How can Biden, Trump can get voters to believe in their visions?

KCRW's Left, Right & Center

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🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A rematch of the 2020 presidential election seems unavoidable. Most voters may be disappointed by the choice between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, whose victory in the New Hampshire Republican primary made his nomination a near certainty.

President Biden and Donald Trump will have to craft clear messages about their visions for 2024. “It’s not really … a solution to an American problem that they’re trying to pitch to voters,” says Sarah Isgur, senior editor at The Dispatch. She argues that winning voters will depend on Biden and Trump’s stances on issues that strike a “cultural nerve.”

As part of our 50 States series, we discuss the Supreme Court’s decision to hear a case in Grants Pass, Oregon, that could determine how western states can address a growing homelessness problem.

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0:00.0	Hey there, so I have a quick favor. We are conducting an audience survey and we'd be really grateful
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0:15.6	dot org slash LRC. Thanks a lot. Welcome to Left Right and Center everybody.
0:21.0	I'm David Green. Well Trump like it or not and
0:25.4	many of you don't according to polls it's becoming more and more likely that this
0:29.0	will be the presidential race this fall Trump won New Hampshire Trump won New Hampshire, Biden won New Hampshire, sort of, they're all
0:36.0	kind of asterisk there since the Democratic Party wasn't officially recognizing
0:39.8	New Hampshire's obsession with going first and Biden wasn't on the ballot but one is a
0:43.7	right end but all of that really won't matter nearly as much as you know the
0:50.0	vision that these two men have for our country.
0:53.6	What do they want?
0:54.7	What is their argument to us, the voters, for why we would want to support either Donald
0:59.7	Trump or Joe Biden?
1:00.9	Well, that's what we're going to spend a lot of time on today and I'm lucky to be in
1:05.3	Washington DC for such a conversation in a studio in person with two of my favorite DC
1:10.3	residents Moelithi and Sarah Isger. Hello to you both.
1:13.0	Hello.
1:14.0	It's fun to be together in person.
1:16.0	Mo, you, um, I mean, you used to literally be in charge of communication for the Democratic Party.
1:24.0	So what, I mean in a minute or two,
1:27.7	like what's the pitch from Joe Biden
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