How Kamala Harris Can Use the Debate to Win Big
On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Joshua A. Cohen aka Ettingermentum on the state of the presidential race.
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How Kamala Harris Can Use the Debate to Win Big w/ Ettingermentum | Time of Monsters
On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Jeet Heer is joined by Joshua A. Cohen a.k.a. Ettingermentum to discuss the state of the presidential race.
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Senator Kamala Harris at the vice presidential debate, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
(Eric Baradat / AFP via Getty Images)After the convention and on the cusp of a debate, the presidential election is a near–dead heat. The polls show Kamala Harris has a slight edge, but this is well within the margin of error. This is a massive improvement over the performance of Joe Biden, who was on a path to a major defeat, but it is by no means a guarantee of victory. To take up the state of the race, I talk to analyst Joshua A. Cohen, who writes for The Nation and runs the Ettingermentum newsletter.
We take up both what Harris has been doing right (which explains her quick rise in the polls) but also weaknesses in the Democratic Party’s messaging (which explain why the Democratic National Convention didn’t produce a significant bump). We then look toward the debate as a chance for Harris to more clearly define herself against Donald Trump and increase the size of her lead to win big.
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Fighting Monopoly Power w/ Zephyr Teachout / The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
Donald Trump is practicing crony capitalism on an unprecedented scale, with the government greenlighting major mergers that benefit the president’s friends (most notably the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger). I spoke to Zephyr Teachout, who teaches constitutional law at Fordham, about this worrying development. We take up the long history of anti-monopoly politics going back to the American revolution and the trust battles of the late 19th century as well as the possibility state governments can fight the new wave of consolidation. Zephyr has often written on his subject for The Nation, notably in two recent articles.
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