The Campaign Moment: Campus protests, a jail threat for Trump and Kristi Noem’s late dog Cricket
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The Washington Post
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🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 28 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 during the 2024 campaign. Senior political reporter Aaron Blake, who writes The Post’s new newsletter by the same name, and White House reporter Cleve Wootson join Martine Powers this week. They talk about how President Biden responded this week to the campus protests over the war in Gaza and what that could mean for his support, whether voters are paying attention yet to former president Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York related to a hush money payment to adult-film star Stormy Daniels, and what a story South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem reveals in her new book about killing a dog could mean for her prospects to be Trump’s running mate.
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Today’s show was produced and mixed by Ted Muldoon and Sean Carter. It was edited by Renita Jablonski and Mary Jo Murphy.
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| 0:00.0 | So Cleve and Aaron, I don't know if you've heard about our new listener survey for |
| 0:08.4 | Washington Post Podcast listeners, but if you're listening to our podcast, you should be filling out our survey. |
| 0:14.3 | Have you guys filled out our survey yet? |
| 0:15.8 | I have not filled out mine yet, but I hear everybody's talking about it. |
| 0:19.3 | I've not filled out mine yet either, and I think that's because I was not told a dollar amount that I could win. |
| 0:24.1 | Yes. Just putting that out there. That is the big news about this survey so we are |
| 0:28.2 | looking to get information about our listeners and where and how they listen, what they like to listen to, how they think |
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| 0:53.6 | dot com slash survey. |
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| 1:02.8 | Aaron wins. |
| 1:04.0 | Yay! |
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