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It’s All Political

San Francisco Chronicle senior political writer Joe Garofolicms.megaphone.fm
It’s All Political is now a part of the Fifth & Mission podcast. You can hear It's All Political on Fifth & Mission by subscribing to Fifth & Mission, the San Francisco Chronicle's flagship daily newscast. Joe Garofoli is the Chronicle’s senior political writer, covering national and state politics. He has worked at the Chronicle since 2000 and in Bay Area journalism since 1992, when he left the Milwaukee Journal. He has previously written about the intersection of tech and politics and about the politics of the cannabis industry.

Episodes

The Digital Divide Is Getting Worse

FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel talks about how the coronavirus is widening the gap between information haves and have-nots, hurting people like high school junior Jessica Ramos, who shares her experience. | Get full Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 22, 202026 min

Michael Franti: Positivity in Politics and Life

The Bay Area native’s new album, “Work Hard and Be Nice,” is less concerned with social consciousness than his previous work. But it’s a reflection of his belief in staying positive through political campaigns and pandemics. | Get full Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 18, 202038 min

Shahid Buttar Is Challenging Nancy Pelosi From Her Left

While the speaker is known as the epitome of a San Francisco liberal and an antidote to President Trump, Shahid Buttar, her challenger for reelection, says she hasn't done enough for working people and thinks she has enabled Trump. | Get full Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 14, 202033 min

Pramila Jayapal on PPP, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden

The co-chair of the House Progressive Caucus talks to Joe Garofoli about her new Paycheck Guarantee Act to get money directly to the unemployed. She also explains how she thinks Bernie Sanders will help get more progressives excited about the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. | Get full Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 12, 202040 min

Election Day Nightmare? Dirty Tricks, Suppression, No concessions

UC Irvine professor Richard Hasen — one of the nation’s leading election experts and the author of "Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy" — warns about all of the threats to a free and fair election in November. And the coronavirus pandemic will only make things worse. | Get full Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 07, 202034 min

From the Tea Party to "Open the States"

Mark Meckler, an early leader of the Tea Party movement a decade ago, is now at the forefront of the drive to convince states to reopen for business during the coronavirus pandemic. He tells Joe Garofoli how the two movements are similar — and different. | Get full Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 30, 202031 min

Will a Presidential Transition Work?

The teams are forming now and David Marchick, director of the Center for Presidential Transition and host of the Transition Lab podcast, explains how this will be the most important transition since 1932, during the Great Depression. The bad news: We’re not prepared to deal with it yet. | Get full Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 29, 202024 min

Kamala Harris "Would Be Honored" to Be VP

California Sen. Kamala Harris reveals what she'd say if Joe Biden asked her to be his running mate. In an interview with Joe Garofoli and Tal Kopan, she says she's "very concerned" about being able to do oversight on the $2 trillion that Washington is spending on coronavirus pandemic relief —and what she's doing about it. | Get unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 17, 202037 min

Katie Porter: We Need Real Time Stimulus Oversight

Orange County Democratic Rep. Katie Porter has become a rising star, largely for her oversight role. That is needed now with Washington spending $2 trillion to fight fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. Plus: Her disagreement with Nancy Pelosi about remote voting for Congress. | Get full Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 16, 202035 min

Will Coronavirus Boost Support for Medicare for All?

Medicare for All didn’t die when Sen. Bernie Sanders suspended his presidential campaign. Its advocates predict support will grow because of a force more powerful and unpredictable than politics — COVID-19. Michael Lighty, a top Sanders advisor on health care, explains. | Get unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 13, 202022 min

Who's Showing Leadership in the Pandemic?

As the coronavirus crisis grows, Chronicle editorial page editor John Diaz joins Joe to talk about the leadership performances of Donald Trump, Gavin Newsom, London Breed, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 02, 202026 min

Elizabeth Warren Out: Revisiting "Electability"

In this episode from Aug. 14, 2019, Brenda Choresi Carter of the Reflective Democracy Campaign tells Joe Garofoli about her research, which shows that claims of candidate electability are more damaging than they are realistic, especially for women of color. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 05, 202030 min

Fifth & Mission: What Did We Learn?

Super Tuesday is over and we're down to a two-man race. It's All Political host Joe Garofoli and John Wildermuth join Audrey Cooper on the Chronicle's flagship podcast to break down the results. | Get unlimited Chronicle access. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 04, 202021 min

Fifth & Mission: Super Tuesday Troubles

It's All Political host Joe Garofoli joins Audrey Cooper and John Wildermuth on the Chronicle's flagship news podcast to break down what's likely to happen as Californians head to the polls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 03, 202031 min

Can Bernie Sanders win?

