VIDEO: The Day Before Election Day

Playback speed

1×

Subtitles

Share post at current time

Share from 0:00

0:00

Transcript

0:05

SPEAKER 1

Hello, and welcome to Cutting Through, where we present analysis of foreign policy and domestic politics that cuts through the noise of corporate and ideologically driven media. I'm Mitchell Plitnick, the president of Rethinking Foreign Policy and the author of the Cutting Through newsletter on Substack. You can subscribe to Cutting Through at mitchellplitnick.substack.com,

0:24

where you can also become a paid subscriber or donate to support this work. And you can share Cutting Through with your friends and contacts there. So with one day left until Election Day, there's reason, I think, to feel a little bit more optimistic about avoiding Trump 2.0 than there has been in the past.

0:48

Polls have certainly remained more or less even. And as we know from the past, the polls tend to undercount the Trump voters a bit. I believe personally that's a real thing. I think that's because Trump voters tend not to want to talk to pollsters more so than other people, a result of the inevitable paranoia of Trump's whole

VIDEO: The Day Before Election Day

We might avoid Trump 2.0, but even if we do, we must act immediately for real change, or we will face a choice between terrible and nightmarish again and again.

Mitchell Plitnick

Nov 04, 2024

Transcript

Links to articles relevant to this video:

What will a second Trump presidency mean for the Middle East?

By Mitchell Plitnick, Middle East Eye, November 1, 2024

US elections 2024: Bill Clinton’s Gaza comments draw outrage on social media

By Ayah El-Khalidi, Middle East Eye, October 31, 2024

Subscriptions sustain this work, so if you have the means and motivation to become a paid subscriber, it will help me continue to do this work. If that’s beyond your means, that’s ok, just spread the word, that helps just as much!

To become a free or paid subscriber, just click this button.

You can also support this site with a one-time donation, rather than—or in addition to—a subscription, through my CashApp account by clicking this button.

Donate Through CashApp

To share this newsletter with your friends, just click this button.

Share Cutting Through

As always, you can follow me on:
Twitter @MJPlitnick
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MitchellPlitnick
Bluesky @mjplitnick.bsky.social
Threads @mjplitnick
Mastodon @MitchellPlitnick@journa.host
for my latest hot takes, comments, and news updates.