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Political Gabfest

The "Most Important Election of our Lifetimes Since the Last Election” Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.48.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, John Dickerson, and guest David Axelrod, discuss the intersections of politics and violence and also Trump’s attempts to steer the election coverage leading up to the midterms. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at www.slate.com/gabfestplus. Twitter: @SlateGabfest Facebook: facebook.com/Gabfest Email: gabfest@slate.com Show notes at slate.com/gabfest Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.5

you can count on, someone who actually cares about what you think. I just want someone

0:12.5

who's ready for that long-term kind of love. Whether you're looking for your next boyfriend,

0:18.9

girlfriend, casual date or just someone who truly getscha, it's waiting for you unbumble.

0:25.5

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:31.3

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for November 1st, 2018. The most important

0:43.0

election of our lifetimes since the last election edition. I am David Plotts about this.

0:47.3

Here I'm in Washington, DC. In New York, our Emily Bazzlon of the New York Times magazine.

0:54.8

Hello, Emily. Hey, David. And also with Emily at CBS, Worldwide, Hit Quatters is John

1:01.7

Dickerson of CBS this morning. Hello, John. Hello, David and David. Yes, that you've

1:08.5

tipped off our listeners to the fact that they're not one, but two, David's. You can never

1:12.9

have enough. We had David French on the other week. So we're making a habit of having

1:18.4

David's on. And that David, the new David is not David French. David Axelrod, who's

1:23.1

the director of the Institute of Politics, the University of Chicago, host of the Axe

1:26.0

Files on CNN. David, welcome back to the Gap Fest. Good to be here. We have you here because

1:32.2

of course it is an incredibly big political week and we wanted somebody brought gravity

1:37.6

and intelligence and wit. And we found you. And Louis of that, you asked me. So I appreciate.

1:44.0

So on this week's show, because it's because it's such a big week, we're really just going

1:47.5

to focus on two topics. First, to highly complicated and charged topics. First, the synagogue,

1:54.2

murders and Pittsburgh by an anti-Semite galvanized by all right rhetoric, the attempted

1:59.6

assassinations of the president's political opponents by a deranged supporter of his,

2:04.8

the president's own violent rhetoric and winking at violence. And we're going to, so we're

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