Swamp Notes: Democrats find a feeling at the DNC
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 24 August 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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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 this week’s Swamp Notes from Chicago to explain what the future of the party might look like.
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
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| 0:10.0 | I'm Sonia Hudson and this is Swamp Notes. |
| 0:13.9 | Vice President Kamala Harris has had wind in her sails |
| 0:17.6 | ever since she entered the race for the White House |
| 0:19.7 | just five weeks ago. |
| 0:21.3 | She rode that momentum to Chicago this week for the Democratic National Convention. |
| 0:25.9 | We know what a second Trump term would look like. It's all laid out in Project 2025 written by his |
| 0:36.2 | closest advisors. Project 2025 that is a policy roadmap put together by a right-wing think tank. |
| 0:43.9 | Trump has tried to distance himself from it. |
| 0:46.3 | And its sum total is to pull our country back to the past. |
| 0:51.0 | But America, we are not going back. |
| 0:55.0 | We are not going back. |
| 0:58.0 | And we are charting a new way forward. Forward. |
| 1:04.0 | Forward. |
| 1:05.0 | Okay, so message received, |
| 1:10.0 | but what does that future actually look like? |
| 1:16.0 | I am on the floor of the basketball arena where the Chicago Bulls play but right now it is the center of the Democratic National Convention. |
| 1:25.6 | There is a ton of excitement and energy in the air right now and at the risk of repeating |
| 1:30.9 | myself from the Republican National Convention there is a ton of |
| 1:35.0 | red, white, and blue. Delegates are sitting in folding chairs under signs that say the name of |
| 1:40.8 | their state. |
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