Nate Silver, Amy Davidson, and Kelefa Sanneh on the Election
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2016
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The New Yorker’s David Remnick moderates a conversation with three great political minds: Amy Davidson and Kelefa Sanneh of The New Yorker and FiveThirtyEight.com’s Nate Silver. They discuss the rise of Donald Trump, what it means for the future of the Republican Party, his chances of winning the general election, and why Hillary Clinton is lucky to be challenged by Bernie Sanders.
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| 0:50.7 | On today's Politics and More podcast, a conversation about the 2016 presidential election |
| 0:56.1 | with New Yorker editor David Remnick, staff writers Calafasana and Amy Davidson, and the statistician |
| 1:02.8 | Nate Silver. |
| 1:04.2 | They'll discuss the future of the Trump campaign, the divisions in the Republican Party, |
| 1:08.1 | and why Hillary Clinton is lucky to be challenged by Bernie Sanders. |
| 1:14.2 | I recently spent an evening, as I bet you have to, a lot of evenings, talking about |
| 1:18.9 | the presidential campaign, because what else? |
| 1:22.4 | The evening I'm talking about was a little over a week ago, and I spent it with three |
| 1:26.1 | of the best political thinkers I know. |
| 1:28.6 | Amy Davidson is a columnist for the New Yorker, where she watches like a hawk pretty much |
| 1:32.8 | every move the candidates make. Kellefasana has profiled a number of the Republicans who are or |
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