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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

Polling, Money, Trump Fatigue: Your 2024 Election Questions

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

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🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The Washington Roundtable: The 2024 election season has kicked off. Former President Donald Trump took the Iowa caucuses in a landslide, and the New Hampshire primary is just around the corner. In recent weeks, The Political Scene’s listeners have sent in questions about American politics. Some themes emerged: How should the media cover a potential Trump-Biden rematch? Are polls reliable? How will fatigue and dread influence this election? “It’s not just the candidates; it's who’s behind them, who’s around them, what’s the money, what’s the religious organization, how does the media ecosystem work,” the New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer says. Susan B. Glasser and Evan Osnos join Mayer to answer these questions, and more.

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They had like a snow forecast needle for

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schools and the likelihood of being canceled. And I only know this because we had a family with two

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kids in D.C. public school over the night before the first snow day and D.C. was holding out.

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And they're like, we've been refreshing the Washington Post's snow day forecaster all day.

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When I left home this morning, it was a little bit like I was fleeing out a window because the kids are home for their third snow day. And I wish them well.

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It's very Washington. And your wife is stuck behind taking care of them.

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I'm not going to comment on that, Jane.

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I'll be back in an hour after we taped this.

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I do remember my mom saying that instead of executing people at Nuremberg, they should have sentenced the Nazis to having to get kids in and out of their snow suits for the rest of their lives.

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That's always the moment that breaks your spirit.

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