WTH Is Going To Happen in November? Karl Rove Explains
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summer is over and the election between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris is right around the corner, with early voting starting this month in some states. Today, the election is in effect a tossup with highly possible paths to victory for both candidates. But this election is either’s to lose, with Trump struggling to stay on message and Harris unwilling or unable to speak alone and off script with the American people. What are Harris and Trump’s chances come November? Will the GOP keep the House and re-take Senate? What would a Harris administration mean for America?
Karl Rove is a Wall Street Journal columnist and a Fox News contributor. He is the former Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush and is known as “The Architect” of President Bush’s 2000 and 2004 campaigns. Rove is the author of The Triumph of William McKinley (Simon & Schuster, 2016) and Courage and Consequence (Threshold Editions, 2010).
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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. |
| 0:29.1 | Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka. |
| 0:30.7 | I'm Mark Tiesin. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:35.5 | Mark, is the election over? |
| 0:41.1 | No, but the nominating process is finally over. |
| 0:46.5 | We finally have a race. Kamala Harris has chosen her vice president. She's had her convention. |
| 0:53.6 | The race is on, and we've got 60 days, something like that. Oh, my God. And quite frankly, |
| 0:56.8 | less than that, because there people start voting in about a week or so in early voting in some of these states. |
| 1:00.1 | The election's happening. |
| 1:01.3 | It's not over yet, but it's getting close, Danny. |
| 1:03.2 | Yeah, well, it can't be soon enough for me. |
| 1:05.4 | So we are talking to one of our favorite guests today, Carl Rove, who is well known to everybody, |
| 1:12.5 | my political strategist fundraiser, the architect par excellence. |
| 1:18.0 | And we're just trying to figure out because, you know, I can never wait. |
| 1:22.4 | I'm the person who reads the end of the book before that I get to the middle. |
| 1:26.8 | And I've now gotten in the habit on the TV shows we watch streaming to look them up on Wikipedia and see how it ends. |
| 1:33.5 | So I just wanted Carl on to tell me how it's going to end so I can stop paying attention. |
| 1:39.3 | How do you think it's going, Mark? |
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