It’s Clear Trump Has No Idea How to Play Defense

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🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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The New Abnormal muses on the fact that Donald Trump has found himself on the defensive for perhaps the first time in his political career. Then, Semafor’s Washington Bureau Chief Benjy Sarlin joins the program to discuss the 2024 Democratic National Convention and the party’s return to what he calls “Obamaism.” Plus! A conversation with Katya Schwenk, a reporter at investigative newsroom The Lever, about her most recent piece, “Leonard Leo’s Swing-State Voter Purge.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi I'm Andy Levy former Fox News and CNN H.L.N. Guy and current cable news
0:04.3	conscientious objector. I'm a former Libertarian who now sits comfortably on the left.
0:08.6	Hi, I'm Danielle Moody, former educator, and recovering lobbyist.
0:13.0	But today I'm an unapologetic woke commentator on America's threats to democracy.
0:18.0	And I'm producer Jesse Cannon, and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off the rails.
0:22.6	We're here to have fun, smart conversations
0:25.1	with some of the most knowledgeable and entertaining people
0:27.4	in politics, media, and beyond.
0:29.5	Our goal is to try and make sense of our current crazy world, our new abnormal, and hopefully even
0:36.2	make you laugh through the tears.
0:38.1	What a great show we have for you today.
0:39.4	Benji Sarlin, the Washington Bureau Chief at Semaphore, joins us to talk about the similarities between the Harris and Obama campaigns and what they can do just a little bit different.
0:46.5	Then, reporter at the lever, Kachia Schwank, is here to tell us all about Leonard Leo, the Dark Money Architect, behind the Supreme Court and the Republican Republicans efforts to disenfranchised voters in battleground states.
0:55.7	But first, let's have some fun.
0:57.2	So Danielle, I assume you saw the earth-shattering news
1:01.3	from the end of last week.
1:03.0	And that would be...
1:04.8	R.F.K. Jr. dropped out and endorsed Donald Trump.
1:08.4	Oh, he was still in the race?
1:10.0	He apparently was still in the race despite not being on the ballot in a whole bunch of states.
1:15.0	He gave a little press conference where, and you might want to sit down for this Danielle.
1:21.6	If you watch the press conference you saw a rich white man
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