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Background Briefing with Ian Masters

Ian Masters

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4.7 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The Contours of a Kamala Harris Campaign Emerges Contrasting the Felon With the Prosecutor Who Went After For-Profit College Ripoffs Like Trump University and Investigated Big Oil While Trump Invited Them to Bribe Him | Kamala Harris Campaigns in Wisconsin Today Which Trump Barely Won in 2016 and Biden in 2020 | Project 2025 Is More of a Corporate Wishlist Than a MAGA Manifesto and Trump and Vance Are Running Away From Its Unpopularity backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org. I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news. We'll begin with the contours of the presidential campaign of Kamala Harris emerging
0:25.0	as the prosecutor Harris compares herself to the convicted felon Trump,
0:30.2	with her record a direct comparison with Trump as we head into an assuredly nasty election season.
0:37.1	Harris has prosecuted for-profit colleges.
0:40.2	Trump created one.
0:41.7	Harris investigated Big Oil.
0:43.6	Trump invited them to bribe him and so on.
0:47.2	Joining us is Gil Duran, a San Francisco journalist
0:49.9	who previously served as editorial page editor of the Sacramento Bee
0:53.7	and the San Francisco Examiner.
0:56.2	He currently writes the Frame Lab newsletter on Substack
0:59.6	and regularly contributes to the San Francisco Chronicle and other publications.
1:04.9	He served as press secretary for Kamala Harris when she was the Attorney General of California.
1:12.1	Then, with Kamala Harris campaigning in the key swing state of Wisconsin today,
1:16.8	which Trump barely won in 2016 and Biden in 2020,
1:21.5	we will speak with Ruth Conniff, the editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Examiner,
1:26.4	who formerly served as editor-in-chief of the Progressive Magazine,
1:29.7	where she worked for many years from both Madison and Washington, D.C.
1:34.2	She's the author of Milt, How an American Crisis Brought Together
1:37.8	with Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers,
1:41.1	and we will discuss her latest article at the Wisconsin Examiner. Wisconsin Democrats
1:45.8	endorse Kamala Harris after Biden drops out. Then finally we'll look into how the Heritage
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