NPR Analysis: Biden Has Early Edge On 2020 Political Map
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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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This episode: campaign correspondent Scott Detrow, congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:21.3 | podcast was recorded at... |
| 0:23.6 | It's 206 Eastern on Wednesday June 17th. |
| 0:27.6 | Things may have changed since the recording of this podcast, but all still be |
| 0:32.2 | cooking and all still be doing homework. |
| 0:38.2 | Oh wow, I hope that they are excited about hearing us. |
| 0:41.6 | Not sure. This is not just a chore. |
| 0:43.9 | Only were better than homework. NPR Politics Podcast better than homework. |
| 0:48.6 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Scott Detro, a cover of the |
| 0:52.4 | presidential campaign. I'm Kelsey Snal, I cover Congress. And I'm Dominican |
| 0:55.7 | Montenores Senior Political Editor and Correspondent. So we are going to talk today |
| 0:59.8 | about presidential politics. We have talked a lot lately about the national |
| 1:03.4 | polls and how good they look for Biden, but every time we do that we always |
| 1:07.0 | get a very predictable response. Wait a second, but the electoral map. And it is |
| 1:11.4 | a very good response because that's what matters. And Dominico, you have spent |
| 1:15.9 | the last few days doing a lot of analysis on the electoral map. You've got a |
| 1:20.6 | whole story on the website NPR.org laying out different ways that this election |
| 1:25.4 | could go. We're going to talk about that with the understanding, of course, that |
| 1:28.8 | it's June. And there's a long way to go before the actual election. But as of |
| 1:32.6 | right now, in mid-June, Dominican, your map looks really good for Joe Biden. |
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