Jewish Latinxes for Kamala Harris
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🗓️ 31 July 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
This week, Matt and Brian delve into the new discourse, ignited by vice-presidential shortlister Tim Walz, about the inherent weirdness of MAGA leaders.
* What do Democrats mean when they say Republicans like Donald Trump and JD Vance are “weird”?
* How normal are Democrats, actually?
* Having drawn this line, can Democrats now concede anything to “weird” Republicans as they appeal to swing voters?
Then, behind the paywall, a wide-ranging discussion about whether this salvo, which has put Republicans back on their heels, entitles Walz to special consideration as Kamala Harris considers her running mate. Would Walz’s gruff, non-nonsense vibe more effectively balance the ticket than other, more moderate contenders? Does he offer lasting coalition unity, or just a bandaid on factional rifts that are bound to burst back open? Do data-rooted, Pennsylvania-centric considerations dwarf hazier ideas about which ticket makes the best avatar for the Democratic Party?
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Further reading:
* Greg Sargent on how the politics of immigration don’t all work to Republicans’ advantage.
* Brian on the downward (and likely very weird) spiral Republicans will enter if Harris claims a meaningful lead.
* Matt on how Harris can and should position herself as more moderate than Biden.
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| 0:00.0 | They're cooking something up there and what they're cooking is like not good for women and it's not good for democracy |
| 0:06.6 | When the alt-right writes its manifesto is they call themselves things like Bronze Age pervert |
| 0:15.0 | And like so true and it's so fucking weird. And like that's weird. Hey everyone you're listening to a free preview of the politics podcast. |
| 0:25.0 | In this episode we'll talk about the new divide in partisan politics between normal and |
| 0:29.5 | weird. |
| 0:31.1 | What did Democrats mean when they say Republicans are weird? |
| 0:34.8 | How normal are Democrats actually? |
| 0:37.9 | And having drawn this line, can Democrats now concede anything to quote unquote weird Republicans as they appeal to |
| 0:46.2 | swing voters ahead of the election. We'll talk about all of that plus some more beep steak |
| 0:50.4 | stuff so I hope you enjoy the conversation and if you want to hear the whole thing, you can |
| 0:54.8 | upgrade your subscription to paid at politics.FM. |
| 0:58.6 | Hey everyone, welcome to the politics podcast. I'm Brian Boiler. I'm Matthew |
| 1:06.4 | Gracias. So I've been practicing here. Kamala Harris entered this week, |
| 1:11.2 | newly popular, significantly more popular than Donald Trump, it seems, but in multiple polls actually more popular than she is disliked. |
| 1:20.0 | And Democrats have found new footing with a newish majoritarian appeal where they're distinguishing |
| 1:28.0 | they're distinguishing themselves from Trump-era Republicans personified in particular by JD Vance as Democrats being normal |
| 1:36.0 | and Republicans being weird. |
| 1:39.5 | It's a lot of fun on the internet, but we want to talk a little bit about what it means, how real of the I do just want to like level set that you know I mean I checked this morning the |
| 1:54.6 | economist turned their polling average back on and it's Harris down by one which you know |
| 2:02.4 | is a lot better than Joe Biden was doing a week ago, but |
| 2:06.7 | is about where Joe Biden was six weeks ago. You know Harris down by one nationally means probably down by four in critical swing states and so you know like not like out of the woods right and I want people to keep that in mind. |
| 2:24.2 | We, I mean, it's fair to say that that is, like, |
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