Can Trump Pull Out of His Tailspin?

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🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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The news for the president goes from bad to worse as the pandemic, economic crisis, and sense that the country is on the wrong track are compounded by a scandal in the Justice Department. Can Trump pull out of this tailspin? And, if he can’t, will the progressives who are generally hostile toward Joe Biden perceive his victory as their own? Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast.
0:26.2	Today is Wednesday June 24th, 2020.
0:29.2	I am John Pudhord's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always associate editor Noah Rothman.
0:36.8	Hi Noah.
0:37.5	Hi John.
0:38.8	Senior writer Christine Rosen.
0:40.2	Hi Christine.
0:41.2	Hi John.
0:42.2	And senior editor Abe Greenwald.
0:44.6	Hi Abe.
0:45.6	Hi John.
0:46.6	So just a cascade of more bad news for the president right now.
0:53.8	I believe as we are recording the lead prosecutor in the Roger Stone case, Aaron Zelinsky is
1:01.0	testifying that he was told to go easy on Roger Stone and his prosecution of Roger Stone
1:09.0	because he was a friend of the president and the US attorney for whom he was working was
1:14.6	scared of the president.
1:17.6	So that is not good.
1:19.8	Also not good.
1:20.8	A gold standard poll from the New York Times in Sienna that has Joe Biden up by 14 points.
1:29.5	This is a very solid, rigorous poll.
1:32.8	You can read all about how they did it.
1:35.0	Nate Cone of the New York Times wrote a long piece explaining the methodology.
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