Putting Hillary’s Basket Of Deplorables In Context

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There are no breaks in the big news this election cycle. This week, our elections podcast tries to add some context and clarity to two big and complicated stories that broke over the weekend. First we discuss Hillary Clinton’s description of “half” of Donald Trump supporters as being in a “basket of deplorables.” Then, we talk about the coverage of Clinton’s health. Clinton felt ill at an event on Sunday morning and had to leave it early; later in the day, her campaign released a statement saying she’d been diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday. The incident played into long-running (and unfounded) conspiracy theories about her health, as well as the debate about how much candidates should reveal when it comes to their health. Also this week, we chat with Sasha Issenberg, a contributor to Bloomberg Politics, about a new project to provide real-time results data on Election Day.

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