Veep Game Theories, Trump Plays Catch-up, and Harris Reshuffles the Map

Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri

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4.4 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Tara is joined by NBC News political correspondent Jon Allen and Republican strategist Matthew Bartlett to talk about Kamala Harris’s recent surge in popularity and what it means for Donald Trump’s campaign strategy. They anticipate the attacks Harris should expect in the next couple of months, debate who would be her best running mate strategically, and examine Trump’s bizarre speech at the Turning Point summit a couple of days ago. For more of Tara’s reporting, please sign up for her newsletter, 'The Best and the Brightest,' at puck.news/tarapalmeri and use the discount code TARA20. Host: Tara Palmeri Guests: Jon Allen and Matthew Bartlett Producer: Chris Sutton Production Supervision: Conor Nevins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Brian Curtis from The Ringer, and I want to tell you about the Press Box podcast.
0:06.0	The Press Box is a podcast for anybody who likes news, whether it's about sports or politics or pop culture and wants to understand how that news really gets made
0:17.6	We have new shows every Monday and Thursday. We have long interviews with everyone from John Crackower to Joe Buck.
0:24.0	Your social media feeds are bursting with information every day.
0:27.5	Let us help you sort it out.
0:29.5	Join us on the press box. Hi, I'm Tara Paul Mary. I'm Puck Senior Political Corresponded, and this is Somebody's Gotta
0:57.0	win. I don't think anyone can disagree with the fact that Kamala Harris is in a much better place today than Joe Biden ever was.
1:04.8	She has essentially overnight made up the gains that were lost after his
1:09.6	disastrous debate and her favourability numbers jumped by 10 points almost overnight it feels
1:15.9	miraculous and the enthusiasm gap has closed a higher percentage of Democrats want to
1:21.9	vote for Kamala than a higher
1:23.7	percent of Republicans want to vote for Trump. But they are still within the
1:27.2	margin of error and this is going to be a very tight race fought in a
1:31.4	number of battleground states. and to break it all down I brought in
1:36.0	NBC's senior political correspondent John Allen who has a new book coming out.
1:42.8	He is the New York Times best-selling author of shattered and lucky
1:46.2	two election books and he won't even tell us the title
1:49.9	or maybe you'll break it on the show.
1:51.3	What's the title of the new book John it is as yet
1:54.6	untitled go see what happens with the election you could always call it
1:58.4	untitled okay well that's exciting how you have to turn this one around?
2:04.0	The publication date is not yet set, but I would just say shattered.
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