On the final night of the Democratic National Convention, Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage and formally accepted her party’s nomination.
After the balloons fell, Astead Herndon and his colleagues Maya King and Jennifer Medina broke down the moments that stood out to them from the night — from people touched by gun violence telling their stories t ... Show More
Nov 2024
What Democrats Think Went Wrong
A year ago, Astead took “The Run-Up” listeners home for Thanksgiving.Specifically, he convened a focus group of family and friends to talk about the election and the question of Black people’s changing relationship to the Democratic Party.This year, he got the group back together ... Show More
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Nov 2024
One Voter to Understand Trump’s Win
For more than two years, we’ve been asking pretty much everyone we meet a version of the same question:Who are you going to vote for and why?And on Wednesday morning, we had the answer to that question. Or at least the first part.Donald Trump easily won the electoral vote, and as ... Show More
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Aug 2024
At the Democratic Convention, a Historic Nomination
<p>Last night, at the Democratic National Convention, Vice President Kamala Harris accepted her party’s nomination, becoming the first woman of color in U.S. history to do so.</p><p>Astead W. Herndon and Reid J. Epstein, who cover politics for The Times, discuss the story this co ... Show More
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Aug 2024
The Story of Kamala Harris
<p>Over the next few days at the Democratic National Convention, Vice President Kamala Harris will accept her party’s nomination and reintroduce herself to American voters.</p><p>Astead W. Herndon, a national politics reporter and the host of the politics podcast “The Run-Up,” ta ... Show More
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Nov 2024
Kamala’s Final Moment: Election 2024
Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan, Jeremy Boreing, and special guest Dennis Prager are “burning brighter than a billion stars in the night sky” for Kamala Harris’s finest (and final) moment of the 2024 campaign: her concession speech.
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