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‘Kamala Harris is the embodiment of the Obama coalition’ says political strategist
We speak to pollster and political strategist Cornell Belcher.
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Obama reportedly joins calls for Biden to quit presidential race
The pressure on President Biden to withdraw from another run at the White House might be becoming irresistible?
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Democrats must say if Biden ‘is our guy or not’, says former Obama adviser
We’re joined by Peter Loge, who was a senior advisor in the Obama administration and is now a professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University.
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Untenable for US to keep vetoing UN resolutions on Israel Gaza war, former Obama advisor says
We spoke to Frank Lowenstein, who served as the Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations and Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State under President Obama.
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Bush, Obama and Trump administrations lied to American people about Afghanistan, says journalist
As territory falls with seemingly inevitable speed to the Taliban, the Washington Post journalist Craig Whitlock has claimed in his new book that three successive American presidents and their commanders misled the public, committing more and more troops to an endless conflict, despite losing all sight of their original objectives.
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‘Challenges ahead’ for Biden to approve $1trillion bill, former Obama advisor says
Jamal Simmons is a political strategist who advised the 2008 Obama/Biden campaign.
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‘There are differences in world view between Joe Biden and Boris Johnson’, says former senior Obama adviser
We spoke to Ben Rhodes from Los Angeles.
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‘I hope Biden’s message becomes do not send ground forces into Gaza’, says former Obama aide
We spoke to Tommy Vietor, who was President Obama’s National Security spokesman. He is a founder of the media company Crooked Media and hosts the foreign policy podcast Pod Save the World.
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‘She wants to be the type of vice-president that Joe Biden was to President Obama’ – Suzy Loftus, Kamala Harris’s friend
We spoke to Suzy Loftus, a former interim San Francisco District Attorney, and friend of US vice president-elect Kamala Harris. We asked her what her victory meant for her.
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Michelle Obama stars as virtual Democratic National Convention gets underway
Never in US history has there been a political convention like this one – as the Democrats head into the second night of their entirely virtual gathering.
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Beating Donald Trump is ‘most important thing we can do but it is not enough’ – former Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer
Three months tomorrow, America will go to the polls. And so far almost every opinion poll tells the same story – President Trump is trailing behind his Democratic rival Joe Biden.
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Polls today do not matter ‘what matters is the number of people who turn out to vote’ – former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett
We spoke to the former senior political adviser to President Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett
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President Trump hits back at Barack Obama for criticism of his pandemic response
The former US president Barack Obama has condemned the country’s lack of leadership during the pandemic – declaring that ‘a lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge’.
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Obama would ‘probably do same thing’ over Syria, says Samantha Power
For anyone in public office, idealism can be tricky to maintain – often incompatible with the need for pragmatism and the harsh realities on the ground.
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Former adviser and friend of President Obama, Valerie Jarrett: Joe Biden would be “lightyears better than the current President.”
We spoke to former adviser and friend of President Trump, Valerie Jarrett, asking her first whether Joe Biden was simply too much part of the political establishment to successfully take on President Trump.
