Joe Biden, Retail Politician, Tries His Hand At Virtual Campaigning

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Joe Biden has held a number of web-based campaign events and fundraisers now that the coronavirus outbreak has grounded his campaign. Early efforts were plagued with problems, though there are signs things are improving.

And congressional candidates are also facing challenges, even with the most essential of campaign tasks — like getting enough signatures to appear on the ballot.

This episode: political correspondent Scott Detrow, campaign correspondent Asma Khalid, and demographics and culture reporter Juana Summers.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Peter from San Lorenzo, California.
0:04.8	I'm currently waiting to go into work for the first time in nearly two weeks.
0:09.2	The preschool I work for shut down normal operations, but quickly opened up again to care
0:13.5	for the children of our brave first responders.
0:16.6	And that's who I'm going to get to hang out with today.
0:19.2	This podcast was recorded at...
0:21.2	It is 220 Eastern on Thursday, March 26th.
0:24.9	Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but our first responders will still need
0:28.8	our support.
0:29.8	So take care of each other and stay healthy.
0:31.8	Sure, that's really helpful to people in a very scary and serious situation right now
0:39.0	that they appreciate.
0:40.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:42.6	I'm Scott Detro, I cover politics.
0:44.4	I'm Asma Khaled, I'm covering the presidential campaign.
0:47.1	I'm one of the summers, I also cover the campaign.
0:49.5	So last night, the Senate voted unanimously to pass that $2 trillion emergency relief bill.
0:55.6	The House will likely vote on that tomorrow.
0:59.0	President Trump is now hinting in a letter to governors that the White House will soon
1:02.2	provide new guidelines to states to help them decide whether they want to relax or increase
1:07.5	rules about social distancing.
1:09.6	We have been covering all of these developments in our last few podcasts.
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