The Campaign Moment: A presidential debate redo
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 6 September 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
“Post Reports” co-host Martine Powers and senior political reporter Aaron Blake talk with White House reporter and Kamala Harris expert Cleve Wootson about what Harris and Donald Trump need to do at next week’s debate. They also dig into Harris’s record fundraising numbers and how Harris hopes to help down ballot Democrats in key House and Senate races.
Today’s show was produced and mixed by Ted Muldoon. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and Mary Jo Murphy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, |
| 0:03.2 | Hi Cleve. |
| 0:04.0 | Hi. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey Martin. |
| 0:06.0 | So as you both know, we have a presidential debate coming up next week, and I have a |
| 0:11.7 | confession, which is that I love hearing about debate prep |
| 0:16.2 | like I love hearing what the prep is like how the candidates are prepping who is playing the opposition in the prep. |
| 0:24.2 | And I also wonder how into it they get. |
| 0:26.9 | You know, like, is there a wig? |
| 0:28.6 | Is there a suit? |
| 0:29.8 | Are they using the voice? |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah, do they, do they adjust the height? |
| 0:33.0 | It's, I feel like it's like, campaigns take two weeks in the summer to just go to theater camp. |
| 0:38.0 | And just like, pretend in the middle of the woods somewhere. |
| 0:42.0 | And I think it's great. |
| 0:43.3 | Welcome to the campaign moment. It's Friday, September 6th. I'm Martine Powers, co-host at Post Reports. |
| 0:53.0 | And I'm Aaron Blake, senior political reporter and author of the campaign moment newsletter. |
| 0:58.0 | We're also joined this week again by Washington Post White House reporter Cleave Wootson. |
| 1:03.0 | Hey, glad to be here. |
| 1:05.0 | So this week we're obviously going to be talking about that debate and Cleve will be there in Philadelphia |
| 1:12.0 | and I'll be curious to get his take on what's going to |
| 1:14.7 | go down there but we're also going to dive into some other news from the campaign |
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