Sarah Smith
speaker
3,811 appearances
45 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 6d ago
Sarah Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 45 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 9.
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Not just in Michigan, but uh Republicans will use him nationwide as a bogeyman for what they will say Democrats represent across the country.
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So I mean he's right that it is going to be a pretty difficult and bitter campaign where people will try and drag him into the mud.
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The question is whether it's something that can then energize the democratic base as a result of all of that or whether it's going to turn
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voters off.
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And that's something we don't know the answer to yet, but something we can definitely start exploring by looking at him as a candidate, where he's come from.
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And you know a bit about this as well, Justin.
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I know you were talking to our colleague Sumi on the podcast last week about the possibility of Al Said winning here.
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That's a very, very um interesting listen if anybody wants to go back and uh and listen to that as well.
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Where you made it clear that he's uh a a former public health official, child
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of Egyptian immigrants who has come up through the left of the party but is not a member of the Democratic Socialist Alliance.
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We've got other DSA backed candidates across the country.
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He is not one of them and he doesn't even call himself a socialist, although he does espouse some pretty left wing ideas.
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It has to be said, across the country the idea of Medicare for all isn't universally unpopular at all.
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It depends on how you describe you want to implement it.
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And he's talking about significantly increased tax on the wealthiest, specifically on
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billionaires and really dramatic campaign finance reform.
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What he's not talking about is what a lot of Americans will imagine as soon as you hear the word socialism, because you know this very well, Justin, it's kind of synonymous with communism in America, in a way it's not necessarily in Europe.
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It doesn't just mean left of centre here.
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It means pretty much seizing the means of production and and nationalizing them, having a government run economy rather
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than just talking about things like providing healthcare for all.
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