The Campaign Moment: Democrats' risky primary gamble, 'bloodbath' and more
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Friday on “Post Reports” now means The Campaign Moment — a 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 Glenn Kessler, editor and chief writer of The Fact Checker, join Elahe Izadi to talk about this week’s Republican Senate primary in Ohio, the debate over Donald Trump’s “bloodbath” comment and where the Republican-led impeachment efforts against President Biden go from here.
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Today’s show was produced and mixed by Ted Muldoon. It was edited by Renita Jablonski.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, recently the House of Representatives passed this bill that if it becomes law |
| 0:07.6 | could lead to a ban of Tik-Tok. I don't know if either of you guys have ever been on TikTok but it's very addictive. |
| 0:15.3 | So if you were to ask Congress to ban an app that has been sucking your time just to help you out with living your life. |
| 0:25.2 | What app would you want Congress to ban? |
| 0:27.5 | I would not ban a specific app, but I would ban the thing that tells me every week on Sunday how much time I have spent on my phone. |
| 0:38.0 | You know, I don't really glance at it. I see it, I ignore it. |
| 0:42.0 | I love it. Glenn doesn't need government overreach to control his feelings about how he uses his time. Sorry Aaron. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm Ella Hayazati. It is Friday, March 22nd, and this is the campaign moment. |
| 0:56.9 | A new segment we are doing every Friday here on post reports to talk about all things politics. And every week you'll be hearing from senior |
| 1:04.4 | political reporter Aaron Blake. Hello Aaron. Hey good to be here again. And today |
| 1:09.5 | we also have with us Glenn Kessler who runs the fact checker for the post as its chief writer and |
| 1:15.2 | editor. |
| 1:16.2 | Hello, Glenn. |
| 1:17.2 | Glad to be with you. |
| 1:18.2 | Glenn, how would you explain what the fact checker is? The fact checker, it's mostly to help readers understand difficult policy choices that politicians have to make. |
| 1:33.7 | And we do this by taking a detailed look at statements they make and whether or not they are true |
| 1:40.6 | or false. Politicians are basically like used car salesman. |
| 1:45.0 | They're going to try to sell you a policy. |
| 1:48.0 | And you know, like any used car, you want to look under the hood |
| 1:51.0 | and see whether or not they're saying, what they're saying about it is truth. |
| 1:55.1 | And so at its heart I see the fact checker is really about demystifying policy, foreign policy, |
| 2:02.4 | domestic policy, health care policy, tax policy, but we get to do it |
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