The Campaign Moment: AI and other election threats
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
It’s Friday, so it’s time for The Campaign Moment — our weekly roundtable conversation to help you keep track of the biggest developments of the 2024 campaign.
Host Elahe Izadi chats with reporters Amy Gardner and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, who are on the Democracy team at The Post. They discuss the efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and the ongoing political and legal fallout from those attempts. They also talk about the recent charges filed against fake electors in Arizona, including notable names like Rudy Giuliani and Boris Epshteyn, and why some election officials are making deep fakes of themselves to educate voters.
Today’s show was produced by Ted Muldoon and Laura Benshoff. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and Griff Witte.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi guys how you doing good morning happy Friday I don't know if you both saw this but in Vermont it was a |
| 0:10.0 | Republican member of Vermont's House of Representatives who apologized earlier this week for pouring |
| 0:16.1 | water onto a Democratic colleagues bag over five months, which is just like insane. |
| 0:23.6 | Of all the things because you know she probably was like |
| 0:27.6 | what's the worst thing I can do and get away with? |
| 0:30.0 | Like yeah make his bad |
| 0:31.3 | Yeah yeah yeah what's the line that would be horrible for a woman. |
| 0:34.6 | Yeah, wet bag. |
| 0:36.0 | Well, welcome to the campaign moment on this Friday, June 21st. I'm Elahay |
| 0:47.6 | Azadi, co-host of Post Reports, and this week my co-host Aaron Blake is on a very well-deserved vacation, but I'm |
| 0:56.3 | excited because this week I have two members of the Post's Democracy Team, |
| 1:00.4 | National reporter Amy Gardner and Yvonne Winge at Sanchez, who covers |
| 1:05.0 | voting issues in Arizona. Hey Amy and Yvonne, I'm so excited you guys are here. |
| 1:09.1 | Hey, Alah, hey, so good to be here. So Amy and Yvonne this week we are going to be diving into some of the |
| 1:18.4 | voting issues that you've both been covering in this election but before we get into that I was hoping you |
| 1:24.9 | both could explain what the quote democracy team is at the post and what you both |
| 1:30.5 | do. The democracy team was formed two years ago. In the aftermath of the |
| 1:35.7 | 2020 election there were more and more of us who were covering elections not |
| 1:39.5 | covering campaigns as political reporters but covering elections as American |
| 1:44.5 | institutions that were under threat because of efforts to |
| 1:47.9 | subvert the result in 2020 and efforts to elect people who believed the election had been stolen in 2020 and it |
| 1:56.4 | became such a big story that we formed a whole team. |
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