Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at background briefing.

I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with the findings from a veteran pollster that dual haters, voters who don't want either Trump or Biden,

were 18% of the voters in 2016, but are now at 23% of the electorate,

with 91% saying that the country is on the wrong track,

and 67% citing inflation and the cost of living as the main problem.

Joining us is Stanley Greenberg, who was appolster to President Bill Clinton and Vice President

Al Gore, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, South African President Nelson Mandela, and more.

He is a founding partner of Greenberg Research and the co-author with James Carville of the New York Times bestseller.

It's the middle class stupid.

His latest book is RIP, GOP, How the New America is Doming the Republicans.

And we will discuss his article at the American

prospect, they don't want Trump or Biden. Here's how they can still elect Biden. Then we'll look

into the fate of the Russian opposition and how the Russian people can get information in spite of

the Kremlin's control of truth and reality, now that Putin has awarded himself a blowout victory in the phony election he just ran.

Joining us is Michael Gorham,

Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Florida,

and currently the Archie K. Davis Fellow at the National Humanities Center.

He's the author of two award-winning books on

language, culture and politics after newspeak, language culture and politics in Russia from

Gorbachev to Putin, and speaking in Soviet tongues, language culture and politics of voice

in revolutionary Russia. He's currently completing his third book, Networking Putinism, the rhetoric of power

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