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PBS News Hour - Segments

Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on the political fallout of the Trump verdict

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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NPR's Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Geoff Bennett to discuss the latest political news, including the political fallout of the Trump verdict, how the Biden campaign is reacting to the conviction and why Senate Democrats are faring better than the president in polls. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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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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