Hear Me Out: Biden Is Courting Voters Who Don’t Exist

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🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out: base instincts. Democratic strategists are reportedly freaking out about Joe Biden. Despite his opponent’s felony convictions, Biden remains unpopular and isn’t polling well in swing states. Young voters are mad about his handling of the war in Gaza; many Americans remain convinced that the economy is bad and the president is to blame for it. So if strategists’ worst fears come to pass… how much of this wound is self-inflicted? Hayes Brown of MSNBC joins Hear Me Out to argue that Biden is falling into a classic triangulation trap… and that it probably won’t be worth it. If you have thoughts you want to share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can email the show: hearmeout@slate.com Podcast production by Maura Currie. Want more Hear Me Out? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/hearmeoutplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hear Me Out. I'm Celeste Hedley. You don't need us to tell you there's a lot at stake in this presidential election.
0:08.0	You probably hear people say that just about daily, maybe hourly, it's not untrue. So given what's on the line here and who the Republican
0:16.8	nominee is, why are Democrats in what Politico recently called a full-blown freak out. There's fear that Joe Biden is
0:25.0	alienating his base by skewing toward centrism, so much so that a second term
0:30.1	could be in jeopardy. So how much can Joe Biden actually bank on Democrats
0:35.8	Voting Blue no matter who? There's the feeling that under this current late
0:41.9	stage capitalism, Hell's Cape, there's no getting better.
0:46.0	And Biden should be worried about that and trying to do more to give in them like,
0:50.0	no, we can make this a better country.
0:54.0	Hayes Brown, an opinion writer and editor at MS NBC joins Hear Me Out in just a moment.
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1:39.5	C EE. Welcome back to Hear Me Out. I'm Celeste Hedley. We've all learned our lesson about
1:46.2	treating polls as gospel this far away from any election, but the presidential
1:50.8	race remains by all accounts neck and neck even though one of the candidates is now a convicted felon.
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