Reporting on the Biden Age Question, Interviewing Kamala Harris, and the Democrats’ MSNBC Problem With NYT’s Astead Herndon

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🗓️ 11 July 2024

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Hello, media consumers! Bryan welcomes back Astead Herndon of The New York Times and host of ‘The Run-up Podcast.’ He comes on to discuss the following about President Joe Biden: Astead’s reporting in 2020 and how Biden’s age was a topic of conversation (1:04) Whether or not he ran his first campaign with the intentions of being a one-term president (08:38) The Biden campaign being more online now than four years ago (19:18) His experience interviewing Vice President Kamala Harris in 2016 (40:55) Plus, David Shoemaker guesses the Strained Punned Headline and Bryan closes the show with a quick update on the NBA rights Host: Bryan Curtis Guest: Astead Herndon Producer: Brian H. Waters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:40.4	Ringer here along with producer Brian Waters. Our guest today is a familiar
0:44.9	voice on the press box. Astead Herndon is a New York Times reporter and he hosts the
0:50.1	excellent Run-Up podcast where he's been asking questions about
0:54.2	whether Joe Biden's age will be a political liability for a long, long time.
1:00.4	He's one of my favorite people to talk politics with.
1:03.4	Astead, welcome back to the press box.
1:05.6	Thank you.
1:06.6	Thank you for having me, Brian.
1:08.0	I appreciate it.
1:09.4	So let's back way up, way before the debates. What first got you interested in the question of
1:14.9	whether Biden's age would be a liability? Yeah, I would actually say that our
1:19.6	focus was born out of our reporting in 2020. When I was the reporter for Kamla Harris and Elizabeth Warren
1:25.8	and really involved in that Democratic primary,
1:28.2	I remember that the big problem a lot of folks in the electorate had
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