.
0:40.0	And at Biden's commencement speech at Morehouse College on Sunday, he not only spoke to the continuing
0:45.0	struggles of young black men in America, he also made an effort to reach out to students
0:50.4	protesting the war in Gaza and that it should be taken
0:53.3	seriously. Yeah. There is another group that he also needs to be talking to
0:57.4	swing voters. So he's got two challenges. One is the enthusiasm of the base, particularly people of color and particularly
1:06.3	young people of color. But he also has got to worry about swing voters at the same time, which
1:11.0	is hard. So Jen and I want to strategize on the issues
1:14.7	that these groups care about, like immigration crime, of course the conflict in
1:19.6	Gaza and the economy. Yeah, there's a lot to cover there.
1:24.1	We're gonna get to all of that.
1:25.1	And now that the defense wrapped up
1:26.5	and the jury will be ready to deliberate after closing arguments next week,
1:30.2	we thought it would be a good time
1:31.3	to catch people up on some takeaways from the first ever criminal
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