Up Late With Sleepy Joe

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🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This week, Semafor’s Dave Weigel joins Matt and Brian from Chicago to assess the Dem convention in Chicago:

* Is DNC’s treatment of credentialed journalists another sign that Democrats are consciously decoupling from the mainstream media?

* Are there any politically meaningful differences between how the convention is playing out on national television and how people are experiencing it in person?

* Can Harris get a polling bump out of the festivities, above and beyond the spike her post-launch campaign blitz generated?

Then, behind the paywall, Matt and Brian pick up where they left off last week in their debate over whether Harris has improved economic sentiment simply by restoring optimism to the anti-Trump coalition. What does the data suggest? Will she come to regret her policy rollout if it turns out public opinion about the economy is already on the mend? Can she appeal to skeptical voters without staking out views on issues like price controls or deficit reduction that could prove to be unnecessary?

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0:00.0	you get to with hindsight just like assert that you would have made all those calls better.
0:05.3	And you know I think she should try to be like man remember remember when I told you Joe like do the
0:11.2	Afghanistan withdrawal in a way that leads to no casualties.
0:14.0	And Joe was like, no, Kamala, like.
0:16.8	I want to, I want some budget.
0:18.8	We got to make this as messy as possible for CNN, so my approval takes a hit. politics podcast. The Democratic National Convention kicked off Monday night in Chicago,
0:35.0	but Matts in Maine and I'm working from home in Washington, D.C.
0:40.6	So we invited one of our favorite reporters, Dave Wiegel, to ride shotgun with us for this episode.
0:46.0	We'll talk to him about what the convention is like up close and how that differs from its portrayal in media, among other things.
0:54.0	Then Matt and I will have a grudge match over whether Kamala Harris fixed economic
0:58.6	sentiment just by being cooler than Joe Biden.
1:01.6	I hope you enjoy the conversation
1:03.5	and if you want to hear the whole thing,
1:04.6	you can upgrade your subscription to paid
1:06.7	at politics.FM.
1:12.4	Hey everyone, welcome to the politics podcast. I'm Brian Boiler. I'm Matthew
1:17.3	Iglesias. So the Democratic National Convention kicked off Monday night and I'm
1:21.1	kind of tired right now because Joe Biden didn't finish his keynote speech until I believe after midnight on East Coast time.
1:31.0	So I'm a little grumpy about that. But apart from running late, we wanted to offer up a clear sense of how well things seem to be going, both as sort of like a lengthy infomercial for the Harris Wall's campaign and as a longer term investment in riling up party activists and generating earn media.
1:52.0	And so to that end we have a special guest this week. I'm pretty sure he's covered every major party convention for like 20 years now.
2:00.4	So he knows a good convention from a bad one.
2:03.4	Dave Wiegel, welcome to politics.
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