The Campaign Moment: Can Democrats flip the House?
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 11 October 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Democrats want to retake control of the House of Representatives. Vice President Kamala Harris goes on a media blitz. And elected officials wade through destruction and misinformation after another hurricane made landfall this week.
“Post Reports” co-host Martine Powers and senior political reporter Aaron Blake talk with Congressional reporter Marianna Sotomayor about whether Democrats will succeed in flipping the House and which voters Harris wanted to reach with her flurry of interviews on podcasts and TV this week. They also dig into the political aftermath of Hurricane Milton.
Today’s show was produced by Eliza Dennis. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and Mary Jo Murphy and mixed by Sam Bair.
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| 0:00.0 | One little piece of political swag that I did bring back from the convention was the Doug signs, you know, for Doug Emhoff. |
| 0:07.5 | Oh yeah. My neighbor who's also named Doug was like, I like some of those and I was like okay so I ran in on that night of the |
| 0:15.3 | convention just grabbed a bunch of them and so I think he's gonna frame it |
| 0:18.5 | amazing did you guys have any other like recent political swag from these past few months from the |
| 0:24.2 | conventions or otherwise that you're now like rocking in your personal life? |
| 0:28.8 | I still have this one shirt that I'll wear every once in a while and I'm like such a relic has like every |
| 0:34.4 | single Democrat who ran and there's so many like I always forget how many Democrats |
| 0:38.6 | ran in 2020 and they're like crossed out and it's like, oh no, this person jumped back in. |
| 0:43.4 | Okay, top five. |
| 0:44.6 | Oh no, let's add this person last minute. |
| 0:47.1 | It's just like the most chaotic shirt and I'm like that was the energy of 2020. |
| 0:59.6 | Welcome to the campaign moment on this Friday, October 11th. I'm Martine Powers, co-host of Post Reports. |
| 1:02.7 | And I'm Aaron Blake, senior politics reporter, |
| 1:05.0 | and author of the campaign moment newsletter. |
| 1:07.9 | We're also joined this week by Mariana Sotomayor, |
| 1:10.9 | a congressional reporter for the Post who covers the House of Representatives. |
| 1:15.0 | Hey, how are you guys? |
| 1:16.5 | Good, thank you for being here. |
| 1:17.7 | Of course. |
| 1:18.7 | So this week we're going to talk about control of Congress and specifically |
| 1:25.1 | whether Democrats can flip the House of Representatives. Republicans have an |
| 1:30.3 | incredibly slim majority and they're defending a lot of seats and |
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