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“I think that the election of 1960 takes all the events of 2020, and, frankly, of 2024, and sets them on their head,” says Chris Wallace of comparisons between JFK vs then Vice President Richard Nixon then and present Vice President Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump now.
The CNN host joined Deadline’s ElectionLine podcast immediately to have a look at White House bids previous and current, and talk about his upcoming e-book Countdown 1960.
Coming out on October 8, the third learn in newsman Wallace’s Countdown franchise, 1960 goes deep into the first presidential marketing campaign of the trendy period with its recreation altering debate, primaries, candidates, potential vote problem and some secret honor.
“Richard Nixon, of all people who will you know, is not generally seen as a hero, I think in this election, actually, kind of was,” Wallace says – as you may hear above.
“Despite pressure from inside his party, he decided to do the right thing, not for himself, but for the country, and not to contest Kennedy’s victory,” the Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace host notes. “Now compare that to 2020, when there’s no evidence of any fraud, or any fraud of any substantial amount that would have affected the election, and Trump, from election night on, keeps saying that it is a fraud, that it is stolen. And here we are, four years later, in a razor edge election, continuing to talk about, if he loses, it will be because it was stolen.”
“So, it seems to me, it could not be more relevant the election of 1960 to what to the events 64 years later.”
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Also, on immediately’s podcast, there are simply over 4 weeks till the election – which implies, proper now we're at the begin of the interval feared for what known as the “October surprise.”
We could have seen the first such shock this week, with the launch of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s unsealed temporary outlining his election conspiracy case towards Donald Trump. However, in a fractured media surroundings the place a lot of the public is siloed to listen to solely what they need to hear, these information occasions could not have the marketing campaign shattering influence that they as soon as did.
I imply, does anybody even keep in mind the VP debate?
Speaking of remembering, 25-years in the past, Dick premiered in theaters. The irreverent satire, starring Kirsten Dunst, Michelle Williams, Will Ferrell, just a little recognized Ryan Reynolds and a tremendous Dan Hedaya as Richard Nixon was a fictionalized comedian take on Watergate. Dick author and director Andrew Fleming talks to Ted and Dominic about the battle to get the film made, the very totally different take on the scandal that introduced down a president — and why such a mission could not work as real-life politics has gotten crazier and crazier.
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