The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss the start of Kamala Harris’s Presidential campaign and the surge of excitement among Democrats on the Internet and at rallies. Plus, who might be her running mate and how Republicans plan to launch “racist, misogynist” attacks against her.
This week’s reading:
- “Biden’s Exit, Harris’s Moment,” by Susan B. Glasser
- “Why Did Progressive Democrats Support Joe Biden?,” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- “Kamala Harris Should Tell Her Family’s Story,” by Jay Caspian Kang
- “J. D. Vance’s Sad, Strange Politics of Family,” by Jessica Winter
- “Was Biden’s Decision to Withdraw ‘Heroic’?” by Isaac Chotiner
- “Kamala Harris, the Candidate,” by Doreen St. Félix
- “Who Should Kamala Harris Pick as Her Running Mate?” by Amy Davidson Sorkin
- “J. D. Vance’s Radical Religion,” by Paul Elie
To discover more podcasts from The New Yorker, visit newyorker.com/podcasts. To send in feedback on this episode, write to themail@newyorker.com with “The Political Scene” in the subject line.
Related - Episodes
Ronan Farrow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and contributing writer to The New Yorker, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the impact of rulings made this week by Judge Juan Merchan in Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York, where he…
The New Yorker staff writer Eric Lach joins Tyler Foggatt to share a firsthand account of the bizarre stories coming out of the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. President. Lach explains why the former publisher of the National…
The Washington Roundtable: Prospects for the passage of a long-negotiated aid package that includes funding for Ukraine and Israel, and policy changes for the U.S. southern border, rapidly shrank this week, after the deal met resistance from House Republicans and…
