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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Episodes
Who's Showing Leadership in the Pandemic?
April 02, 2020 20:45 - 26 minutesAs 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
Elizabeth Warren Out: Revisiting "Electability"
March 05, 2020 21:02 - 30 minutesIn 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
Fifth & Mission: What Did We Learn?
March 04, 2020 11:00 - 20 minutesSuper 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
Fifth & Mission: Super Tuesday Troubles
March 03, 2020 09:00 - 31 minutesIt'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
Can Bernie Sanders win?
February 25, 2020 09:00 - 42 minutesAddisu 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
What Nevada Voters Are Saying
February 21, 2020 09:00 - 17 minutesJoe 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
What's a Never-Trumper To Do?
February 20, 2020 09:00 - 39 minutesTop 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
Dan Pfeiffer: Who Can Beat Trump?
February 17, 2020 09:00 - 49 minutesThe 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
California Lt. Governor Endorses Buttigieg
February 13, 2020 08:59 - 16 minutesIn 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
Democrats Explain How They Will Win California
February 13, 2020 06:00 - 1 hourThe 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
Fifth & Mission Live: Primaries 2020
February 06, 2020 07:11 - 1 hourIn 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
Can Trump Win Again In Battleground States?
February 04, 2020 09:00 - 27 minutesJustin 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
The Most Political Super Bowl Ever
January 29, 2020 17:27 - 21 minutesHoward 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
Bill Weld: The GOP Alternative to Trump
January 21, 2020 20:29 - 22 minutesThe 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
Mike Bloomberg on Apologies, Facebook and Biden
January 18, 2020 00:04 - 8 minutesAt 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
Orange County: Still a Political Hotbed
January 17, 2020 09:00 - 22 minutesDemocrats 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
Diving Into the Mind of Jerry Brown
January 13, 2020 09:00 - 30 minutesJerry 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
Can Barbara Lee Stop the War in Iran?
January 09, 2020 09:00 - 35 minutesThe 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
Could This Democrat Win Texas?
December 30, 2019 09:00 - 33 minutesCristina 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
How Trump’s Inner Circle Profited From the Housing Crisis
December 23, 2019 09:00 - 26 minutesAward-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
Debate Recap: In Vino (Cave) Veritas?
December 20, 2019 20:27 - 19 minutesChronicle editorial page editor John Diaz joins senior political writer Joe Garofoli to talk about Thursday's Democratic debate. It was a big night for Amy Klobuchar, a gaffe-free night for Joe Biden, and a tough night for wine caves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How Latinos Will Decide the Presidency
December 18, 2019 09:00 - 26 minutesJacqueline Martinez Garcel, CEO of the Latino Community Foundation, talks about the nearly all-white Democratic debate; Latinos and the presidential race; her concerns about the 2020 census; and why Bernie Sanders is so popular among Latinos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tom Steyer: I'm ‘Completely Different’ Than Mike Bloomberg
December 13, 2019 09:00 - 32 minutesThe former hedge fund manager and billionaire who’s running for president talks about why he’s running instead of spending his money elsewhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Impeachment Veteran
December 09, 2019 09:00 - 15 minutesCongresswoman Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, is the only lawmaker who’s played a role in all three modern impeachments. Now, Lofgren is center stage again as the House Judiciary Committee hurtles toward a vote on Trump’s fate. She talks about what she learned from the Nixon and Clinton inquiries, and why Trump’s case is unlike any other. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Can Orange County Remain Blue?
December 02, 2019 09:00 - 23 minutesJason Berlin spent two decades working on reality TV shows. Now he's become a force in registering voters through his Field Team 6 organization. He talks about how Democrats can hold four House seats they flipped in Orange County. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How Old is Too Old to Be President?
November 27, 2019 09:00 - 25 minutesLouise Aronson, a geriatrician at UCSF and author of the new book “Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life,” talks about whether the top three Democratic candidates and President Trump — all of whom are in their 70s — are too old to be president. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Scandalous Stanford
November 21, 2019 09:00 - 35 minutesJust in time for the Big Game, Oakland author and journalist Roland De Wolk, author of “American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford,” talks about the robber baron’s dark side. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Trump, Impeachment and the California GOP
November 14, 2019 00:54 - 41 minutesJessica Patterson is in her first year as chair of the California Republican Party. There’s no place to go but up for the state’s GOP, and Patterson explains what she’s done so far to try to revive its fortunes — and how President Trump's unpopularity in California affects that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What’s Next for Indivisible?
November 12, 2019 09:00 - 30 minutesEzra Levin and Leah Greenberg, the co-executive directors of Indivisible, the nationwide grassroots organization that led the anti-Trump resistance shortly after he was elected, talk about their new book, “We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Could Voter Suppression Wreck the 2020 Election?
November 07, 2019 09:00 - 25 minutesRobert Greenwald, the longtime liberal filmmaker, talks about his latest film: “Suppressed: The Fight to Vote.” It’s about voter suppression in Georgia in 2018, and how it could happen again there and elsewhere in 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“How the Rich Dodge Taxes”
November 05, 2019 22:46 - 27 minutesEmmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman are the UC Berkeley economists behind Bernie Sanders' and Elizabeth Warren’s tax-the-rich tax plans and the authors of the new book “The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay.” Joe talks to Saez in his campus office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How Close Are Joe Biden and Barack Obama — Really?
