Biden's Election Headwinds
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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A similar episode regarding the challenges facing former president Trump's re-election bid will be published at a later date.
This episode: political correspondent Ashley Lopez, senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson.
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| 0:20.3 | Hey there it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Ashley Lopez, I cover voting. |
| 0:26.4 | I'm Tammer Keith. I cover the White House. |
| 0:28.7 | And I'm Mara Liason National Political Correspondent. |
| 0:31.6 | And as we all know, President Biden is running for a second term. |
| 0:36.0 | And while he has the advantage of being an incumbent, he also has many challenges to his |
| 0:41.4 | re-election bid. So today as he tries to get reelected. |
| 0:42.8 | So today we're going to look into that and in another episode we're going to look into the |
| 0:46.1 | challenges former president Donald Trump faces as he tries to get reelected. |
| 0:50.8 | Tam, let's start with you. What is Biden's theory of the case for his re-election? |
| 0:55.8 | So I'd say it's three-pronged first finish the job as he said at the State of the Union |
| 1:01.5 | address that includes further at the State of the Union address. |
| 1:02.9 | That includes further trying to bring down the cost of health care, addressing child care affordability |
| 1:09.6 | and availability, college affordability, immigration, and then implementation of things like the |
| 1:15.3 | Inflation Reduction Act, which were passed earlier in his administration, but that haven't |
| 1:20.8 | fully gone into effect yet. |
| 1:22.6 | Then protecting freedoms, most significantly access |
| 1:27.0 | to abortion rights and reproductive freedom, |
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