It’s All Political
250 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 94 ratingsIt’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.
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The Most Powerful Part of Joe Biden's Speech was the Silence
January 21, 2021 01:15 - 22 minutesJoseph R. Biden, Jr., was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, speaking to a bitterly divided country and calling for Americans to come together. George Mason University political scientist Jennifer Victor, who attended the inauguration, joins Joe Garofoli to break down key points of President Biden's speech. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Can Joe Biden Make "Normal" Work Again?
January 20, 2021 09:00 - 17 minutesAfter four years of Trump chaos, the new president promises to bring normalcy back to the White House. Presidential scholar and author Elaine Kamarck talks about what "normal" means and what it should look like. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
House Impeaches Trump Again
January 14, 2021 09:00 - 17 minutesWhat’s next after the House makes the president the first ever to be impeached twice? In this joint episode of It's All Political and Fifth & Mission, Heather Knight and Joe Garofoli talk about what it will mean for California Republicans who backed him. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Pelosi and the House Move to Impeach
January 12, 2021 09:00 - 19 minutesDemocrats are moving swiftly to try to remove President Trump from office, or at least make him ineligible to run again in 2024. Introducing an article of impeachment, they accuse Trump of “inciting violence against the government” for his role in the Capitol attack. The clock is ticking, and the pressure is on Republicans, say Washington correspondent Tal Kopan and Joe Garofoli in this joint episode of It's All Political and Fifth & Mission. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod ...
Should the President be Removed?
January 08, 2021 09:00 - 25 minutesOn a joint episode of Fifth & Mission and It’s all Political, Joe Garofoli and Demian Bulwa talk about attempts to remove President Trump after he incited Wednesday’s violence. Plus: Reporter Chase DiFeliciantonio talks about why Facebook, Twitter and others are finally cracking down on Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why Georgia's Senate Races Matter to California
January 05, 2021 09:00 - 19 minutesThe results in Tuesday's runoffs — Perdue vs. Ossoff and Loeffler vs. Warnock — will have major ramifications for the power of Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and new Sen. Alex Padilla. It's All Political host Joe Garofoli joins Fifth & Mission host Heather Knight in this joint episode. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone...
Best of IAP: The Real Nancy Pelosi
December 30, 2020 09:00 - 41 minutesJournalist Molly Ball, author of the biography "Pelosi," explains what shaped the first female Speaker of the House, how she's dealt with sexism throughout her career and how she's been able to keep Democrats in line. This episode was first published June 9, 2020. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Now What? Life After @realDonaldTrump
December 23, 2020 20:41 - 34 minutesSteve Kettmann, editor of a new book of essays called "Now What: The Voters Have Spoken. Essays on Life After Trump," talks about how — and whether — the United States can heal after the last four years. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
New Senator Alex Padilla
December 22, 2020 18:36 - 34 minutesGov. Gavin Newsom has named California's secretary of state to replace Kamala Harris in the Senate. In this episode published Oct. 3, 2020, Padilla talks to Joe Garofoli about the work he was doing to protect the right to vote leading up to the 2020 election. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Alicia Garza says Gov. Newsom should appoint a Black Woman to the Senate
December 11, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutesAlicia Garza, the co-creator of Black Lives Matter, talks about diversity in the Biden Administration, the defund the police movement and how to build Black political power. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ro Khanna on What Progressives Want From a Biden Administration
December 08, 2020 22:10 - 25 minutesSilicon Valley Rep. Ro Khanna on what he thinks of Biden’s Cabinet picks, how social media companies should be regulated and what Speaker Nancy Pelosi will do next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fifth & Mission: Becerra's Departure is Newsom's Opportunity
December 08, 2020 09:00 - 17 minutesOn the Chronicle’s flagship Fifth & Mission podcast, It's All Political host Joe Garofoli joins Demian Bulwa to discuss President-Elect Joe Biden's pick Health and Human Services secretary — California’s Attorney General Xavier Becerra. That means the stakes are high for Gov. Gavin Newsom, who soon may need to appoint successors for both Becerra and Sen. Kamala Harris. Guest Joe Garofoli breaks down Biden's move and who's now jockeying to replace Becerra. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchron...
Who Will Replace Kamala Harris in the Senate?
December 01, 2020 18:23 - 24 minutesWill Gov. Gavin Newsom make history by appointing California's first Latinx senator? Or will he pick a woman of color? Sacramento bureau reporter Alexei Koseff joins host Joe Garofoli to break down the candidates. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod More on Kamala Harris: Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris? sfchronicle.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best of IAP: Kamala Harris
November 25, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutesThe Vice President-elect joined Joe Garofoli and Tal Kopan in April, just as speculation began to build that Joe Biden would ask her to be his running mate. She talked about that, the coronavirus epidemic, cooking and more. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod 6-part miniseries reported by Joe and Tal: Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris? sfchronicle.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's Over: Biden Wins — What's Next?
