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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Hitting the Ground: The DNC Plans for 2024, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ro Khanna

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

NBC News

News, Politics

4.5664 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki talks about the 2024 presidential election with DNC chair Jaime Harrison, plus the impact of recent SCOTUS rulings and mobilizing progressive voters with Rep. Ro Khanna. Jen also revisits conversations with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Governor Gavin Newsom. Jen sits down with members of "The Avett Brothers" band to hear how they navigate political differences and commonalities while on tour and in a part of their every day life in their "Weekend Routine."

Transcript

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0:00.0

Like it or not, the 2024 campaigns are well underway.

0:05.0

And while we're still 484 days out from the presidential election, both parties are facing some very big questions.

0:12.0

For Republicans, are they really going to renominate a now twice impeached, twice indicted candidate?

0:17.0

For Democrats, can they reinvigorate the coalition that put Joe Biden in the White House?

0:21.6

And how are they going to resolve a messy battle over the primary calendar?

0:24.6

I'll as D&C Chair Jamie Harrison about how his party plans to tackle those questions when he joins me coming up first.

0:31.6

Plus more from my recent conversations with two of the Democratic Party's biggest names.

0:36.6

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez discusses the dynamics of the Republican primary.

0:41.3

And Governor Gavin Newsom explains why he's using his political capital to help Democrats in red states.

0:47.3

And while there's so much that seems to divide us these days, music is one of the few things that brings us people together. I joined two members of the

0:55.4

musical group, the Avid brothers on their tour bus and our latest weekend routine.

1:09.0

I know it may seem like the election is pretty far off, but the truth is the very first

1:14.6

votes of the 2024 presidential cycle will be cast just six months from now.

1:19.4

And by this time next year, it will be only days away from the first national convention.

1:24.3

So it feels like the right time to dig into what exactly the Democratic Party is up to at a national level and at state level as they try to hold on to the White House, keep the Senate, win back the House, and fight for control of nearly a dozen governors' mansions.

1:38.7

While it still feels early, the campaigns are in full swing.

1:43.3

We see signs of this every single day as more than a dozen

1:46.0

Republican hopefuls begin to hit the trail, test their message, and make their case to actual

1:51.1

voters. Just this week, many spent their independence day in the early states of Iowa and New Hampshire,

1:56.8

and next month they'll be vying for the spotlight when they take the stage for their first debate.

2:01.4

We'll see who shows up.

2:02.7

Well, we don't see much of, however, in public at least, is the work taking place behind the scene that the Democratic National Committee and at state parties across the country.

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