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3 Martini Lunch

Where Trump Needs to Focus, Kamala's Empty Campaign, Impact of the Switch

3 Martini Lunch

Radio America

Politics, Society & Culture, Daily News, News Commentary, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Jim and Greg are getting an early start on Labor Day weekend, so their assessment of the Kamala Harris CNN interview will have to wait for another day. Instead, they examine the state of both campaigns and what the long term impact of the DNC switching candidates will be on future election cycles.

First, they look at the Trump campaign and the massive opportunity and challenge facing the Trump-Vance ticket. They stress that Trump has a huge advantage if he stays on message about the disaster that has unfolded on the watch of both Harris and president Biden. From the border to inflation to an unstable world to the left's radical cultural agenda, the path to victory is right there. But can Trump stay disciplined enough to focus on that all the way to the finish line?

Next, they examine the Harris campaign and it's ongoing effort to make this an election about history and momentum rather than anything substantive. So far Harris has abandoned more positions than she has established in this campaign, and Democrats are actively encouraging her not to get more specific in order to attract more voters. Can this empty approach actually work?

Finally, they consider how the Dems' swapping out Biden for Harris might impact future election cycles. There is clearly an advantage to avoid a grueling two-year campaign and making a three-month sprint to Election Day. So will we see shorter primary seasons or some other new approach as the parties seek the upper hand?

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Three Martini lunch.

0:04.5

Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

0:09.4

Three Martini's coming up.

0:11.6

Hey, really glad you're here for a special Friday edition of the Three Martini lunch.

0:18.0

We should point out up top, we have taped this earlier in the week so we don't know what

0:23.8

happened in the CNN interview with Dana Bash and Kamala Harris and Tim

0:28.4

Walls I'm sure we wouldn't have been impressed but who knows knows. We'll have more to say about that probably on Tuesday.

0:35.3

Greg, a couple of programs.

0:36.5

I was just going to say, we just have to guess.

0:38.0

And so for me, the most shocking part

0:40.6

was when Kamala Harris said, this a battle we are at war with Trump and

0:45.1

walls just ran out of the studio that that just shocked me that I'm retiring and

0:51.3

just fled out of there that's my guess at what happened. I don't know.

0:55.1

Taped before the interview.

0:57.0

Very awkward. Yes. Instead of being at work today, the Carumbus family thing ever and going to visit the presidential library of Calvin Coolidge this weekend.

1:09.0

I want to watch a sitcom about the Carumbuses.

1:12.0

My daughter is a huge Calvin Coolidge fan. I want to watch a sitcom about the Carumpuses.

1:12.7

My family, my daughter is a huge Calvin Coolidge fan,

1:15.0

so that's what we're doing on Labor Day weekend.

1:18.3

And then on Monday for Labor Day itself,

1:20.7

Jim and I spoke recently with our good friend Tevie Troy of the bipartisan policy center

1:26.2

and author of the new book The Power and the Money, but he's also a huge die-hard fan, so that's

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