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David Horsey – Seattle Times
This week’s agenda:
- Michigan in late summer is looking like Iowa in the winter: presidential candidates everywhere except the very weird RFK Jr. who is on the ballot despite his best efforts.
- We’re days away from what may be the only Harris-Trump debate, with Trump previewing why he’ll lose the debate … it’s rigged.
- Can an endorsement make a real difference? We may find out as Liz Cheney says she’s voting for Kamala Harris.
- Trump’s apparent campaign strategy: skip Labor Day events to play golf, keep running against Joe Biden and using his Hillary playbook against Kamala Harris, explain his long-winded meandering diatribes as a brilliant tactic he calls “weaving” … then run off to Sean Hannity for an hour of softball batting practice.
- Meanwhile, there’s a new call in Congress for investigating still another Trump crime: what looks like a $10-million dollar gift to Trump from Egypt. designed to hide an illegal foreign government campaign contribution. What should be shocking news has been mostly ignored.
- And then there’s Russia Russia Russia: the Justice Department charges the Russians with running their third straight disinformation campaign in support of Trump’s candidacy.
Polling shows voters increasingly dug in to their respective tribes as the political polarization chasm grows. Our guest this week is MSU political science guru Matt Grossman discussing his new book explaining the continuing trend towards two Americas. Matt Grossmann is Director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research – a.k.a. IPPSR – and Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University. He is the author of numerous books on our political world. His latest: “Polarized by Degrees“. The work, written in collaboration with Boston College Political Scientist David A. Hopkins explores the nation’s current political polarization and how it has caused a diploma divide between the parties.
Grossmann is a Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center in Washington, DC, host of The Science of Politics Podcast and a regular contributor to FiveThirtyEight’s online political analysis. He has also published op-eds in The New York Times and The Washington Post. He was named Director of IPPSR in January 2016. IPPSR is a policy, leadership and research unit within MSU’s College of Social Science conducting more than $1.5 million in grant- or contract-funded research and raising more than $300,000 in donations annually.
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