Even George Clooney Has Abandoned Biden

Political Gabfest

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Politics, Government, News

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🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz continue to debate if Joe Biden should stay in the presidential race and who might replace him if he goes; discuss Project 2025; and ponder if Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett deserves a strange, new respect. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: George Clooney in The New York Times: I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Nominee. Franklin Foer for The Atlantic: Biden Has Fallen Into a Psychological Trap Leigh Ann Caldwell, Marianna Sotomayor, Jacqueline Alemany, and Paul Kane for The Washington Post: Pelosi opens the door, subtly, to replacing Biden Merriam-Webster Dictionary: coronate and ideate Tim Alberta for The Atlantic: Trump Is Planning For A Landslide Win Ryan Teague Beckwith for MSNBC: What is Project 2025? The plans for Trump’s second term, explained Judd Legum for Popular Information: What Trump doesn’t want you to know about Project 2025 and The alarming new power Trump will claim in a second term James Taranto for The Wall Street Journal: Strange New Respect Ann E. Marimow for The Washington Post: Justice Amy Coney Barrett is charting her own path on the bench Stephen I. Vladeck in The New York Times: The Most Interesting Justice on the Supreme Court Is Also the Loneliest James LaRock and Jacob Hammond for Balls and Strikes: The Hollow Originalism of Amy Coney Barrett Oyez: Amy Coney Barrett Here are this week’s chatters: John: Joshua Hammer for Smithsonian Magazine: Pablo Escobar’s Abandoned Hippos Are Wreaking Havoc in the Columbia Jungle Emily: Andrea Robin Skinner for the Toronto Star: My stepfather sexually abused me when I was a child. My mother, Alice Munro, chose to stay with him David: Natasha Singer for The New York Times: Students Target Teachers in Group TikTok Attack, Shaking Their School and City Cast DC Live Podcast Taping on Saturday, July 13 Listener chatter from Researcher Julie: Alexandra Alter for The New York Times: Romance Bookstores Are Booming, Dishing ‘All the Hot Stuff You Can Imagine’ and Elisabeth Egan: Emily Henry on Writing Best-Sellers Without Tours and TikTok; Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, Ellen Gamerman, and Isabella Simonetti for The Wall Street Journal: How Dragons, Magic and Steamy Sex Took Over the Book World; and Bridgerton on Netflix For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, David, John, and Emily talk with Professor Emily Wilson about her translation of Homer’s Iliad. See The Iliad by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson. See also The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson. In the latest Gabfest Reads, David talks with Sierra Greer about her new book, Annie Bot: A Novel. And Gabfest Reads now has its own site! 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 and Ethan Oberman Research by Julie Huygen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gabfest. July 11th, 2024, the even George Clooney has abandoned Biden Edition.
0:23.2	I'm David Plut of Citicask here in Washington, D.C.
0:26.2	The heat is slightly broken.
0:27.8	Thank goodness.
0:28.8	From New Haven, Connecticut, where she has, she's gotten her summer colors now she's in her
0:34.0	full rich summer colors Emily Bazlon.
0:37.4	Love Emily the New York Times magazine and Yale University Law School.
0:40.4	Hey David, hey John.
0:42.0	Hey, and Law School. Hey David, hey John. Hey.
0:44.0	And from Manhattan, the Gotham, the seat of power in America.
0:55.0	John Dickerson of CBS's Daily Report. Hello, John.
0:56.4	Hello. You know, you were talking about weather or heat.
0:59.5	That new Heat Island report that came out on Wednesday, New York is 9.8 degrees hotter as a result of its urban environment than the actual temperature.
1:10.0	Woof.
1:11.0	Yeah.
1:12.0	Woof. So there you go. I mean in general, not just today or not just recently.
1:17.0	So if you're coming to New York, pack a small towel for the perspiration.
1:22.0	This week on the Gapfest, President Biden soldiers
1:26.1	on resisting pressure to withdraw, will Democrats figure out a way to knock him out or are they just going to resign themselves to running him against Trump in November?
1:37.0	Then, Trump gears up for his nomination in Milwaukee next week.
1:42.0	What has he done to the GOP platform?
1:43.8	What is Project 2025?
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