center, not just the black vote. he was definitely playing to population center. miami dade is another example where you look at the early vote, phillip lavine won in that early vote but gillum overtook aim and overtook graham in the state as well. what s your take? mel, my ep was in my ear. this is that burden of proofy sanders of being to the left of what s seen as a centrist party. i m slow on gillum. so much of his politics is personal. the guns, the stand your ground, the need for pop lichl. he s medicare for all. i don t know what the meat on the bones is on that, yet, though. what do you think it was? was it his posture or do you think it was the populism? i think it was a little bit of everything. populism didn t play well with african-american voters in the 2016 primary and obviously gillum did well there.
previous decades. is itself a step that our economies are getting back to strength. if we can get the rest of the world to use the kinds of reforms that george is talking about, the global economy would be doing better. we have to get to dessert. george osbourne, you re not just chancellor of the ex checker, you are a leading strategy for the conservative party. many see you as being the architect of its victories. what do you make of donald trump? you described his ideas as nonsense at the house of parliament but what do you make of it? why is it catching on? i think in all our political systems there is space for pop lichl and people who come up with easy answers. we ve been through a tough time as a country and so has the united states. we ve been through this very deep recession, the global problems are very complex and
exploit. and so i think he s tapping into something that s not so sort of easily this is on the left or right. it s a more populous view. he said some things that are certainly in politics, i think at the heart of what he s getting at is much more economic than i think is cultural. you talk about populism, that is a theme here, dana. bernie sanders pushing up on hillary s left flank. joe biden whatever he may do, obviously feels that even as the door may be cracked open, he needs to show people he s willing to spend quality time with elizabeth warren. again, pop lichl. take a look at this new sounds of joe biden, he was speaking to the dnc, a phone call about iran policy, then he spoke to the big question. i have to be able to commit to all of you, that i would be able to give it my whole heart and whole soul. right now, both are pretty well
through crises. there s no appetite left for it, especially now that we re getting into an election year. you and i both know there s not going to be a lot of space for trying to fix some of the bigger problems that we re facing. areas that we look into the crystal ball of 2016, can democrats win on the issue of taxes? it s always been an issue republicans have done quite well on. is there a way to tap into that pop lichl which we see throughout the country saying, hey, the its guy shouldn t pay as much, the big guy should pay more. how do they do that message without getting washed out? i think there s room for that. middle class people are paying their fair share in taxes. when you look at some of the tax loopholes that only benefit the wealthiest people or the most connected, nobody supports that. certainly a majority of the country wouldn t. so looking at scaling some of these back, making the tax code more fair for everybody, not just the wealthy and the most connected and big
presidential race. how much will same-sex marriage, private equity, and contraception have to do who is elected in november, or is it all about the economy? i ve got a great panel. the wall street journal s peggy noonan, ross of the new york times , and more. also, moving a capital. to increase your political capital. should russia build a new kremlin 4,000 miles to the east? i ll explain. first, here s my take. there s much speculation these days about the power struggles in china in the wake of the ouster of the powerful party boss. china s political system will surely be tested, but in the short run its leaders may have dodged a bullet. he was a charismatic leader who used pop lichl, money, and power to build a political base. had he not been brought down by a series of mistakes, revelations, and bad luck for him, he might well have altered the nature of the technocratic system that now runs china. in the short run china might well survive its political crisis, but it f