What kind of Democrat should Kamala Harris be?

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🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The last two Democratic presidents took distinct approaches toward leading their party and the nation. New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait explains why he thinks Kamala Harris should embrace Barack Obama’s style of governance over Joe Biden’s. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Amanda Lewellyn, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Photo credit: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Anyone watched the DNC last night?
0:03.0	Buehler?
0:05.0	Ullr. Um, he's sick.
0:07.0	If you didn't, let me catch you up.
0:10.0	People quoted rappers?
0:12.0	In the words of the Great American Poet, Nelling. What people quoted rappers?
0:12.5	In the words of the Great America poet, Nellie.
0:15.8	It's getting hot in here.
0:18.0	People quoted ballers.
0:19.8	In the words of the great Steph Curry, we can tell Donald Trump, night night.
0:26.4	And there were way too many people.
0:28.0	New York's motto is Excelsier, ever upward.
0:33.8	And Trump takes us ever downward.
0:37.3	What there wasn't a lot of was policy.
0:40.0	Not a lot of talk about what kind of President Kamala Harris will be.
0:45.0	So on today explained, we're going to hear from someone who has some strong opinions on what
0:50.1	kind of President Kamala Harris should be, and he thinks she should be more of an Obama
0:54.8	than a Biden.
0:55.8	I've made a lot of mistakes in my career.
0:58.8	Support for the show comes from into the mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice, produced with Fox Creative.
1:08.0	Along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, there is a stretch of land nicknamed Cancer Alley,
1:15.5	because the cancer rate is more than seven times higher than the national average,
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