Sarah Smith
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3,811 appearances
45 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 4d ago
Sarah Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So she is not signed up to the kind of policies that you're talking about.
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And the candidates that we're looking at, Abdul El-Saeed in Michigan, who won the Democratic primary to be their Senate candidate, for instance, or AOC in New York and some of the other people that we have been talking about generally don't put forward the sort of platform that you're talking about, Justin.
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They say that they do believe in capitalism.
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That's something else I says all the time.
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that they believe in democracy.
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So we're not talking about some kind of Soviet communist system here.
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And it's policies like Medicare for All, basically building a national health service that people think are kind of particularly radical and out there on the left.
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Absolutely.
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And doubtless in the primaries, there will be at least one strong candidate who's associated with Democratic Socialists of America and espousing these things.
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We won't get to test its popularity with the American electorate until it is divorced from either woke statements that are always going to lose you votes, like cancelling Thanksgiving, which is, I mean, about as smart as going into an election saying you want to cancel Christmas.
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That was never going to work.
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Or some of the more out there policies that we were talking about earlier, opening the borders and closing all the prisons.
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That's got nothing to do with a socialist economic agenda, but it hasn't yet been tested with somebody who...
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doesn't support murdering healthcare officials in the street, doesn't support other things, but a slightly more mainstream candidate.
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I mean, Bernie Sanders to an extent, but also we'll see in these midterms whether other socialists are able to attract votes or whether their Republican opponents succeed in painting them as communists and dangerously left.
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Donald Trump says communism just about every day now because the Republicans have clearly seen
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that the way to attack some of these candidates is to brand them with kind of old Soviet-style communism and attack them again and again on that to try and frighten people into voting Republican instead of for these candidates.
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Hello, it's Sarah here in the BBC's Washington Bureau.
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And you say, Anthony, she was part of that squad of young left wingers.
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I mean, I think she was always the most visible woman, wasn't she?
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