The Campaign Moment: Biden races to protect his legacy
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🗓️ 13 December 2024
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Aaron Blake, senior political reporter and author of The Campaign Moment newsletter, sits down with senior congressional correspondent Paul Kane and White House reporter Matt Viser to talk about what Biden is trying to do with his last few weeks in office. They also talk about Time magazine’s person of the year interview with Trump and what two GOP Senate appointments could mean for Trump’s ability to get his agenda through Congress.
Today’s show was produced by Laura Benshoff. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and mixed by Justin Gerrish.
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| 0:00.0 | So Matt and P.K., Time Magazine on Thursday named President-elects Donald Trump as its person of the year. |
| 0:09.3 | I think it's safe to say this is a pretty uninspired choice. |
| 0:12.9 | You know, he got it when he was elected in 2016 as well. |
| 0:16.3 | If you had to pick somebody else to get this award, who would it have been this year? |
| 0:20.6 | You know, if you're just |
| 0:21.8 | talking about politics, the countervailing choice would be Joe Biden. I feel like I might have |
| 0:28.6 | stolen Matt's, so my apologies. Matt's not allowed to pick the guy he covers constantly. Yeah, |
| 0:33.7 | I was thinking if you went inside out of politics, it seems like Taylor Swift has had quite an impact and quite a year. |
| 0:39.9 | It's her birthday today, too, I think. |
| 0:41.7 | Yeah, happy birthday to Taylor. |
| 0:48.1 | Welcome to the campaign moment. It's Friday, December 13th. |
| 0:53.8 | I'm Aaron Blake, senior political reporter and author of the Campaign Moment newsletter. Today I'm joined by two great guests to help me break down the biggest politics stories of the week. First is senior congressional correspondent and columnist Paul Kane. Hey, P.K. |
| 1:08.2 | Hey, Aaron. How are you? |
| 1:09.4 | I'm doing well. And also with us today is White House reporter Matt Weiser. Hey, Matt. Hey, P.K. Hey, Aaron. How are you? I'm doing well. And also with us today is White House reporter, |
| 1:13.0 | Matt Viser. Hey, Matt. Hey, Aaron. |
| 1:16.5 | Today, I'm excited to talk to you both about a few big headlines and looming questions over the |
| 1:21.6 | next several weeks. First, I wanted to talk about President Joe Biden and how he's using |
| 1:26.8 | and could use his final weeks in office. |
| 1:29.8 | He's issued a historic number of pardons, and there are other ways that he's trying to shore up his legacy that we will get into. |
| 1:36.8 | Then I want to get into the Time Magazine, Person of the Year award interview that Donald Trump did. |
| 1:42.0 | It's a rare, long-form interview with a non-conservative outlet. |
| 1:46.2 | Trump talked about transgender rights. He backed off a promise to sharply reduce grocery prices, |
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