Monday Morning Politics: Polls, Pending Shutdown & Foreign Policy
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Susan Glasser, a staff writer at the New Yorker, where she writes a column on life in Biden's Washington and co-anchors a weekly roundtable discussion on "The Political Scene" podcast, and co-author with Peter Baker of The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 (Doubleday, 2022), talks about the latest national political news after the long holiday weekend, including the end of Sen. Tim Scott's bid for the White House, the fallout of last week's 2024 polls, and the pending government shutdown.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Laird show on WNYC. I'm Bridget Bergen, senior reporter in the WNYC and |
| 0:16.7 | Gothamist Newsroom filling in for Brian today. On today's show we're going to talk |
| 0:21.2 | about a huge surprise from last week's election in the Bronx. |
| 0:25.0 | That's where city council member Marjorie Velazquez, a Democrat, lost her seat to a Republican, the first GOP member from the Bronx in over 40 years. |
| 0:37.0 | Plus Dr. Rajiv Shah, he's currently head of the Rockefeller Foundation and was the USAID Administrator in the mid-Auts. |
| 0:45.2 | He will share his thoughts on how to help effectively during humanitarian crises, |
| 0:51.4 | including right now in Gaza. And lastly, SAG members, we want to hear from you at the end of the show. |
| 0:57.1 | We're going to talk to a Labor Studies professor about what's in both the SAGAFTRA and UAW deals and hear his |
| 1:05.9 | thoughts on the power of workers right now. But first, let's talk national |
| 1:11.5 | politics, Monday morning politics, and national security with New Yorker staff |
| 1:16.4 | writer Susan Glasser, who writes a column there on Life in Biden's Washington and co-anchors a weekly roundtable discussion on the political scene |
| 1:26.1 | podcast. |
| 1:27.1 | She's also co-author with Peter Baker of The Divider, Trump in the White House 2017 to 2021. |
| 1:34.0 | Susan, welcome back to the show. |
| 1:36.0 | Hey, it's great to be with you. |
| 1:38.0 | And Susan, let's jump right in with the latest development in the presidential race. |
| 1:44.8 | South Carolina Senator Tim Scott has suspended his campaign. |
| 1:48.8 | Now, he never got a ton of traction, didn't make much of a dent in any of the polls for former |
| 1:55.2 | President Trump who has been leading consistently throughout the campaign, but |
| 2:00.0 | it does narrow the choices for Republican primary voters seeking a Trump alternative, right? |
| 2:06.7 | Well, that's right. I mean, look, he really made very few waves. He's one of the examples of those senator candidates who are perhaps more popular with their colleagues on Capitol Hill than with the voters. I mentioned this to somebody and they said, oh, I didn't realize he was still running. So you know he really didn't make much of an impact. |
| 2:25.7 | Sadly he'll probably be best remembered in this campaign for the bizarre spectacle of |
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