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🗓️ 31 May 2021
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It’s “the most serious threat to the core underlying principles of American democracy since at least the Civil War.” And Joe Biden is barely doing a thing to stop it. “We are seeing a threat to the integrity of the 2022 and 2024 elections—and the ability of Americans to cast a vote—that is unfolding across multiple dimensions,” The Atlantic’s Ron Brownstein tells Molly Jong-Fast on the latest episode of The New Abnormal. “Amid all of this, you've heard very, very little from Biden presenting this as a threat to democracy.”
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0:33.0 | Today we have a really, really special guest with Ronald Brownstein. |
0:36.3 | If you don't know him, he's a two-time Pulitzer finalist, a senior editor at The Atlantic, |
0:40.8 | a CNN political analyst, an author of The New York Times Best Seller, |
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0:45.6 | And today he's going to talk to us about why the Biden administration should be taking the threats |
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1:02.1 | Welcome back to The New Abnormal, Ron Brownstein. |
1:05.7 | Molly, thank you for having me. Good morning. |
1:07.4 | And the fact that you're worried makes me really fucking worried. |
1:10.8 | So worried. |
1:12.2 | Why are you worried? |
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