#newshour debate

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#PBSwednesday Gwen Ifill became the first African-American woman to host a nationally televised U.S. public affairs program with Washington Week in Review in 1999. She was the moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and co-anchor and co-managing editor, with Judy Woodruff, of the PBS NewsHour.

Ifill was also a political analyst and moderated the 2004 and 2008 vice-presidential debates. She authored the best-selling book The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.

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Gwendolyn L. Ifill (September 29, 1955 – November 14, 2016) was a journalist, television newscaster, and author. In 1999, she became the first woman of African descent to host a nationally televised US public affairs program with Washington Week in Review.

She was the moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and co-anchor and co-managing editor of the PBS NewsHour, both of which air on PBS. She was a political analyst and moderated the 2004 and 2008 vice-presidential debates. She authored the best-selling book The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.

On October 5, 2004, she moderated the vice-presidential debate between the Republican Vice President Dick Cheney and the Democratic candidate and Senator John Edwards. She was the first African American woman to moderate a vice-presidential debate.

She moderated the vice-presidential debate on October 2, 2008, between Senator Joe Biden and Governor Sarah Palin, at Washington University in St. Louis. The debate format offered her the freedom to cover domestic and international issues.

On January 30, 2020, She was honored on a US postage stamp. #africanhistory365 #African Excellence #deltasigmatheta

[justinspoliticalcorner]

CNN:

With less than two weeks until the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle, CNN has released additional details on the parameters agreed upon by the Trump and Biden campaigns. The debate, which will be hosted by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash in Atlanta on June 27, will mark the first in-person showdown of the 2024 campaign between President Joe Biden and his predecessor, former President Donald Trump. Both candidates have accepted the network’s invitation and agreed to accept the rules and format of the debate, as outlined in letters sent to the campaigns by the network in May.

The 90-minute debate will include two commercial breaks, according to the network, and campaign staff may not interact with their candidate during that time. Both candidates agreed to appear at a uniform podium, and their podium positions will be determined by a coin flip. Microphones will be muted throughout the debate except for the candidate whose turn it is to speak. While no props or pre-written notes will be allowed on the stage, candidates will be given a pen, a pad of paper and a bottle of water. Some aspects of the debate – including the absence of a studio audience – will be a departure from previous debates. But, as in the past, the moderators “will use all tools at their disposal to enforce timing and ensure a civilized discussion,” according to the network.

In order to meet CNN’s qualifications for the debate, candidates must satisfy the requirements outlined in Article II, Section 1 of the US Constitution to serve as president. Both Biden and Trump meet those requirements, as do Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West and Jill Stein, who are running on non-major-party tickets. Participants must also file a formal statement of candidacy to the Federal Election Commission. All five have done so. All participating debaters must appear on a sufficient number of state ballots to reach the 270 electoral vote threshold to win the presidency and receive at least 15% in four separate national polls of registered or likely voters that meet CNN’s standards for reporting. Polls that meet those standards are those sponsored by CNN, ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, Marquette University Law School, Monmouth University, NBC News, The New York Times/Siena College, NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist College, Quinnipiac University, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.

Both the Biden and Trump campaigns have agreed to rules for the June 27th Presidential Debate originating on CNN and airing on other outlets, such as mics being cut when not their turn to speak and no pre-written material or props. There will be two commercial breaks, but campaign staff are NOT allowed to converse with the candidates during that time.

See Also:

HuffPost: Trump And Biden Agree To Mic Muting, Other Rules For Upcoming CNN Debate

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The Peabody Awards 2024: Learning how "Stories That Matter" is so much more than a catchy slogan

(The author with Reservation Dogs executive producer Taika Waititi, Peabody judges Hannah Giorgis and Lorraine Ali, Peabody staffer Maggie Stephens and, below, Rita Ora and Kali Reis)

Midway through the ceremony, a thunderbolt struck in the form of a passionate speech from Sir Patrick Stewart, reminding me exactly why the George Foster Peabody Awards are such a special experience for judges, winners, staffers who works on the honors and media itself.

As a former judge and chair of the board of jurors, I had traveled to Los Angeles for the first Peabody awards held in person since the COVID lockdowns of 2020. It was also the awards’ first time taking place in Los Angeles, signaling a shift from the news-centered operation of old to a more Hollywood friendly production. And it happened to be the first awards ceremony since I stepped down as chair of the jurors in 2019, rotated off the panel – as is customary - after six years of service. (I was the first African American to hold the chair's job, in fact.)

