S4 Ep49: Can Kamala Be Unburdened? (with Benjy Sarlin)
The Focus Group Podcast
The Bulwark
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Adam Carlson's Crosstab Aggregator
Relevant past episodes:
With black voters:
March 2024, with Ashley Allison
July 2024, with Audie Cornish
With hispanic voters:
October 2023, with Ruy Teixeira
June 2024, with Amy Walter
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| 0:41.4 | bull work and this week you guys need to take your medicine because |
| 0:45.6 | we've spent several weeks hearing all of the good news about how swing voters |
| 0:49.6 | warming up to Kamala Harris and Tim Walls. However, the polls pretty much everywhere are still way too close for comfort, and that's partly because, like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris is still relatively weak with some black and Hispanic voters. |
| 1:05.4 | Not all of them, not even most of them, but enough to show up in a real way in the numbers. |
| 1:11.8 | Harris is also coming off of a CNN interview last week and |
| 1:15.2 | we're coming up on a big inflection point in this race with the presidential |
| 1:19.2 | debate on September 10th to level set how Harris could make headway with skeptical voters with the time left in this race, |
| 1:26.3 | I'm turning to Benji Sarlin, Washington Bureau Chief at Semaphore. |
| 1:31.1 | Benji, thanks for being here. Thanks so much for having me. I'm just going to geek out here. I'm a long time fan. |
| 1:36.5 | I cannot wait to get into this with you. |
| 1:39.2 | A fandom is mutual, but hey question. Benji, where's that that come from Benji with a why so it's a funny story I don't have to give you the long version but basically I was named after one of my father's best friends and in Judaism you're not allowed to name |
| 1:56.6 | after someone living is the tradition but he had joined the Hari Krishna and changed his name |
| 2:01.6 | to Pardonnandad. So the name was free. And then he later left and |
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