Making Sense of the Election with James Fallows

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🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In a recent post on Substack, writer and longtime political observer James Fallows wrote, “By the standards of any presidential race in modern times, Kamala Harris ran a very ‘good’ campaign… By those same standards, Trump ran a very bad campaign… And none of it mattered.” So, what did matter on election day? And, how does the Bay Area make sense of an election where the country voted overwhelmingly against one of our region’s most prominent politicians, Kamala Harris? Fallows joins Forum to help us understand what happened in the election and to discuss his recent Wired article, “After the Election, California (Yes, That Hellscape) Will Keep Moving the World Forward No Matter What.” Guests: James Fallows, journalist; former national correspondent for The Atlantic and author of the newsletter Breaking the News. His new article in Wired titled “After the Election, California (Yes, That Hellscape) Will Keep Moving the World Forward No Matter What.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.0	We have reached the sense-making part of the aftermath of the election.
1:09.4	Perhaps we don't have the data to draw final conclusions,
1:12.1	but the contours of what happened on Tuesday night are coming into focus. We're joined this morning
1:17.3	by former Atlantic national correspondent James Fallows, who is noted that, quote, by the standards
1:22.9	of any presidential race in modern times, Kamala Harris ran a very good campaign. By those same standards,
1:29.3	Trump ran a very bad campaign, and none of it mattered. So what did matter on election day,
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