Democrats Think Prioritizing Health Care Will Give Them Wins In 2020
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Plus, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds that two-thirds of Americans do not expect their daily lives to return to normal for at least six months.
This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, congressional correspondent Susan Davis, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Rabia and I'm an expat living in London. |
| 0:02.9 | I just wrote my bike 10 miles to a park in West London to meet someone I've been talking |
| 0:07.4 | to for a month online. |
| 0:09.2 | It's our first social distancing date in my first one ever. |
| 0:12.8 | This podcast was recorded at 2.12 pm on Wednesday, the 20th of May. |
| 0:17.7 | Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but hopefully one of those is that I have |
| 0:21.0 | a second date. |
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| 0:26.2 | Love in the time of COVID. |
| 0:28.7 | Things people do for love. |
| 0:30.4 | Fingers crossed. |
| 0:31.4 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:34.2 | I'm Tamara Keith, I cover the White House. |
| 0:36.1 | I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress. |
| 0:38.0 | And I'm Dominica Montenar, Senior Political Editor and Correspondent. |
| 0:41.2 | And we are going to talk about Sue's reporting on the Democratic Party, deciding to put |
| 0:46.0 | healthcare at the heart of their 2020 pitch. |
| 0:49.2 | But first, Dominico, you've got a new poll out today from NPR Marist and the PBS News |
| 0:55.2 | Hour that shows us where the public is on the biggest health issue of all right now, |
| 1:01.9 | which is the coronavirus. |
| 1:03.5 | Yeah, and people are pretty pessimistic about when they think life will return to normal. |
| 1:07.8 | I mean, you have two thirds of American 65% saying they don't expect that their daily |
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