Swamp Notes: Democrats find a feeling at the DNC
Political Fix
Financial Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Democrats from across the US gathered in Chicago for their presidential convention this week, promising to move past the Donald Trump-era of American politics. But if their newly-minted nominee, vice-president Kamala Harris, wins November’s election, she’ll have her work cut out to keep her party together. The FT’s deputy Washington bureau chief, Lauren Fedor, and US political news editor, Derek Brower, join the FT's US politics podcast, Swamp Notes, to explain what the future of the party might look like.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Five key points from Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech
Kamala Harris vows to ‘strengthen, not abdicate’ US global leadership
Kamala Harris’s underwhelming economic agenda
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| 0:33.7 | another show you might like it's our sister podcast called Swamp Notes and |
| 0:37.8 | features some of the FT's best writers and voices on the 2024.S. presidential election. |
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| 0:53.0 | I'm Sonia Hudson and this is Swamp Notes. |
| 0:57.0 | Vice President Kamala Harris has had wind in her sales ever since she entered the race for the White House just five weeks ago. |
| 1:05.1 | She rode that momentum to Chicago this week for the Democratic National Convention. We know what a second Trump term would look like. It's all laid out in Project 2025, |
| 1:18.7 | written by his closest advisors. Project 2025, that is a policy road map put together by a right-wing think tank. |
| 1:27.4 | Trump has tried to distance himself from it. |
| 1:29.9 | And its sum total is to pull our country back to the past. |
| 1:34.6 | But America, we are not going back. |
| 1:39.7 | We are not going back. |
| 1:41.9 | And we are charting a new way forward forward. |
| 1:47.0 | Forward. |
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