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The Run-Up

‘The Run-Up’ Returns, Every Week Through Election Day

The Run-Up

The New York Times

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

It could be 2020 all over again. That’s what makes 2024 so different. And why it demands a different kind of political reporting. That is The Run-Up’s specialty. We’ll be back Nov. 2.

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0:00.0

We're just about a year from Election Day 2024, and in a race where the Democratic incumbent

0:09.6

is running for re-election, and the leading Republican candidate is a former president

0:14.5

himself.

0:15.5

It can be easy to write off the story of 2024, as one we've heard before.

0:21.6

The same choices.

0:22.6

When it comes to Joe Biden, people say, man, he's too old to run, isn't he?

0:27.8

With even more baggage.

0:29.5

Former U.S. President Donald Trump indicted again.

0:32.9

This the fourth case against him, adding up to a combined 91 charges.

0:38.1

But to me, that's exactly what makes 2024 distinct.

0:43.4

The same two candidates, dominating their party's primaries.

0:46.6

I don't know if you can guess what I would maybe even support with me, but I think it's

0:51.7

Tim.

0:52.7

Tim Scott.

0:53.7

Tim Scott, or Kayla, or Kyla, what's the last name?

0:57.7

While alternatives struggle to emerge.

1:06.9

At the same time, when you think about the 2024 election, how do you feel?

1:12.0

Second.

1:13.3

That voters openly hate their options.

1:16.7

This calls for an entirely different approach to political reporting.

1:20.7

And that's what the run-up is going to do for the next year.

1:24.1

We're still doing some of the things you'd expect.

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