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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The Generation Game

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

Obama, Washington, Politics, President, Barack, Lizza, Wnyc, News, Wickenden

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2015

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Hendrik Hertzberg and Evan Osnos join Dorothy Wickenden to discuss experience vs. change in presidential elections.

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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

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It's Thursday, November 12th. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Thursday, November 12th. I'm

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Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. On Tuesday night's Republican presidential

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debate in Milwaukee, one of the moderators asked Florida Senator Marco Rubio about Hillary Clinton.

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Why should the American people trust you to lead this country, even though she has been so much closer to the office?

1:13.6

Well, that's a great question. This election is actually a generational choice, a choice about what kind of nation we will be in the 21st century.

1:21.6

And the Democratic Party and the political left has no ideas about the future.

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Hendrik Hertzberg and Evan Osnos join me to discuss how the generation gap can affect

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presidential elections. Evan, Rubio likes to make this point, actually. He makes it again and

1:37.3

again. And apparently the Clinton campaign fears him more than any of the other candidates.

1:42.3

Can you talk a little bit about that? Yeah, this is really at the core of his message.

1:47.0

Partly this is about his own fellow Republicans. He is, after all, second youngest

1:53.0

candidate in the race after Bobby Jindal, who's not really getting any traction.

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