The Election Nobody Asked For

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🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Many polls are telling the same story: Americans don’t want either Joe Biden or Donald Trump for president. And yet a rematch seems all but inevitable. Mike Warren is joined by Steve, Jonah, and Chris Stirewalt to commune in despair. Plus: -Pence’s overdue attack on populism -Great white sharks with Hitler’s brain -Eric Adams: migrant issue ‘will destroy New York City’ -9/11 anniversary and easy explanations Show notes: –CNN Polling on a Biden vs. Trump rematch –You need to calm down, Democratic pollsters argue – Semafor –Most Americans say Biden is too old – The Washington Post –TMD: The Election Nobody Wants –Kevin Williamson’s piece on Mike Pence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the dispatch podcast. I'm Mike Warren. That's Jonah Goldberg. That's Steve Hayes.
0:06.6	That's Chris Starwalt. We'll be talking about the election that nobody asked for.
0:12.4	We've got so many polls to discuss. Each one more depressing than the last.
0:16.7	Chris Starwalt's already excited about it. We'll be also talking about the migrant crisis
0:20.9	and what's going on in New York City. And of course, a look at now 22 years since 9-11,
0:29.5	since the September 11 of the tax, we'll be talking about all of that on the show. Take a listen.
0:48.6	Okay, let's dive in with the election. Again, the election nobody asked for. Nobody wanted.
0:55.1	We've got a bunch of polls. I feel like we should start with the polls because there is a new
1:00.4	CNN poll that tells us some things that we already learned from an earlier this week Wall Street
1:06.4	journal poll. It's a close general election race. If it's Joe Biden versus Donald Trump,
1:14.1	essentially a statistical tie. And you notice I led with that and not anything about the
1:21.7	Republican primary that is supposedly still going on because Donald Trump is so far ahead,
1:27.6	both in the journal and in the CNN polls. Steve, let's start with you. What should we make?
1:36.2	Should we start with the CNN poll? I mean, what is it? 47, 47 Biden and Trump? This is a dead
1:44.3	heat. Should we talk at all about the Republican primary? Should we just jump into the general election?
1:48.9	So the news in this poll about the Republican primary is that Nikki Haley would be Biden in
1:56.0	a head to head match up by, I believe at six points, other Republican candidates do well the only
2:02.4	Republican losing to Joe Biden in a head to head match up is Vivek Ramaswamy. So that's sort of
2:08.6	the top line on the general election. What I find the most interesting though are the findings on
2:14.4	Joe Biden. And they're dismal. If you're a Democrat, you have to be at least concerned, maybe panic.
2:21.4	Questions, is Joe Biden somebody you're proud to have as president, 37% of Democrats say that
2:29.0	that's not the case, 70% of independents say that they're not proud of having Joe Biden as president,
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