What Next: The DNC Is A Party. How Long Will It Last?

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🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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They swapped candidates, are on the offensive, and almost all in accord. The Democrats are suddenly feeling good. Guest: Jim Newell, senior politics writer at Slate. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, just a heads up, I recorded this episode just after the Democratic National Convention
0:04.9	finished up last night, so around midnight, central time.
0:09.2	There's always a chance things changed once we click the recorders off.
0:13.0	The thing about being at the Democratic National Convention is that you never know who you're going to run
0:24.5	into. Hey, are you guys delegates? No. No. Like this is me and my producer Madeline just
0:32.2	outside the convention hall around
0:34.0	4.30 on Tuesday. This guy with the buttons might be.
0:38.0	Yeah. Flair. We just seen a guy wearing a whole lot of statement buttons, a Bernie button, a button with a
0:45.6	cannabis leaf on it, a button that said killing one person is murder, killing 100,000 is foreign
0:51.6	policy.
0:53.3	Hi.
0:54.3	Are you a delegate?
0:55.3	Are you a delegate?
0:56.3	No, I'm the Lieutenant Governor of Vermont, but I know actually delegate.
0:58.6	This turned out to be the lieutenant governor of Vermont, David
1:04.4	Sacramento. He's an organic farmer when he isn't at the DNC.
1:08.6	We're from Slate magazine. Oh fantastic. Yeah. What's the vibe here right now?
1:13.4	How are you feeling?
1:14.2	I think the vibe is 180 degrees
1:16.4	from what it was a month ago.
1:17.9	I think that's got people not only here,
1:20.2	but I know in my home state,
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