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🗓️ 2 October 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The news that President Trump tested positive for Coronavirus has thrown the campaign—and the country—into a new realm of uncertainty. Axe, Gibbs, and Murphy convene for a special edition of Hacks on Tap to discuss this breaking news and what it means for the presidential race.

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0:00.0	Hey, pull up a chair. It's Hacks on Tap with David Axelrod and Mike Murphy.
0:23.8	Welcome, Hacker Rooz. This is a special extra edition. We're recording this on Friday, midday,
0:31.1	after we all got the late news that the president of the United States and the First Lady have
0:35.3	been tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. Boys, what does it mean for the campaign? I'm here
0:41.0	with... First of all, can I just say, can this get any freaking stranger? This whole thing is,
0:47.6	you could not Murphy gift it a screenwriter as you are. You could not have written this script
0:57.0	the way this thing is unfolding. It's incredible. No one would buy it because it wouldn't be nearly
1:02.1	plausible. Right. I mean, if you would pitch this as a movie 10 years ago, people would throw you out
1:06.4	of the business. You know, I mean, I've already got the next thing planned. Godzilla is going to come
1:12.2	into town with 500 aliens writing on them. People are going to be like, yeah, sure, that's another
1:18.8	crazy day. Yeah. And Trump will say, I warned you about those aliens. Yeah, exactly. So, but
1:25.2	they... Listen, we all... I mean, I went to bed thinking, boy, it's odd that the White House has not...
1:33.6	You know, they have quick tests over there that they've not released the results of this test.
1:39.8	And I woke up in the middle of the night thinking, I better check my phone because I have a bad
1:45.9	feeling about this. And sure enough, he tested positive. And obviously, the big question for the
1:55.6	hacks is, what does it mean? I mean, let us first certify that we are thoughts are with the
2:04.2	president and the first lady. Hope they make a speedy recovery. But, you know, this is another
2:12.2	seismic event in a campaign that's been filled with them. Yeah, we have a traditional October,
2:18.4	earthquake surprise, about every 100 hours on this campaign. Yeah, I know that's why we...
2:23.9	Hacks on tapers now are now hacks on call. That's what we're going to call us for the rest of the race.
2:29.7	We're ready to speculate because we all are proud graduates of the Hacks School of Medicine.
2:35.2	So we're high-exactly. To make speculative insights here. So we'll start. Go ahead.
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