The State of Red State Democrats

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.3 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

President Trump wanted to make this the election of the caravan. For red state democrats, that’s becoming the case. So with only days to go until midterms how will Trump’s immigration rhetoric shape close races? Slate’s Jim Newell joins us today to discuss the state of red state democrats. Plus, BuzzFeed’s Caroline O’Donovan spent the day in Mountain View, CA at Google’s headquarters to cover the walkout of its employees in protest of what they say is the company's lenient treatment of executives accused of sexual misconduct. She joins us to debrief on the day out West. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	At VT we know your busy being.
0:03.1	An absolute boss.
0:05.2	Next level.
0:07.0	Yeah, I'm smashing it.
0:09.0	So we made VTexpert especially for you.
0:12.0	It's our most effective hair removal range yet
0:15.0	that also takes care of your skin.
0:17.0	So you can get on with living life to the full.
0:20.0	Your body hair, your expectations, our products,
0:23.0	click or tap now to discover VTexpert
0:26.0	compared with VPure Inspirations range.
0:30.0	Okay, so Jim, when did you see this ad
0:34.0	that Trump posted on the Twitter last night?
0:37.0	I saw it last night.
0:38.0	I watched about 20 seconds of it
0:40.0	and then got the gist and stopped watching it.
0:43.0	Jim Newell is Slates political correspondent,
0:46.0	our midterm guru.
0:47.0	He's also been following along as President Trump
0:50.0	cranks up the political heat on immigration
0:52.0	over the last month, sending troops to the border,
0:55.0	talking about changing the constitution.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Slate Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.