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Matter of Opinion

The Presidential Fantasy Draft America Needs

Matter of Opinion

New York Times Opinion

Society & Culture, Ross Douthat, News, New York Times, Journalism

4.27.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The polls are clear: Neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump has the full confidence of American voters. But is Biden’s latest competition, Democratic Representative Dean Phillips of Minnesota, the answer to voters’ malaise? Or perhaps an independent candidate like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.? On this week’s episode of “Matter of Opinion,” the hosts imagine their own alternative candidates for 2024 and debate what good — if any — could come from long-shot contenders.

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0:00.0

Anything I say you should not consider today because I just whacked my forehead on my car door.

0:05.4

You see this cut?

0:06.4

Oh wait, there's a bump.

0:07.8

Oh my God.

0:08.8

Yeah, so I'm like, yeah, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I grab like, um,

0:12.4

Theresaizo, Theresa, Theresa, yeah, I'm like grabbing I grab like Do you have peas?

0:13.0

Theresa, Theresa, Theresa, oh,

0:15.0

it's a little solid, but.

0:17.0

From New York Times opinion, I'm Ross Dauth.

0:20.0

I'm Michelle Kottle.

0:22.0

I'm Carlos Lozada. And I'm Lydia Pol Green. And this is matter of a P. This week, amid general dissatisfaction with the likely Democratic and Republican nominees

0:41.4

for president in 2024, we're going to be talking about

0:45.0

long shots and third-party candidates. So we'll talk about those people who have been

0:50.5

brave and stupid enough to enter the race as long-shot candidates,

0:54.7

and then who we think the candidates that America actually deserves would be.

1:01.1

Last week, Minnesota Representative Dean Phillips threw his hat into the ring to compete

1:06.4

with Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination.

1:10.4

And meanwhile, we have both Cornell West and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. running as more prominent than usual independent candidates.

1:18.5

We're at a weird moment in presidential campaign history.

1:21.5

We have two all but assumed nominees

1:25.1

who have both held the office of the presidency

1:27.4

and both lack full party enthusiasm.

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