Trump’s Triumphant R.N.C. and Biden’s Dilemma
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 20 July 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss takeaways from the Republican National Convention, which Glasser reports had the feeling of “a very polite Midwestern cult meeting.” Plus, Donald Trump's selection of J. D. Vance as his running mate and the mounting pressure for President Biden to drop out of the race.
This week’s reading:
- “Donald Trump’s Second Coming,” by Susan B. Glasser
- “Doctors Are Increasingly Worried About Biden,” by Dhruv Khullar
- “The Rise of the New Right at the Republican National Convention,” by Benjamin Wallace-Wells
- “Are We Already Moving On from the Assassination Attempt on Trump?” by Jay Caspian Kang
- “The Paralysis of the Democratic Party,” by Isaac Chotiner
- “Why Donald Trump Picked J. D. Vance for Vice-President,” by Benjamin Wallace-Wells
- “Bernie Sanders Wants Joe Biden to Stay in the Race,” by Isaac Chotiner
- “Trump, Unity, and MAGA Miracles at the R.N.C.,” by Antonia Hitchens
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| 0:00.0 | So Susan are you are you in a place you can actually talk it's quiet enough? |
| 0:05.0 | This is the best I can do I am sitting in a chair that I have I guess stolen from one of the security guards in the foyer of the |
| 0:16.0 | Pfizer sensor while they actually bring the convention to a formal close on the |
| 0:22.3 | floor. |
| 0:23.0 | Thousands of people are streaming past me, |
| 0:24.8 | but I'm like underneath the stairs. |
| 0:27.6 | No one can see me. |
| 0:28.6 | I'm literally like underneath the stairs in a folding chair. |
| 0:32.0 | It sounds kind of like Harry Potter like. |
| 0:35.0 | Are you safe, Susan, are you safe? |
| 0:38.0 | Well, I have a lone red balloon sitting here and a placard that says Trump equal success, |
| 0:47.1 | Biden equals failure that someone had left behind. |
| 0:50.4 | Welcome to the political scene, a weekly discussion about the big questions in American |
| 0:58.4 | politics. I'm Jane Mayer and I'm joined by my colleagues Susan Glasser and Evan Osnos. |
| 1:05.0 | Hi Susan. |
| 1:07.0 | Hi there. |
| 1:08.0 | Hey Evan. |
| 1:09.0 | Hi to you guys. |
| 1:10.0 | My fellow Americans, it is my honor to introduce the 45th and soon to be 47th |
| 1:20.0 | President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. |
| 1:26.2 | For the third time in a row, |
| 1:28.4 | Donald Trump is officially |
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