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Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Monday November 4th, 2019.

We are 365 days from the election. I am John Pudhoritz the editor of

commentary magazine with me as always senior editor Abe Greenwald hi Abe hi John

associate editor Noah Rothman hi Noah and in Washington senior writer

Christine Rosen high Christine hi John so this may have been the most

important couple of days in the democratic race so far because after much

prodding Elizabeth Warren has had to sort of lay her cards on the table having

spent all this time defending Medicare for all while being accused of not

having numbers to support her claim that she could create a single pair

government run system without raising a single dollar in middle class taxes and

her proposal has come out and I think I thought we would spend some time sort

of discussing various aspects of it mostly there's the there's the there's the

honesty question right does does in fact this plan not raise middle class

taxes B is the plan workable in any way shape or form and C what will its impact

be on the race going forward as we see Warren now in the lead in in both Iowa

New Hampshire and five or six points behind Biden nationally Biden still

holding despite all of these incredibly negative attacks and coverage of him

and all that still holding in the high twenties around 28 29% nationally and

Warren now up in the very low twenties but very much up so the first thing I

think Noah is will it raise middle class taxes right okay so the simple answer

is yes and the really complicated answer is oh my god you have no idea how much

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