The Edition: who is the real Joe Biden?
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🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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With editor of the Spectator's US edition, Freddy Gray; our economics correspondent Kate Andrews; deputy political editor Katy Balls; former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt; journalist Rachel Johnson; and comedian Dominic Frisby.
Presented by Cindy Yu.
Produced by Cindy Yu, Max Jeffery, and Sam Russell.
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| 0:16.1 | Hello and welcome to The Edition, the Spectator's weekly podcast, taking a look at some of the most intriguing and interesting stories within our pages, with the writers behind them. I'm Cindy Yu. |
| 0:27.8 | This week, I find out about whether or not Joe Biden is really going to become the next president of America. |
| 0:33.6 | Also on the podcast, fears of a second wave are dominating Westminster. |
| 0:39.7 | Can the government handle it right this time? |
| 0:49.2 | And at the very end, Rachel Johnson on how COVID is pushing her generation of 50-somethings into an early retirement. |
| 1:01.2 | First up, even though Joe Biden doesn't seem like he can make any sort of public appearance without having some kind of senile moment, he's still leading Trump in the polls. |
| 1:04.2 | So how has this happened? Is it just because he's not Trump? |
| 1:09.7 | Freddie Gray, the editor of The Spectator's US edition, takes a look at this question in our cover piece this week. He joins me down |
| 1:10.9 | the line now, together with Kate Andrews, our economics correspondent. So, Freddie, as you're |
| 1:16.5 | writing your piece this week, Joe Biden just keeps climbing in the polls and leaving Trump behind. |
| 1:20.8 | Is Trump at a loss as to how to deal with him? I think he is. He certainly seems to be. |
| 1:25.9 | His campaign spent quite a long time trying to sort of |
| 1:29.7 | portrayed Biden as both potentially the most dangerously left-wing president ever, as well as |
| 1:36.5 | potentially a racist in disguise because they want to appeal to black voters. And there was a sort of |
| 1:42.6 | conflict between those two messages they were putting out. |
| 1:45.0 | And in fact, Biden is neither of those things. So it's quite obvious that Trump doesn't |
| 1:49.0 | really know how to land a punch on him. And as a result, they're now switching up and they're |
| 1:54.0 | just trying to say that, of course, Biden won't have any control over everything because |
| 1:58.0 | he's not really with us anymore. He's a bit senile. And therefore, |
| 2:02.2 | the radical left are going to take over. And, Freddie, in your piece, you also say that |
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