This is in conversation from Apple News. Today the most pressing

2024 election questions answered. Hi there, I'm Brian Stelter.

For the next month, I'm going to be sitting in for Shumida while she's out on maternity leave.

For years, I was a media reporter at the New York Times, and then the anchor of CNN's reliable

sources.

Now I'm a special correspondent at Vanity Fair.

And my beat has always touched on media, politics, and elections.

So that's going to be my focus for the next few weeks.

For this episode, we are getting answers to some unavoidable questions

about the upcoming presidential election.

This election year feels really unusual for so many reasons.

The two likely nominees are the same two candidates who faced off in the last election.

One of those candidates, former President Donald Trump, is facing 91

criminal charges in four separate cases and both men are the oldest

presumptive nominees this country has ever had. The President Joe Biden, who is a few years

older than Trump, seems to be facing a lot more scrutiny on that front. All of these

variables are leading to some bizarre questions that we don't typically confront in an election here.

For example, can a convicted felon become president of the United States?

Is there a Trump or Biden backup plan in place? And what about the

usual trappings of campaigns? Like debates? Will we even have those? I posed these questions to Susan Glasser, Evan Osnos, and Jane Mayer. All three are staff writers at the New Yorker and co-hosts of the political scene podcast.

The three of you have all the answers though. of the

political scene podcast.

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