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The Democratic National Committee is moving ahead with a plan to virtually nominate Joe Biden ahead of the Democratic convention in Chicago despite growing calls for him to step aside and as a new Associated Press poll shows nearly two-thirds of Democrats want Biden to withdraw from the race following his disastrous debate with Donald Trump. Top Democrats including Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are reportedly privately lobbying for Biden to step aside. With Biden as the presidential candidate, “Democrats have a vanishingly thin chance of recapturing the House,” says Chris Lehmann, who rejoins us to discuss the “unprecedented” and contentious fight over Biden’s reelectability occurring within the Democratic Party ahead of its convention next month.
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American historian and the author of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, Nancy Isenberg, calls Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance a peddler of the “self-made man myth.” Isenberg criticizes Hilbilly Elegy, the memoir that propelled him to fame, as a deceptive way of selling this myth and the conservative politics it comes with. “Much of what his memoir says tells us nothing about real class conditions,” Isenberg says, pointing to her own historical and sociological research on the rural poor in the United States.
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Politico reporter Ian Ward interviewed Ohio Senator J.D. Vance at length for a recent profile and joins us to discuss Vance’s biography and ideology after he formally accepted the Republican vice-presidential nomination to run with Donald Trump, whom he once staunchly opposed.
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We continue to look at the record of Donald Trump’s vice-presidential running mate, Senator J.D. Vance, with a focus on his foreign policy actions, with Matt Duss of the Center for International Policy, former adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders. Vance is “very aligned with Trump,” says Duss, such as in his support of the Abraham Accords, the Arab-Israeli normalization deal signed under the Trump administration that sought to increase Israel’s power in the region at the expense of Palestinian rights.
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After Ohio Senator J.D. Vance makes his nomination official as the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 2024, we spend the show looking at his record. We begin with a discussion on Vance’s professed economic populism with independent journalist Zaid Jilani and The Nation's Chris Lehmann. Jilani argues Vance's pro-working class image is not only genuine, but that he may also hold enough sway to bring the Republican Party closer to the labor movement. “Big business does fear Vance to some extent,” he says. Lehmann counters, “I don’t see the Republican Party, at the end of the day, moving toward these … redistributive policies,” citing its hostility toward immigrants, who are a major driver of economic growth. “The forgotten working class is going to stay forgotten,” he concludes.
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Headlines for July 18, 2024; Trump’s VP Pick J.D. Vance Espouses Economic Populism But Will He Actually Be a Working-Class Ally?; J.D. Vance Criticizes Biden’s Support for Iraq War in 2003 But Pushes Hawkish Policy on China & Iran; “More Radical Than MAGA”? Politico’s Ian Ward on J.D. Vance & the Future of the Republican Party; “White Trash” Historian Nancy Isenberg on J.D. Vance, “Hillbilly Elegy” & Class in America; COVID Forces Biden Off Campaign Trail as Pressure Grows for Him to Step Aside
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- Biden Tests Positive for COVID, Cancels Campaign Events, Amid Mounting Calls to Step Aside
- Biden Says He Is a Zionist, Before Claiming He "Did More for Palestinians Than Anybody"
- Israeli Soldiers Sicced a Dog on a Gazan Man with Down Syndrome
- Less Than Half of U.N. Health Facilities in Gaza Are Operational
- Israel Passes Resolution Rejecting Palestinian Statehood
- J.D. Vance Tops RNC Speakers on Day 3 as He Accepts VP Nomination
- Reporter Says WSJ Fired Her Due to Leadership Role with Hong Kong Media Union
- Colombia Ends Ceasefire Agreement with FARC Faction
- At Least 6 Heat-Related Deaths Recorded in Texas After Hurricane-Triggered Power Outage
- Extreme Rains in Eastern Afghanistan Kill at Least 47, Injure Hundreds
- "I Can't Breathe": Eric Garner Remembered 10 Years After NYPD Choked Him to Death
- Bernice Johnson Reagon, Civil Rights Activist and Musical Icon, Has Died at 81
- "Everything Is a Challenge": U.N Aid Coordinator Discusses Plight of Displaced Gazans
- CodePink Facing Death Threats After Republican Lawmaker Falsely Claims a Member Attacked Him
- Elon Musk Plans to Move SpaceX from CA to TX After Newsom Signs New Law Protecting Trans Students
- Lawmakers Seek Data on Child Labor Violations in Federal Work Program
- Puerto Rico Sues Oil Giants over Climate Crisis
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Thursday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, holds significance for today’s Republican Party, not only as the site of the 2024 Republican National Convention, but also as a bellwether for American conservatism, argues Dan Kaufman, author of The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics. Kaufman shares Wisconsin’s history of progressive state politics, and how that progressivism was overtaken and eroded by Republican governance, particularly under former Governor Scott Walker, who dismantled organized labor’s power in the state. “Walker himself boasted that, 'If we can do it here, we can do it anywhere,'” explains Kaufman. “So, in terms of becoming a national laboratory, [Wisconsin] became an important symbol for the transformation of Republican politics.”
