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The Editors

Episode 678: Kamala Takes Center Stage

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Politics, Charles C. W. Cooke, Conservatism, Conservative, Policy, Government, News, Jim Geraghty, Rich Lowry, Michael Brendan Dougherty, Current Events, Noah Rothman, Madeleine Kearns, Society & Culture, Public Policy, National Review

4.44.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, Phil, and Ramesh discuss Kamala’s convention address, Walz’s convention address, and the possibility of RFK Jr. dropping out.

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and Come,

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on center stage, and the Democrats become the party of freedom.

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We'll discuss all this more on this edition of the editors. I'm

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R. I'm joined as always or at least some of the time by the right

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honorable Charles C. W. Cook, Philip, Phil Klein, and the Lapidary.

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So Phil, we had Kamla Harris, much anticipated convention address, has gotten passing grades from most people.

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A lot of this speech felt to me like, you know, they took out a blender and threw in

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every cliche that every politician has ever uttered in such a speech over the last, I don't,

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30 years or maybe 200 years and brought him out.

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But she delivered it forcefully and you know emphasized her biography which is a major

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emphasis throughout the week and especially on the last night last

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night what you make of it?

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Yeah, I mean, it was definitely full of cliches

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and some of it felt lifted from the 2008 Obama campaign specifically the part where she talks about we need to overcome cynicism and division and I'm going to be president for all Americans.

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That sort of theme was a central theme of the Obama campaign in 2008, but what's kind of odd is that in 2008, Obama was running as a

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