The Election Tricycle Podot

On this week's episode of The Election Tricycle we're talking to Art Goldhammer to talk about what's going on in France's parliamentary elections. Was Macron "totally insane" to call this surprise election? Who, on both the Left and the Right, is a danger to the President? How has the far-Right – particularly the National Rally – evolved over time? And how is Emmanuel Macron personally rated amongst the French public?
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Here are the Trike Recommendations from this episode:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/24/five-hours-a-day-on-facebook-how-voters-are-keeping-up-with-the-electionhttps://www.thedial.world/issue-17/giorgia-meloni-lawsuits-italy-arthttps://www.statnews.com/2024/06/24/texas-abortion-law-jama-pediatrics-study-increased-infant-deaths/https://time.com/6991254/macron-bardella-le-pen-far-right-left-election/ https://scroll.in/article/1069251/excluded-by-the-bjp-shunned-by-the-opposition-indian-muslims-and-the-crisis-of-non-belonginghttps://newrepublic.com/article/182556/macron-france-election-far-right
And here's Art's blog: https://tocqueville21.com/Blog/art-goldhammer/
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ET Write Home by Emily Tamkin (via Emily's Substack you can also listen to the PREMIUM version of the show)India Inside Out by Rohan VenkatDividing Lines by Tom Hamilton
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Executive Producer: Nick Hilton.
Producer: Lulu Goad.
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Rohan takes us to the Lok Sabha – the lower house of the Indian parliament – to look at how the fallout from the general election is impacting the vote there. A new Speaker will be elected at the end of June, but will the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) secure the post? In London, Tom talks us through the impact that Nigel Farage and his Reform party is having in reshaping the landscape of the British Right, while, in the US, Emily looks at how – and why – the Right gets away with characterising its politics as "common sense".
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Here are the Trike Recommendations from this episode:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4zgLkchB1Uhw1qrXnKwKJthttps://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/labour-winning-coalition-political-sandcastle-ukip-keir-starmer-mlkq8zdbphttps://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-heavy-courts-biden-title-ix-rulehttps://x.com/sharanidli/status/1801035539434332538https://www.newslaundry.com/2024/06/11/bjp-tally-didnt-dip-only-due-to-minorities-but-blaming-them-is-both-easy-and-strategic
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ET Write Home by Emily Tamkin (via Emily's Substack you can also listen to the PREMIUM version of the show)India Inside Out by Rohan VenkatDividing Lines by Tom Hamilton
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It's presented by Emily Tamkin, Tom Hamilton and Rohan Venkat.
Executive Producer: Nick Hilton.
Producer: Lulu Goad.
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The Trike makes a brief detour this week, over to mainland Europe where EU elections have rocked the continent. A strong showing from the far and hard right has led President Macron to call a snap election in France. So what's really going on in Europe? To discuss this, the podcast is joined by Zselyke Csaky from the Centre for European Reform, who guides Emily Tamkin, Tom Hamilton and Rohan Venkat through the currents of a continent. Oh, and there's also some discussion of Rishi Sunak bailing on D-Day commemorations.
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Here are the Trike Recommendations from this episode:

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/06/20/a-life-of-contradictions-b-r-ambedkar/?utm_source=Twitterhttps://pfdatablog.com/blog/how-does-the-public-feel-about-a-tory-wipe-outhttps://x.com/GeorginaEWright/status/1800080371939442986https://www.cer.eu/insights/what-will-eu-election-results-mean-europehttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/11/europe-eu-election-vladimir-putin-china?CMP=share_btn_url
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ET Write Home by Emily Tamkin (via Emily's Substack you can also listen to the PREMIUM version of the show)India Inside Out by Rohan VenkatDividing Lines by Tom Hamilton
The Election Tricycle is a Podot podcast.
It's presented by Emily Tamkin, Tom Hamilton and Rohan Venkat.
Executive Producer: Nick Hilton.
Producer: Lulu Goad.
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To watch a video version of the show, go to COOLER.NEWS

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A week is a long time in politics, or so they say. And this has been one looooong week. But at the end of it, The Tricyclists are united by a sense of welcome surprise, with Narendra Modi and the BJP humbled in the Indian elections, with their majority slashed and coalition required. Meanwhile in New York a court has found former President, and current candidate, Donald Trump guilty on 34 counts during his so-called "hush money" trial. And in the UK, the election campaign has begun in earnest, with Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak clashing in the first televised debate, and Nigel Farage making a surprise return in Clacton. As ever, Emily Tamkin, Tom Hamilton and Rohan Venkat put their ludicrously capacious minds together to confer on these issues.
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Here are the Trike Recommendations from this episode:

https://scroll.in/article/1067962/constitution-cows-ration-why-dalits-in-up-want-to-vote-out-the-bjphttps://scroll.in/article/1068384/modi-pulled-bahujan-voters-to-the-bjp-many-are-now-drifting-awayhttps://www.businesstoday.in/india/story/god-has-sent-me-convinced-that-my-energy-is-not-biological-prime-minister-narendra-modi-430606-2024-05-23https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/31/rishi-sunak-comeback-general-election-uk-conservatives/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/claudia-sheinbaum-mexico-president-jewish-first-woman-rcna155179
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ET Write Home by Emily Tamkin (via Emily's Substack you can also listen to the PREMIUM version of the show)India Inside Out by Rohan VenkatDividing Lines by Tom Hamilton
The Election Tricycle is a Podot podcast.
It's presented by Emily Tamkin, Tom Hamilton and Rohan Venkat.
Executive Producer: Nick Hilton.
Producer: Lulu Goad.
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To watch a video version of the show, go to COOLER.NEWS

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Shortly after we recorded last week, on a drizzly Wednesday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that the long-awaited UK General Election would take place in July. So, this week Emily Tamkin is quizzing Tom Hamilton – a former strategist for the Labour party, who are heading for a huge victory – about what's going on over in the UK, and whether the electoral calculus is really as simple as it looks.
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Here are the Trike Recommendations from this episode:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/in-the-bronx-donald-trump-goes-to-his-hateful-happy-place
https://thecritic.co.uk/author/robert-hutton/
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ET Write Home by Emily Tamkin (via Emily's Substack you can also listen to the PREMIUM version of the show)
India Inside Out by Rohan Venkat
Dividing Lines by Tom Hamilton
The Election Tricycle is a Podot podcast.
It's presented by Emily Tamkin, Tom Hamilton and Rohan Venkat.
Executive Producer: Nick Hilton.
Producer: Ewan Cameron
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With Rohan away and Tom – *cough* – busy (until the Premium section), Emily is joined by Karishma Mehrotra, south Asia correspondent for the Washington Post. They'll be discussing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pitch to women voters, demographic difference between Indian and American electorates, and the way that Indian-American voters lean in the US.
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Here are the Trike Recommendations from this episode:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/22/poll-economy-recession-biden
https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-washington-post-2
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/us-presidential-elections-2020-donald-trump-joe-biden-kamala-harris-6617252/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/15/india-advertising-amul-girl/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-29/election-2020-indian-americans-favor-democrats-but-trump-is-making-inroads?embedded-checkout=true
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ET Write Home by Emily Tamkin (via Emily's Substack you can also listen to the PREMIUM version of the show)
India Inside Out by Rohan Venkat
Dividing Lines by Tom Hamilton
The Election Tricycle is a Podot podcast.
It's presented by Emily Tamkin, Tom Hamilton and Rohan Venkat.
Executive Producer: Nick Hilton.
Producer: Ewan Cameron
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