The 2024 Election Is Already Here

The Run-Up

The New York Times

News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

It may seem way too early to be thinking about next year’s presidential election — and it is too soon to ask who’s going to win. But actually, it’s the perfect time to understand what the parties took away from the last election and how that’s already shaping their plans for the next one. For the past few months, Astead W. Herndon has been reporting from inside the political establishment, where party leaders, donors and activists are already trying to influence the 2024 election — and while voters are less likely to pay attention and lines of allegiance are scrambled. “The Run-Up” returns Thursday, April 6. See you there.

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0:00.0	Last year, election day is just days away. At stake, 35 seats in the Senate, all 435 seats
0:09.8	in the House, and just possibly the future of our democracy.
0:14.5	Our big question heading into the midterms was about the country's commitment to democracy.
0:19.0	There are 380 who we categorize as election deniers and the results.
0:27.0	I think voters were endorsing moderation, normalcy, calmness, centrism.
0:33.2	We're surprising in their clarity. Democracy. It held without mobs in the streets, without
0:39.1	violence, despite all the election denialism out there.
0:43.2	Voters across America.
0:45.0	There was a price to pay for right-wing extremism in this election.
0:49.6	Seemed to reject extremism.
0:51.5	Nearly all of Trump's hand-picked candidates for governor and Senate in key races were defeated,
0:56.8	including candidates who centered their campaigns on Trump's 2020 election lies.
1:01.8	Which meant...
1:02.8	The biggest loser last night was Donald Trump. In state after state, candidates that
1:08.0	he brought to the race did not win or are losing right now.
1:11.5	This may be the moment that we discover that Donald Trump is not a kingmaker any longer.
1:18.0	Donald Trump's power was in question.
1:20.0	Trump is bleeding within the Republican Party and he will have to fight.
1:24.9	And after years of reporting on the grassroots of both parties, I was skeptical it would
1:29.6	be that simple.
1:30.6	For the first time in 100 years, the House fails to elect a speaker on the first ballot
1:35.0	as renegade Republicans block Congressman Kevin McCarthy from winning the top job.
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