It's 2024, Happy New Year

The Lincoln Project

News, Government, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Host Reed Galen shares the Lincoln Project’s plan for 2024 and how this is the year that everything has been building to. Plus, why our nation’s present moment is a simple binary, how the upcoming third anniversary of January 6th continues to inform this moment, and why Donald Trump facing justice for his crimes is the only path forward for American democracy. For more from Reed Galen, be sure to subscribe to “The Home Front”. If you’d like to ask a question or share a comment with The Lincoln Project, send an email to podcast@lincolnproject.us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everyone, it's Reed. Before we get started, it's 2024. We've been waiting. Here it is. We've been talking about this.
0:08.0	Everything we did in 2021 to prepare for 2022.
0:12.0	Everything we did in 2022 to prepare for 2022, everything we did in 2022 to prepare for 2023, it all comes down to this
0:17.0	guys.
0:18.0	Now 10 months, 10 months to election day.
0:22.4	I hope you'll get involved with us. I want to say thank you for
0:25.4	listening. I hope you will share this with your friends, your family, your
0:29.4	colleagues in the American pro-democracy movement. I hope you'll sign up, Lincoln Project.
0:35.3	U.S. join the Union.
0:38.5	Get involved everybody. Every moment counts and I cannot say thank you enough. And now on with the show. Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gailen. Well, everybody, it's
0:59.7	2024. As you're listening to this, we are three hundred and five days away from election day
1:06.2	2024 and I want to spend a few minutes talking to you just solo. I hope that everybody
1:11.5	enjoyed our encore presentations and I do hope that everybody had a happy and healthy holiday season and the same to your new year.
1:19.0	But guys now the battle is joined. We have talked about this for a long time. Four years for us here at the
1:26.1	Lincoln Project, even longer in our individual capacities. But now it's hard to say that we don't
1:32.0	have a pretty good idea of what this year is going to look like, at least electorally.
1:37.0	President Joe Biden is going to be the Democratic nominee and save some miracle.
1:42.0	Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee.
1:44.0	As we're recording this, you know, we're less than two weeks away from the Iowa
1:48.0	caucuses on January 15th. And so I think it's now time for everybody to strap in and get ready.
1:56.0	It's now time to understand what lies ahead of us.
1:59.7	And we talk about this a lot guys.
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