Joe Biden got Lucky
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Allen, the co-author of the new campaign book Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency, joins Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman to share inside details into the Biden campaign that became, in unlikely fashion, the 46th presidential administration. Allen talks about the fateful swings on the campaign trail, Joe Biden's decisive victory in the South Carolina primary, and how Covid shaped the calculus of Biden's messaging strategy. He also talks about the relationship between how Biden ran his campaign and how he has governed early in his presidency, sharing some insightful predictions about what we might see from President Biden as his term goes on.
GUEST:
- Jonathan Allen (@jonallendc), Senior National Political Reporter, NBC News Digital
HOSTS:
- Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
- Dan Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
RESOURCES:
- Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes (Mar. 2021)
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| 0:00.0 | Everyone should be represented. |
| 0:02.0 | Everyone, no one's better than me, |
| 0:03.8 | and I'm no better than anyone else. |
| 0:06.0 | The fact is, what we should be doing, |
| 0:07.5 | we talked about the Supreme Court. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm looking forward to making sure |
| 0:11.2 | there's a black woman on the Supreme Court |
| 0:13.3 | to make sure, in fact, yeah, |
| 0:15.5 | everything is going to be okay. |
| 0:17.0 | Not a joke, not a joke. |
| 0:19.5 | I pushed very hard today. |
| 0:21.1 | I'm my brother. |
| 0:22.1 | That was Joe Biden speaking toward the end |
| 0:24.2 | of a democratic presidential debate last year |
| 0:26.8 | on the eve of the South Carolina primary. |
| 0:29.9 | Making one of the most consequential, |
| 0:32.0 | if little notice commitments of his campaign, |
| 0:35.8 | that he will make history when he has the chance |
| 0:38.2 | by naming the first African-American woman |
| 0:40.6 | to sit on the United States Supreme Court. |
| 0:43.5 | But how did Biden come to make that pledge? |
| 0:46.3 | A new book, lucky, by journalist Jonathan Allen |
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