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🗓️ 13 April 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | Shalom, everyone. I'm CNN senior writer and analyst Harry Enton, filling in for David Chalian. This is the Daily DC. |
0:13.8 | Americans are dealing with massive changes to their daily lives because of the coronavirus, |
0:18.9 | and as we saw last week in Wisconsin, democracy is no |
0:22.4 | exception. The 2020 election is still seven months away, but experts cannot be sure that the virus |
0:28.6 | won't impact how Americans cast their votes. Do you think it will be safe in November for voters |
0:35.1 | to physically go to vote at the poll? |
0:38.3 | I hope so, Jake. |
0:40.3 | I can't guarantee it. |
0:42.3 | I believe that if we have a good, measured way |
0:47.3 | of rolling into this steps towards normality, |
0:51.3 | that we hope by the time we get to November, that we'll be able to do it in a way, |
0:56.5 | which is the standard way. However, and I don't want to be the pessimistic person, there is |
1:02.3 | always a possibility as that as we get into next fall and the beginning of early winter, that we |
1:09.5 | could see a rebound. And hopefully, hopefully what we've gone through now and the beginning of early winter, that we could see a rebound. |
1:16.9 | And hopefully, hopefully what we've gone through now and the capability that we have for much, much better testing capability, much much best serosurveillance capability, and the ability |
1:22.7 | to respond with countermeasures, with drugs that work, that it will be an entirely different ballgame. |
1:28.9 | There's just so much at stake in this election and no blueprint for how this will all work. |
1:33.2 | So joining me by phone to help us understand all of this is CNN political reporter Dan Merricka, |
1:39.5 | who has been covering this story. Shalom, Dan, thanks for joining me. |
1:43.5 | Shalom. How's it going? Oh, you know, |
1:45.5 | it is what it is. Something big happened today, right? So I want to start with that. Michelle Obama and a |
1:51.7 | nonpartisan voting organization, she leads, are throwing their support behind legislation, |
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