The Case for Kamala

Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri

The Ringer

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🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Tara is joined by political commentator Karen Finney to discuss Kamala Harris’s incredible momentum toward gaining top billing on the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket after Joe Biden stepped down from the race and endorsed her over the weekend. They take a close look at Harris’s current polling against Donald Trump, shine a light on her campaign messaging and team going forward, and speculate on whom she will choose for her running mate. 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: Karen Finney Producer: Chris Sutton Production Supervision: Conor Nevins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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
0:15.8	that news really gets made. We have new shows every Monday and Thursday. We have
0:20.4	long interviews with everyone from John Crackower to Joe Buck.
0:24.0	Your social media feeds are bursting with information every day.
0:27.6	Let us help you sort it out.
0:29.2	Join us on the press box. Hi, I'm Tara Paul Mary. I'm Huck Senior Political Correspondent, and this is Somebody's Gotta
0:57.0	win. It's been about 24 hours since I dropped a breaking news podcast after Joe Biden announced that he was exiting
1:05.6	the 2024 presidential race and was endorsing his vice president and running make
1:10.1	Kamala Harris. I broke it all down with political strategist Steve
1:14.2	Schmidt who argue that there should be an open process to nominate Kamala Harris a
1:18.2	sort of mini primary so that it wouldn't look like some sort of coronation. But
1:22.3	within 24 hours the entire Democratic Party has pretty much rallied around Harris.
1:27.3	I'm talking about the Clintons, Elizabeth Warren, the Congressional Black Caucus.
1:31.4	Plus the people who are in the strongest position to challenge her,
1:34.2	like Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina,
1:36.6	Governor Gavin Newsom of California,
1:38.8	and Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan.
1:40.9	It looks like Kamala Harris will be the Democratic nominee and those who could
1:46.6	have challenged her are now lining up to be her VP. I guess nobody wants to be the skunk and it might hurt you when you're trying
1:54.5	again in 2032? I know that's a long time from now. So to make the case for the
2:00.2	Harris candidacy and why there does not need to be an open primary I brought in one of her
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