Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Monday, September 14, 2020.

I'm John Puthhorets, the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor

A. Greenwald Hi-A. Hi John, associate editor Noah Rothman, Hi Noah. Hi John.

And senior writer Christine Rosen, who is peace lead cover article for the October issue

of commentary you will be reeducated. We will be discussing at length on this podcast.

Hi Christine. Hi John. But before we get to Christine's piece, I wanted to talk about an

interesting example of what some might call epistemic closure produced by the New York Times in

its article on the battleground state polling that it has now published or published on Saturday morning

about Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Carolina, Arizona, and another state I can't quite pull up

in my brain at the moment. What was interesting about this is that the article purported to say that

Trump's Donald Trump's efforts to make a case to the American people and to voters of these

states that the antifa violence and the unrest are reasons why he should be voted for and why

people should pull away from Joe Biden, weren't working. And in fact, I am not sure that that's

what the polling said at all. And from the language of the Times's own coverage of the event,

and of the polling, suggested that in fact Biden's Trump's efforts to tag Biden with

these problems are in fact beginning to buy the little bit. And here's a quote from the article,

in Wisconsin, Mr. Biden received 48% support compared to 43% or Trump. That's a significant drop

off from June when the Times see an appell showed Mr. Biden ahead by 11 points. Nearly all

of the narrowing came as a result of Mr. Trump's recovery support from voters to the right of

center. Some of whom had expressed feelings of disillusionment in the earlier poll amid the

ravages of the pandemic in a major way of racial justice protests. So he was, he's narrowed in the

poll over two months from 11 to four. In June, people were expressing discontent with him

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