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The Playbook Podcast

October 14, 2020

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Daily News, Politics, Government

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Takeaways from Day Two of the Barrett confirmation hearing, the latest on Covid relief prospects and more in today’s Audio Briefing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Stay tuned for a message from Facebook after the show.

0:05.5

Good Wednesday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing.

0:09.7

And I'm Jake Sherman with 20 days until Election Day. It seems like someone may be reading polls.

0:14.1

Quote of the day from President Donald Trump Tuesday night in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

0:18.0

So can I ask you to do me a favor, suburban women? Will you please like me?

0:22.0

Please, please. I saved your damn neighborhood, okay? Meredith McGrath was with Trump in Johnstown,

0:27.2

and she said the president is pinning his hopes on what she called a hectic comeback tour.

0:31.9

On Capitol Hill, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee grilled Amy Coney Barrett yesterday in her

0:37.3

hearing to become a justice of the Supreme Court.

0:40.5

Barrett also insisted it's not her mission to destroy the Affordable Care Act and forcefully pushed back if she would recuse herself from election issues before the court,

0:50.9

saying she hoped the committee would have more confidence in her integrity.

0:55.8

Here's how it played in the New York Times A1 column.

0:58.8

Barrett declines to say she'll sit out if election is thrown to the court.

1:03.5

And in the Washington Post, the headline reads,

1:06.0

Barrett pledges to be a political justice.

1:08.6

And in New York Post, held hostage, Dems lecture Barrett in bizarre

1:13.5

hearing. And we've got a new Politico morning consult poll. Amy Coney Barrett is getting more

1:19.7

popular. Forty-eight percent of registered voters believe she should be confirmed. Democrats who

1:24.9

think she should be confirmed have jumped 13 points.

1:29.0

64% of those polled say Anthony Fauci has been excellent or good in his handling of the coronavirus.

1:35.5

39% said the same of Trump.

1:38.8

Speaker Nancy Pelosi had a heated conversation with Wolf Blitzer last night on CNN about her COVID relief efforts.

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