David Wallace-Wells

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678 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 16 Sep

David Wallace-Wells’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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They did this as a kind of central casting.

Here's someone who looks like an outsider who donated to Bernie Sanders.

And how's that working out for them?

I'm not making a positive case for it.

I'm just saying it's notable that what we're seeing here is not exactly, you know, oversight.

People having a perfect candidate who has skeletons in his closet.

It shows someone who looked like they had skeletons there.

I don't have any detailed knowledge of the race on the ground.

I just look at the polls.

And what I've seen lately suggests that Abdullah Syed maybe has a little bit of an advantage there.

That doesn't mean that that'll hold over the course of the general election.

But I think that a few months ago, even,

We would have looked at the polls and said that he was the much weaker candidate.

And I think the behavior there, you know, voters behavior over the last couple of months suggests that he may well be the stronger one.

And I do think that that would be a major event in American politics.

He would be the first Muslim elected to the Senate.

He would be.

you know, a sort of natural successor figure to Bernie as a lefty in the Senate.

I do think that he's a more, as I said a minute ago, more admirable character than Plattner.

I think he's sort of gotten under, you know, less attention over the course of this race than Plattner has.

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