The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss the final stretch of Kamala Harris’s Presidential campaign, including a recent media blitz on podcasts and television shows. The Vice-President has never been entirely comfortable with the interview format. “She doesn’t ruminate and reflect,” the staff writer Evan Osnos says. “I think it’s the self-protection that comes with being aware of people who are always going to doubt her capacity to make history.” Plus, the panel deconstructs the revelations in Bob Woodward’s new book, “War,” about Donald Trump’s relationship with the Russian President Vladimir Putin.
This week’s reading:
- “The Harris-Trump Endgame Is On: Is It Time to Panic Yet?,” by Susan B. Glasser
- “How Podcasts Are Transforming the Presidential Election,” by Brady Brickner-Wood
- ““The Apprentice,” Reviewed: The Immoral Makings of Donald Trump,” by Richard Brody
- “Has the Presidential Election Become a Game of Random Chance?,” by Jay Caspian Kang
- “J. D. Vance and the Success Stories of Bidenomics,” by John Cassidy
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