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The Gist

How Is This Election Close?

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.43.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

A close read of media choices and voter preferences explains the refrain we've been hearing—shock that the race is so close. Plus, San Fransisco has come up a lot in the presidential race, because Kamala Harris is from there, you may have heard. We're joined by The New York Times San Fransisco Bureau Chief, Heather Knight to talk about her home city and how it's changed since earning a reputation as a place of progressive fervor. She lets us know which of the stereotypes still apply. Prize Picks Link - https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/GIST Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Tuesday, September 10th, 2024 from Peach Fish Productions.

0:07.6

It's the gist I might Pesca.

0:09.6

How is Donald Trump even close? How is he possibly beating Kamala Harris? My friends at the political

0:17.3

Gabz title their last show, The Why Isn't Harris doing better edition? The Hill asks and answers the question, why does the Trump

0:25.6

Harris race remain so close? And the answer is, one word, racism. But I've heard the question

0:31.4

asked, and I am here today to answer this if the answer is indeed racism

0:36.8

Then we shouldn't be confused unless we just found out in the last month maybe five weeks that America was racist. I will also quote

0:45.7

John Pavlovitz he's a best-selling author and former youth pastor I looked it up in

0:50.6

his case it means he pastured to youth not that he was a kid preacher he

0:54.5

tweets to his 400,000 followers I often hear people asking how is this race so close

1:00.4

and he answers you know how it's close because bigotry, racism, misogyny, and xenophobia

1:07.4

have been woven into this nation from the beginning.

1:10.3

Okay, that is an explanation that's entirely flattering to Kamla Harris and her supporters,

1:15.8

but one that doesn't really get at the confusion.

1:18.9

Unless the voter is asking and wondering how is this close, and there are a lot of them that's why

1:24.0

John Pavlovitz often here's the question how is this race even close unless

1:28.0

those asking the question were also unaware as of a month ago, that bigotry, racism, misogyny, and xenophobia

1:35.3

abounded, and now they're being told and saying, oh, that's why, maybe there's a better explanation

1:42.1

out there.

1:43.2

Now here's another complicating factor if you want to blame it on bigotry, racism,

1:47.4

misogyny, xenophobia.

1:49.4

In the states, where the election will be decided, Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia, Nevada,

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