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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

Surrogates and Spoilers

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

Washington, News, Politics, President, Wickenden, Wnyc, Barack, Obama, Lizza

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2016

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Hillary Clinton may be vulnerable without some help from key Democrats. Margaret Talbot joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how Elizabeth Warren could help Clinton defeat Trump, and how Bernie Sanders could damage her.

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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

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It's Thursday, May 19th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

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Last Saturday, during a commencement speech at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts,

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Senator Elizabeth Warren emerged as a surrogate for Hillary Clinton.

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On my day of graduation, I never imagined I would visit foreign countries.

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I never imagined I would be a commencement speaker.

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I never imagined I would get into a Twitter war with Donald Trump.

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But here I am, living the life.

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Margaret Talbot joins me to discuss Senator Warren and Bernie Sanders, who was looking for a while like a potential surrogate himself,

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but who's looking more and more like a spoiler.

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