Symone Sanders-Townsend on the (Mostly) Peaceful Transfer to Kamala Harris

Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri

The Ringer

News

4.4 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Tara is joined by political strategist and MSNBC commentator Symone Sanders-Townsend; they begin their conversation by examining Joe Biden’s last days as the Democratic presidential candidate. They then discuss the vigor of the current Kamala Harris media honeymoon, talk about the implementation of the Harris agenda within her campaign, and look ahead to her scheduled debate with Donald Trump. For more of Tara’s reporting, please sign up for her newsletter, 'The Best and the Brightest,' at puck.news/tarapalmeri and use the discount code TARA20. Host: Tara Palmeri Guest: Symone Sanders-Townsend Producer: Chris Sutton Production Supervision: Conor Nevins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, it's Brian Curtis from The Ringer, and I want to tell you about the Press Box podcast.
0:06.0	The Press Box is a podcast for anybody who likes news, whether it's about sports or politics or pop culture and wants to understand how that news really gets made
0:17.6	We have new shows every Monday and Thursday. We have long interviews with everyone from John Crackower to Joe Buck.
0:24.0	Your social media feeds are bursting with information every day.
0:27.5	Let us help you sort it out.
0:29.5	Join us on the press box. Hi, Tara Paul Mary, I'm Puck Senior Political Correspondent, and this is, somebody's got to win.
0:57.0	My next guest had the unique experience of speaking for Vice President Kamala Harris as her chief
1:02.6	spokesperson during the first two years of her time
1:05.3	in the White House.
1:06.6	Simone Sanders had an up close and personal view of Kamala Harris,
1:10.4	a candidate who Americans are just learning about and who is seeking to define
1:14.1	herself before Donald Trump gets ahead of her. Well now Simone is on the outside
1:18.7	as an MS-MBC anchor and on this show she offers a very candid assessment on the
1:23.7	emerging Harris campaign and where she thinks it will go from here.
1:29.2	Simone, thanks so much for joining the show. As we all know, Simone Sanders is a
1:33.3	batty at MS NBC. She hosts the weekend. I have been in like a
1:37.8	Simone hole on the internet just googling you in your amazing career.
1:42.0	30 under 30, 16 most influential people in the country and then I came
1:47.5	across that as a child you referred to yourself as Donna Burns when you pretended
1:52.4	to be a news anchor host and
1:55.8	look at you now so that's kind of fun right right? Right. Donna Burns was my
1:59.3	TV personality I don't know whom she worked. I don't know what network she was with.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Ringer, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Ringer and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.