Joe Biden and the Democrats Fail to Fight Days Before Midterm Battle Begins

The New Abnormal

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🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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President Biden’s Wednesday speech at Union Station in D.C. where he warned of the perils facing US democracy ahead of next week’s Midterms just wasn’t forceful enough, according to host Andy Levy on this week’s episode of political podcast, The New Abnormal. In his speech, Biden made reference to the hammer attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul last week, warning the country faces escalating threats of political violence. He also criticized Donald Trump over the former president’s refusal “to accept the results of the 2020 election.” But it wasn’t enough, according to Levy and guest host Josie Duffy Rice, who writes about prisons and prosecution at The Unnamed. Also on the podcast, Mike Isaac, a technology correspondent for The New York Times discusses whether Twitter can survive under Elon Musk’s ownership. Then, Matt Gertz, a senior fellow at Media Matters, discusses how Republicans twisted the story of Paul Pelosi’s hammer attack from a crime story to a national conspiracy; that the violent assault was the result of some sort of gay lover’s spat or falling out.

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0:49.2	Hi, I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN HLN Guy and current cable news conscientious
0:55.0	projector. I'm a former libertarian who now sits pretty comfortably on the left.
0:58.8	And I'm producer Jesse Ketter and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off the rails.
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