Introducing: "The Campaign Moment"
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🗓️ 29 March 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Check out The Campaign Moment, The Washington Post’s weekly politics roundtable to help you keep track of the biggest developments during the 2024 campaign. Senior political reporter Aaron Blake, who writes The Post’s new newsletter by the same name, and investigative political reporter Josh Dawsey join Martine Powers this week. They talk about how election denial is becoming more central to the RNC, what to make of this week’s NBC/Ronna McDaniel drama, the latest on efforts by a group trying to recruit a third-party candidate, the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. factor and why Josh says former president Donald Trump is “running for his freedom.”
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The show was produced and mixed by Ted Muldoon. It was edited by Renita Jablonski.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Aaron Blake. I'm a senior political reporter at the Washington Post. I wanted to let you know about a new weekly politics conversation we've started to track the 2024 campaign. It's called the campaign moment. I'm going to play you the |
| 0:15.7 | episode we just taped this week in a second, but if you like what you hear, go and |
| 0:20.0 | follow the campaign moment wherever you're listening. Here you go. |
| 0:26.0 | So Donald Trump hasn't had a good election in a little while, |
| 0:30.0 | but there is one place where he seemingly can't stop winning, his own golf courses. |
| 0:35.5 | He claimed last weekend that he won not just the senior club championship at his |
| 0:39.3 | West Palm Beach golf course, but also the regular club championship against seemingly much younger |
| 0:44.9 | competitors. Trump has claimed such victories a dozen times, I think now. |
| 0:50.4 | If you could hold an event and declare yourself the winner, what would it be? |
| 0:55.0 | For me it would be the National Spelling Bee. |
| 0:57.0 | I lost the Spelling Bee in 2004, and it's one of the haunting memories of my life, |
| 1:03.0 | failing on the national stage of a national spelling bay. |
| 1:06.0 | So I would declare myself a national spelling way champ. |
| 1:08.0 | And would you hold it in your living room too? |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, I was going to say it's not too late. |
| 1:12.0 | Like you could just throw a spelling bee in which you know all the answers ahead of time. |
| 1:17.0 | And I know that I'd hold it in my living room, but hold it somewhere where everyone would see that I finally won. |
| 1:34.6 | Welcome to the campaign moment. I'm Martine Powers. It's Friday, March 29th. So glad to be here. If you are listening to this, you're probably listening in either one of two ways. You might be hearing this in your post |
| 1:39.0 | reports podcast feed in the usual way where my colleague Alahazadi and I have been ringing you |
| 1:44.4 | these conversations every Friday or you might be listening in our brand new |
| 1:49.2 | separate podcast feed for the campaign moment. Today of course we have senior political |
| 1:56.0 | reporter Aaron Blake author of the campaign moment newsletter Aaron hello |
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