So Mariano and Aaron, I don't know about you guys going into this week. I was prepared for a big political week.

A new Vice President Harris was coming out with her running mate pick. I knew there was going to be rallies and like

lots of stuff to talk about. But what I did not have on my bingo card for this week

was presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr. copping to the fact that he apparently left a dead bear cub in Central Park

for reasons that I continue to not understand.

I love seeing the old tweets from when this happened I think back in 2014 and people are like

wow this is bizarre like who could possibly have done this and then 10 years later we learned that it is one of the three leading

contenders for the presidency Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

I guess bring it on election cycle. What else do you have to show us? What else is weird.

Welcome to the campaign moment on this Friday, August 9th.

I'm Martin Powers, co-host of Post Reports.

And I'm Aaron Blake, senior politics reporter

and author of the campaign moment newsletter.

We're also joined this week by Mariana Sotomayor, who's a

congressional reporter who covers the House of Representatives here at the

Post. Hey Mariana. So happy to join you guys. Thanks for being here. So today we're going to talk about the

presidential race of course. Vice President Kamala Harris announced her

running mate this week. It's Minnesota Governor Tim Walls, and he's getting a warm welcome

from Democrats amid heat over his record from the GOP. Plus we'll hear how the Trump campaign

is adapting to its new opponents in this election.

But before we get there, we're going to talk about how all the political drama of the last couple

weeks has shaken out in Congress. And Mariana, that's one of the reasons

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