Looks Like The Sun Belt Is Back On The Menu
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Those shifting coalitions point to improved chances for Democrats in the more diverse Sun Belt swing states of Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina and Nevada — and put the original battleground map back into place.
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| 1:15.5 | states that seem to be slipping for Biden now appear to be in reach for |
| 1:19.5 | Vice President Harris. Stephen you've been looking at some of this, you're in one of those states. |
| 1:25.0 | What's changed? |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah, so what's old is new again. |
| 1:28.0 | It's deja vu all over again, and we are talking about the seven swing states that President Biden narrowly won or lost in |
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