It is tough to describe what a special experience it is to be among the judges helping hand out such a prestigious honor. The first time I served, among the projects we gave prizes to were House of Cards and Scandal – two shows which heralded the rise of streaming and the impact of diversity on television. I was part of the panel which decided to hand special honors to Jon Stewart, Rita Moreno and Carol Burnett at various times, recognizing the world-shaking impact of legendary performers and satirists.

Deliberations take place over three separate weeks in different locations, with our debates centered on impact, originality, scope, quality, substance and diversity — among other considerations — always with an eye on what the bright light of a Peabody win might accomplish when trained on a deserving project.

(The Peabody judging panel during my last year in the group.)

At the end, judges must have watched/consumed every entry under consideration and we must agree unanimously. With a judging panel that ranged from world class academics to high achievers in media, expert journalists and critics and more, we bonded like rowdy siblings at a media nerd’s ideal summer camp.

(Chilling with Tony Goldwyn and Jeff Perry from Scandal during my very first Peabody awards ceremony in 2014.)

But when Sir Patrick rose in the middle of Sunday’s ceremony to speak eloquently of the amazing work on display in the acceptance speeches of winners, I realized why the Peabodys were truly special. Conceived as the electronic/broadcasting/TV equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes, the Peabodys this evening united Hollywood favorites like FX’s The Bear and HBO’s The Last of Us with searing journalism, like the PBS NewsHour’s coverage of war in Gaza or Tennessee investigative reporter Phil Williams’ dogged exposure of a mayoral candidate’s ties to white supremacists in a tony Nashville suburb.

Ravish Kumar, the news anchor in India who serves as the centerpiece for the POV documentary While We Watched, gave a passionate speech criticizing mainstream news outlets in his home country for enabling Hindu nationalism by spreading misinformation. Ron Nyswaner, creator and showrunner for Showtime’s LGBTQ-focused limited series Fellow Travelers, talked on how “art is about trying to make people think and feel.”

And Larry Wilmore, co-creator of Black-ish and host of the late, lamented Comedy Central news satire The Nightly Show, cracked a joke on how supremely compromised Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is kind of a dick. (Hey, everything can’t be highbrow during a three-hour show).

It occurred to me, that too many Hollywood awards shows are mostly about the star power and glamour of supremely acclaimed stars. Don’t get me wrong: it was gratifying and heartwarming to see the entire place leap to their feet for enduring icon and Career Achievement awards winner Mel Brooks, or Donald Glover presenting the Trailblazer award to his good friend Abbott Elementary star/creator Quinta Brunson or – for this Star Trek nerd anyway – the astonishing sight of watching castmembers/producers from Picard, Discovery, Enterprise and other corners of Trek gather onstage for the Institutional Award.

(The Star Trek crew, including LeVar Burton, Rebecca Romijin and Jeri Ryan, at the Peabody awards Sunday.)

But the secret sauce of the Peabodys is the way it utilizes Hollywood glamour to shine a light on quality journalism and public service programming like the micro-documentary series The Hidden Racism in New York City or PBS Frontline’s reporting on America and the Taliban or Dallas-Fort Worth NBC station KXAS’ look at how an organization of sheriffs were quietly radicalizing law enforcement officers across the state.

So, even though I’m no longer taking part in the long hours of viewing and debate required to pick these standout honorees – and it is part of the deal that every judge has to agree on every winner and finalist – I couldn’t be prouder of the selections my successors have assembled. We are all now part of a family dedicated to upholding the best in media, highlighting important work in a way almost no other modern awards ceremony can do.

(Me at this year's Peabody awards.)

See the list of Peabody winners HERE.

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i got a ride in to work this morning and the driver was playing some sort of leftie radio show/podcast that was taking a moment to praise a libertarian party for openly deriding atlanta's cop city and acting like because neither sen warnock and sen ossoff have said anything unequivocally against it that they're flopping. which is (1) annoying and (2) is still something that warnock doesn't appear to support www.pbs.org newshour politics atlanta-city-council-approves-project-decried-as-cop-city-rejecting-activists-fierce-opposition so i'm not seeing any real reason to be mad at him, so i'm worried that leftie media will take this sort of thing and run with it.

A) Obviously Cop City is a reprehensible and atrocious piece of shit, and the authorities have behaved abominably in trying to force it through, regardless of massive community opposition. That's not in debate.

