The Election Tricycle

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". You can now subscribe to the PREMIUM version of Election Trike on Hubwave: tricycle.hubwave.netHere 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-strategicSubscribe 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 VenkatDividing Lines by Tom HamiltonThe Election Tricycle is a Podot podcast.It's presented by Emily Tamkin, Tom Hamilton and Rohan Venkat.Executive Producer: Nick Hilton.Producer: Lulu Goad.For sales and advertising, email nick@podotpods.comTo watch a video version of the show, go to COOLER.NEWS

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.You can now subscribe to the PREMIUM version of Election Trike on Hubwave: tricycle.hubwave.netHere 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_urlSubscribe 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 VenkatDividing Lines by Tom HamiltonThe Election Tricycle is a Podot podcast.It's presented by Emily Tamkin, Tom Hamilton and Rohan Venkat.Executive Producer: Nick Hilton.Producer: Lulu Goad.For sales and advertising, email nick@podotpods.comTo watch a video version of the show, go to COOLER.NEWS

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.You can now subscribe to the PREMIUM version of Election Trike on Hubwave: tricycle.hubwave.netHere 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-rcna155179Subscribe 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 VenkatDividing Lines by Tom HamiltonThe Election Tricycle is a Podot podcast.It's presented by Emily Tamkin, Tom Hamilton and Rohan Venkat.Executive Producer: Nick Hilton.Producer: Lulu Goad.For sales and advertising, email nick@podotpods.comTo watch a video version of the show, go to COOLER.NEWS

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.You can now subscribe to the PREMIUM version of Election Trike on Hubwave: tricycle.hubwave.netHere 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-placehttps://thecritic.co.uk/author/robert-hutton/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 VenkatDividing Lines by Tom HamiltonThe Election Tricycle is a Podot podcast.It's presented by Emily Tamkin, Tom Hamilton and Rohan Venkat.Executive Producer: Nick Hilton.Producer: Ewan CameronFor sales and advertising, email nick@podotpods.comTo watch a video version of the show, go to COOLER.NEWS

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.You can now subscribe to the PREMIUM version of Election Trike on Hubwave: tricycle.hubwave.netHere are the Trike Recommendations from this episode:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/22/poll-economy-recession-bidenhttps://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-washington-post-2https://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=trueSubscribe 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 VenkatDividing Lines by Tom HamiltonThe Election Tricycle is a Podot podcast.It's presented by Emily Tamkin, Tom Hamilton and Rohan Venkat.Executive Producer: Nick Hilton.Producer: Ewan CameronFor sales and advertising, email nick@podotpods.comTo watch a video version of the show, go to COOLER.NEWS

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.You can now subscribe to the PREMIUM version of Election Trike on Hubwave: tricycle.hubwave.netHere are the Trike Recommendations from this episode: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.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 VenkatDividing Lines by Tom HamiltonThe Election Tricycle is a Podot podcast.It's presented by Emily Tamkin, Tom Hamilton and Rohan Venkat.Executive Producer: Nick Hilton.Producer: Ewan CameronFor sales and advertising, email nick@podotpods.comTo watch a video version of the show, go to COOLER.NEWS

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?You can now subscribe to the PREMIUM version of Election Trike on Hubwave: tricycle.hubwave.netHere 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 VenkatDividing Lines by Tom HamiltonThe Election Tricycle is a Podot podcast.It's presented by Emily Tamkin, Tom Hamilton and Rohan Venkat.Executive Producer: Nick Hilton.Producer: Ewan CameronFor sales and advertising, email nick@podotpods.comTo watch a video version of the show, go to COOLER.NEWS

As voting begins in India, we're looking at the question of whether the favourites, in our three races, are confident or complacent. With all the polls indicated a big win for Labour in the UK and Modi's BJP in India, does complacency sneak in? And with the race between Donald Trump and Joe Biden still on a knife edge, does the dynamic of the election shift compared with the other wheels on our trike? How does the rhetoric from Trump and Biden stir their support bases out of a complacency, and get them fired up to return their man to the Oval Office? And are Narendra Modi's latest campaign comments, which the Opposition attacked for being anti-Muslim hate speech, a sign that the BJP is worried about its supporters not turning out in sufficient numbers? As ever, Tom Hamilton, Rohan Venkat and Emily Tamkin tackle the big issues.You can now subscribe to the PREMIUM version of Election Trike on Hubwave: tricycle.hubwave.netSubscribe 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 VenkatDividing Lines by Tom HamiltonThe Election Tricycle is a Podot podcast.It's presented by Emily Tamkin, Tom Hamilton and Rohan Venkat.Executive Producer: Nick Hilton.Producer: Ewan CameronFor sales and advertising, email nick@podotpods.comTo watch a video version of the show, go to COOLER.NEWS