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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

If Harris Wants to Win, She Has to Try

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.65.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Kamala Harris seems to have stalled out on her way to Election Day, while Trump is inching upward. The kinds of things she might be hoping will help her—like the manufactured October Surprises from the New York Times and the Atlantic again highlighting bad Trump quotes and supposedly bad Trump behavior—likely won't. So how can she win unless she figures out a way to...win? Plus, a Commentary Podcast Drinking Game! Give a listen.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hope for the best.

0:09.0

Expect the worst.

0:10.0

Some bring Champagne, some die of hers.

0:15.0

The way of knowing which way it's going.

0:19.0

Hope for the best expect the worst of all the best. I'm

0:28.0

Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024.

0:31.0

I'm John Podhortz, the editor of Commentary magazine.

0:34.1

With me as always executive editor, A Greenwald.

0:36.2

Hi, Abe.

0:37.2

Hi, John.

0:38.2

And we got a full house today.

0:39.2

Washington Commentary Columns, Matthew Cottonetti.

0:41.4

Hi Matt.

0:42.1

Hi, John. Senior editor Seth Mandetti, hi Matt. Hi, John.

0:43.0

Senior editor Seth Mandel, Hesef.

0:45.0

Sorry.

0:47.0

Hey John.

0:49.3

And media commentary columnist Christine, hi Christine.

0:52.3

Hi, Christine. Hi, John.

0:53.0

Okay, we got a lot to get through today.

0:56.0

We, let's just start quickly with the effort at the manufacturer of the October surprise, which has clearly been months in the works and involves

1:06.9

a kind of an act of collusion between two journalistic organizations, as far as I can tell the New York Times in the Atlantic

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