Astead Herndon
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6,554 appearances
61 recordings
8 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 2d ago
Astead Herndon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Our executive producer is Christina Vallis, and our theme music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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Additional support from Miranda Kennedy, David Tadishore, and Nisha Chittal.
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I'm Asnet Herndon, and this is America Actually.
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The Democratic Party is at war with itself right now, and it's playing out in primary races all across the country.
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On one side, you have the centrist establishment Democrats making a familiar argument.
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On the other, it's the progressives who argue that the country wants populist fighters who are looking to upend the status quo entirely.
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And if there's one place where this civil war is playing out most clearly, it's definitely Michigan.
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There's a stark contrast there between the two candidates running in the Senate Democratic primary, Congresswoman Haley Stevens and former public health official Dr. Abdul El-Sayed.
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Now, Stevens has the backing of the Democratic establishment and people like Chuck Schumer.
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She says that El-Sayed is too left, too untested, and simply too extreme for a general election that Democrats have to win.
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In the end, it all comes down to the dreaded E-word, electability, because that's the concept that's at the heart of the democratic civil war, whether the party wants to admit it or not.
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If you're a person of color or a progressive or a woman, it always comes up for candidates.
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Sure, you can win the primary, but are you electable in a general election?
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So, in Michigan, one candidate is trying to turn the electability concept on its head.
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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is making the progressive case for America first, and he's trying to settle the Democrats' ideological battle in the process.
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This week on America Actually, what does being electable actually mean?
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Let's dig in.
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