WTH: Biden Out. Harris In. Ruy Teixeira Explains.
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
President Biden's sudden withdrawal from the 2024 election may have come as a surprise, but his endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party's coalescing around the VP to be at the top of their ticket is not. The party of identity politics is now taking a huge gamble with an untested and unpopular likely nominee for president. Not only has Harris been less popular than Biden throughout his presidency, but she's entering the general election with a dismal electoral track record and will be forced to defend the current administration's unpopular policies. How will candidate Harris perform against Trump on the national stage? And how might a President Harris continue or change Biden's policy agenda?
Ruy Teixeira is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on the transformation of party coalitions and the future of American electoral politics. Before joining AEI, he was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Teixeira is co-author of the books The Emerging Democratic Majority (Scribner, 2002) and Where Have All the Democrats Gone? The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes (Henry Holt & Company, 2023).
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.0 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. What hell's going on? |
| 0:01.1 | Who in God's name knows what it's all about. |
| 0:29.2 | Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka. |
| 0:31.1 | And I'm Mark Tiesin. |
| 0:32.2 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:33.4 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:35.3 | Mark, what the hell is going on? And are you unburdened by the past? |
| 0:42.3 | I believe in what can be unburdened by what has been, Danny, because that's the new philosophy of the Democratic Party. |
| 0:48.9 | We have a new nominee. It happened in an instant. It happened on Twitter or X or whatever we're calling |
| 0:55.1 | it these days. President of the United States, Joe Biden, withdrew from the race without even a |
| 0:59.8 | picture of him signing the letter, just a letter written by somebody else on Twitter, put out |
| 1:05.6 | into the world saying he's stepping down as the Democratic nominee and going to focus all his |
| 1:10.3 | attentions on being president for the next few months. |
| 1:12.9 | And Kamala Harris announced that she was ready to earn and win the nomination. |
| 1:17.4 | And two days later, she locked it up. |
| 1:20.6 | I swear to God to you, Daddy. |
| 1:22.5 | I was on Fox News Sunday on Sunday before this news broke. |
| 1:26.4 | And we were anticipating and discussing it with |
| 1:28.4 | and I was on with a Democratic analyst and I was basically saying like it sounds like the |
| 1:33.8 | you know this is the Soviet Politburo election for the general secretary and there was like |
| 1:37.7 | how dare you say it's not democratic this there's a process there's a process involved |
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