What Next - A Shocking and Predictable Election
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🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
It’s been a strange election—Trump being shot at on stage; Biden dropping out—but also a very familiar one, with the same issues, same rhetoric, and same deadlocked, dysfunctional Congress waiting on the other side.
How long will the political Groundhog Day last—and what will it take to break this cycle?
Guests: Osita Nwanevu, contributing editor at the New Republic and columnist at The Guardian.
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| 1:06.9 | I've been thinking about this article that Politico published a couple weeks back. |
| 1:16.2 | It was titled The Elections October Surprise may be arriving shortly. |
| 1:22.4 | This headline made me laugh when I read it. |
| 1:24.6 | It was so brazenly speculative, like a promo for news that didn't exist yet. |
| 1:30.7 | It felt like a plea for readers to just keep tuning in when so many were sick of this election already. |
| 1:38.5 | It was also wrong. There was no October surprise. |
| 1:46.7 | No grand reshuffling of the political deck. |
| 1:49.0 | At least no obvious one. |
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