Maybe You Should Run For Office?

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New York Magazine

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🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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U.S. politics are starting to look a little bit more like the United States itself. More queer people, women, and POCs. People who have never worked in politics before, have no corporate backers and are running campaigns out of their kitchen. So, what about you, or your friends? Producer Jazmin Aguilera tests whether she could actually run and what she would have to give up in the process. Writer Brock Colyar profiles Sarah McBride. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:18.0	You know there's that New Yorker cartoon that's like, who's sick of these elitist pilots flying the plane?
1:24.0	Who thinks I should fly the plane?
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