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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Biden visits key battleground states after addressing the nation

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

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3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

President Biden leaves the D.C. beltway to take the state of the union message to voters in some key battleground states. Will he get cheers or jeers from the American people? Plus, more than 12,000 people have now been killed in the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Also, a passenger’s battery caught on fire mid-flight, forcing a plane to land and sending four people to the hospital.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The 2024 road show has begun, the lead starts right now.

0:07.4

President Biden leaving the beltway, taking the state of the union message to voters

0:11.5

in some key battleground states, will he get cheers or jeers from the American people?

0:17.2

Then, more than 12,000 people now have been killed.

0:20.9

The death toll from the earthquake in Turkey and Syria continuing to rise to staggering

0:24.8

heights as hope fades for finding any survivors left in the rubble.

0:30.4

And a passenger's battery catching on fire mid-flight, forcing a plane to make an emergency

0:37.1

landing and sending four people to the hospital, what you need to know about flying with potentially

0:42.9

dangerous electronic devices.

0:49.5

Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper, and we start today with our politics lead, the scene

0:52.9

after the state of the union address looks a whole lot like the campaign trail.

0:58.0

Right now, President Biden is in the crucial swing state of Wisconsin, where he's talking

1:01.6

jobs, the economy, echoing a lot of the same messages and themes from last night by

1:06.1

President Kamala Harris is in Georgia, another key battleground state, which you might

1:09.9

recall the Biden-Harris ticket only won by 11,779 votes.

1:15.1

Tomorrow, Biden will head to Florida, while Harris visits Minnesota and their cabinet

1:19.0

secretaries are also fanning out across the country.

1:21.9

But yes, this is part of the blitz.

1:24.1

We've all come to expect after a president state of the union address, but you can also

1:27.4

not ignore the White House's choices on where they are sending the president and vice president.

1:32.8

Meanwhile, Donald Trump is releasing his own response to Biden speech, Mike Pence is

1:37.0

reiterating his calls for new Republican leadership, and Nikki Haley, as teasing her expected

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