Adams Campaign Fundraising; Call Your Senator: Sen Gillibrand; Voter Confidence and National Security; Childless Cat Ladies Weigh In

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 1, 2024
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Coming up on today's show:

  • Brigid Bergin, WNYC's senior political correspondent, discusses her reporting on problems the Campaign Finance Board found in Mayor Adams's 2021 campaign, and how it could affect his re-election campaign.
  • Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator (D-NY), talks about her work in Washington and more.
  • Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, CNN political analyst, NPR contributor, and author of several books, and Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, the author of several books, discuss the new book they co-edited, Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security Issue (NYU Press, 2024), in which experts weigh in on the risks to national security posed by election insecurity.
  • Sarah Jones, senior writer at the Intelligencer and New York Magazine, discusses J.D. Vance's viral comment that America is run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies." Plus, listeners weigh in on how the trope is being reclaimed.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

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