Sophia Cai on the DNC

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Larry weighs in on the state of the presidential race and shares some of dates of his upcoming tour. He’s then joined by Sophia Cai from Axios and they begin their conversation by talking about Kamala Harris’s historic rise to Democratic presidential nominee and the change in party dynamics after Joe Biden dropped out of the race. They then examine Kamala’s running mate Tim Walz before breaking down the differences between the Harris and Biden campaigns, and the contributions Barack Obama has made to the current movement (27:40). After the break Larry and Sophia take a look at the biggest issues motivating voters this election and speculate on how Kamala will do versus Trump in their upcoming date and how she'll deal with the press between now and November (44:26). Host: Larry Wilmore Guest: Sophia Cai Producer: Chris Sutton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:40.0	Everybody everybody welcome back. You are listening to Black on the air. This is Larry
0:47.2	Wilmore. Thanks for joining the pod. Hope everybody's doing okay. It's been it's been quite a week this week with the Democratic
0:56.4	National Convention. I'm such a political junkie. I love this stuff on the show today.
1:01.3	Sophia Kai, she's a really great political reporter from Axios,
1:05.8	so we're going to break down that whole convention and everything.
1:08.6	She was there on the floor.
1:10.2	Spooked her yesterday.
1:11.3	I had a good conversation about it and everything but man we are in it now. We are in it now. We are in it. I mean I'm still reeling from I mean the fact that this happened so fast with
1:27.5	Biden leaving and Harris taken over it's still like hard to hard to fathom that that actually happened, you know.
1:36.4	And it was so interesting to see that energy in the convention because people were so
1:42.3	relieved and so excited you
1:44.4	know to have a candidate who just breathed some fresh air into the party and
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