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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics, power and prejudices.

This year, 2024, is an election year in America, a presidential election year. And so we will be doing

two podcasts a week, rather than our usual one, because we want to and because we know you can't get enough

Americano in your life. Today we're going to be talking about Kamala Harris's choice

for vice president for the vice presidential nomination at the forthcoming convention

for the Democrats in Chicago. She's picked Governor Tim Walts. We spoke to Dash Dobrovsky yesterday,

a young Gen Z millennial who is very enthusiastic about it. And today we're going to talk to Gerard

Baker, who I'm guessing he's going to be a little bit less enthusiastic, but he's a very fair-minded man.

Jared Baker is, of course, editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal and a columnist for

the Wall Street Journal.

Jerry, I was listening to Donald Trump on Fox and Friends this morning saying how thrilled

he was by this pick of a kind of radical left candidate, and it kept on saying it was outstandingly, a shockingly bad choice.

Do you think Trump is sincere in his delight there?

Freddie, thank you very much.

First of all, thanks for having me.

I should quickly stress on editor at large of the Wall Street Journal.

I was editor-in-chief.

Oh, sorry, I'm not worried. No, no, no, no, no, no worries. Just in case anybody thinks I've got ideas above my station.

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