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🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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What a difference two weeks make. Jonah, Sarah, Chris Stirewalt, and a beach-bound Megan McArdle discuss whether Kamala Harris’ newly energized and surprisingly disciplined campaign is getting on Trump’s nerves. The agenda: —Kamala basking in the coconut glow —Trump’s onstage interview at the NABJ conference —Gov. Roy Cuppa —Trump’s messy messaging on Kamala Harris’ identity —J.D. Vance’s controversial comments —Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan come home —More Sarah lore Show Notes: —Nick Catoggio on Democrats' "weird" messaging The Dispatch Podcast is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including members-only newsletters, bonus podcast episodes, and weekly livestreams—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the dispatch podcast. I'm Sarah Isger and whoa! Yeah, we have Jonah Goldberg, whatever, but we have Chris Steyrwald, we have Megan McCardall. I mean, this is the time to be alive.
0:14.3	Not since Jefferson Podcast it alone. Stairwolf, let's start where we have to start.
0:37.0	Kamala Harris has had a very good two weeks.
0:42.0	Donald Trump has had a very bad two weeks,
0:44.4	but how much of this should I be thinking of as,
0:46.8	you know, almost a reversion to the mean, right?
0:49.1	Donald Trump had a very good three weeks.
0:50.8	Now he's having a bad two weeks sure Kamala Harris is exceeding my
0:55.4	expectations for these two weeks but that too will probably come back down to
0:59.7	earth she hasn't yet done any interviews she hasn hasn't made a mistake. She will make a mistake and we haven't seen how the campaign will be able to handle that.
1:08.0	What are you expecting looking for
1:15.0	Democrats, Democrats, etc. Well, I guess it's better for Democrats than a
1:19.5	reversion to the mean.
1:21.0	At the, after one week so we're blessed right now because we have
1:27.1	lots of polling because all the high quality pollsters everybody's going
1:30.6	back in the field because the race is reset so atypically we have a lot of
1:38.4	contemporaneous poles from a lot of good pollsters. And the answer initially was, oh, it's back to where it was, which is
1:49.2	basically a tie race with a slight advantage for Donald Trump by a half a point or whatever in an
1:55.4	average of good polls.
1:57.1	And of course as we know a Democrat has to win the national popular vote by more than three
2:01.0	points in order to win the Electoral College because of the
2:06.2	electoral college, of those seven states.
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