What Can Be, Burdened By What Has Been (with Astead Herndon of NYT)

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🗓️ 10 November 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

It’s been a week. To help us through it, we’ve enlisted The New York Times political reporter Astead Herndon.

We start with election night 2024 versus election night 2016 (6:35), what Astead discovered about the electorate reporting across the U.S. on his podcast The Run-Up (9:25), and how insider Democrats arrived at a second Biden run in 2023 (13:30). Then, we discuss politicians’ “lowercase racist” assumptions about Black and Latino voters (16:02), Herndon’s telling one on one interview with Vice President Harris (22:52), and the pervasive, nationwide sentiments that led to Donald Trump’s re-election (32:24).

On the back-half: where the Harris campaign fell short in its messaging to voters (38:48), the rise of the “podcast election” (44:48), a revealing window into the Biden administration (47:35), how quickly “good intentions” can turn power corrupted (53:01), and why the Democratic party must remake itself (1:00:55) as we begin to move forward from this election (1:06:00).

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0:00.0	Hello podcast fans. It is I, Bruce Valanche. For over 25 years, I worked on the Academy Awards, so you didn't have to.
0:10.3	In that time, I've seen and heard things that should not be seen or heard or certainly felt.
0:17.7	And now, for the first time, I'm sharing all my behind-the-scenes stories and first-hand knowledge
0:23.0	about the Oscars, the blood, the sweat, the tears, the slap, all the things you didn't see.
0:30.2	So join me as I use humor and insight to break down the Oscar Awards of the past to explain how
0:36.3	and why your favorite movie didn't win, why some actors
0:40.9	and some directors had to fire their agents, and how the whole process works or sometimes doesn't
0:47.9	work. This is the Oscars. What were they thinking? Available wherever you get podcasts. This is Talk Easy. I'm Sam Forgozo. welcome to the show.
1:41.6	Today, I'm joined by journalist Astead Herndon.
1:46.7	Herndon is a national politics reporter for The New York Times and the host of the popular podcast, The Run Up.
1:48.6	He's also an analyst for CNN, where you may have seen him this past week as the election
1:53.3	results rolled in.
1:55.1	I think he's uniquely suited to speak to this moment for a couple distinct reasons.
2:00.3	The first is his continued practice of
2:03.5	what he calls bottom-up reporting, which focuses on amplifying voices not typically represented
2:09.9	in mainstream media. To do this, Herndon has spent the past two years living out of a suitcase,
2:15.9	talking to voters in swing states like Wisconsin,
2:18.3	Michigan, and Pennsylvania, each of which flipped to Donald Trump on Tuesday.
2:23.3	The second reason I wanted to talk to instead is because he's been reporting on Kamala Harris
2:28.4	since she launched her first presidential campaign back in 2019, which is probably why he was assigned to profile the
2:37.1	vice president last year in a contentious Times Magazine cover story entitled In Search of Kamala Harris.
2:44.6	There is a simple story we could tell ourselves about what just happened, that Donald Trump's
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