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Jul 2024
25m 53s

Kamala’s meme-mentum

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Kamala Harris memes have taken over the internet. Now she needs to figure out how to capitalize on them.

This episode was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen and Miles Bryan, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Matt Collette and Laura Bullard, engineered by Rob Byers and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram and Noel King.

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