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Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

Will New Candidates Shake Up the 2020 Race?

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

New York Times Opinion

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

4.07.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Why are Michael Bloomberg and Deval Patrick flirting with jumping into the 2020 presidential primary this late in the game? The columnists debate what the pair’s maneuvers say about the state of the race and whether either stands a chance of becoming the Democratic nominee. Then, the anonymous author of a controversial Times op-ed is out with a new book about the resistance inside the Trump administration. The columnists discuss whether that resistance has been effective in constraining the president. For background reading on this episode, visit nytimes.com/theargument.

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0:00.0

I'm Michelle Goldberg.

0:01.4

I'm Ross Douthet.

0:02.6

I'm David Lee Unhart, and this is the argument.

0:08.2

This week, two different high-profile Democrats

0:11.8

may be late entries to the Democratic race.

0:14.6

How much of a level do you have to be in

0:16.0

to think that the way to juice turnout among people of color

0:19.0

is to nominate the guy who presided over stop and frisk in New York?

0:24.2

Then, we talk about the resistance inside the Trump White House.

0:28.4

You can see that there are really good patriotic,

0:32.4

competent people who have tried to keep the functioning

0:37.6

of American power somewhat on track.

0:40.2

And finally, a recommendation.

0:42.8

If I can't convince my colleagues to become full-tilt

0:46.6

to Boogie Roman Catholics, maybe I can convince them

0:49.6

to believe in ghosts.

0:53.8

Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York,

0:56.7

has signaled that he will in fact run for president.

0:59.7

Devol Patrick may also be a late entry into the race.

1:03.2

He's a former governor of Massachusetts

1:05.2

with ties to the Obama administration.

1:07.8

It's a sign of just how anxious some Democrats are

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