November 07, 2020 19:26 - 21 minutesIn a combined episode of the Fifth & Mission and It’s All Political podcasts, Joe Garofoli, Tal Kopan and Demian Bulwa talk about the moment that put the Biden-Harris ticket over the top, the historic nature of their victory, and what to expect now from Donald Trump. | Latest news: sfchronicle.com/politics Podcast: Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris? sfchronicle.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Election Night Wrap: What We Know
November 04, 2020 08:43 - 27 minutesIn a combined episode of the Fifth & Mission and It’s All Political podcasts, Joe Garofoli, Heather Knight, Alexei Koseff and Demian Bulwa sum up a tense, inconclusive presidential election day, plus state and local races. | Latest election news: sfchronicle.com/politics New podcast! Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris? sfchronicle.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Lincoln Project: Trump's 24/7 Nightmare
October 23, 2020 08:00 - 35 minutesProminent GOP strategists Steve Schmidt and Mike Madrid have seen the party's sad demise in California. Now they are determined to defeat President Trump and his Senate enablers to save the party they once served and, more important, the American democracy they cherish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What Was Prop 13 Creator Howard Jarvis Really Like?
October 14, 2020 08:00 - 38 minutesJason Cohn, director of the new Jarvis documentary, “The First Angry Man,” traces his path from anti-Communist gadfly to movement leader and what Prop 13’s legacy is today. | Get unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod New Podcast! Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris? Click here to listen and subscribe: sfchronicle.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“Mr. Vice President, I’m speaking”
October 08, 2020 05:49 - 21 minutesJoe Garofoli is joined by Heather Knight, John Diaz and John Wildermuth to break down the historic Harris-Pence vice presidential debate, where Sen. Kamala Harris called the Trump administration's coronavirus response "the greatest failure of any presidential administration in the history of our country" — and a fly on VP Mike Pence's head became a social media star. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod New Podcast! Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris? Click here to listen and subs...
Cyberattacks! Pandemic! Misinformation! Calming Voter Anxiety
October 02, 2020 08:00 - 34 minutesAs voters receive their mail-in ballots, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla talks about the safeguards in place to protect voters against all the challenges of voting in 2020, both here and nationally. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Trump Biden Debate 1: What the Hell Was That?
September 30, 2020 03:43 - 20 minutesChronicle editorial board editor John Diaz and — GENTLEMEN, PLEASE! — political writer John Wildermuth join — EXCUSE ME! — host Joe Garofoli to analyze the first presidential — PLEASE LET HIM FINISH! — debate. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Adam Schiff: What a Post-Trump World Looks Like
September 24, 2020 10:00 - 34 minutesThe House Intelligence Committee chair talks about reforms that would prevent many things that Donald Trump has done as president and explains how the Russians are planning to disrupt the 2020 election. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod See also: Adam Schiff On What Happens Next to President Trump (March 22, 2019) "Liddle" Adam Schiff standing tall against Trump (Feb. 21, 2018) Congressman Adam Schiff (May 25, 2017) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Stars and Strife": Can America Overcome Hate?
September 17, 2020 08:00 - 36 minutesA new documentary says America’s "epidemic of hate" is preventing leaders from finding compromise and solving problems. Filmmaker David Smick and Black Lives Matter leader Hawk Newsome join Joe Garofoli to talk about the movie and the issues it raises. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bob Woodward's Trump Book Won't Change the Race
September 11, 2020 18:24 - 28 minutesChronicle editorial page editor John Diaz joins Joe Garofoli to talk about the revelations in "Fear," why climate change isn't an issue in the campaign despite California's wildfires, and how the endorsement process has changed during the Zoom era. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A'shanti Gholar: Trump Is "Dog-Hollering" on Race
September 02, 2020 08:00 - 39 minutesForget "dog-whistling," says the president of Emerge — which recruits and trains Democratic women to run for office. She joins Joe Garofoli to say President Trump has gone way beyond that as he inflames the racial divide in America. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fifth & Mission: Terror at the RNC!
August 26, 2020 08:00 - 20 minutesOn the Chronicle's flagship Fifth & Mission podcast, It's All Political host Joe Garofoli joins Heather Knight to talk about the GOP's strategy at the Republican National Convention: Scare the base with a bleak picture of America, and win President Trump a few voters of color. Plus: What happened to Kimberly Guilfoyle? | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Weirdest Democratic National Convention Ever: A Preview
August 17, 2020 08:00 - 18 minutesJoe Biden is facing an enthusiasm gap. How will Dems rally excitement for him with a virtual convention? Can it be done with no roaring crowd? No balloon drop? Political writers John Wildermuth and Tal Kopan join Joe Garofoli to explain what challenges Democrats are up against. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Katie Hill: Sex Scandal Won't Stop My Comeback
August 13, 2020 08:00 - 29 minutesThe former California congresswoman was a rising Democratic star — a future Speaker, some mused — until a conservative website published nude photos of her. She joins Joe Garofoli to talk about her rise, fall and future, the double standards and exploitation of "revenge porn," and her new book, “She Will Rise.” | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fifth & Mission: Why Kamala Harris is Joe Biden’s Pick
August 11, 2020 23:12 - 21 minutesOn The Chronicle's flagship news podcast, Washington reporter Tal Kopan and It's All Political host Joe Garofoli break down why Biden wants the former San Francisco DA and California attorney general as his running mate and how her past will factor into the campaign. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Can Joe Biden’s shift on immigration excite Latino voters?
