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“Is hating the troops good for Trump?”

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News, Politics

4.587.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Joe Biden maintains a steady lead as the campaign enters the homestretch, Trump spends five days defending himself against disgraceful comments about U.S. service members, and the August jobs report shows slowing job growth and more permanent job loss. Then Fair Fight CEO Lauren Groh-Wargo talks to Jon Favreau about winning Georgia and fighting voter suppression.

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0:00.0

This is a life-changing election. This will determine what America is going to look like for a long, long time.

0:10.0

This is the most important election in the history of our country.

0:20.0

Welcome to Pots of America. I'm John Favreau. I'm John Loveett. I'm Tommy Vittor.

0:24.0

On today's pod, I talk to Fairfights CEO Lauren Groorgo about winning Georgia and fighting voter suppression.

0:30.0

Before that, we'll talk about the state of the race as we begin the final home stretch, new reporting about Donald Trump's disdain for the US military, and how the economy might play a pivotal role in the last few months of this campaign.

0:41.0

Love it. How was the show this week?

0:42.0

Great love to leave it. Travis tried to break up. Ronin and me again didn't work so far. A Kila joined for the monologue. I talked to Amani Barberin about access to voting for people with disabilities and the language we use when we talk about Trump and Button.

0:58.0

Outstanding.

0:59.0

It was fascinating.

1:00.0

There's also a brand new Missing America out today about sectarianism with a focus on how India's Prime Minister used Hindu nationalism to wage an assault against the country's Muslim population.

1:09.0

It is excellent. Go check it out. Subscribe to Missing America if you haven't already, wherever you get your podcasts.

1:15.0

Alright guys, let's get to the news. We are 56 days away from the election.

1:20.0

And voting has already begun. North Carolina started sending out ballots on Friday by September 24th.

1:27.0

In just a few weeks, more than two dozen states will have also sent out ballots and eight states will have started early in person voting.

1:34.0

According to 538, Joe Biden has a 7.6% lead over Donald Trump. And more importantly is pulling close to 50% in the six battlegrounds most likely to decide the race.

1:45.0

Biden's at 50.8 in Wisconsin 49.6 in Michigan 49.2 in Pennsylvania 48.9 in Arizona 48.2 in Florida 48.6 in North Carolina.

1:55.0

Biden, Kamala Harris and Mike Pence were all visiting battleground states on Monday for the unofficial Labor Day kickoff to the fall campaign.

2:02.0

While Trump called the last minute White House press conference to deliver this message.

2:07.0

President Obama and Biden, sleepy Joe, he knew everything that was happening.

2:12.0

They were spying on my campaign and they got caught. Now let's see what happens.

2:16.0

But if this were the opposite way, people would have been jailed. They would have been in jail already. For a period of at least it would have started two years ago.

2:24.0

And it would have been for 50 years for treason.

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