DNC Night 1: Joe Biden Passes The Torch To Next Generation
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule. |
| 0:08.0 | If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely American, |
| 0:16.0 | I'll take you inside the movement. |
| 0:18.0 | Listen to Extremely American, from Boise State Public Radio, |
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| 0:25.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Susan Davis. |
| 0:32.0 | I cover politics. I'm Tam Rick Keith I cover the White House and I'm Mara |
| 0:35.1 | Liason senior national political correspondent. |
| 0:38.4 | And it's 11 56 p.m. Central time on Monday August 19, and we're here at the United Center in Chicago |
| 0:45.8 | where the first night of the Democratic National Convention concluded a short time ago. |
| 0:50.6 | And Mara, in a lot of ways, the theme of tonight was about passing the torch |
| 0:54.8 | generational change. President Joe Biden was of course the keynote speaker but |
| 0:58.8 | former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton also spoke. |
| 1:02.2 | I wish my mother presidential nominee Hillary Clinton also spoke. |
| 1:02.8 | I wish my mother and Kamala's mother could see us. |
| 1:08.1 | They would say, keep going. |
| 1:10.8 | Surely and Jerry would say keep going. |
| 1:15.0 | I spend the honor of my lifetime to serve as your president. |
| 1:21.0 | I love the job but I love my country more. I love my country more. |
| 1:27.0 | I love my country more. And all those people said I should step down. It's not true. |
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