Understanding the Midterms with Reporter Astead Herndon (The New York Times)

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🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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With the US midterms approaching, we’re joined by New York Times political reporter and host of The Run-Up, Astead Herndon. We start by examining this “relentlessly disorienting time” in America (5:10), where the pendulum of democracy (7:40) will be swung by four voting blocs this November: The Skeptical Trump voter (9:50), The Young Voter (13:15), The Disillusioned Democrat, and The NON-MAGA Republican (15:47).

In the back half: what Democrats previously believed to be “demographic destiny” (21:48), the media’s oversimplification of the electorate (24:02), and why President Biden has recently moved away from his message of unity (29:50). To close, Herndon outlines the importance of grassroots reporting (38:05), a potential autopsy for the Democratic Party (43:16), and how democracy itself is on the ballot this November (47:12).

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0:44.8	missing pages on Apple Podcast or wherever you like to listen. Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm Sam for go Estad Herndon. For the past four years, Herndon has
1:36.5	covered national politics for the New York Times. Before that, he was a City Hall
1:41.6	reporter at the Boston Globe.
1:44.4	But his work came to prominence during the 2020 election, where he spent most of the year
1:49.3	on the road, talking with voters from all walks of life. You may have read some of his
1:55.1	dispatches in the paper of record or heard them on the hit podcast the
2:00.0	daily where he's been a frequent contributor.
2:03.2	With the midterm elections only six weeks away, Herndon has launched a new podcast for the times
2:08.6	called The Run Up.
2:10.8	The show is in the spirit of what Herndon calls grassroots reporting, which focuses less on the politicians running for office and more on the voters that will put them there.
2:22.0	Historically, the midterms are a reference. the is about so much more and that more is the focus of our conversation today as we
2:36.2	discuss the key voting blocks across the country how Democrats and Republicans are
2:40.8	approaching the Latino electorate,
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