The Choice: Meacham and Geer on 2024
The Choice, produced by the Dialogue Vanderbilt, is a four-part podcast focused on the key moments and ramifications of the 2024 presidential election between former president Donald J. Trump and current President Joseph R. Biden. Vanderbilt’s Jon Meacham and John Geer will blend history and political science to offer insights and context about this rematch of the 2020 presidential contest. One objective is to offer an evidence-based assessment of the election that rises above the typical kind of comments offered by the overly ideological news media. The second, and related, objective is to show how this electoral battle fits into the long arc of American history.
The Choice: Meacham and Geer on 2024
A call for evidence in the 2024 election
On the second episode of The Choice, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, presidential historian, and Vanderbilt professor Jon Meacham and polling expert, political scientist, and Vanderbilt professor John Geer take stock of the race as the country enters the last five weeks of the campaign, assessing both where the campaign stands and what “October surprises” may lie ahead. They also stressed the importance of taking an evidence-based approach to the election and how stressing of evidence over ideology has been attacked by some as being partisan—am ironic and troubling twist. This is a recent development in American politics and underscores the high stakes of the 2024 election.