Why Our Politics Are Stuck In 2016

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

We are at an awkward moment in electoral politics. When it comes to the Republican primary, while there are plenty of alternatives to former President Donald Trump, none of them have gained serious traction. When it comes to Democrats, despite consternation about President Biden’s age and electability, he has no serious primary challengers. More than a year out from the presidential election, it seems like the writing is on the wall, that electoral politics are frozen in place, and few people are happy about it. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Galen Druke speaks with American politics professor Lynn Vavreck to help make sense of how we got here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sorry for me just like jumping all of this on you.
0:02.7	No, no, no, please.
0:03.7	How do you let it out?
0:05.4	Do you navigate?
0:07.4	Thank you, thank you.
0:09.4	Do I have to pay you for this?
0:10.9	Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics podcast.
0:22.6	I'm Gaelin Drueck.
0:24.0	We're at an awkward moment in electoral politics.
0:27.3	When it comes to the Republican primary,
0:29.8	well, there are plenty of alternatives to Trump.
0:32.2	None of them so far have gained serious traction.
0:35.6	When it comes to Democrats,
0:37.0	despite consternation about Biden's age and electability,
0:40.3	he has no serious primary challengers.
0:43.2	And all the while, Americans are pretty down
0:45.8	on the prospect of a Trump Biden rematch.
0:48.8	So here we are more than a year out
0:50.9	from the presidential election.
0:52.6	It seems like the writing is on the wall
0:54.9	that electoral politics is frozen in place
0:57.6	and that few people are happy about it.
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