What’s Wrong With the Biden’s Election Strategy?
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Ralph welcomes “the world’s greatest political adman,” Bill Hillsman, to discuss what Joe Biden and the Democrats need to do to beat Trump. And Susan Clark, author of “All Those In Favor: Rediscovering the Secrets of Town Meeting and Community” joins us to talk about the virtues of direct democracy.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:05.0 | Stand up, stand up. |
| 0:07.0 | You've been sitting way too long. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host David Feldman. Hello David. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello there. Nice to have you and we also nice to have the man of the hour Ralph Nader. Hello everybody and |
| 0:26.2 | listeners you'll see again why what you hear today you won't hear on NPR not to mention commercial radio stations. |
| 0:35.0 | You are correct, sir. |
| 0:36.9 | With political rallies and possibly even in-person conventions eliminated by the COVID-19 |
| 0:42.4 | pandemic, this has been a relatively quiet presidential |
| 0:46.5 | campaign season. For a while there, Donald Trump was using the coronavirus task force press conferences |
| 0:52.3 | to get his political message out to the public, but then he got |
| 0:56.1 | tired of answering embarrassing questions and abruptly ended that. |
| 1:00.1 | This puts greater pressure on communicating one's message through political ads. |
| 1:04.9 | Joe Biden's campaign has spent more than $5 million in recent days on Facebook ads, |
| 1:10.1 | and since the national shutdown, campaigning has turned digital digital and the spending for political ads is higher than ever. |
| 1:16.0 | So if ads are going to be the deciding factor for this election, could the ads be better? |
| 1:20.5 | Now I'm going to play you a short clip. This is a famous ad from Ralph's presidential |
| 1:25.0 | campaign in 2000. |
| 1:27.0 | Grilled Tenderloin for fundraiser. |
| 1:30.0 | $1,000 a play. |
| 1:32.0 | Campaign ads filled with half truths, $10 million. Promises to special interest groups, over $10 billion. Finding out the truth? Over 10 billion dollars. |
| 1:46.0 | Finding out the truth, priceless. There are some things money can't buy. |
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