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The Daily

Special Episode: The Last “Year of the Woman”

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

More women are running for office in the 2018 midterm elections than in any other election in American history. “The Daily” speaks to Senator Dianne Feinstein about what this moment shares with 1992, another record-breaking “Year of the Woman.” Guests: Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, and Kate Zernike, a political reporter for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0

From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbarale. This is the Daily.

0:10.0

Today.

0:12.0

More women are running in the 2018 midterm elections than any other election in American history.

0:19.0

What this moment shares with the last time that happened.

0:24.0

It's Saturday, August 25th.

0:34.0

Coming up, will 2018 be the year where women, many of color, just side the fate of the midterm election?

0:44.0

Dance in just a moment.

1:01.0

Senate Classical.

1:02.0

I have the Senate.

1:03.0

Great.

1:04.0

Yeah, hi, Michael.

1:06.0

Hi, Senator. How are you?

1:07.0

Yeah, I'm good. I'm going to put you on hands free, Ashley's in the room.

1:12.0

Okay. But you okay. Here we go. Hello.

1:15.0

Sure. You know what, Senator? I think from an audio perspective, it might make a meaningful difference.

1:23.0

Is it audio? I thought it's an audio interview for an audio show that's listened to by New York Times audio listeners.

1:32.0

Thank you. You're off the hands free.

1:35.0

Hello.

1:37.0

Yeah, yeah. This is great. Okay. Thank you for being so accommodating. So.

1:42.0

Oh, no problem.

1:43.0

We spoke to California Senator Diane Feinstein from her office in Washington.

1:48.0

I guess that you know that's at this point that the reason we're talking to you today is because we're doing a wonderful kind of documentary story about what's now being called the year of the women.

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