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🗓️ 1 November 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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We're sharing a special bonus episode of The Lever's flagship podcast, Lever Time, founder David Sirota and award-winning screenwriter and director Adam McKay discuss Democrats’ bid to win over GOP voters by repeatedly touting endorsements from former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, former Rep. Liz Cheney.
Critics say the move could alienate swing-state voters, but others say it’s a shrewd gambit to attract disaffected Republicans. McKay’s Oscar-nominated film Vice is widely considered the definitive biopic of Dick Cheney.
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0:33.9 | From the Lever's reader-supported newsroom, I'm David Sorota. |
0:39.3 | I worked on Capitol Hill in the lead-up to the Iraq War. |
0:43.3 | If you had told me back then that the Democratic nominee for president in |
0:47.3 | 2024 would be touting support from the Cheney family, |
0:51.3 | I might not have believed you. |
0:53.3 | And if I did believe you, I might have thrown |
0:55.3 | up in my mouth. But here we are in the final weeks of the 2024 election. And Democratic nominee |
1:02.0 | Kamala Harris and her vice presidential nominee Tim Walts have not only accepted the endorsement |
1:08.2 | of Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz Cheney, they've aggressively and |
1:12.3 | repeatedly touted those endorsements as a way to try to court Republican voters. Many liberals see |
1:18.7 | the Cheney gambit as a no-brainer with all upside. But if you're like me and you don't want |
1:24.2 | to see Donald Trump win again, maybe you're a little worried about the assumptions and the risks baked into this political |
1:31.0 | calculation. |
1:31.7 | On this special edition of Levertime on our premium feed exclusively for paying subscribers, |
1:37.7 | we talk about all of this with Adam McKay, the writer and director of the Academy Award |
1:43.0 | nominated film, Vice, which dove deep into |
1:46.1 | the Cheney dynasty, its political goals, and its ideological objectives. |
1:51.5 | We explore some big questions. |
1:54.0 | Will the Democrats embrace of the Cheney's attract Republican swing voters and win them |
1:59.5 | the election? |
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