The Campaign Moment: Biden passes the torch
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Biden received a warm welcome at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Monday evening when he walked on stage to address his party. Thousands of Democratic delegates packed in the arena chanted “Thank you, Joe!” and pumped signs saying “We love Joe” as he gave his speech.
“Post Reports” co-host Elahe Izadi and senior political reporter Aaron Blake talk with White House reporter Matt Viser about Biden’s historic address and what the first night of the convention tells us about the current strength of the Democratic Party.
Today’s show was produced by Laura Benshoff. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and Mary Jo Murphy and mixed by Sean Carter. Thanks also to Ariel Plotnick.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, guys, this is my first convention that I've been to and last night was the very first night of the Democratic National Convention and I managed to get on the convention floor |
| 0:14.8 | with producer Laura Ben Shaw. Hey testing testing one two three we're at the |
| 0:21.2 | DNC and I got to say that energy one, two, three, we're at the DNC. |
| 0:23.6 | And I gotta say that energy was pretty high, |
| 0:26.8 | especially when the headliner of the evening, |
| 0:29.1 | President Biden took the stage. |
| 0:31.2 | Right now, all the delegates are taking to their feet, they're standing. |
| 0:35.3 | It's late but the euphoria in this room is real. It's probable. But I will say I'm |
| 0:40.9 | pretty tired this morning. |
| 0:43.0 | How are you guys fueling yourselves today and staying awake? |
| 0:46.0 | Lots of coffee. |
| 0:48.0 | Deep dish pizza. |
| 0:49.0 | No, I'm kidding. I don't. |
| 0:51.0 | Deep dish is an abomination and nobody should ever eat it. |
| 0:53.1 | Welcome to a hybrid episode of the campaign moment and post reports. We're coming to you |
| 1:03.7 | from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. It's Tuesday, August 20th, I'm |
| 1:08.4 | Elahaye co-host of post reports. And I'm Aaron Blake, senior political reporter and author of the |
| 1:14.3 | campaign moment newsletter. We're also joined this week by White House reporter |
| 1:18.4 | Matt Vizer who's back on the show. Hey Matt, Hey. You guys, I want to start with talking about President Biden's speech last night. |
| 1:28.3 | This was not the speech we were expecting him to give, or he was even expecting to give a few months ago, but as we all know he dropped out vice president |
| 1:36.8 | Kamala Harris is the new nominee Matt this must have been such a strange moment for Biden and also unprecedented for the |
| 1:45.0 | Democratic Party. What did he need to do with this speech and what were you |
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