Is The Blue Wall Cracking?

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the close race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump; Why Legal Experts Are Worried About a Second Trump Presidency; and Hurricanes Helene and Milton and climate change. And it’s never too early to send us your Conundrums at slate.com/conundrum. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and David talk about media endorsements of political candidates. In the latest Gabfest Reads, David talks with Elizabeth Strout about her new book, Tell Me Everything: A Novel. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to [email protected]. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth Research by Julie Huygen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the slate political Gabfest.
0:07.0	It's like the beautiful city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
0:11.0	Champagne of Meers.
0:13.0	There you go.
0:15.0	October 10, 2024,
0:18.0	Is the Blue Wall Cracking Edition.
0:21.0	I'm David Watts, City CityCast from New York Times magazine
0:25.5	in Yale University Law School Ms Emily Bazelon.
0:28.9	Dr. Emily Bazelon if you prefer.
0:30.9	Oh my God please no I do not prefer. Are you a doctor? Are you a doctor. Oh my God, please no, I do not prefer.
0:34.0	Are you a doctor?
0:35.0	Are you a doctor?
0:36.0	No, no, the overused title.
0:38.0	Emily Bethlon, Esquire.
0:40.0	My mother is a doctor.
0:41.0	That seems like that's a title she can have to herself.
0:45.1	From New York City, the only person I know
0:48.6	in my acquaintance who like me has no further education
0:51.2	beyond college from CBS News, John Dickerson. Do you regret that David? No, I don't do you?
0:59.2	Apparently you do I regret your man I regret every church. I regret every every choice I made I think I would like to have become an actual
1:07.0	I would like to have become an actual expert in something. A sliver of history, biology, a thing that I,
1:18.4	and I did some stuff that made me,
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