What to Make of Joe Biden’s Legacy
Inside the Hive
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Democrats effectively lost the 2024 presidential race a year earlier by rallying behind a deeply unpopular incumbent, New York Times politics reporter Astead Herndon argues in a frank discussion with host Brian Stelter about Joe Biden’s legacy. Herndon, who also hosts “The Run-Up” podcast, talks about how Democrats (and some in the media) missed major warning signs about how Biden’s age and accomplishments were perceived outside the D.C. bubble—and where the party goes next.
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| 0:38.6 | Seth, let me try to have you fill in a blank. |
| 0:41.6 | The Democrats didn't lose this election in October 24. |
| 0:46.0 | They lost it in early 2020. |
| 0:49.2 | When they rallied around the re-election of Joe Biden back when there was a lot of evidence, |
| 0:54.9 | the country didn't want that. |
| 0:57.2 | That's Asted Herndon, national politics reporter for the New York Times and host of the |
| 1:02.2 | run-up podcast. |
| 1:03.9 | And I'm Brian Stelter. |
| 1:05.9 | Welcome to Inside the Hive from Vanity Fair. |
| 1:08.7 | This week, we're going inside Joe Biden's legacy because there is a |
| 1:13.4 | really interesting and for Democrats really painful reassessment underway. The man who once promised |
| 1:20.7 | to be a bridge to the next generation of Democratic leaders is now the bridge from one Trump |
| 1:26.4 | term to another. So to re-examine the Biden years, |
| 1:30.4 | given all that we know now, let's reevaluate what we were hearing from voters along the way. |
| 1:36.2 | I said, that's where you come in. You have stood out during this campaign cycle for your voter |
| 1:42.0 | interviews, your episodes of the run-up, your appearances |
| 1:45.7 | on CNN, talking about what voters are actually thinking and feeling. And as a result, |
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