How to Find Every Democratic Voter in Wisconsin

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🗓️ 5 October 2024

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The Washington Roundtable is joined by the Wisconsin Democratic Party chair, Ben Wikler, to discuss ground operations for Kamala Harris in the key battleground state, and why he thinks the Trump campaign is falling behind when it comes to reaching voters in person, despite the financial support of Elon Musk and other big donors. “I was just on the phone with the chair of Oneida County, in Northern Wisconsin, and we’re seeing crickets,” Wikler says of G.O.P. outreach. Still, he sees the state of the race in Wisconsin as “super, super, super, super tight.”

This week’s reading:

“J. D. Vance and the Failed Effort to Memory-Hole January 6th,” by Susan B. Glasser
“It Could All Depend on Arizona,” by Rachel Monroe
“Can Harris Stop Blue-Collar Workers from Defecting to Donald Trump?,” by Eyal Press
“J. D. Vance Got the Conversation He Wanted at the Vice-Presidential Debate,” by Benjamin Wallace-Wells

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0:00.0	How are you guys? Have you guys read this brief the January sex thing? I just I wrote my
0:06.1	column on it. I just want to say like so what the famous phrase now from our
0:10.9	former president? It's true it really is is kind of amazing. I'd love to
0:14.4	know if Mike Pence found an unbiblical word in his vocabulary when he heard
0:19.4	about that detail. Mother would not would not think kindly of that if so. So Susan you just did your column on this,
0:27.6	huh? Yeah, it's amazing how memory holds somehow we've made it to be and I find it just amazing.
0:35.6	I watched the whole CBS debate the other night and it was left to Tim Wall's to ask
0:41.6	J.D. Vance about whether or not he's going to agree to the basic
0:47.1	principle of American democracy? I don't know if you saw the follow-up today,
0:51.0	which was incredible. They're these two like comedy podcasters,
0:54.8	did you see this who kind of stand back? J.D. Vance and they got him to actually
0:59.2	answer the question that he wouldn't answer for Tim Wall's the other day.
1:02.8	And they said, do you think that Donald Trump
1:06.8	won the election in 2020?
1:08.5	And J.D. Vianth said, yes, I do.
1:10.8	Wow.
1:11.3	Whoa.
1:12.4	Whoa. Theya, really?
1:14.0	They don't teach that at Yale Law School.
1:16.0	Welcome to the political scene, a weekly discussion about the big questions in American politics.
1:25.4	I'm Jane Mayer, and I'm joined by my colleagues Susan Glasser and Evan Osnows.
1:31.3	Hey Susan?
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