President Trump Pushes Unrealistic Vaccine Timeline In Effort To Win Votes

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🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Pressed on whether he was politicizing vaccine development by suggesting that a vaccine could come before election day (very unlikely), President Trump insisted his pitch was that a vaccine would be available by the end of the year, and that he was just saying it may be possible by late October or early November. And, his campaign is struggling with money.

This episode: campaign correspondent Scott Detrow, White House reporter Ayesha Rascoe, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Denise from Laramie, Wyoming, and I'm attending the celebration of Louise
0:05.0	a Swain Day.
0:06.5	Today marks 150 years since the first democratically cast ballot by a woman in the United States.
0:12.1	Louise and Ann swaying cast her ballot right here in Laramie, Wyoming.
0:16.3	This podcast was recorded at...
0:18.3	It's 208 Eastern on Tuesday, September 8th.
0:21.9	Things may have changed by the time you hear this.
0:23.9	Okay, here's the show.
0:25.4	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:29.9	I'm Scott Detro.
0:30.9	I cover the presidential campaign.
0:32.2	I'm Aisha Roscoe.
0:33.2	I cover the White House.
0:34.7	And I'm Mara Liason, National Political Correspondent.
0:37.8	That was a huge anniversary that just happened.
0:39.8	And obviously a lot of news happened at the same time, so we might not have focused
0:43.3	it on it as much.
0:44.3	But what a monumental anniversary and still one of those things that...
0:47.4	It always blows my mind that it was something that happened as recently as 100 years ago.
0:51.4	Yeah, hard to believe.
0:53.6	But a lot of women had the right to vote.
0:56.4	We're enfranchised.
	...

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