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In conversation: Nomiki Konst on election strategy

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Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4645 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Cairo correspondent Eli Massey speaks to Nomiki Konst, Bernie surrogate, commentator and host of The Nomiki Show. Together, they delve into the inner workings of the Democratic party, delegates and superdelegates, discuss possible strategies for progressives going forward, and express some of their political anxieties after Super Tuesday. Eli is broadcasting from Egypt, so apologies for the sound quality being a little less crisp than usual. Our usual fortnightly panel episode will be up in a few days - we're just putting this out today while it's still timely! The Nomiki Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma5Tg9oBINo Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thenomikishow Twitter: @NomikiKonst In These Times on superdelegates: https://inthesetimes.com/features/superdelegates_bernie_sanders_hillary_clinton.html

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0:00.0

Hello, current affairs listeners. This is contributing editor, Eli Massey, and I am joined by

0:05.6

Nomiki Kuntz, who is the host of the Nomiki show. She is a Bernie Sanders surrogate,

0:12.8

and she was on the Unity Reform Commission in 2016, which we will talk about a little bit more

0:19.9

as we get into this conversation.

0:21.6

Thank you so much for joining me, Nomiiki.

0:24.6

Thank you so much for doing this and for your commitment to the movement, even while you're across the pond.

0:30.6

Right, right, yeah.

0:31.6

Well, okay, so the first thing I wanted to talk about, I'm feeling a little bit depressed.

0:38.9

I have to be completely honest.

0:41.9

I'm just a little bit pessimistic about Bernie's odds at this point.

0:46.0

You know, just a combination of, I mean, Super Tuesday wasn't so great, right?

0:52.4

And just a combination of like anecdotal evidence from friends

0:56.8

who are, you know, phone banking and who are on the ground in these various states. And the polls

1:02.8

that I've seen and, you know, the demographic breakdowns of the upcoming states, you have Florida,

1:07.0

which is like, you know, right-wing Cubans and pro-Israel Jews and old people, which, you know, Bernie Sanders doesn't tend to do well with that kind of demographic group.

1:19.4

You know, and then you have on top of that, like, Elizabeth Warren, staying out of this thing entirely.

1:24.7

It's looking that way.

1:26.1

She, who knows that she will ultimately endorse him, but it's

1:28.8

looking less and less likely. And she's definitely not campaigning hard for him. And, you know,

1:36.1

then you have just the total and complete consolidation of the Democratic establishment with,

1:42.9

you know, Kamala Harris and Corey Booker and Klobuchar

1:46.8

and Mayor Pete and Bloomberg and every day, you know, Biden has a new endorsement out.

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