Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,

three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized

tent. Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.

All right.

Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.

And don't get us started on Mel.

But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat.

Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel with us.

P and O'Ferees, there is another way. Hello everyone and welcome to the focus group podcast I'm Sarah Longwell publisher of

the bulwark as you know I have been agitating for Joe

Biden to get out of this race since that disastrous debate performance last

month and it has happened. That blocks Donald Trump's glide path to the presidency, but this week I want to talk about the work

Kamala Harris has in front of her to earn American voters trust.

Now, we're still waiting on really reliable polling on this new reset race, but Harris starts as a slight

underdog. In a CNN poll conducted after Biden dropped out, she trailed Trump by three points nationally,

while Biden trailed by six points in that poll in June.

Today we're going to look back on voters' reactions to her over the years and where her campaign has to go from here

because this is an important period for Kamla's campaign. I've been known to say that

public opinion is malleable at first and then it hardens like cement. My guest today is

grizzled. My producer wrote that so sorry.

Grizzled veteran of Democratic presidential campaigns, David Axelrod,

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