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The Race to Define Kamala Harris

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Pod Save America

News, Politics

4.587.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Election Day is just over 100 days away, and the Trump team is scrambling to define Kamala Harris before she can do it herself. Jon and Dan discuss the Harris campaign rollout so far, the Right's attack playbook, and Joe Biden's Oval Office address about passing the torch. Then, former UN Ambassador Susan Rice joins the show to talk about what it really means to say Harris is a "DEI candidate," and what it's like to go through the VP vetting process.

 

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0:00.0

The Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm John Faber.

0:22.8

On today's show, Kamala Harris races to define herself before Donald Trump does it first,

0:27.6

and the new Democratic nominees surges in the polls with just over 100 days left until election day.

0:34.2

Then former UN Ambassador Susan Rice

0:36.5

joins the show to talk with Dan about the attacks on Harris

0:39.3

as a DEI candidate and what the VP selection process is really like since Susan went through it

0:45.6

four years ago. But first, when Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he was

0:50.0

bowing out of the presidential race he promised to speak to the nation about his decision

0:54.3

and his vision for the remainder of his term.

0:56.9

That explanation came last night in the form of an Oval Office address.

1:00.5

Let's take a listen.

1:01.5

You know in recent weeks it's become clear to me that I need to unite my party in this critical

1:06.2

endeavor.

1:07.2

I believe my record as president, my leadership in the world, my vision for America's future, all married in a second term, but nothing, nothing can come

1:18.6

in the way of saving our democracy.

1:21.0

That includes personal ambition. So I've decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation.

1:27.0

That's the best way to unite our nation.

1:30.0

You know there is a time and a place for long years of experience in public life.

1:34.4

There's also a time and a place for new voices, fresh voices, yes younger

1:39.4

voices, and that time of places now.

1:42.1

Biden also listed out his priorities for the time. And that time of places now.

1:42.8

Biden also listed out his priorities for the time that he has left, including lowering costs,

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