Bill Kristol
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283 appearances
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard 31 Mar
Bill Kristol’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Okay, well, there you go.
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No, one reason I was very strongly in favor of Biden not running again was I think that's a very hard thing to overcome.
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If you have the most recent ex-president against the current incumbent president, people have seen those both in their own heads in real time, right?
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And if people think the ex-president was better for them than the current president,
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How do you turn that around exactly?
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It's not a matter of rhetoric, right?
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That's what they think.
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They live through it.
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So I think Harris is much better as a candidate for change in that respect.
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It's not what I did versus what you did.
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It's what Trump did, which is problematic, and he's never had majority support, versus what I can do and will do.
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And that's a very different dynamic in the race.
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That's why it's changed so much.
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But I also very much agree that people didn't know her.
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Sarah Longwell found this in focus groups.
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You were on with her on her focus group show once I remember.
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And, you know, people would just say, I don't really never seen her for more than 20 seconds.
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And of course, when you think about it, they never have.
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She never gave a speech to the nation after what the vice presidential debate in October, I guess, of 2020.
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Not only a speech to the nation, she was almost never even on a TV program that had national reach.
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