How Far Can the Vibes Carry Kamala?

Beg to Differ with Mona Charen

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News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Egger subs for the vacationing Mona, and A.B. occupies Damon's seat, as The Deseret News's Samuel Benson joins regulars Bill and Linda to discuss the unity and vibes at the Democratic Convention, while the panel weighs how RFK's exit from the race is likely to affect the November election.

Highlights / Lowlights

Andrew: Highlight: Gov. Tim Walz's Speech, and his family's reaction.

A.B.: Highlight: Doug Emhoff's remarks on anti-semitism, and that protests did not disrupt the convention.

Linda: Lowlight: Systemic Test Racism in Chicago (WSJ)

Bill: The slow counting of ballots in Pennsylvania, and the failure to fix this glaringly obvious problem.

Samuel: Lowlight: The slowness with which anti-semitism was addressed at the Democratic Convention.

Highlight: A moment of prayer he witnessed by Jewish men at night outside of the convention hall.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Donald Trump experience that it's such a perfect little vignette there where he doesn't want to be prepared on national security matters because he's worried about this like a bleak press coverage angle in in how he's treated.
0:13.6	And Andrew, there's a deep state
0:16.3	of intelligence officers briefing him
0:19.0	that are then gonna leak something from the meeting
0:21.1	so he doesn't want to be president of this country and
0:24.6	lead this government because they're a deep state out to get him. Can I
0:29.2	intervene and beg to differ? I am so glad he's not getting the security briefings.
0:34.7	Hi there and welcome to Begg to Differ, the Bullworks Weekly Roundtable Podcast. I'm your guest host, Andrew Rager,
0:45.6	filling in for Mona Sharon, who's off this week. Joining me as always are our regular panelists, Linda Chavez from the
0:51.8	Scanon Center, Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution in the
0:54.8	Wall Street Journal. Damon Linkers off this week as well, but fortunately we've got my colleague
0:59.3	AB Stoddard sitting in. Some of these people planned their vacations before they knew the DNC was not going to be, you know, the funeral march to doom in November.
1:10.0	That's okay. Joining us live as well from the Windy City is our special guest this week.
1:14.2	Samuel Benson, who is National Political Correspondent for the Deseret News.
1:18.8	Thank you one and all for joining us.
1:20.3	So Sam, you're on the ground in Chicago at the DNC. I want to start with you.
1:24.7	A few months ago, here is the script that I maybe would have drawn up for how this
1:28.7	convention was going to go. You have Joe Biden in there running for re-election.
1:32.4	He was going to basically give us a whole convention. you have Joe Biden in there running for re-election.
1:32.8	He was going to basically give us a whole convention themed around a phrase
1:36.5	that he used to like to use a lot.
1:38.2	Don't compare me to the Almighty.
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