This program originally aired on November 21st at 12:30pm Eastern.
Julie Salmon (New York Times best-selling author) sits down with Adam Nagourney, national politics reporter for the New York Times, to discuss the 2024 Presidential Election. Nagourney advises the cautionary use of polls as a method of prediction, and describes how historic trends in voting can be useful to shed light on current results. Adam delves into the intensity of polarization in our current moment, and his concern over misinformation. He observes that many voters decisions come from an emotional place; many American’s have expressed feeling a lack of control and sense that the country is going in the “wrong direction,” this in turn motivates their decision to “throw out” whomever is currently in power. This dynamic is what feeds the cyclical process of elections and the way power vacillates from political party to another. Adam agrees with reporters and news analysts who have cautioned that a Trump presidency is in danger of authoritarian and fascist behavior, and believes that it should be a concern for Americans. He reflects on how political reporting has changed over the last two election cycles, and the expectation that the public has of its news and media.
Topics covered in this program: Polling, cabinet nominees, 1968, tariffs, polarization, misinformation, media, guardrails of democracy, 3rd Party voting, United States Senate, Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden, President Elect Donald Trump, power of local government, Federalist power structure.
