What Next - Biden’s Commitment Problem
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🗓️ 29 February 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
With Biden losing thousands of votes to “uncommitted” and Trump unable to pull incumbent numbers, the Michigan primaries seemed to show that the electorate isn’t exactly enthusiastic about either candidate. What options remain for two known quantities to win votes?
Guest: David Faris, political science professor and Slate politics writer.
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| 0:00.0 | This may just sound like someone on the train sending boring emails, but it's so much more. |
| 0:06.0 | It's the sound of Claire landing her biggest sail. |
| 0:09.0 | And this is the sound of her planning what she'll spend her pay rise on, a fancy dinner or a multi-compartment |
| 0:16.1 | bin. How will she decide? Claire's living her best phone life on the UK's fastest 5G network, 3. Life needs a big network. |
| 0:26.0 | Ucla speed test intelligence data, 1,2023c3.3. |
| 0:28.8 | C3.C.3.C.C.3. |
| 0:29.8 | K.C.C.3. The UK. Listening to a podcast, eh? Taking a break from the outside world and spending some time alone |
| 0:36.0 | well there's none of that in a celebrity big brother house |
| 0:39.0 | no take a break from the outside world because there is no outside world and no spending time alone because |
| 0:45.9 | the cameras are always rolling. |
| 0:48.9 | Celebrities living together for three weeks under one roof. |
| 0:52.3 | There's one place they can't hide. Celebrity Big Brother, |
| 0:56.4 | live 4th of March on ITV1 and ITVX. Earlier this week, there's a kind of strange victory party for the runner-up in Michigan's Democratic primary. |
| 1:15.0 | It was strange because it was not celebrating a person. |
| 1:19.7 | The runner-up in this election was uncommitted, a protest vote. |
| 1:23.4 | Seize fire now, cease fire now. |
| 1:27.2 | And the thing the uncommitted voters here have been protesting is Joe Biden's handling of |
| 1:32.1 | the war in Gaza. |
| 1:33.4 | This is the only way we can bring the flag to Democrats |
| 1:36.2 | that you are going to win |
| 1:37.7 | unless we call for an ultimate seat flyer. |
| 1:40.7 | The results are now waiting for the Michigan primary races and they may offer some new clues about the general election in November. |
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