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The NPR Politics Podcast

Pandemic, Economy, Character: Hear How The Candidates Make Their Case

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

Politics, Daily News, News

4.524.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

It has been a long campaign, but the messages have stayed consistent. Hear how the candidates pitch themselves to voters.

This episode: campaign correspondent Scott Detrow, campaign correspondent Asma Khalid, and White House correspondent Tamara Keith.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Greetings. This is Parkie in New York City. I'm starting up my car and heading out to Eastern

0:05.2

Pennsylvania for three days of safe, socially distanced, door to door canvassing. This

0:11.2

podcast was recorded at...

0:13.2

It is 12.56 Eastern on Sunday, November 1st. That's right. It's November the month we vote.

0:19.8

We made it!

0:21.8

Things may have changed by the time you hear it. Enjoy the show.

0:24.8

Hey there. It's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Scott Detro. I cover the presidential campaign.

0:32.3

I'm Usma Khaled. I also cover the presidential campaign.

0:35.1

And I'm Tamra Keith. I cover the White House, which means I cover the presidential campaign.

0:39.6

We're so close everybody. We are so close.

0:42.1

And yet it's going to be a long couple of days, I fear.

0:46.2

I am way too tired for the point at which we are right now.

0:51.6

So close, so far to go. I said it's the month we vote, but of course over 90 million people

0:56.9

have already voted according to the US elections project. Still, the candidates are making

1:01.9

those final pitches. They're spending those final hours of a long campaign in an all-out

1:07.1

push with events across the country.

1:10.1

You are so lucky that we've taken this journey together. We've taken this journey, this

1:16.9

beautiful journey together, and it is. It's been an amazing journey, but we've accomplished

1:21.6

so much.

1:22.6

Three days. We can put it into a presidency that's failed to protect this nation. Three days.

1:31.4

We can put it into a president that's fanned the flames of hate all across this nation.

1:37.2

President Trump holding a lot of rallies over the weekend and tomorrow, stopping in Michigan,

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