Show 237 - Edward-Isaac Dovere
Matt Forde's Political Party
The Political Party
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
This is the brilliant inside story of how Joe Biden won the Democratic nomination and The White House, told by Isaac Dovere, the lead political correspondent for The Atlantic. It begins analysing Obama's legacy inside and outside of the party, includes insights from voters who backed Obama twice and voted for Trump, assesses why candidates like Buttigieg, Bloomberg, Warren and Sanders were unable to defeat Biden... and how popular the politics of AOC and Ilhan Omar are with the wider party. In short, it's a corking summary of an incredible period in American politics.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political party. Today's guest is a very special American guest. |
| 0:12.8 | Edward Isaac DeVare. Now if you subscribe to the Atlantic, you'll already be aware of Isaac's |
| 0:17.6 | fantastic writing, but it's got a new book out called Battle for the Soul inside the Democrats |
| 0:21.8 | campaigns to defeat Trump. It is superb. I've put a link in the blurb in the show notes where you |
| 0:27.2 | can buy it. There's also another link there and if you just scroll down and have a look at the blurb |
| 0:31.8 | and it's to a charity page, a Virgin Money Giving page and it's because a listener of the show, |
| 0:38.3 | Jeremy Daubany has been in touch and I mean it's a great email, it's also a bit sad, |
| 0:45.8 | so fair warning, but he got in touch. He said he's 19 and he's just completed an eight-week sponsored |
| 0:53.5 | bike tour of Britain and this is what he says, my dad Giles devastatingly passed away of a brain |
| 0:58.7 | tumor in 2017. This was then followed by my mum's death of motor neurone disease seven months later |
| 1:04.8 | on currently between school and university. I wanted to turn this rough set of cards into something |
| 1:09.1 | positive. With just a tent and a few essential supplies, I set up on my bike, raising money for |
| 1:14.2 | the brain tumor charity and the MND association. Jeremy, first of all, I'm so sorry to hear that. |
| 1:22.8 | I can't imagine how difficult it is to lose one parent at the loan both when you're so young |
| 1:27.4 | and those deaths coming so close together. It's just terrible, but you're obviously turning that |
| 1:32.3 | into a real positive and that is hugely inspirational. Now the next line is great. He says the gimmick of |
| 1:38.0 | my challenge was searching for Britain's best breakfast. Well, you found the right guy to help |
| 1:44.4 | promote your campaign, Jeremy, because that is right at my street. He said, therefore, |
| 1:50.0 | the campaign is called the Tour de Ful English. I can now confirm that Britain's best breakfast |
| 1:54.4 | is in the little Welsh cafe on the Pembrokeshire coast. I mean, the irony of the best |
| 1:58.4 | Ful English, not even being in England, Jeremy, I'm sure I wasn't lost on you. He said, |
| 2:02.0 | when I found a quiet country lane, I could blast my phone speakers out of. I often shoved on an |
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