Donald Trump Takes The Bait

Political Gabfest

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Politics, Government, News

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🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Kamala Harris’ win against Donald Trump in the presidential debate; the Harris endorsements by Taylor Swift and Dick and Liz Cheney; and election integrity with Professor Nathaniel Persily of Stanford Law School. Here are this week’s chatters: Emily: Willa Paskin and Cheyna Roth for Decoder Ring: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie… Will He Want a Welfare Check? and Wangjie Hu et al. in Science: Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition John: Sasha Weiss for The New York Times Magazine: The Prince We Never Knew; Mike Wall for Space.com: New record! 19 people are orbiting Earth right now; and Black Fire by Sonni Cooper David: Hemispheres Listener chatter from Curt Fonger in Daphne, Alabama: Caity Weaver for The New York Times Magazine: America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, David, Emily, and John continue their conversation with Nate Persily on election integrity. In the latest Gabfest Reads, Emily talks with Joshua Leifer about his book, Tablets Shattered. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to [email protected]. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth Research by Julie Huygen Public.com+Public Investing Disclosure: Public Investing offers a High-Yield Cash Account where funds from this account are automatically deposited into partner banks where they earn interest and are eligible for FDIC insurance; Public Investing is not a bank. See public.com/#disclosures-main for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and walk this late political Gabfest.
0:07.0	They're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats, they're eating the pets.
0:15.0	September 12, 2024, the Trump Takes the Bait edition.
0:21.0	I'm David Plots of City Cast. I'm actually in Austin this week. I've got some
0:26.8	city cast business here in Austin, Texas. I'm turned bright orange with my love of Texas, but still here for you.
0:34.3	Yeah, best listeners.
0:35.3	John Dickerson is same color.
0:38.8	He usually is a bright pink, and he's in New York City. Hello John. Hello Taser. And Emily has her
0:48.8	deep summer nut brown color still. Emily Baslan of Yale University Law School and somewhere the New York
0:55.8	Times magazine if I remember. Yeah that's true that is where I work thank you.
1:00.5	I don't have a plan for the gap us today, but I do have the concept of a plan.
1:04.6	Yeah.
1:06.6	Has it taken you nine years to come up with it?
1:08.6	Yeah, pretty much. Pretty much, that's how it goes.
1:14.0	Maybe longer.
1:16.0	This week on the Gapfest,
1:18.0	Kamal Harris won the presidential debate according to the pundits, But does it matter? Will it shake
1:24.9	any of the 116 undecided voters left in the seven swing states? What will the
1:30.3	impact of that interesting debate be? Then what happens when one
1:35.7	childless cat lady and a formerly loath by Democrats, Vice President, and that
1:42.2	Vice President's daughter all endorse Kamla Harris.
1:45.1	We are going to talk about the Swift and Cheney endorsements and Elon Musk's insane response to them.
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