
Living in the USA
Biden and the working class: Harold Meyerson; Dems and the Senate: John Nichols; Margo Jefferson's memoir
May 23, 2024
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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)
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