There’s Panic in MAGAstan with Simon Rosenberg
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🗓️ 14 September 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Host Reed Galen is joined by by Veteran Political Analyst, Strategist and Commentator…Simon Rosenberg. They discuss Kamala Harris’ excellent recent debate performance, what Harris can expect between now and Election Day, and the unique coalition that’s forming around her. Plus, the latest with polling and the implications of abortion politics in 2024. For more from Simon Rosenberg, be sure to subscribe to his Substack newsletter, Hopium Chronicles. For more from Reed Galen subscribe to The Home Front. If you want to personally join the fight to save our nation’s democracy, visit JoinTheUnion.usand sign up today.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's me, Reed Galen. |
| 0:02.5 | As you may have noticed, I don't host the Lincoln Project podcast anymore, |
| 0:06.2 | but I'm so excited to share with you my brand new show, The Homefront. |
| 0:10.4 | On the home front, you'll get the same incisive discourse about the pro-democracy movement |
| 0:14.8 | from the smartest, most driven people in the fight today. |
| 0:18.3 | If you're listening to this episode on the Lincoln Project podcast channel, |
| 0:21.6 | I invite you to subscribe to the Homefront on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your shows. |
| 0:26.8 | I want to say thank you to all of you in the pro-democracy movement, and I look forward to |
| 0:30.4 | continuing our American journey together. And now, the Homefront. Welcome to the Homefront. |
| 0:37.4 | I'm your host, Reid Galen. Today, I'm joined by veteran |
| 0:40.6 | political analyst, strategist, and commentator Simon Rosenberg. Simon is the founder and author of |
| 0:46.0 | the Substact newsletter, The Hopium Chronicles. Prior to Hopium, he was founder and president of |
| 0:51.4 | the center-left think take, take the new democratic network served in senior |
| 0:54.7 | roles for the dnc and the d triple c and is a veteran of two presidential campaigns including the |
| 0:59.7 | 1992 clinton war room simon is a frequent political commentator on cable news and his work is often |
| 1:05.3 | featured in the country's leading newspapers magazines and websites today he's coming to us from |
| 1:10.0 | washington dc simon welcome back he's coming to us from Washington, D.C. Simon, welcome back. |
| 1:12.9 | It's great to be here. All right. So let's just start that the reason why your substack is called |
| 1:18.4 | the Hopium Chronicles is because during the 2022 cycle, you predominantly, but also our friend Joe Trippie, |
| 1:25.6 | were much more bullish on Democrats' chances in the 22 midterm than people thought that you should be. And I don't remember which one it was, but somebody said that you were smoking opium. |
| 1:37.9 | Nate Silver. Nate Silver. Well, okay, we could do a whole hour on him. That would probably make him happy. Let's not do that. |
| 1:45.5 | I know, exactly. So now let's look forward here. We've got 50 some days. As folks are listening to this at Saturday, September 14th. Some voters are receiving their ballots or will receive their ballots within days. Some are able to vote in certain places around the country. |
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