Jacobin Radio: Matt Karp and Mike Davis on the 2020 Election

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🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Suzi talks to Matt Karp, contributing editor of Jacobin, about the significance of the 2020 election in geographic and demographic terms. Biden won both the popular vote and the electoral college in an election with historic turnout, but without the kind of landslide many expected — and higher turnouts seem to have inflated totals for both parties. The Democrats may have won back the Blue Wall, taking Arizona, Georgia and Nevada from the Republicans, but Trump also secured a record vote, and the Democrats did badly in down ticket races. We get Matt's insights on the Democratic Party’s election strategy and results — as well as what they portend for the Left of the Party. Suzi then talks to Mike Davis to get his analysis of the election results, looking in particular at South Texas, as well as the exurbs. In South Texas a blue wave along the Rio Grande from El Paso to Brownsville was taken for granted, but failed to materialize, and the Republicans out-organized the Democrats. Mike helps us understand why Latinos voted for Trump, despite his horrific immigration policies — and we get Mike’s take on why the Democratic Party’s strategy — that allowed a bifurcation of Trump’s handling of the pandemic and the economy — was such a disaster.

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0:00.0	This is Jackhamon Radio. I'm Susie Wiseman.
0:10.0	Today we look at the significance of the is Jacobin Radio, I'm Susie Weisman.
0:12.8	Today we look at the significance of the 2020 election
0:16.2	with its historic large turnout
0:18.9	and Biden winning both in the popular vote
0:20.9	and the electoral college, but without the kind of landslide, many expected
0:25.9	and higher turnout seem to have inflated totals for both parties.
0:30.8	Princeton historian and Jacobin contributing editor Matt Karp joins us to look at the
0:36.0	Democratic Party's election strategy and results as well as what the future
0:40.8	pretends for the left of the party.
0:43.0	They may have won back the blue wall, taking Arizona, Georgia, Nevada from the Republicans,
0:48.0	but Trump also secured a record vote, and the Democrats did badly in down ticket races.
0:54.0	Then historian, activist, and prolific author Mike Davis joins us bringing his analysis of the results,
1:01.0	looking in particular at South Texas but also the excerpts in South Texas a blue
1:06.7	wave along the Rio Grande from El Paso to Brownsville was taken for granted but
1:11.8	failed to materialize and we get Mike's take on why
1:14.7	the Democrat strategy that allowed a bifurcation of Trump's handling of the
1:18.8	pandemic and the economy was such a disaster and we'll ask what it means going forward.
1:25.6	All this when our program returns in just a moment. This is Jackhamon Radio. I am Susie Wiseman and very pleased to have Matt Karp back with us.
1:42.4	We're going to be talking about the significance of the recently I was going to say
1:46.7	concluded or almost concluded election of 2020 and I know so many of the listeners out there are feeling some election fatigue, but here we go.
1:56.9	We're going to do some more.
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