The Onward March of Joy

WSJ Opinion: Free Expression

Gerard Baker, Editor at Large, The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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A month after abandoning their death march to the polls with President Joe Biden and switching to a campaign of joy with Kamala Harris, Democrats are in Chicago to formally nominate Vice President Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota. But beyond spreading the happiness, what are the Democrats offering? On the strength of her few policy announcements, so far it looks likely that Harris is trying to put distance between distance herself and Biden. But can she really escape the record of the last four years? On this episode of the Free Expression podcast, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) joins Gerry Baker from the site of the Democratic National Convention to discuss the changed nature of the race, how Kamala Harris plans to tackle the border and price controls, and addresses controversies surrounding her running mate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.1	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free Expression with Jerry Baker.
0:24.4	Hello and welcome to Free Expression from the opinion page of the Wall Street Journal.
0:27.9	I'm Jerry Baker, editor at large of the journal.
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0:35.2	You're listening.
0:36.0	This week, the joy flows on. Democrats are
0:39.6	taking advantage of the extended prime-time commercial that is the modern presidential nominating
0:44.9	convention to make the case for their new leadership. Delegates in Chicago have rallied with real
0:50.3	enthusiasm to Kamala Harris and Tim Wolves. Just a month ago, the party's heavy hitters were primed to make the case that Joe Biden
0:56.6	was the man to lead the country for the next four years.
0:59.6	Now, after a sudden change of mind and a hasty rewrite, we're told that Vice President Harris
1:04.8	was the right person all along.
1:06.5	Having made the switch, the party leadership has got three main tasks this week at the DNC.
1:11.6	First, they had to dispense with President Biden, and they sure did, by confining him to a midnight
1:16.6	appearance on the first night of the convention and waving him off to retirement straight afterwards.
1:21.6	It is worth noting, just in case anyone had forgotten, that he is still actually the President of the United States.
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