August 06, 2020 10:30 - 30 minutesMany Latino voters still associate Joe Biden with former President Barack Obama, known to some progressive critics as “the deporter in chief.” Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Fund, discusses Biden's changes in approach to immigration in 2020. | Get unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Black Lives Matter's Alicia Garza on the future — and Joe Biden
July 31, 2020 08:00 - 27 minutesAlicia Garza, the co-creator of Black Lives Matter, talks about the next steps for the movement, what Joe Biden should do to get young Black people to vote, and the difference between allies and co-conspirators. | Get unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Stacey Abrams: VP Search, Voter Suppression and Black Lives Matter
July 23, 2020 22:19 - 38 minutesStacey Abrams talks about what it was like being mentioned as a possible Biden running mate, her concerns about voter suppression and the census, and what should be done with Confederate monuments and tributes to John Muir. | Get unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Listen to Abrams' previous IAP appearances: 2018 | 2017 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Women, Declare Your Independence From Men!
July 16, 2020 10:30 - 35 minutesJennifer Palmieri, a former adviser to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, talks about her new book, “She Proclaims” — which explains how women should stop trying to fit into a man’s world and create their own. Plus, insights on Joe Biden’s campaign. | Get unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Potential Biden VP Pick Karen Bass
July 10, 2020 10:30 - 28 minutesThe Southern California congresswoman, who is on the shortlist to be Joe Biden's running mate, talks about her leadership of police reform efforts in Congress as chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and her role on the Biden-Bernie Sanders unity committee. | Get unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What Joe Biden Has to Do to Win Young Voters
July 08, 2020 22:04 - 31 minutesNextGen America is spending $45 million on one of the largest youth voter turnout campaigns in history — and it has a big challenge because many young voters aren’t excited about Joe Biden. NextGen leader Ben Wessel explains how Biden can appeal to the younger generation. | Get unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How to Defund the Police
July 02, 2020 10:30 - 37 minutesAlex Vitale, author of “The End of Policing,” has been a leader in the police reform movement for years. He tells Joe Garofoli, "The police are violence workers who have been told to wage these wars on poor people" and talks about what works, what doesn’t and how long true reform will take. | Get full Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Eric Swalwell’s Insider View of Impeachment
June 12, 2020 23:54 - 31 minutesRep. Eric Swalwell talks with Chronicle editorial page editor John Diaz about his new book, “Endgame: Inside the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump,” which gives a backstage look at the historic moment. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Molly Ball on the Real Nancy Pelosi
June 09, 2020 08:00 - 41 minutesThe journalist and author of the new biography "Pelosi" explains what shaped the first female Speaker of the House, how she's dealt with sexism throughout her career and how she's been able to keep Democrats in line. | Get full Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How Silicon Valley Will Look Different After the Pandemic
June 08, 2020 08:00 - 37 minutesCarl Guardino, president and CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, talks about how America's tech capital will transform now that many companies have told their workers they can work from home in the coronavirus crisis. | Full Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Barbara Lee Wants a Racial Healing and Truth Commission
June 04, 2020 15:11 - 24 minutesThe Oakland congresswoman talks to Joe Garofoli and Tal Kopan about how white people can be better allies, plus who she thinks Joe Biden's pick for vice president should be. | Live protest updates | Full Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Digital Divide Is Getting Worse
May 22, 2020 08:00 - 25 minutesFCC 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
Michael Franti: Positivity in Politics and Life
May 18, 2020 08:00 - 37 minutesThe 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
Shahid Buttar Is Challenging Nancy Pelosi From Her Left
May 14, 2020 08:00 - 33 minutesWhile 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
Pramila Jayapal on PPP, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden
May 12, 2020 08:00 - 40 minutesThe 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
Election Day Nightmare? Dirty Tricks, Suppression, No concessions
May 07, 2020 18:08 - 34 minutesUC 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
From the Tea Party to "Open the States"
April 30, 2020 08:00 - 30 minutesMark 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
Will a Presidential Transition Work?
April 29, 2020 19:13 - 23 minutesThe 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
Kamala Harris "Would Be Honored" to Be VP
April 17, 2020 21:55 - 37 minutesCalifornia 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
Katie Porter: We Need Real Time Stimulus Oversight
April 16, 2020 23:02 - 34 minutesOrange 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
Will Coronavirus Boost Support for Medicare for All?
April 13, 2020 20:53 - 21 minutesMedicare 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