B) Y'all have no, have no fucking idea how lucky we are to have Warnock and Ossoff in the Senate, and how much that is a testament to how Georgia Democrats (especially Black Georgia Democrats) worked their fucking asses off to give it to us. Absolutely none of the big legislative priorities of the last few years would have gotten done without those two extra reliably-blue Democratic votes in the Senate. They're also the reason we control the Senate at all, whether in the 50-50 setup where Harris was the tiebreaker, or the current 51-49 setup that gives us more control of committees. ESPECIALLY with the constant shenanigans Manchin and Sinema pulled and are still pulling. Without Warnock and Ossoff, much of Biden's legislative agenda would have died before it could ever be passed, not least because Mitch fucking McConnell would still be in fucking control of the Senate. And now, when Manchin is throwing a hissy fit and trying to torpedo Biden's progressive judicial nominees (such as the Asian-American and Muslim-American voting rights activists just confirmed to district courts, both of whom Manchin voted against), Warnock and Ossoff have been CRUCIAL in squeaking them over the line. Once again: none of this would be happening without Georgia. And Fani Willis is about to indict Trump's felonious orange ass a THIRD time. Any line about how They're Failing Us is ridiculous.

C) Leftist media is always looking for disingenuous ways to attack Biden and/or the Democrats. Even when, as noted, Warnock DOES NOT SUPPORT Cop City either, nobody who takes a serious look at his background and record would think that he does, and has been one half of the votes that are getting the entire Democratic agenda done. (Do you ever see him and Ossoff pulling this Manchin/Sinema bullshit? You fucking don't.) Even in a deep purple state like Georgia, which is flipping to Democrats federally (i.e. presidential, Senate) but still has Brian effin' Kemp as governor and a GOP-controlled legislature and AG. So as usual, this is stupid and counterproductive, but definitely in the minority. In the meantime, I'm gonna trust in the Black Georgia Democrats, Stacey Abrams and co., and everyone else who has worked their ASSES off to deliver us Warnock/Ossoff in the Senate, because. Yeah.

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Debate bingo night, n I’m sober!

Have at it, folks -

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/live-fact-check-trump-and-harris-meet-for-presidential-debate

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News Post

Palestine

Israel-Palestine debate seizes French National Assembly after Rafah offensive – POLITICO

The US must recognize Palestine as a state. It’s time to look to the future, not the past | Jodi Rudoren | The Guardian

Are we witnessing Nakba 2.0 in Gaza? | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera

'No Longer Taboo': More European States Considering Recognizing Palestine, Senior EU Diplomat Tells Haaretz - Israel News - Haaretz.com

Ukraine

Ukraine war: The children adapting to survive Russia's invasion (bbc.com)

France and Germany say Ukraine should be able to use their weapons to strike inside Russia | CNN

Russia wants to wipe Ukraine off the map, not negotiate with it (thehill.com)

Russia-Ukraine war: Putin warns of consequences if Russian soil is hit | AP News

Joe Biden isolated after Western allies agree to let Ukraine fire weapons into Russia (telegraph.co.uk) - (I won't link this one because the news article is blocked and requests your email to continue. I just thought the title was funny and wanted to show you guys)

Sudan

Sudan Civil War: Crisis in El Fasher Overshadowed by Gaza, Ukraine (foreignpolicy.com)

Over 130 killed in 2 weeks as fighting intensifies in major Sudanese city, aid group says - ABC News (go.com)

Iran’s intervention in Sudan’s civil war advances its geopolitical goals − but not without risks (theconversation.com)

Millions living through nightmare as Sudan’s civil war brings killings, torture, famine | PBS NewsHour

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Let’s face it: Donald Trump is in a stronger position than ever to win a second term in November, with his active supporters even more motivated in the wake of the shooting Saturday.

Top Trump strategists are very eager for their candidate to run against Joe Biden. They’re now worried that the Democratic Party might end up with a different standard bearer.

Days ago, The Atlanticpublished journalist Tim Alberta’s in-depth examination of the Trump campaign’s strategic approach. “Everything they have been doing, the targeting that they have been doing of voters, the advertisements that they’re cutting, the fund-raising ploys that they’re making, the viral Internet videos that they have been churning out, they’re all designed around Joe Biden,” Alberta told the PBS NewsHour.

“So if suddenly he were replaced at the top of the ticket,” he added, “I think in many ways it’s back to square one for the Trump campaign. They recognize this. And I think they’re deeply unnerved by the possibility of a switcheroo at the top of the Democratic ticket.”

Last weekend, the Washington Post put it this way: “As Democrats debate the future of Biden’s reelection bid, Republicans would prefer he stay in a race they believe they are already winning.”

