Will Scandals Matter in 2020?

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🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The scandalous allegations against Joe Biden are not going away, and his ability to defuse the issue is in doubt. But the big question is: Will anyone care about it in November? Also, the podcast debates wonder whether Americans ever really police conspiracy theories when those theories reinforce their preferred biases. Source

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0:00.0	music
0:24.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Friday May 15, 2020.
0:28.4	I am John Puthord, the editor of commentary magazine, the 70-year-old monthly of intellectual
0:33.6	analysis, political, and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective.
0:37.5	We invite you to join us at commentarymagazine.com where we give you a few free reads.
0:42.3	And then ask you to subscribe with me as always, senior editor Abe Greenwald.
0:46.3	Very busy today as we are closing the June issue.
0:50.3	Hi Abe.
0:51.3	Hi John.
0:52.3	Associate editor, no, Rothman, who's beard is slowly returning.
0:58.0	Yeah, I don't know where that's going.
0:59.7	It's just entropy.
1:01.0	Okay.
1:02.0	And in Washington having local jurisdictional issues, senior writer Christine Rosen,
1:11.4	high Christine.
1:12.4	Hi John, we'll keep that in the green room.
1:15.2	Yes, I'm sorry.
1:16.6	I realized as I was talking that I was raising issues that should not be necessarily discussed
1:23.2	publicly.
1:25.9	So Matt Contnetti, our Washington commentary columnist, has a piece in the Washington Freebeacon
1:33.4	today.
1:35.4	He calls the Teflon election and raises the theory that Trump's numbers, as I said, I think
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