Campaigns Grapple With New Coronavirus Spikes

The Bret Baier Podcast

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News, Politics, News Commentary

3.6 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This week, Bret sits down with senior Washington correspondent for POLITICO and co-author of POLITICO’s Playbook Anna Palmer, co-founder and president of RealClearPolitics Tom Bevan and FOX News Politics Editor Chris Stirewalt to discuss President Trump’s campaign strategy amid new coronavirus spikes. The panel discusses how President Trump's recent July 4th event is seen as divisive, how suburban voters are thinking prior to November and Joe Biden's campaign potential appeal to both the middle and the left. Follow Bret on Twitter: @BretBaier Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.3	From Fox News, it's the campaign with Brett Baer.
0:38.8	The July 4th weekend brought with more coronavirus spikes across the country, states like
0:44.5	Texas, California, Arizona, and Florida experiencing record rise in cases and also an influx
0:50.4	in hospitalizations due to the virus, and that's reignited concerns about hospital capacity
0:55.9	in some of those states. On Saturday, President Trump addressed the concerns about COVID-19 at his
1:01.2	salute to America Independence Day event, where he highlighted the country's progress in terms of
1:06.2	testing, amassing ventilators, and even mentioned that he believes the United States will have a vaccine or therapeutic by the end of this year.
1:14.8	Following this outdoor event, President Trump is set to hold an outdoor campaign rally in New Hampshire next week.
1:21.6	Meanwhile, last week, former Vice President Joe Biden held a news conference in public for the first time in many months.
1:27.4	As it appears in private, his campaign is narrowing down his running mate choices.
1:32.4	Our socially distant panel is anxiously awaiting to discuss.
1:35.3	But first, Fox News correspondent Peter Ducey gives us an update from the campaign trail.
1:40.1	President Trump is trying to define Joe Biden for people who might not have been paying attention to him since he left the Obama White House or in the primaries as a radical leftist.
1:49.3	But the Biden campaign argues in a new memo, it's not working.
1:52.9	Quote, the reality, while Donald Trump is desperately trying to paint Biden as out of the mainstream,
1:58.6	Trump's record of shoveling taxpayer money to big corporations, cutting taxes for the wealthy,
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