The COVID-19 Election

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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NBC News’ National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki joins the COMMENTARY podcast for a discussion about the political fallout that will settle over the country ahead of the 2020 elections. Has the pandemic transformed our politics, or will the full impact of this event not be felt for years to come? Source

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0:00.0	Music
0:24.0	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast today is Monday, May 18th, 2020.
0:29.6	I'm John Puport, the editor of commentary with me is always senior editor Abe Greenwald.
0:33.6	Hi, Abe. Hi, John.
0:35.6	Senior writer Christine Rosen after a weekend of Marie Kondoing her closets.
0:40.6	Yes, I like that. Are they giving you joy?
0:42.8	I feel such joy. I just feel nothing but joy.
0:45.5	That's great.
0:47.4	So, see editor Noah Rothman, hi Noah.
0:49.3	Hi, John.
0:50.3	And joining us today are friend Steve Kornaki from MSNBC.
0:55.7	Data, data head extraordinaire.
0:59.6	Vogue counter, poll watcher, knowledge maven.
1:03.6	Hi Steve, thanks for joining us again.
1:05.4	Hi John, happy to be here. Thanks for having me.
1:07.5	Great. So, not to lower the buoyancy level to, you know, to horrible tragedy, but we,
1:18.0	this week, sometime this week, we are going to hit the milestone that we all dreaded hitting,
1:24.4	I guess, which is 100,000 officially recorded deaths from the coronavirus.
1:34.4	Is this, is that number meaningful, either as a new story or as a, or is this going to be sort of
1:41.8	like a moment when everyone's going to stop and say, oh my god, look what's happened or,
1:48.0	are we so drenched in this story that it, that it, it's not going to like seem like that
1:55.4	big deal. Do you think?
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