2 Weeks to Go with Dan Balz of The Washington Post
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🗓️ 20 October 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Dan Balz is the Chief Correspondent for The Washington Post and arguably the dean of political reporters in America. He shares his insights on the state of the race and what might happen in a Biden Administration should he win.(VOTE). Or what Trump and the GOP might do if Trump loses. (VOTE). Dan's articles are here:
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to the Bill Press Pod. Well, it seems like it's taken forever, |
| 0:12.4 | and it has, but we're finally heading down the home stretch two weeks to go before November 3rd. |
| 0:18.6 | But one more way in which this election is so different, |
| 0:22.2 | over 27 million Americans have already cast their ballots, and 95% of those who still haven't |
| 0:29.4 | voted say they've already made up their mind and are not about to change. So Donald Trump |
| 0:35.2 | and Joe Biden are both still running around the country, aiming to persuade those few undecided voters, yes, but mainly working to energize their base to get out and vote. |
| 0:46.1 | Even veteran political correspondents say that for many reasons, they've never seen an election like this one before. |
| 0:53.3 | Even veteran political correspondents like Dan Balls, |
| 0:56.9 | chief correspondent for the Washington Post, who's been a political correspondent for the Post since 1978 |
| 1:03.2 | and has written several books on presidential campaigns. |
| 1:07.4 | We caught up with Dan Balls this week to get his take on where things stand on campaign |
| 1:13.1 | 2020 with just two weeks to go. Hello, Dan. Good to talk to you again. It's been a while. |
| 1:19.3 | Hello, Bill. Nice to talk to you. Yes, it has been a while. Yes, so let me ask you, you've covered a lot |
| 1:24.3 | of presidential campaigns. Have you ever covered one anywhere near this one or like this one? |
| 1:30.4 | No, for, you know, a hundred reasons, Bill, but I mean, primarily because of the nature of the stakes in this campaign, A, and B, the degree to which COVID-19 has affected every aspect of the campaign. |
| 1:46.9 | This is certainly the first presidential campaign I've covered from my own house, |
| 1:51.8 | which is a great frustration, frankly, but it is what it is. |
| 1:58.3 | For you, it's kind of the old front porch strategy, I guess. |
| 2:02.1 | Yeah, it's not an ideal way to do it. |
| 2:04.2 | I mean, there's a lot that one can do from, you know, a telephone, |
| 2:09.1 | but there's things you can't do from a telephone, |
| 2:11.7 | and that, you know, that's the one piece of covering this campaign. |
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