Bill Scher, politics editor of The Washington Monthly and co-host of the long-running “The DMZ Podcast” with Matt Lewis, is back on the 24sight Pod to run through the state of the race.
Show notes:
The Harris campaign has run a clinic for the last three weeks and it makes a difference
Walz seems to have the barstool distillation of top issues like abortion
The final Sorkin twist is chasing singular electoral votes in Nebraska and Maine
This is the Bernie, AOC Dream - they always wanted to show a populist progressive agenda could have a lot of potency if put in the right package
What can we learn from the movie Arthur here?
Does Harris have to do a press conference? “There is risk in this … these are not gods, they are humans … We don’t know what happens when they take a real punch”
Is the Trump campaign playing possum right now?
“I am generally not impressed with Donald Trump’s political skills”
Incumbents have typically lost when the economy is in the tank, and it is not in tank right now
“I thought this was about the Biden record and the Biden capabilities”
Trump faced a very well-defined Hillary Clinton last time he won an election
“You’re talking a multi-decade op to paint her (Clinton) as craven”
On Charlie Kirk’s GOTV plans, the demise of Ronna McDaniel and how much ground operations actually move numbers in elections
“If it is a close race, we may be looking back at their GOTV strategies as the reason why the Democrats won”
What to make of Trump telling the Christian Right you’ll only have to vote one more time
Bill dissects Hillbilly Elegy, and Vance’s previous estimation of Appalachia and Middletown that “the best anti-poverty program is a ticket to somewhere else”
What is this neomonarchism and how did Vance go from Hillbilly Elegy to in line with Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin?
Something seems to have happened to Biden between the State of the Union and June
Up Next? “A real negative ad barrage from Trump. Let’s see does anything stick”
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