How Libertarians could become the new moderates, with Katherine Mangu-Ward

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🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Chuck asks whether Republicans can win an election without finding a position on abortion. Plus, Katherine Mangu-Ward, editor-in-chief of Reason, talks about the Libertarian view on elections and why third-party candidates seeking ballot access like to embrace them.

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0:00.0	Hello from Washington, I'm Chuck Todd, cast. So my guest today is Catherine Mangu Ward. She is the editor-in-chief of Reason magazine, which of course is the standard
0:16.0	bearer for Libertarian Reporting and Writing. And today we're going to talk about how libertarians view the presidential election, especially the idea of potentially
0:27.2	partnering with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who of course is looking for some ways to fast track his ballot access.
0:34.0	Before we get started there though, it does seem as if we're in a,
0:38.0	we're sort of in one of those moments where we think it's an inflection point
0:42.0	in the presidential race.
0:45.5	I am quite skeptical to say anything will feel like an inflection point.
0:49.2	I think we're going to be constantly in this position of is this an important moment is this
0:54.6	about to be a hurdle but I will say this I think sometimes we we are overthinking
1:01.8	this election because we're we're all still not 100% convinced.
1:06.4	It's really going to be Trump and Biden, right?
1:09.2	It's really just going to be Trump and Biden.
1:10.5	There's not going to be some third party or there's not going to be some other movement or all this or all that.
1:15.0	And it's like, because the contours of this race are actually pretty decided now, which also makes it sort of an odd moment right we could be just sort of sitting in this stand still
1:28.2	separated by three to five points and and all polling while we waste basically wait to see how everything turns out because we know the six states,
1:36.7	Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania.
1:39.7	Maybe New Hampshire at North Carolina are also in play.
1:43.6	I think I'm pretty skeptical of New Hampshire being 50-50.
1:46.7	I think North Carolina is a state that's probably decided by less than four points.
1:51.0	And if you're gonna be decided by less than four points, four points you belong in the battleground on that front.
1:56.4	We learned with the Alabama IVF decision, we had to be reminded that it's very possible, you know, as we think about this election,
2:05.1	we think it's going to be all things Trump, all things Biden.
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