Biden in Normandy, Political Messaging in Congress, Final Primaries of 2024

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🗓️ 5 June 2024

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President Biden speaks to Americans from Normandy, France, marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Lawmakers introduce bills whose only aim is to send a political message. Voters in four states and the District of Columbia cast ballots in the last primary elections of 2024.

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0:00.0	President Biden has landed in France.
0:05.0	He is there to commemorate a different landing.
0:07.0	The Allied invasion of Normandy, better known as D-Day.
0:10.0	Its 80th anniversary comes as a modern day land war is happening in Ukraine.
0:14.5	How will Biden mark the moment?
0:16.2	I'm Michelle Martin, that's A Martinez, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:19.6	We already know who the presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees for president
0:26.0	will be, but the primary season isn't over yet.
0:28.7	Voters in four states and the nation's capital cast their ballots for nominees yesterday.
0:33.4	What did we find out that we didn't already know?
0:35.5	And sometimes the point of introducing a bill in Congress
0:38.6	isn't to get it passed.
0:40.0	It's called messaging and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are doing a lot of that right now.
0:44.8	So what messages are they sending?
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