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The Daily DC

Checking on the 2020 Race from the "Virtual Trail"

The Daily DC

CNN

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4.4621 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The Trump and Biden campaigns are facing a new reality: the 2020 election is all about coronavirus. How will President Trump try to contrast himself with Biden? How will Biden handle picking a running mate amid the cloud of a sexual assault allegation? CNN political Director David Chalian is joined by CNN Washington Correspondent Ryan Nobles, who covers the Trump campaign, and CNN National Political Reporter Eric Bradner, who covers Biden to break down the latest from the race.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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I never even thought of changing the date of the election.

0:32.8

Why would I do that?

0:33.6

November 3rd, it's a good number.

0:36.3

No, I look forward to that election. And that was just

0:39.5

made up proper. It's an election year that promises to be unlike any other. Coronavirus

0:48.5

raised this question about conventional campaign strategy, typical talking points, even how and when Americans will go to the polls.

0:56.4

Hello, I'm David Chalien, the CNN political director.

0:59.3

This is the Daily D.C.

1:01.2

The country continues to struggle with the coronavirus.

1:05.2

It is the story, as it should be, in the media spotlight, a global pandemic and economic calamity that follows

1:12.9

along with it, obviously those two things have upended the presidential election.

1:18.5

But that doesn't mean that both Donald Trump and the presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden

1:22.7

and their teams are not actually moving forward with the campaign.

1:27.9

So we wanted to take a moment and check in on the status of this campaign in these uncharted

1:33.5

waters with me to discuss all of that.

1:36.8

We've got Washington correspondent Ryan Nobles, who's covering the Trump campaign,

1:40.3

and national political reporter Eric Bradner, who's covering the Biden camp.

1:45.7

Thanks to you both for being here.

1:46.9

Really appreciate it.

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