October 24, 2019 08:00 - 29 minutesSteven Levingston, author of the new book “Barack and Joe,” joins Joe Garofoli to talk about how close the former president and vice president really are. Can Biden count on his former boss to endorse him? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tom McClintock: Impeachment Is a Terrible Idea
October 22, 2019 08:00 - 33 minutesOne of California’s few Republican congressmen talks about why he thinks impeaching Trump is a bad idea, plus why he thinks thinks concerns about climate change are overblown and what he thinks is wrong with the California GOP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bernie or Warren: Who Should Progressives Pick?
October 17, 2019 17:26 - 23 minutesMaurice Mitchell, national director of the Working Families Party, talks about why the organization endorsed Elizabeth Warren. And he explains why his party sees a lot of Americans not being served by the “corporatist” Democratic Party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A Master Class in Shade: Dem Debate Review
October 16, 2019 20:24 - 29 minutesChronicle Washington correspondent Tal Kopan and Deputy Opinion Editor Caille Millner join Joe to break down the fourth Democratic primary debate. Who gave that master class? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ro Khanna on Impeachment and Bernie Sanders
October 02, 2019 21:37 - 28 minutesSilicon Valley Rep. Ro Khanna breaks down the latest on the battle to investigate President Trump from his perch on the House Oversight Committee. He also talks about how the recent health problems of Sen. Bernie Sanders — Khanna is a campaign co-chair — will reshape the presidential race. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How Trump's Impeachment Could Help ... Julian Castro?
September 27, 2019 21:15 - 27 minutesCastro sees a glimmer of hope in the impeachment inquiry for low-polling candidates like himself. If voters start to see Trump as a wounded candidate, then ex-Vice President Joe Biden’s “electability” argument becomes weaker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fifth & Mission: Pelosi Pulls the Impeachment Trigger
September 25, 2019 00:57 - 19 minutesOn The Chronicle's flagship news podcast, Joe Garofoli and John Diaz join Demian Bulwa to talk about Speaker Nancy Pelosi's announcement that the House of Representatives will open an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Will her strategy of waiting pay off? Subscribe to Fifth & Mission wherever you get It's All Political. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tommy Vietor: The Ball Has Moved on Impeachment
September 24, 2019 08:00 - 39 minutesThe Pod Save America co-host — and President Obama’s former national security spokesman — talks about Trump and Ukraine, impeachment, Iran on the brink, and whether Joe Biden has lost a step. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Is Getting Picked on Good for Joe Biden?
September 13, 2019 21:39 - 39 minutesWill fellow Democrats' attacks on Biden make him tougher if he has to face President Trump, or will they cripple his candidacy? Joe breaks down the third Democratic debate with The Chronicle’s Caille Millner, Tal Kopan and John Wildermuth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Gig Worker War: Live Event
September 12, 2019 21:01 - 1 hourWith California’s landmark AB5 bill pending about who should be classified as an employee, Joe moderates a conversation at an event hosted by TheBridge between labor leader Jim Araby and Postmates VP Vikrum Aiyer about how labor and tech will interact in the new economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The California GOP’s Great Hope
September 05, 2019 08:00 - 26 minutesKevin Faulconer is the pro-choice, pro-same sex marriage, climate-change acknowledging, Spanish-speaking mayor of San Diego who didn’t vote for President Trump. He explains the way forward for the moribund California Republican Party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Michael Bennet: The Backup Joe Biden?
September 04, 2019 16:33 - 25 minutesCould the Colorado senator be the moderate Democrats turn to if front-runner Joe Biden falters? He's spent the campaign dishing tough love to progressives about Medicare for All, the Green New Deal and the $15 minimum wage. Does he have a shot? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kirsten Gillibrand on Gender Equality, Al Franken and Redemption
August 27, 2019 17:00 - 30 minutesThe presidential candidate talks about electability, her drive to get on the debate stage, and what she would do differently in the Franken case. Plus: Can Joe bait her into swearing on the campaign trail? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Democrats’ Health Care Plans in Plain English
August 21, 2019 08:00 - 31 minutesCandidates have debated their plans but many Americans have no idea what they're talking about. Larry Levitt, a health policy expert from the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, explains — and says what they’re omitting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"The Democratic Party Is Like Eeyore”
August 19, 2019 08:00 - 41 minutesEmily’s List president Stephanie Schriock tells Democrats to “stop wringing your hands” and worrying about losing to President Trump. She also has concerns about how female presidential candidates are being covered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Marianne Williamson Comes Down to Earth
August 15, 2019 21:25 - 33 minutesHer reputation is as the woo-woo candidate who talks about "dark psychic forces." But she connects to voters by addressing the nation's "low-level emotional civil war." She talks about that, her views on vaccinations and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“Electability” Is A Myth
August 14, 2019 05:00 - 30 minutesBrenda Choresi Carter of the Reflective Democracy Campaign talks 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
Terry McAuliffe Takes on White Supremacy
August 09, 2019 08:00 - 26 minutesThe former governor of Virginia and DNC chair sits down with Editorial Page Editor John Diaz to discuss his new book, "Beyond Charlottesville: Taking a Stand Against White Nationalism," and President Trump's response. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Big Finish for the California Legislature
August 08, 2019 08:00 - 28 minutesSacramento reporters Dustin Gardiner and Alexei Koseff join Joe Garofoli to talk about the last month of Gov. Gavin Newsom first "semester," with the Legislature considering bills on guns, rents, charter schools and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices