See Ya Later, Validator

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🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This week, Matt and Brian take a big-picture view of Republicans for Kamala, including:

* Why the Emerging Democratic Majority thesis of the aughts and early 2010s made people assume that outreach to Republicans would lead to betrayal on policy grounds.

* The academic basis for Harris to view support from influential conservatives as a critical safeguard against Democratic backsliding.

* How a more concerted Trump-accountability effort at the outset of Joe Biden’s presidency might have mooted the whole need for a unified front.

Then, behind the paywall, a more nuts-and-bolts look at how this kind of third-party validation works in practice: Are Harris’s critics really mystified by why Democrats keep citing state-level Republican praise for the Biden administration’s response to Hurricane Helene? Would we be talking about January 6 so much, all of a sudden, were it not for the fact that it drove so many influential Republicans into the anti-Trump camp? If this kind of thing is suspicious, or of dubious value, why is Trump trying so hard to pretend Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and Elon Musk reflect significant Democratic defections?

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0:00.0	Tim Walls cornered J.D. Vance with that question about like will you admit the Donald Trump lost in 2020 election?
0:06.6	Vance wouldn't do it.
0:07.4	And so the Sunday show people they went and they asked Vance again, Tom Cotton, Mike Johnson, the same question and they all flunked it.
0:18.0	And then Liz Cheney comes along and is like, this is why I'm supporting Kamala Harris and it's like that's good.
0:23.7	Hey everyone you're listening to a free preview of the politics podcast.
0:32.1	This week Matt and I will talk about Republicans for
0:35.6	Kamala, the backlash on the left to Republicans for Kamala, whether there's
0:41.1	enough Republicans for Kamala to box out the far right and what all of
0:46.4	this has to do with the response to Hurricane Helene and with the revival of January 6
0:52.1	as a major campaign theme.
0:54.0	I hope you enjoy the conversation and if you want to hear the whole thing you can
0:57.8	upgrade your subscription to paid politics podcast. I'm Brian Boiler.
1:08.0	I'm Matthew Glacius.
1:10.0	So I don't know exactly to what extent these things are connected, but over the past week or so, I think maybe starting around the Vice Presidential debate.
1:18.0	It's all connected, Brian.
1:20.0	I guess so, I mean, I need to get my corkboard and red corkboard There's no coincidence out there.
1:24.6	Joe Biden's making weather happen.
1:27.9	But I so starting around like the vice presidential debate is when I peg it to but maybe it was a little
1:33.2	before that. The people who are most active in democratic politics, progressive
1:37.6	politics have seemed a little gloomier or more anxious or something than any data suggests they should be.
1:45.9	And the one thing it's definitely coincided with is one that the VP debate itself, but more
1:51.4	broadly on increasing emphasis on the Harris campaign's part to court
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