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Robert Wright's Nonzero

The Biden Mess (Robert Wright & Eric Levitz)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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0:52 Biden plays chicken against Democratic elites 13:53 Could the delegates deny Biden the nomination? 21:29 Odd moments in the George Stephanopoulos interview 35:32 Biden faces down a populist-elite revolt 46:06 How a small group of insiders could force Biden out 52:13 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Eric Levitz (New York Magazine, Vox). Recorded July 08, 2024.

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0:00.0

You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.

0:28.9

Hi, Eric.

0:30.6

Hi, Bob.

0:32.1

Are you doing?

0:33.2

I'm doing okay.

0:34.1

How are you?

0:35.4

Can't complain.

0:36.6

Let me introduce this.

0:37.3

I'm Robert Wright,

0:38.4

publisher in Non-Zer newsletter, which I encourage everyone to subscribe to, and you are

0:42.6

Eric Levitts, and this is the Non-Zer podcast. You already seen your correspondent at Vox.

0:48.9

Before that, you were a columnist at New York Magazine. I've always been impressed by your work,

0:53.9

and that certainly includes the work that led me to ask you if you wanted to call on the podcast,

0:58.1

which is the work you've been doing on the whole Biden mess.

1:00.8

I think you've been particularly astute in your analysis and also particularly acute in analyzing the things Biden has been saying.

1:13.1

And you kind of particularly dogged in like paying attention to what he's been saying since the famously disastrous debate

1:19.6

and pointing out how bad that stuff has been, which not everyone has been doing.

1:26.1

I mean, including you're pointing out that his first

1:29.4

extended answer in the Stephanopoulos interview was incoherent. I want to get back to that and the

1:37.7

quality of his rhetoric generally. But first, you know, today he staged a big rebound, at least on the betting markets.

1:46.9

I think this morning his chances of being the nominee were well below 50%, now they're above

1:54.2

60%. You've probably been paying more attention to this than I have. What's the apparent

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