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The Run-Up

It’s Kamala Harris’s Party Now. What’s Different?

The Run-Up

The New York Times

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Democratic National Convention tonight, formalizing her rapid ascent to the top of the Democratic ticket and capping a very unusual path to the nomination. No primary. No serious opposition. No real robust sense of what her legislative priorities might be. On today’s show, a quest to answer this question: Is a Harris-led Democratic Party substantively different than the Democratic Party of Joe Biden? As they all gathered in Chicago, we put that question to Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Shawn Fain, the president of the United Auto Workers union — and the man hosting Democrats in his town, Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson.

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0:00.0

Let's start off the night by talking about what's at the heart of the Harris

0:07.8

Wall's agenda. All week, Speaker after Speaker at the DNC has made their case for Kamala Harris.

0:16.4

Kamala, Tim, protect your freedom, the protect your vote to your right to vote, the protect your right to vote.

0:23.1

The protect her civil rights.

0:25.2

Kamala Harris and House Democrats

0:27.8

will fix our broken immigration system

0:30.6

and secure the border.

0:32.6

Kamala Harris understands that government must work in partnership with the business community.

0:42.0

She'll capture costs.

0:44.0

She'll go after corporate price gougers.

0:46.6

She will safeguard our freedom to vote.

0:49.2

She will restore abortion rights nationwide.

0:53.0

She will be with joy and toughness with that laugh and that look with compassion and conviction.

1:02.0

But if you listen closely... with compassion and conviction.

1:03.8

But if you listen closely to how people talk about her priorities,

1:08.6

a lot of it sounds like things that could also apply to President Biden, or any Democrat for that matter.

1:16.5

Which reminds me of what's so unusual about this year and this convention.

1:21.8

Harris became the party's nominee less than a month ago,

1:25.5

without any serious opposition or traditional primary process.

1:30.7

And while speakers are listing off things, they hope she'll do.

1:34.8

It's less clear what our actual legislative priorities will be.

1:39.7

And if and how, they'll be different than your typical Democrat.

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