How Do You Solve a Problem Like Kamala Harris?

Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri

The Ringer

News

4.4 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Today, Tara invites conservative journalist and author Charlie Spiering onto the pod to chat about his new book ‘Amateur Hour: Kamala Harris in the White House.’ They discuss Kamala's career and journey to the White House, how she's performed as vice president, her relationship to the Bidens, and how exactly her approval rating might affect Biden's current campaign for reelection. For more of Tara's reporting, please sign up for her newsletter, ‘The Best and the Brightest,’ at puck.news/tarapalmeri and use the discount code TARA20 Host: Tara Palmeri Guest: Charlie Spiering Producers: Devon Baroldi and Conor Nevins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Derek Thompson, the host of the Ringer Podcast, plain English.
0:05.0	Look, a lot of news these days is kind of nonsense.
0:09.0	I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel here, I'm just trying to ask the questions that matter from people
0:13.7	who know more than I do about everything I'm curious about. And that's most things.
0:18.0	Recession fears, AI hyperbole, psychology, productivity, China, war, streaming, movies, sports, you name it.
0:25.0	The world without jargon, the news without bias.
0:30.0	Plain English with Derek Thompson.
0:32.0	Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Tara Paul Mary. I'm Puck Senior Political Correspondent, and this is somebody's got to win.
0:50.0	It is a very weird time in America right now.
0:54.0	People are talking out loud about the idea of a plan B.
0:59.0	A way to get the Democratic nominee,
1:02.0	the current incumbent president of the United States
1:05.4	Joe Biden to drop from the ticket and allow another candidate to run or at least launch a
1:12.4	primary or at least allow the
1:14.2	super delegates the Democratic super delegates to pick another option because
1:17.9	according to a recent ABC News poll 86% of Americans think he's too old to lead. And the crazy thing about these stories
1:26.1	is that the natural plan B, his Vice President Kamala Harris, is rarely it's ever mentioned.
1:31.3	She's the Vice President, she's 59 years old. She has an
1:34.6	impressive resume. She was you know attorney general of California. She was a
1:39.2	senator in California and for some reason it's likely because her approval numbers are below
1:46.5	Joe Biden's and his approval numbers are not great himself. This all came after the
1:52.4	special counsel's report Robert Hur, he came out and basically cleared
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