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The Muckrake Political Podcast

Why Michael Bloomberg Is Unelectable

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

As the Democratic primary grows stranger and stranger, co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman dive into the sudden emergence of Michael Bloomberg as a potential nominee. Discussions include the danger of money in politics, the threat of believing fixing the country is as easy as defeating Donald Trump, and some necessary venting as our politics grows more and more dysfunctional.

Transcript

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0:00.0

$60 billion can buy you a lot of advertising, but it can't erase your record.

0:08.0

There's a lot to talk about Michael Bloomberg.

0:11.0

Well, I think he's going to have to answer for that and speak to it, and it is going to be critical for us to have a nominee who can authentically lead and who can show growth on these challenges.

0:24.9

I still do not think he is the best candidate for our country. I don't think that people look

0:30.7

at the guy in the White House and say, oh, let's get someone richer.

0:36.8

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the McCraig Political Podcast. I'm a co-host, Chair Jada Sexton. I'm here with my co- Hey, everybody.

0:37.6

Welcome to the McCrack Political Podcast.

0:39.2

I'm a co-host, Chair J.J. Sexton, I'm here with my co-host, Nick Housewoman.

0:42.7

There's a lot to talk about, obviously, but I'm coming in hot.

0:46.6

I'm really, Nick, I'm, listen, we're developing our relationship with our listeners.

0:53.2

They need to know where we are, where we stand.

0:56.2

I'm hot.

0:57.4

You are.

0:58.7

I'm hot.

0:59.9

And I'll tell you why.

1:03.0

The narrative that Mike Bloomberg is somehow or another, the magic bullet that is going to take down Donald Trump, that

1:13.4

he is the neoliberal savior who's going to, I don't know, maybe we could put him on an

1:18.7

escalator in a building that he owns and he could just come down and, you know, maybe he could

1:23.6

pick his own vulnerable population to call rapist and drug dealers and some of them,

1:28.8

I assume, are good people.

1:30.4

You know, maybe we'll just, if we got our own Trump, Nick, if we got our own Donald Trump,

1:36.4

maybe everything will be all right.

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