How Low Will Dems Go?

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🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Eight years after Michelle Obama's famous "When they go low, we go high" speech, Democrats have been changing their rhetorical strategy on the campaign trail and meeting former President Donald Trump on his level when it comes to personal attacks and trolling. When Vice President and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris chose Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate, he'd already received praise for coining a phrase that Republicans still haven't figured out how to defend against: "Weird." Governor Walz has continued to show a knack for mocking his opponents, recently alluding at a rally to a viral but fake story involving JD Vance committing salacious acts with a couch. Aaron Blake, senior political reporter for the Washington Post, talks about the Harris-Walz campaign's willingness to trade barbs on social media and "go low" as the general election approaches in November.

And in headlines: The death toll in Gaza reaches 40,000, Vice President Kamala Harris will give a highly anticipated economic policy speech in North Carolina Friday focusing on the cost of living, a Vice Presidential debate is set for September 18th, and the SAG-AFTRA video game actor strike continues as animation workers enter negotiations and Crooked Media unanimously ratifies our first union contract.

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0:00.0	It's Friday, August 16th. I'm Trevel Anderson.
0:04.8	And I'm Priyanka Aravindi and this is what a day, the show where we have never felt closer to
0:09.3	Kamala Harris than when she reacted with horror to VP nominee Tim Wells saying that he doesn't put any
0:14.7	seasoning on his tacos.
0:16.7	Listen, the DNC wanted the widest man they confined to be her running mate and they delivered. He said meat and cheese only.
0:24.8	On today's show, the death toll in Gaza has reportedly exceeded 40,000 people.
0:36.0	Plus, the Veepe candidates have set a date to debate.
0:40.0	But first, eight years after Michelle Obama famously told the Democrats when they go low we go high
0:46.2	the party seems to be taking more of a yeah but approach to the high road this election
0:51.7	cycle and it looks like it's getting under former president to the high road this election cycle.
0:52.7	And it looks like it's getting under former President
0:55.1	Donald Trump's skin.
0:56.6	During a press conference at his golf club
0:58.7	in Bedminster, New Jersey on Thursday,
1:01.2	Trump said that he's, quote, entitled to personal attacks
1:04.8	against Harris because according to him, she does the same.
1:08.7	He lashed out insulting her intelligence and said that no one knows who she is and of course mispronounced
1:14.4	her name here he is spiraling. She certainly attacks me personally. She actually
1:19.7	called me weird. He's weird. It was just a sound bite and she called J. D and I weird. He's not
1:26.0	weird. He was a great student at Yale. The way he says weird is just so weird.
1:32.0	I can't.ways, this all feels very reminiscent of second grade.
1:37.0	Like, I'm allowed to call my brother a name because he called me a name.
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