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Heath Brown, author of Roadblocked: Joe Biden's Rocky Transition to the Presidency and Associate Professor CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Heath discuss the increasing political significance and attention paid to presidential transitions, why the transition from Trump to Biden went poorly, how outside interests groups influence incoming administrations, the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, and whether Biden should have aimed for a "transformational" presidency in the first place?
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0:00 - Introduction
1:28 - Biden administration
5:20 - Biden transition
11:56 - 2000’s vs 2020’s transition
18:02 - Contested elections
24:52 - Vulnerabilities
29:09 - Biden to Trump transition
32:47 - Assessing Biden presidency
44:43 - Coalitions
53:28 - Project 2025