On Sunday, Face the Nationreported “top Democratic sources believe that Democrats who had thoughts about challenging President Biden are now standing down ‘because of this fragile political moment.’” Yet a guest on the same CBS program, Democratic Rep. Jason Crow, warned of a “high risk” that his party will lose the election “unless there is a major change.” He said that messaging from Biden’s campaign “is not effectively breaking through.”

While Biden boosters like to talk about national polling that sometimes puts Biden within a couple of points of Trump, such surveys mean little. Due to the Electoral College, the swing states will determine the winner. Biden is behind -- and falling further behind in most of them. Arizona, Georgia and Nevada have moved from “toss up” states to “lean Republican” according to the Cook Political Report.

And with an approval rating that now hovers around an abysmal 37 percent, Biden is increasingly playing defense in states he won easily four years ago.

“Democrats’ concerns about Biden’s ability to win are expanding beyond this cycle’s predetermined battlegrounds into states that long ago turned blue in presidential elections,” Politicoreported last week, in an article raising doubts about Biden’s prospects in New Hampshire, Maine, New Mexico and Minnesota. The headline: “Dems Are Freaking Out About Biden Even in Once Safely Blue States.”

Around the country, Democratic candidates are running well ahead of Biden. Last week, the Economist/YouGov poll found that “96 percent of registered Democrats say they will vote for a Democratic House candidate in the fall, compared with 85 percent who plan to vote for Biden.”

Biden’s presence at the top of the ticket promises to not only deliver the White House to Trump but also the House and Senate to Republicans.

In the light of such realities less than four months before Election Day, it’s alarming to hear many elected Democrats -- including some progressives in Congress -- publicly claim that Biden is just fine as the party’s nominee.

The happy-talk denialism from those congressional progressives shows a disconnect from the progressive grassroots. Many activists who devoted months of their lives on behalf of Biden in 2020 to vote Trump out are disaffected from Biden in 2024. Many are furious over Biden’s nonstop support of Israel during its continuous slaughter of civilians in Gaza. That includes Arab-American and Muslim activists and groups who mobilized for Biden four years ago against his Islamophobic opponent. Many climate activists who fought for Biden in 2020 against the “drill, baby, drill�� Trump are disgusted with his reversals on climate policy.

So, the depressing poll numbers may understate the problem for Biden as the Democratic nominee, because they don’t count the gap in campaign volunteer energy -- especially in contrast with the highly energized MAGA base. Early this year, an anonymous letter from 17 Biden 2024 campaign staffers urged Biden to reverse himself on Gaza and seek an immediate ceasefire: “Biden for President staff have seen volunteers quit in droves, and people who have voted blue for decades feel uncertain about doing so for the first time ever.”

In 2017, the Trump presidency was properly mocked for its brazen assertions of “alternative facts.” It’s now disconcerting that Biden and his advocates so often lapse into puffery as to his true political situation

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Biden “not only faces losing battleground states he won in 2020,” Sosnik wrote, “he is also at risk of losing traditional Democratic states like Minnesota and New Hampshire, which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama carried. If current trends continue, Mr. Trump could rack up one of the most decisive presidential victories since 2008.”

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The statement was signed by CBS News, as well as ABC, AP CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News, NBCUniversal News Group, NewsNation, NPR, PBS NewsHour, Univision and USA Today.

It said that televised debates have "a rich tradition" in US democracy, dating back to 1976, and that tens of millions of people tune in to watch."

What could we learn from yet another televised Hobo Brawl?

In 2016 and 2020, one candidate already repeatedly demonstrated that he is incapable of honest and polite civil discourse, while the smug corporate moderators continuously refused to call out his lies, instead preferring to repete his outrageous racists insults and threats, ad nauseam.

The job of the US president should not entail helping commercial media hacks sell car insurance, toilet paper and anti-depressants (that may make you want to kill yourself).

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Interesting analysis of Prodigy’s appearance in X-Factor…if anyone wants to give it a read.

*Honestly…I don’t know HOW I feel about that plot point, if I am being honest.

It’s obvious Williams ending was rushed and she was hurried to explain how Prodigy died. Would more care have been made if there had been less pressure to tie up all the loose ends? Probably.

On the “Battle of the Atom” podcast, Williams more or less admits writers and editors were making changes to the last issues (basically more or less saying the same things Kelly Thompson/Sina Grace/Jeff Lemire have said over the years about lack of control writers really have with the X-Men line).

