The Campaign Moment: Dems’ down-ballot dreams
Post Reports
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🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Senior political reporter Aaron Blake and congressional reporter Liz Goodwin talk with “Post Reports” co-host Martine Powers about the economic policies that Harris’s campaign unveiled Friday, and whether Democrats could win a trifecta in November and make those proposals reality.
They also look ahead to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next week, where President Joe Biden will address delegates after withdrawing from the race last month.
Today’s show was produced by Laura Benshoff. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and Mary Jo Murphy and mixed by Rennie Svirnovskiy.
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| 0:00.0 | So I have to say I recently watched The Silent of the Lands and it's a really good movie |
| 0:09.3 | and Hannibal Lecter is a really good villain in that movie. Have you guys seen this movie lately? |
| 0:15.5 | It's been a while, but I had seen it probably a couple decades, but yeah, we've written like |
| 0:21.5 | three stories now I think about why Trump keeps talking about Hannibal |
| 0:25.0 | Lecter. He's talking about the border and he talks about asylum and then he thinks about |
| 0:31.0 | crazy people and then somehow this becomes a thing about |
| 0:33.4 | Hannibal Lecter. The other thing that I did want to add here though is because of all |
| 0:37.6 | this like Hannibal Lecter referencing in Trump rallies I was thinking about what if you |
| 0:42.4 | had a movie marathon of all the movies |
| 0:46.3 | related to the cultural touchstones of this election. So you would have Silence of the |
| 0:51.3 | Lambs. You'd obviously have Hillbilly Ellaine. |
| 0:54.4 | Friday night lights, Tim Walls, everyone saying that he's like |
| 0:57.8 | Coach Taylor or whatever his name is from that movie slash TV show. Welcome to the campaign moment on this Friday August 16th. I'm Martin Powers, co-host of Post Reports. |
| 1:15.0 | And I'm Aaron Blake, senior politics reporter and author of the campaign moment newsletter. |
| 1:20.0 | We're also joined this week by Liz Goodwin who covers the Senate here at the Washington Post. |
| 1:25.0 | Hey Liz. |
| 1:26.0 | Hi, thanks for having me. |
| 1:28.0 | Thanks for being here. |
| 1:29.0 | So today we are looking ahead to the Democratic National Convention in |
| 1:35.8 | Chicago next week. We're gonna talk about who's gonna be there and what |
| 1:40.0 | this convention will say about this momentous month for the Democrats. |
| 1:45.6 | We're also going to talk about some polling, which of course is something that I talk about |
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