Examining the Battles Both Parties Face Before Election Day

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

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🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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At the beginning of the year, few Americans would have been able to predict what the current political landscape looks like in the country. Vice President Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, making President Biden the first president in over 50 years not to run for a second term. And former President Trump survived an assassination attempt, then chose Ohio Senator JD Vance as his vice-presidential pick. With a historically unpredictable campaign trail and a little over 3 months until Election Day, what should Americans be paying attention to? In part two of her conversation with Professor of History at Rice University, author, and Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, Martha and Douglas discuss whether Vice President Harris can maintain the momentum she's created since rolling out her campaign, how Senator Vance as the Republican presidential nominee impacts the former President, and how political dynamics could continue shifting up until November. Follow Martha on X: @MarthaMacCallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.5	Hello and welcome back to the Untold Story podcast.
0:54.0	I'm Martha McCallum, and this is part two of my conversation with Professor of History at Rice University, author, well-known presidential historian Douglas Brinkley.
0:58.5	If you miss part one of our conversation, I want to go back and listen to that discussion on the parallels between 1968 and now when it comes to the DNC Convention in Chicago.
1:05.1	Now, here's the rest of my conversation with Douglas Brinkley.
1:09.1	So let's look forward, Douglas, how do you assess,
1:14.0	you know, this period? So we have a president who has become a lame duck early. And
1:19.2	everything that we've seen so far from Harris in terms of her early ads and all of it,
1:24.5	she's she's on her own. She's not really looking back or, you know, sort of
1:29.8	talking about the Biden-Harris administration. It seems like he's the earliest lame duck we've
1:36.4	ever seen. So how do you see the next, we're now under 100 days of campaigning left?
1:43.3	What do you see us being in for in this period over the next
1:47.5	several months? Well, President Biden won't be able to develop a legislative agenda of much note.
1:54.4	I mean, he's pretty much finished. There might be a couple of executive orders he tries to do that
2:00.3	are very dramatic to put a
2:02.4	you know a fine point at the end of his term uh i think his big dream would be to get a ceasefire
2:09.7	agreement in the middle east because he gets known as the broker of that it would enhance
2:15.9	comla harris conversely uh vice president harris is known as the broker of that, it would enhance Kamala Harris.
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