2020 Opening Arguments: Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, & Pete Buttigieg

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🗓️ 18 March 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In the first of two episodes The NPR Politics Podcast analyzes exclusive interviews with the 2020 Democratic candidates. Senator Kamala Harris, Senator Cory Booker, and Mayor Pete Buttigieg lay out their vision for the United States. This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, Congressional correspondent Scott Detrow, and political editor Domenico Montanaro. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Nina and I am recording this as I watch the sunrise over the southern
0:05.0	realm of the Grand Canyon. This podcast was recorded at 2.41 pm on Monday the 18th of March.
0:12.9	Please note, things may have changed by the time you hear this. Thanks and enjoy the show.
0:22.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House.
0:26.4	I'm Scott Detreau, I cover Congress and I'm thinking about the fact that for all the camping I've
0:30.2	done, I've actually never been to the Grand Canyon and it's a life goal. I'm Dominican
0:33.5	Manicomod's Narrow Political Editor and apparently you can't go down and back in a day. You have to
0:38.4	camp down there. Yeah. All right, today guys, we are going to do something a little bit different.
0:43.5	Over on Morning Edition, which is a show on the radio, a show that we often appear on. They also
0:49.9	produce a podcast called Up First. Over at Morning Edition, they've been interviewing the 2020
0:55.3	candidates about their opening arguments. They've talked to Kamala Harris,
0:59.2	Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and many more. Today and tomorrow, we are going to do
1:06.4	podcasts where we sort of talk through and listen to parts of those interviews. Today, we're going
1:11.7	to focus on Harris Booker and Pete Buttigieg, who's the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
1:17.6	Dominico, you've been listening to Stephen's Keeps interview with Kamala Harris.
1:22.6	Yeah, I did. A few things stand out on the kind of opening argument she wants to make. She talks
1:29.0	about working families and economics, this lift act that she has where she wants to give a $6,000
1:34.0	tax credit for those making $100,000 a year or less, talks about paid family leave, she talks
1:40.0	about climate change, legalizing marijuana, comprehensive immigration reform. But one thing really stood
1:45.7	out to me in listening to her and that's her focus on social justice. It seems to be the thing
1:50.9	that she gets most fired up about. And she's against the death penalty, she says, because of systemic
1:56.5	racism. And here's some of what she had to say about the death penalty. I am personally opposed
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