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The NPR Politics Podcast

Talking To The Wisconsinites Who Haven't Made Up Their Minds

The NPR Politics Podcast

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Politics, Daily News, News

4.524.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The state is vital in both candidates' path clearing the 270 electoral vote threshold necessary to win the presidency. Wisconsin went once for Donald Trump and once for Joe Biden. How are voters in the state feeling this year?

This episode: national political correspondent Sarah McCammon, national political correspondent Don Gonyea, and political reporter Elena Moore.

This podcast was produced by Jeongyoon Han, Casey Morell and Kelli Wessinger. Our editor is Eric McDaniel. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi.

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This podcast was recorded at 12.36 PM Eastern Time on Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024.

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but I will officially be a college graduate.

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Oh, congratulations. Big deal. It's exciting. Hey there it's the NPR Politics

0:57.8

podcast I'm Sarah McCammon I cover the presidential campaign I'm Elena Moore I

1:02.0

also cover the presidential campaign and I'm Elena Moore. I also cover the presidential

1:03.5

campaign and I'm Don Gagnay National Political Correspondent. Today the state of

1:09.0

Wisconsin. Elena you have brought back some reporting from that state so we'll start there.

1:14.1

Why Wisconsin and how did you decide where in Wisconsin you wanted to go?

1:18.1

I mean why Wisconsin because as we've talked about it's one of just a handful of states that we will be

1:23.7

obsessed with for the next several months until the election. It's a key swing

1:28.0

state and within the swing state there are very swingy counties. There are these things called

1:34.7

Boomerang counties which are not unique to Wisconsin. There's like a handful of

1:39.1

them in crucial states probably more like 20 or so in the country. These are places,

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