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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That label is very dangerous in itself when it's attached to people, either like El Said or the DSA, because it conjures up quite um frightening ideas of Reds under the bed for a lot of American voters.
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No.
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Uh and and the polling had been suggesting he was something like ten points ahead.
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The same polling, which by the way, when it matched up Haley Stevens, his more moderate competitor and him against the Republican candidate showed Stevens winning in November, Al Said not.
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But nonetheless he he won the primary but only just as you say.
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Now the theory of the case from um the progressive wing of the party is that America is hungry for different ideas and the Democratic Party hasn't been supplying them yet.
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And that you need to get rid of this notion of a continuum of politics from right to left, and that you can place everybody along that straight line somewhere or other.
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And that we need to look at post Donald Trump politics completely differently, as a competition between elites and regular folk, between haves and have nots, and the way in which economic questions of the last few decades haven't been answered in a way that works for the working class of America.
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So the progressives say they can appeal pretty much to the same people who came out and voted for Donald Trump in the last three elections because they want to address the same issues that these people have in their lives.
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That's quite a persuasive case in some ways, but not if you look at the evidence of what happened with the voting on the ground in Michigan.
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El Said won among young voters, particularly well educated voters, Muslim voters, where he didn't particularly take votes and where Haley
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Stevens, one much bigger, was among black voters, white working class, uh white voters in rural areas and older voters.
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And if you're not picking up those kind of people, particularly black and working class voters, then I think it's extremely difficult to say you are somehow putting forward a progressive slate that will appeal to people who maybe voted Trump in twenty twenty four but could be persuaded to vote Democrat in twenty twenty eight.
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No, it's the biggest divide in American politics now, it's the biggest predictor of whether you're going to vote Republican or Democrat is whether or not you uh hold a college degree, whether or not you finish high school.
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And I think that does speak to the idea that politics isn't the same as it used to be and simply a a choice between left and right.
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Justin, the first thing we must say about that is that Abdul Al-Said has not said that America deserved nine eleven.
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That was a comment that was made by M.
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Hassan Piker, a streamer influencer associated with the left, who Al Saeed has campaigned alongside, so that's why Mike Rogers is is drawing that comparison between the two of them.
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But he is putting words in Al Said's mouth there.
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