Reading the Presidential Travel Tea Leaves

The Daily DC

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🗓️ 15 July 2020

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As a new poll shows Joe Biden with a big lead in the crucial state of Pennsylvania, President Trump has been traveling to states he easily won in 2016. CNN Political Director David Chalian explains the reason behind the president’s campaign stops and breaks down the president’s niece making the press rounds to discuss her tell all book. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Donald Trump heads to Georgia today, clear demonstration that his map to 270 is shrinking.
0:07.9	Plus, Peter Navarro, the trade advisor in the White House, taking on Anthony Fauci front and center.
0:16.8	And Mary Trump speaking out against her uncle with her new bestselling book.
0:23.3	Hi, everyone. I'm David Chalien, the CNN political director.
0:26.4	This is the Daily D.C.
0:29.8	Donald Trump, three and a half months before the presidential election, is heading to Georgia of all places.
0:35.8	Now, as you know, presidential travel doesn't happen by accident.
0:40.1	It's very deliberate.
0:41.9	Look at where Donald Trump has been of late.
0:45.7	Arizona, Florida, now Georgia.
0:50.0	This is a clear indication that the Trump campaign is taking its most valuable resource,
0:57.1	the President of the United States, and putting him in states that they had hoped would be
1:01.6	off the map by now, or at least trending in his direction.
1:06.2	They wanted to park him in places like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, the three states
1:12.5	in the Upper Midwest that helped deliver him to the Oval Office in 2016.
1:17.8	But those states are looking more and more out of reach for the president, which means his
1:21.6	path to re-election is becoming more and more narrow.
1:26.6	In fact, today, we learn from Mammoth University in Pennsylvania.
1:30.1	Joe Biden has a 13-point lead over the president,
1:34.0	53% to 40% among registered voters there in Pennsylvania.
1:39.6	53% for the challenger, well over a majority.
1:45.3	Hillary Clinton was never operating in that kind of universe, even as Pennsylvania
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