Time to Panic?

Talking Feds

Harry Litman

News, Politics, Government

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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As one of our guests this week puts it, we know the dartboard but we don’t know what area to pinpoint. There has been little concrete indication of movement in the basic dynamic of the election, which means that we need to stare head on at the grim possibility of a Trump victory, and ask why the sense of panic isn’t greater, including among Republican officials who know Trump best. Susan Glasser, Charlie Sykes, & Jacob Weisberg contrast Harris’s vigor w/ Trump’s continued decline & read the sparse tea leaves. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.3	without the ads. My presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden's presidency and like
0:36.0	every new president that comes in to office I will bring my life experiences
0:42.2	my professional experiences and fresh and new ideas, I for a dynamic discussion of the most important political and
1:04.7	legal topics of the day. I'm Harry Lintman. It feels pretty dark out there, largely
1:10.6	because we can't see the light.
1:12.8	We're speeding toward November 5th and grasping for some nuanced development that would suggest the emergence of one candidate or another.
1:21.8	Instead, possibly pivotal developments come and go,
1:25.7	Jack Smith's 165 page brief, meticulously detailing Trump's role in the
1:31.3	insurrection, Trump's 40 in the insurrection,
1:32.6	Trump's 40 minute bizarro danceorama
1:35.6	at his own rally, Liz Cheney accompanying Harris
1:39.4	on the campaign trail, and yet, in many ways, were trapped in the same political hammerlock
1:45.2	we've been stuck in for the past nine years. A significant though perhaps not
1:50.8	majority chunk of the electorate seems shockingly indifferent to the clear
1:56.4	and present danger Trump's re-election would represent.
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