What Are Kamala Harris' Legislative Priorities?

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

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🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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At the DNC, Brat Summer is still alive, despite Democratic delegates' inability to articulate Harris' "day one" promises. Also, at the DNC, Mike huddles with New York Times Magazine journalist Ross Barkan about who is leading the left wing of the Democratic party ... or, more accurately, who isn't leading them. Plus, former President Barack Obama flops on the DNC stage. Yeah, right! He crushed it. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, August 21st, 2024 from Peach Fish Productions.
0:08.0	It's the gist, I'm Mike Pesca in Chicago.
0:11.0	So what makes for eloquence? We heard it last night in the words of Michelle and
0:15.6	Barack Obama at the D.N. A day earlier, Senator Raphael Warnock gave one of the best received speeches.
0:24.5	All are instructive.
0:26.2	Warnock is passionate, insistent, forceful, resonant.
0:31.4	Most of his eloquence relies on metaphor and a particular type of metaphor, turning the
0:37.3	civic into the sacred. He said this.
0:40.9	A vote is a kind of prayer for the world we desire for ourselves and for our children
0:47.0	and our prayers are stronger when we pray together.
0:50.7	He also said,
0:51.7	Elections are about the character of a country.
0:54.0	I do not believe a vote is a prayer.
0:56.0	I do not believe elections are about the character of a country.
1:01.0	Sometimes, to some extent, but not always.
1:03.6	How does one country, if you could define it as having a character, go from Barack Obama to
1:10.4	Donald Trump and then to Joe Biden.
1:13.2	That seems an inconsistent character, if any character at best.
1:18.1	To understand that as a character is very
1:23.9	electorate given a binary choice makes a lot more sense.
1:29.1	Warnock's words work mostly for people who are religious and want to connect that
1:33.3	religiosity to more mundane aspects of governing or for the people who
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