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🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Thank you for listening to Politix. (Or for watching it, if you’re some kind of eccentric.)

In our pilot episode, we discuss:

* The state of the race as we kick off the new year: A dead-heat rematch between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, and a greater-than-usual level of uncertainty, given the candidates’ ages and Trump’s legal issues;

* Why the early race is so tight, given how disastrously Trump’s single term ended;

* Republican buy-in on Trump’s corruption, how it insulates him from what would otherwise be terminal scandals, and what more Democrats could do to exploit it anyhow;

* MERRY CHRISTMAS/ROT IN HELL-GHAZI and whether Biden’s made a safe bet that Trump’s looming nomination will upend the race, as Americans remember just how unpleasant he is;

* Nikki Haley’s SLAVERY-GHAZI scandal—does it say more about her or the party she wants to lead?—and whether Democrats in open-primary states should cross over and vote for her;

* Our New Years resolutions.

We hope you enjoy it, always appreciate constructive feedback, and look forward to bringing you more (slightly shorter?) newsy episodes every week.

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0:00.0	You know, like my life was fine when Donald Trump was president.
0:04.7	Like my taxes got cut, uh, fucking ratings went through the air, like I didn't get a great book
0:11.9	deal. I actually got a good book deal. It wasn't even about Trump.
0:14.5	Hey everyone, I'm Brian Boitler. And I'm Matthew Glacius.
0:22.1	Welcome to the first episode of politics, which is our new podcast about the 2024 election.
0:27.0	So over the next 10 months, we'll cover news that's relevant to the election, the ideas and strategic appeals at the heart of the election, and most of all the
0:35.7	stakes of the election. So it's no big surprise if you're here for episode one that we both think
0:41.2	Donald Trump is bad and deserves to lose.
0:43.9	But just under a year out, the country's kind of unnervingly divided, I think.
0:48.9	Joe Biden is unpopular.
0:50.6	Donald Trump is very unpopular. Both men are quite old.
0:55.0	Donald Trump faces a bunch of felony charges,
0:58.0	including for trying to steal the 2020 election.
1:01.0	So the backdrop for politics with an X is that big ideals and
1:06.4	concrete things are at stake in November, but there's this unusual amount of
1:10.6	uncertainty at least in these early days about like which way is the wind blowing and it feels like a big
1:17.0	decisive
1:18.1	swingy block of voters currently has a kind of like fuck this throw the bums out mentality about the top of the ticket
1:25.4	which is not where we'd ideally like to be I don't think is that a fair summation to you?
1:30.5	Yeah and I mean you know I it's also it's just interesting I mean I was watching the you know New Year's Eve
1:36.4	CNN countdown with my eight-year-old and so it's like CNN and they were doing
1:41.5	promos for their upcoming town halls with
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