A pandemic playbook for political campaigns

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🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Michael Scherer describes how candidates have rewritten their campaigns during the pandemic. Jessica Contrera asks how we weigh risk against necessity, longing and fear. And Emily Heil on the anxiety-filled hellscape that is the grocery store.

Political candidates – and not just the presidential ones – are reinventing how they campaign in the age of the pandemic.

As the country moves to reopen, Americans weigh risk against necessity, longing and fear.

Grocery shopping used to be a mundane errand. Now, we’re all feeling the stress.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post,
0:05.0	it's Robert Samuels from the Washington Post.
0:08.0	Post is Sarah Kaplan.
0:10.0	Hi, this is Elaheizari with the Washington Post.
0:13.0	This is Post Reports.
0:15.0	I'm Martin Powers.
0:18.0	It's Wednesday, May 6.
0:21.0	Today, rewriting the campaign playbook,
0:26.0	How Americans Are Wain Risks,
0:28.0	and the anxiety-fueled healthscape that is the grocery store.
0:36.0	In a typical election year, candidates from dog catcher
0:39.0	all the way up to presidential nominee
0:41.0	would be spending their days meeting people right now.
0:44.0	They'd be raising money from donors in living rooms
0:47.0	around the country.
0:49.0	They would be going to rallies and events.
0:51.0	Their staffs would be out on the street registering voters
0:54.0	at farmers markets and things like that.
0:56.0	And right now, because of this virus, none of that is happening.
1:00.0	My name is Michael Sheer.
1:02.0	I'm a National Political Reporter for the Washington Post.
1:08.0	And so now that people are basically not allowed to come
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