It’s not like real world stories HAVEN’T popped up in X-Men before- Chance’s church in Fallen Angels Vol.1 was very clearly based off of the Unification Church. Magneto is a concentration camp survivor….just to name a couple examples.

Still- using the name “Buck” Thatcher, essentially making it a very clear it is meant to be Ed Buck…felt and feels a little bit questionable, since we don’t know how the family members of the victims would feel about this…

When reading this issue the first time back in 2021, I did find myself thinking about Rosenberg’s representation of Wolfsbane’s death as an allegory for violence against trans people a few years ago…and the question of whether comics SHOULD be the space to talk about honestly a pretty complex and sensitive issue…

But I do also see the other side of it- in a world where there’s a LOT of debate about LGBTQIA+ rights- isn’t it important to talk about the reality that LGBTQIA+ identities often face a higher likelihood of being victims of violence?

(https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/study-finds-lgbtq-people-much-likelier-to-be-crime-victims)

(https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/ncvs-lgbt-violence-press-release/)

But I also see fans feeling tired of every LGBTQIA+ story focusing around depression, violence, death, suicide, and repression…

The originally planned but ultimately shelved story of Anole killing himself, IS, I think a good example of this problem. Anole HAS been pretty positive representation and the idea of using Victor’s death as a wake up call for Elixir when looking at it now- IS pretty problematic…

I am personally GLAD editorial cut the Anole story and I prefer the direction D+W took instead with Academy X.

I personally didn’t find the issue as graphic as many were critiquing it for online, when it first came out��but I do feel a tad bit uncomfortable that it is based on a real case, in a situation where again, you don’t know how people close to the victims would feel about it being incorporated in fiction….

While I definitely don’t think Williams meant any harm with issue #10…I think the reality is there isn’t a clear answer on this issue of representation, other than if you ARE going to tell these kinds of stories…make sure you are doing it in the most sensitive way possible.

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How Presidential Running Mates Can Make or Break a Campaign! Four Times Candidates’ Second-in-Command Picks Surprised Everyone

— September 18, 2024 | American Experience

Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin on the big screen at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, September 3, 2008. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress.

Every four years, the news media engage in endless speculation about the identities of presidential candidates’ running mates. The process is so enshrined, in fact, that it even has a name: Veepstakes.

Often the choice is predictable. Sometimes, though, there are VP shockers—running mate picks that no one, even the most astute political analysts, saw coming. Those surprise picks can be a huge boon to a campaign, building notoriety and momentum—or they can backfire, sending a candidate’s run into a tailspin. Here are a few of modern history’s most dramatic Veepstakes outcomes.

Sarah Palin (Sarah Louise Palin)

John McCain and Sarah Palin at the Republican National Convention, September 4, 2008. Photo credit Tom LeGro, PBS NewsHour.

John McCain was behind in the polls against fellow Senator Barack Obama in 2008 when he made his surprising VP pick: small town mayor-turned-Alaska governor Sarah Palin, a choice no one predicted.

At first, public perception suggested McCain had made a bold choice with a political outsider whose gender, youth, and more conservative ideology helped balance the Republican ticket. McCain’s campaign raised record amounts and his poll numbers skyrocketed. However, it wasn’t long before Palin’s inexperience and lack of preparation came through in interviews and debates.

As the election season progressed, public opinion of Palin turned increasingly negative, and later analysis showed that she potentially cost the McCain campaign millions of votes—a significant margin in a close race like 2008.

Thomas Eagleton (Thomas Francis Eagleton)

An official portrait of Thomas Eagleton as Missouri’s Lieutenant Governor, 1967. Photo courtesy of Missouri State Archives.

In July 1972, Democratic candidate George McGovern announced his running mate: Missouri Senator Thomas Eagleton, a rising young political star whose anti-abortion views balanced McGovern’s ticket—or so the campaign hoped. Only 18 days later, things looked very different.

Right after the Democratic National Convention ended, news emerged about Eagleton’s medical history: three times during the 1960s he had been hospitalized for depression, and received electroshock treatment. McGovern stood by his choice at first, but political pressure mounted.

Ultimately, McGovern replaced Eagleton with former Peace Corps director Sargeant Shriver. (The only other time in American history that a VP candidate had been removed from the ticket was in 1912, when President William Howard Taft replaced acting vice president James Sherman—and only because Sherman had died six days before the election. Spoiler: that presidential bid lost.)

