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The Editors

Episode 701: Recriminations

The Editors

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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

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, Phil, and Audrey discuss Democratic recriminations in the wake of Trump’s election, predictions for his cabinet appointees, and much more.

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liberal tears and Trump ascendant will discuss all this and more on this edition of the editors.

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I'm Rich Lauer, and I'm joined, as always, by the right Honorable Charles C.W. Cook, Philip, Phil Klein, and the reporter, Audrey Falberg, you are, of course.

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I said anything.

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So, Phil, whatever else happens after this election, we knew that the next couple weeks after

0:56.8

our Trump win would be highly enjoyable because of all the Democratic recriminations.

1:02.2

And sure enough, they have not disappointed.

1:05.9

We have David Fluff, the former Obama advisor who parachuted into the Harris operation, tweeted that the campaign had tried to make up a lot of ground, but had a lot of ground to make up.

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This was a criticism of Biden, and then immediately deleted his account after tweeting that.

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You have the Biden people saying that the Obama people mess this up because

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they convinced everyone to dump Joe Biden.

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And then they tried to run Harris in a rerun of the Obama campaign using tactics that were

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out of date and a candidate who wasn't at all like Barack Obama.

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And then you have the Harris people, of course,

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or other Democrats saying, you know, Biden should have gotten out sooner. So basically, it seems to me

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that everyone in this circular firing squad has a reason to be firing. Everyone has a point.

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Yeah, one one recrimination that I've learned that's about the funniest one is

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you know, Democrats need Joe Rogans because we don't have a way to get out our message like

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Republicans do because they control this huge media platform and we have no such similar media platform to be able to get out our message.

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Yeah, they thought this was, what, 10 or 15 years ago with, this one, Al Franken was

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