WTH Live! Our 250th Episode with Amy Walter and Matthew Continetti on the Biden-Trump Rematch—Live Before a Studio Audience!
What the Hell Is Going On
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4.4 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
President Joe Biden is one of the least popular presidents in the history of presidential polling. Former President Donald Trump faces 91 charges across four criminal cases. Despite their woes and the overwhelming desire of the American people to vote “none of the above,” President Biden and former President Trump will still face off for the second time this November. How will these two senior citizens make the sale? What will most likely hurt them on November 4? Does a third-party candidate have a real shot at the presidency?
Amy Walter is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter. Amy is also a contributor to the PBS NewsHour, a regular Sunday panelist on NBC’s Meet the Press, and appears frequently on CNN and Fox News. Previously, Amy was the political director of ABC News and an inaugural fellow at the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago.
Matthew Continetti is the director of Domestic Policy Studies and the inaugural Patrick and Charlene Neal Chair in American Prosperity at the American Enterprise Institute. His work has a particular focus on the development of the Republican Party in the 20th century. Matt was also the founding editor and the editor-in-chief of the Washington Free Beacon.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:02.9 | 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 gone on? |
| 0:01.0 | Who in God's name knows what |
| 0:22.3 | it's all about hello i'm daniel platka and i'm martyzen welcome to our podcast what the hell is going onessen. Welcome to our podcast. What the hell is going on? |
| 0:39.2 | Mark, what the hell is going on? |
| 0:40.9 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:42.3 | We are here, as in the old 70s days, like happy days, live before a studio audience. |
| 0:47.8 | We're celebrating our 250th episode of this podcast, which means our listeners have enjoyed 250 hours of you and I bickering over the last few years. |
| 0:57.0 | It's worse than being married, and your wife is in the audience, so she can attest to that. |
| 1:01.0 | But it's wonderful to have everybody here, and we are thrilled. Mark and I have been friends for a very long time. |
| 1:08.0 | I won't say how long, but it has been such a pleasure for us to be able to spend time, not just together, but with our guests and with our audience, talking about, I mean, I've learned so much. Oh, my gosh. You know, I'm a foreign policy person. You write about everything in the Washington Post, but your background is in the foreign policy stuff and in the |
| 1:27.5 | politics as well. We've done everything, energy policy, politics and more politics. The war here, |
| 1:35.0 | the war there, you've done amazing work on Ukraine. Jack Keene, one of our repeat guests, Mike |
| 1:40.3 | Gallagher, leaving Congress, probably not to be out. Because of us. Because of us, probably. |
| 1:43.9 | So we would stop asking him to be on the podcast. We won't. But what are we talking about today? |
| 1:49.7 | Well, we're talking about the rematch that everybody has been hoping for. Oh, yes. Yes. It's not |
| 1:55.9 | just the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Yeah, not just us. It's the rematch between Donald Trump |
| 2:01.8 | and Joe Biden. So let's just set the stage for our conversation. So Joe Biden, if you look at |
| 2:08.5 | the 538 average, is the most unpopular president in the history of presidential polling, |
| 2:14.4 | going all the way back to Harry Truman, which is when the modern polling |
| 2:17.9 | era started. He is at this point, he's surpassed the previous record holder, Donald J. Trump, |
| 2:23.7 | who is his opponent. |
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