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America found out on Monday that Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) is former President Donald Trumpâs pick for running mate. But just who is Vance? Not just a racist with a full head of hairâheâs also, after some recalibration, as MAGA as MAGA can be. Thatâs according to The New Abnormalâs Andy Levy and Danielle Moody, who are here to pitch that as a potential silver lining.
âYou could probably make the argument, at least in, in modern America, that this is the most extreme presidential ticket that we have had,â Andy says. âI think youâd have to go back a really long way to maybe find an example to the contrary, and Iâm not sure that works.â
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Then, Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) joins the pod to discuss what it could look like to move a new nominee onto the Democratic ticket. Provided President Joe Biden decides to step aside, Huffman says, he doesnât want to see a gaggle of party insiders anoint their favorite man for the job. Rather, he likes the idea of a so-called âmini-primary,â a process Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-SC) outlined earlier this month.
âIâm kind of excited about that scenario. It would reinvigorate this race,â Huffman explains. âIt would change the narrative. It's all anybody would be talking about for the next month.â
Plus! Dr. Shawn Ginwright, the Jerome T. Murphy Professor of Practice at Harvard Graduate School of Education, stops by to talk about his book, The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves, which âeveryone and their mother and their motherâs mother should be reading,â as Moodie puts it.
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