What We Learned About Harris — and the Democrats — This Week

Matter of Opinion

New York Times Opinion

Society & Culture, Ross Douthat, News, New York Times, Journalism

4.2 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The hosts react to Kamala Harris’s convention speech in this special late-night edition of “Matter of Opinion”. Lydia, Ross and Carlos unpack how Harris had a “deft threading of a number of tricky needles” as she accepted her party’s nomination, and look at what the entire week revealed about the Democratic Party.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I have the collected letters of Raymond Aron here Carlos and I'm going to do some readings.
0:05.0	Yeah, my apologies.
0:08.0	No, I kid because I love.
0:11.0	From New York Times opinion, I'm Carlos Lozada.
0:15.0	I'm Ross Dauthant.
0:16.0	And I'm Lydia Polgrain.
0:18.0	And this is matter of opinion.
0:20.0	Oh, where thoughts are allowed.
0:23.0	And clear, loud and clear.
0:25.0	Do-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo. Do-doo-doo-doo-doo. All right, so the Democratic Convention has come to a close. Now we know
0:39.8	exactly who Kamala Harris is and what she stands for which is freedom and we know who the
0:44.8	Democrats are who they're pitching themselves to be in this campaign I imagine
0:48.2	it's all crystal clear to all of you now is that right I see Ross grimacing no I it's completely clear the
0:56.4	the Democratic Party did not nominate Donald Trump for the third straight time
1:01.3	third straight time so all right let's start off with the case that Kamala Harris just made.
1:07.5	We are speaking immediately after the end of her speech on Thursday evening, late Thursday evening.
1:16.7	So what did you guys make of the speech?
1:20.0	I mean, I think that this is perhaps the clearest and most sort of fulsome articulation of what
1:26.9	we have been hearing from Kamil Harris, you know, since she became the presumptive and then
1:32.4	actual nominee for the Democratic Party just a few weeks ago.
1:36.0	And I think the case is basically I am a pretty normal Democrat
1:42.0	who is falling back on some pretty standard American ideas about the country
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from New York Times Opinion, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of New York Times Opinion and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.