The Atlantic's Frank Foer and Elaina Plott Calabro on Harris and Biden

The Al Franken Podcast

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🗓️ 28 July 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This past week, we saw President Joe Biden drop out of the Presidential race and VP Kamala Harris emerge as the new nominee for the Democratic Party. The Atlantic's Frank Foer wrote the book "The Last Politician" about Joe Biden's consequential first term and Elaina Plott Calabro, also from The Atlantic, has interviewed Kamala Harris multiple times. We recap some of Biden's biggest accomplishments and examine the radically changed political landscape since Joe Biden withdrew from the race. How will the Trump campaign adjust to run against Kamala Harris? Can she sustain the excitement around her campaign all the way to November? P

Read Elaina's latest on the Trump vs Harris campaign: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/kamala-harris-prosecutor-president/679226/

Read Frank's latest on Biden's exit from the race: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/bidens-greatest-strengths-proved-his-undoing/679179/

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members you can listen to the Al-Franken podcast ad free on Amazon Music.
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0:08.4	This August, the best-selling phenomenon it ends with us.
0:12.4	If you had a daughter, what do you say to her?
0:14.2	That captivated the world.
0:15.6	We all have an idea of what love can be.
0:18.0	Is now a movie that everyone's talking about and can't be missed.
0:21.2	Fifteen seconds, that's all it takes to change everything.
0:24.4	Starring Blake Lively, it ends with us only in cinemas August 9th. Hey everybody we got a great one today you know for a change two writers for the
0:38.4	Atlantic not the Atlantic monthly anymore because their website changes
0:42.4	all day every every day. So just the Atlantic.
0:46.0	Our old friend Frank IV, who's in the pantheon of great frank and guests,
0:51.0	been on many times before and Elena Plot
0:54.0	Calabro making her debut on the podcast and talking today about an
0:59.4	historic week in American history the first African American hyphen South Asian American
1:07.1	to be the presidential nominee of a major political party or any political party for that matter.
1:13.5	Also, she's a woman, the second female nominee
1:17.4	of a major political party.
1:20.2	Vice President Kamla Harris is the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party,
1:25.0	creating a lot of excitement, raising $126 million in the first four days of her candidacy.
1:32.0	As I record this on Friday morning,
1:33.9	we are about to enter the seventh day of her campaign.
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