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Democracy Now! Monday, July 15, 2024
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We speak with reporter Oren Ziv of +972 Magazine, whose latest investigation details how Israeli forces in Gaza have been authorized to open fire on Palestinians virtually at will. Six soldiers who fought in Gaza describe a near-total absence of firing regulations, with soldiers shooting as they please, setting homes ablaze, leaving corpses to rot on the streets and more. “It seems soldiers were shooting not from a tactical reason or a real military reason, but just out of being bored, to pass the time or just because they could,” says Ziv. “Soldiers felt they can do whatever they want, that they won’t be accountable. And all this is done also with the awareness of the commanders.” We also hear from Yuval Green, one of the reservists who spoke to Ziv and who now refuses to continue serving in the Israeli military. “I believe that continuing this war and continuing the death of Palestinians and Israeli soldiers is not right. I believe that right now the right thing to do is to sign the ceasefire treaty that is going to release the hostages and end this war,” Green says.
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As the world watched Thursday night, President Biden held his first solo press conference this year, after hosting a NATO conference in which he accidentally referred to Ukrainian President Zelensky as Russian President Putin before quickly correcting himself. While speaking with reporters, Biden defended his record and vowed to “finish the job,” but at one point referred to Kamala Harris as “Vice President Trump.” As more Democrats continue to call for him to step aside, we host a roundtable discussion on Biden and Trump and the 2024 race, and the impact on U.S. foreign policy, with American Prospect executive editor David Dayen; longtime labor, racial justice and international activist Bill Fletcher Jr., co-founder of the Ukrainian Solidarity Network; and CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin, co-author of the books NATO: What You Need to Know and War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict.
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Democracy Now! Friday, July 12, 2024
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- Biden Remains Defiant, But Fails to Quell Mounting Doubts, as He Holds First Solo Presser This Year
- Spanish PM Urges NATO to End "Double Standards" in Treatment of Ukraine and Gaza
- Israel Continues Deadly Attack on Gaza City, Leaving Dozens Dead, Neighborhoods in Ruins
- 70 Media Organizations Call for Israel to Allow Int'l Journalists to Enter Gaza Strip
- Israeli Military Report Admits Failures on Oct. 7, Leaves Questions Unanswered
- 1 Million Remain Without Power in Houston as Record-Breaking Heat Leads to 28 U.S. Deaths
- 60+ People Could Be Dead After Buses Swept into River by Landslide
- Kenya's Ruto Dismisses Cabinet 2 Weeks After Scrapping Tax Bill That Set Off Mass Protests
- Saudi Court Sentences Man to 2 Decades in Prison for Tweets Critical of MBS
- UAE Sentences Dozens of Government Critics to Prison in Mass Trial
- U.S. Court Rules Activist DeRay Mckesson Cannot Be Held Responsible for Protest Injury
- Arkansas Blocks Abortion Ballot Amendment on Technicality
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Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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