Political Gabfest: Why Isn’t Harris Doing Better?

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🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the state of the presidential race; the possibility of a hostages-for-Gaza-ceasefire deal with Ruth Margalit of The New Yorker; and foreign interference in U.S. politics. In the latest Gabfest Reads, Emily talks with Joshua Leifer about his book, Tablets Shattered. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to [email protected]. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth Research by Julie Huygen Public.com+Public Investing: All investing involves risk. Brokerage services for US listed securities, options and bonds in a self-directed brokerage account are offered by Public Investing, member FINRA & SIPC. Not investment advice. Public Investing offers a High-Yield Cash Account where funds from this account are automatically deposited into partner banks where they earn interest and are eligible for FDIC insurance; Public Investing is not a bank.Cryptocurrency trading services are offered by Bakkt Crypto Solutions, LLC (NMLS ID 1828849), which is licensed to engage in virtual currency business activity by the NYSDFS. Cryptocurrency is highly speculative, involves a high degree of risk, and has the potential for loss of the entire amount of an investment. Cryptocurrency holdings are not protected by the FDIC or SIPC. . See public.com/#disclosures-main for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the slate political Gabfest. September 5th, 2024, the Why Isn't Harris doing Better Edition?
0:21.7	I'm David Clots of City Can Cats. I've barely seen you guys. I feel like this is an actual hello. Usually we sort of chit chat.
0:27.6	But there you are Emily Bazelon. Hello Emily Bazlon of New York Times magazine,
0:31.6	Yale University Law School. Hi, how you doing?
0:33.3	Hey David, hey John.
0:34.9	Hi.
0:35.6	That's John Dickerson in New York City from CBS News.
0:40.6	So lovely to see you guys.
0:42.1	Like, it's nice.
0:43.0	I mean, I talked to you yesterday, Emily, but whatever.
0:46.0	This week on the Gabfest, heading into next week's key presidential debate, the polls show
0:50.0	an incredibly tight race, what dynamics are shaping it and why Democrats are
0:56.2	asking some Democrats maybe I don't even know I just I just that was just
1:00.5	imputed that was just an imputed Democrats.
1:03.2	Why isn't Harris further ahead?
1:04.8	But you know what?
1:07.8	In concentrated reading of a lot of the analysis of polling, you see imputed causality where none exists or where the data is
1:16.4	totally murky on it's like blah blah blah because of this and you think how did you get how did you make that leap it's uh anyway it's very frustrating well
1:26.2	I'm imputing we're all imputing here I'm an imputer then Ruth Markleit of the New Yorker
1:31.2	and the New York Times will join us to discuss the dismal situation in Israel, Gaza, Lebanon, the West Bank, where no one seems to have any kind of reasonable plan for ending the wars and bringing some semblance of peace and
1:44.0	normality back to that region. Then Americans on trial for being Russian
1:48.9	propagandists, China accused of organizing pro-Chineseinese Americans to rough up other Chinese-Americans in San Francisco?
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