McGovern’s campaign also never recovered from the last-minute switch, ultimately losing the election by the largest landslide in U.S. history. The scandal also forever changed the way potential VPs were vetted going forward, typically leading campaigns to do far more comprehensive research.

Spiro Agnew (Spiro Theodore Agnew)

Vice President Spiro Agnew and President Richard Nixon at the Republican National Convention, August 23, 1972. Photo courtesy National Archives and Records Administration.

In August 1968, presidential hopeful Richard Nixon made a 1 a.m. announcement about his vice presidential choice. Spiro Agnew was an unknown on no one’s list, a former county elected official in Maryland who had only been governor for two years.

At first, Agnew’s name became a campaign punchline. But Nixon’s choice proved smart. Positioned together on the Republican ticket as law-and-order candidates, Nixon and Agnew won the popular vote by a small margin but took the electoral college by 110 votes.

Once in office, Agnew did such a good job of reinforcing the president’s rhetoric that he became known as “Nixon’s Nixon.” But ultimately, the copycat routine went too far: just before the Watergate scandal ended Nixon’s presidency, Agnew himself stepped down to avoid his own separate charges of bribery, extortion, and tax fraud, becoming only the second U.S. vice president in history to resign.

Al Gore (Albert Arnold Gore Jr.)

President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore disembark from Air Force One, October 20, 1995. Photo by Sharon Farmer, National Archives and Records Administration.

Conventional wisdom says presidential candidates should balance the ticket by choosing VPs who compliment them around various demographics, like age, identity, geography, and ideology. But in 1992, Bill Clinton threw decades of political strategy out the window and chose a running mate who was practically his mirror image.

Senator Al Gore was almost the exact same age as Clinton, also southern, and a centrist Democrat. In fact, Gore was so similar to the presidential candidate that Republicans dubbed him “Clinton’s tax-and-spend brother.” Gore was reportedly selected from a list of 40 potential candidates, with Clinton’s key considerations being that his running mate share his values, be prepared to serve as president immediately, and have the stamina required for a long, hard campaign.

It paid off. Together Clinton and Gore’s youthful energy carried the first all-baby-boomer presidential ticket to a big electoral college win, proving that sometimes doubling down is a savvy strategy.

President Richard Nixon meeting with Rep. Gerald Ford in the Oval Office the day before announcing Ford as his pick for Vice President in 1973. Credit: The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. National Archives and Records Administration

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The Newshour Debate: Britain's Bluestar hand exposed - Part 3 (4th Feb 2...

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Yamiche Léone Alcindor Cline (November 1, 1986) has become one of the most prominent African American journalists in the nation. She was born in Miami. Her father and mother came from Plaisance and St. Louis du Nord, Haïti, and studied at Boston College. Alcindor graduated from Fort Lauderdale High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 2005. While in high school she interned at the Miami-Herald and the Westside Gazette, a weekly newspaper in Fort Lauderdale. She became passionate about a career in journalism after reading about the historic case regarding the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till.

She graduated from Georgetown University, where she minored in African American studies and received a BA in English and Government. She became a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.

While working with USA Today, she covered the murder trial of George Zimmerman who fatally shot Trayvon Martin. She earned an MA in Broadcasting News and Documentary Filmmaking at New York University. She worked as a national political reporter for The New York Times and produced the documentary The Trouble with Innocence. She was named a political contributor to NBC News and MSNBC.

She won Syracuse University’s Toner Prize, a tribute to the legendary African American journalist Gwen Ifill. She married Nathaniel Cline (2018), an award-winning American journalist. She became the White House correspondent for the PBS NewsHour. She was invited to be one of the moderators of the sixth Democratic presidential election debate, held on the campus of Loyola Marymount University. She received the Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage from the White House Correspondents’ Association. She was named the 2020 Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists and was a recipient of the 2020 Gwen Ifill Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation.

She was appointed Washington correspondent for NBC Universal. She remains the host of “Washington Week” on PBS. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphakappaalpha

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Congress' Rahul Gandhi IN US HIts RSS, BJP, Modi; BJP Says 'India Insulted Abroad' - 9th Sept 2024 In the latest episode of Newshour Debate, Navika Kumar discusses politics over Rahul Gandhi's statement in USA. Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, who is currently in the United States, criticised the policies of the ruling BJP government on various aspects-- from unemployment to the hatred he alleged the government has dissolved in the country.

During an interaction with students at the University of Texas in Dallas on Sunday, Gandhi said there is no shortage of skills in India and the country could compete with China if it starts aligning itself for production.