Previewing A Tumultuous 2024 Election

WSJ Opinion: Free Expression

Gerard Baker, Editor at Large, The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Super Tuesday put the seal on the 2024 primary season and the rematch of Joe Biden and Donald Trump is set for November. Biden starts out in a weaker position than any incumbent in decades. But, while polling suggests Trump currently has the edge, many voters seem reluctant to endorse either candidate. On this episode of the Free Expression Podcast, Gerry Baker speaks with former Trump pollster and co-executor of the WSJ’s own regular polling Tony Fabrizio to talk about what we can expect in November and whether Biden can turn the race around? Will Trump overcome the Scott’s about his character? With Robert F. Kennedy running as an Independent and pulling votes from both sides, how sure can either party be about winning the 2024 election? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Boardrooms love buzzwords.
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0:17.1	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free Expression with Jerry Baker.
0:24.5	Hello and welcome to Free Expression from the Wall Street Journal.
0:27.5	I'm Jerry Baker, editor at large of the journal.
0:29.4	If you're not already subscribing to this podcast, please do sign up at Apple, Spotify,
0:34.0	or indeed wherever you do, you're listening.
0:35.8	This week, let the general election games begin.
0:39.3	Super Tuesday is done. We're now just less than eight months away from Election Day when the long
0:44.6	and presumably brutal campaign for the presidency starts in earnest. In the end, it was only American
0:50.0	Samoa, Vermont and Washington, D.C., between them representing a grand total of 0.4% of the American people who declined to opt for
0:59.8	the apparently inevitable rerun of the 2020 presidential election this year.
1:04.9	Yes, that's right.
1:05.4	On the least suspenseful Super Tuesday in modern history, Joe Biden lost the Democratic primary
1:10.5	only in Samoa to the hitherto
1:13.6	unknown businessman Jason Palmer, but otherwise romped home. The Republicans, Nikki Haley,
1:17.7	secured a narrow win over Donald Trump in tiny Vermont, having notched a victory in Washington,
1:22.3	D.C. a few days earlier, but Trump, of course, won all 14 other contests. Overall, Biden got his total
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