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Biden and the working class: Harold Meyerson; Dems and the Senate: John Nichols; Margo Jefferson's memoir

Biden and the working class: Harold Meyerson; Dems and the Senate: John Nichols; Margo Jefferson's memoir

FromLiving in the USA


Biden and the working class: Harold Meyerson; Dems and the Senate: John Nichols; Margo Jefferson's memoir

FromLiving in the USA

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Length:
58 minutes
Released:
May 23, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Recent polls show Biden's level of support among non-college voters of all races is down to 39% – that's 9 points less than his level of support from those same voters in the 2020 election – Harold Meyerson comments.Next: Democrats in the Senate are going to lose the seat vacated by Joe Manchin in West Virginia – can they hold all the others in November? John Nichols has our analysis, starting with Maryland, where Democrat Angela Alsobrooks will face Republican “moderate” Larry Hogan, the popular anti-Trump former governor. Plus: The wonderful writer Margo Jefferson talks about “Constructing a Nervous System" – her memoir about growing up in a middle-class Black family in Chicago. (First recorded in April 2022)
Released:
May 23, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

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Talking about politics, thinking about the Left. Hosted by Jon Wiener, co-author of "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties," contributing editor at The Nation, and broadcast live at KPFK 90.7FM in LA Thursdays at 4.