Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on the political fallout of the Trump verdict
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🗓️ 3 June 2024
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| 0:00.0 | For analysis of the political fallout to the Trump verdict and more, we're joined by our politics Monday duo. |
| 0:07.0 | That's Tam Rakeeth of NPR and Amy Walter of the Cook political report with Amy Walter. |
| 0:12.0 | Great to see you both as always. |
| 0:13.3 | So we've just seen the Republican strategy |
| 0:15.4 | for dealing with Donald Trump's guilty conviction. |
| 0:18.3 | Discredit the process, discredit the outcome. |
| 0:20.9 | But, Tam, there seems to be something |
| 0:22.2 | of a tactical disagreement among |
| 0:23.6 | Democrats over just how much to lean in and how much to use this as a political |
| 0:27.8 | cudgel. Take us inside the thinking among the party. |
| 0:31.2 | So I have spoken to people on the Biden campaign |
| 0:34.7 | and they are in the camp of, |
| 0:37.1 | don't lean in too far. |
| 0:39.1 | As in this is not their whole campaign. |
| 0:41.8 | Donald Trump convicted felon is not going to solve all of their problems. |
| 0:45.0 | They still need to run a campaign. |
| 0:48.0 | And the way they see it is this is one of the proof points in the case that they intend to make |
| 0:55.5 | why Biden should be elected and Trump should should not be elected but they don't see |
| 1:00.8 | it as the key to their case. |
| 1:02.9 | And I think, you know, based on very early polling |
| 1:06.2 | and everything else, there's a reason it shouldn't |
| 1:08.4 | be the key to their case. |
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