Addisu Demissie, the Oaklander who managed Cory Booker’s presidential campaign and Gavin Newsom’s gubernatorial run, stops by to untangle the Nevada caucuses and look ahead to the California primary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 25, 202042 min

What Nevada Voters Are Saying

Joe Garofoli spent several days in Las Vegas ahead of the Nevada caucuses. He talked to organizers and voters about what they're thinking. Somehow, soccer, crying and Harry Potter are involved. | Get unlimited Chronicle access. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 21, 202017 min

What's a Never-Trumper To Do?

Top GOP consultants and longtime friends Rob Stutzman and Mike Madrid disagree on how to oppose Trump. Oppose any Republican who supports the president, or vote against Trump, but for the party? | Get unlimited Chronicle access. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 20, 202040 min

Dan Pfeiffer: Who Can Beat Trump?

The Obama White House director of communications, now a co-star of Pod Save America and author of the new book “UnTrumping America,” talks about which Democrat would be Trump’s best and worst opponent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 17, 202050 min

California Lt. Governor Endorses Buttigieg

In an exclusive, Eleni Kounalakis tells Joe Garofoli why she's backing Mayor Pete and what it will take to win the California primary. | Get unlimited Chronicle access. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 13, 202016 min

Democrats Explain How They Will Win California

The California state directors of four top Democratic presidential campaigns explain how they will win in California. Recorded live at a panel discussion Joe Garofoli hosted at the Sacramento Press Club. | Get unlimited Chronicle access. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 13, 20201 hr 4 min

Fifth & Mission Live: Primaries 2020

In this episode of the Chronicle's flagship news podcast, Fifth & Mission, Editor in Chief Audrey Cooper, politics writer Joe Garofoli and columnists Heather Knight and Phil Matier talk about Iowa, the upcoming primaries, and local politics at a Chronicle Talks event at Manny's in San Francisco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 06, 20201 hr 2 min

Can Trump Win Again In Battleground States?

Justin Myers, CEO of For the Future, a progressive, labor-funded super PAC that’s planning to spend $80 million in seven battleground states, talks about lessons from 2016, how impeachment will affect the race and what Midwestern voters really care about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 04, 202027 min

The Most Political Super Bowl Ever

Howard Bryant of ESPN and NPR, author of “Full Dissidence,” talks about how the NFL is duplicitous around police misconduct protests, and the impact of its embrace of the military and law enforcement. | Get unlimited Chronicle access. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 29, 202021 min

Bill Weld: The GOP Alternative to Trump

The former Massachusetts governor tells Joe Garofoli he thinks the president should be impeached and will likely vote for a Democrat if he doesn’t win the nomination. Yet he still thinks he has a path to victory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 21, 202023 min

Mike Bloomberg on Apologies, Facebook and Biden

At a campaign stop in Oakland, the former New York City mayor talks to Joe Garofoli about stop-and-frisk, how Facebook should be regulated and why he is a better candidate than Joe Biden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 18, 20208 min

Orange County: Still a Political Hotbed

Democrats shocked the world in 2018 when they flipped four seats in the GOP stronghold as they retook Congress. Can they hold those seats? The chair of the OC Democratic Party, Ada Briceño, tells Joe Garofoli how they'll try. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 17, 202023 min

Diving Into the Mind of Jerry Brown

Jerry Brown is a California original, and the KQED's The Political Mind of Jerry Brown captures the state’s only four-term governor in all his glory — and in some of his defeats. KQED’s Scott Shafer and Guy Marzorati join Joe Garofoli to talk about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 13, 202031 min

Can Barbara Lee Stop the War in Iran?

The Oakland congresswoman talks about what Congress can do to prevent President Trump from going to war with Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 09, 202035 min

Could This Democrat Win Texas?

Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez is running for John Cornyn’s Senate seat in Texas. Beto O’Rourke didn’t want to do it. Julian Castro didn’t want to do it. Why does Ramirez stand a better chance? And could any Democrat win statewide in Texas? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 30, 201934 min

How Trump’s Inner Circle Profited From the Housing Crisis

Award-winning journalist Aaron Glantz talks about his new book, “Housewreckers,” which explains how Wall Street titans, including President Trump’s treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, profited off those who lost their homes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 23, 201927 min