Hello from Washington or actually I should say Arlington, I'm Chuck Todd and this is the

Chuck Todd cast. It seems 2020 is essentially canceled in history books for this year.

The economy, culture, sports and politics will all be discussed with an asterisk for that

year. If you're like me and you used to grew up with those all-menek of world facts and

you look up and you'd see those gap years in the 40s, sometimes for championship things

or for whatever awards. That was always due to World War II. Well, welcome to this generation's

gap year at this point, which will be 2020. The Olympics have been postponed a year. The economy

is an uncharted territory, movies, cultural industries, all on hold. And we're all working from home,

myself included, which is why I said hello from Arlington instead of Washington. On the

outside, if you want a video teleconferencing business, a toilet paper production mill,

a distillery that can make hand sanitizer, this has actually been one of your busiest months ever.

My personal favorite these days, so many people are home baking that flower in the east or suddenly

hard to find at some grocery stores. A lot of missing ground beef too. That's been another

difficult thing besides the toilet paper. In short, it seems like everything has canceled,

everything except politics, the general election in 2020. So, I'm going to tackle a couple of your

primary questions later in the show, but first I'm joined by a couple of political strategies,

Brad Todd from on message, Stephanie Cutter, a precision strategies, Todd on the right, Cutter

on the left. They're going to discuss campaigning during a pandemic. And we're doing this via Skype,

so please forgive the occasional background blip. Brad, Stephanie, how you guys holding up?

Well, hello. It's good to talk to somebody above the age six years of hold. Thanks for having me

today. I'm holding up just fine. And Brad, how about you? Well, you know, I've self-quarantine

myself for the longest 96 hours of my life, not because I was exposed, but just because I was trying

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