The Election Tricycle Podot

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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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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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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To watch a video version of the show, go to COOLER.NEWS

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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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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
For sales and advertising, email nick@podotpods.com
To watch a video version of the show, go to COOLER.NEWS

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The shape of an economy is inevitably a big vote-mover in an election, and 2024 is no different. In India, the stock market has slumped during the election period, while, in the UK, the country's has formally left recession territory. But do these facts impact elections? And how has the economic revival under Joe Biden been perceived by American voters? Are people plugged into the minutiae of economic policy, or are they governed more by "vibes" when they arrive at the ballot box? As ever Tom Hamilton, Emily Tamkin and Rohan Venkat convene to discuss.
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Emily recommends “Angela Alsobrooks won a messy Senate primary. Now she takes on Larry Hogan" by Brakkton Booker, Ally Mutnick and Peder Schaefer in Politico.
Rohan recommends “‘Modi’s emotional interview with Times Now’s Sushant and Navika" on Newslaundry.
Tom recommends "The McSweeney Project: Starmer's campaign director has gone to war on Blairism" by Tom McTague on UnHerd.
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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
For sales and advertising, email nick@podotpods.com
To watch a video version of the show, go to COOLER.NEWS

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Rohan Venkat and Emily Tamkin are joined by Manisha Pande – standing in for Tom – to discuss the relationship between the media and the elections in India, which have begun in earnest. Is mainstream TV news still dominating the political cycle? Or are alternatives emerging, as the population becomes more digitally engaged?
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Here are the Trike Recommendations from this episode:
Emily recommends “The One Thing Trump Knows He Wants in a Running Mate” by Jamelle Bouie in the New York Times.
Rohan recommends “‘No Muslim can win, now or in the future’: In Assam’s Barpeta, delimitation fears confirmed” by Rokibuz Zaman in Scroll.
Manisha’s recommendations can be found here, here, here, and here.
Subscribe below to our contributors' Substacks:
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
For sales and advertising, email nick@podotpods.com
To watch a video version of the show, go to COOLER.NEWS

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On this week's episode of The Election Tricycle, we're looking at the wave of student protests – from New York to LA – which are sweeping America. Is this something that will come into play once election season begins in earnest? Are universities also hubs of revolutionary thought in India? Meanwhile, in the UK, Scotland's First Minister, Humza Yousef, has imploded, sending the country into crisis. What next for Scotland, the SNP and the question of independence?
You can now subscribe to the PREMIUM version of Election Trike on Hubwave: tricycle.hubwave.net
Subscribe below to our contributors' Substacks:
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
And here are the links for the Trike Recommends:
Blair MacDougall on lessons from the SNP's failure
Edward Luce on America's adult problem
NewsLaundry on India's TV election
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
For sales and advertising, email nick@podotpods.com
To watch a video version of the show, go to COOLER.NEWS

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