The Campaign Moment: Dems in panic mode after the debate
Post Reports
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🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
It’s a special early Friday edition of The Campaign Moment. We’re in your feed first thing today after Post Reports co-host Martine Powers and senior political reporter Aaron Blake went into the studio shortly after the debate ended. Aaron says it’s one of the most significant moments of the campaign so far. He and Martine talk through Biden and Trump’s performances, which had Biden noticeably stumbling at times and Trump basing many answers around falsehoods that were left unchallenged by the CNN moderators. Aaron explains the tough questions in front of Democrats now and what this could mean for a buoyed Trump campaign.
Today’s show was produced and mixed by Ted Muldoon. It was edited by Renita Jablonski.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, so it's the Wii hours of Friday, June 28th, and we are publishing our usual Friday |
| 0:09.8 | episode quite a bit early, because we're recording this not long after watching |
| 0:15.4 | Thursday night's presidential debate and we wanted to get this to our |
| 0:19.3 | listeners ASAP so we're here Aaron how are you doing I'm I'm holding up okay there's no |
| 0:25.4 | promises for how this is going to be at the end of the podcast but we'll just |
| 0:29.8 | we'll fire through I wish we had copy here there's no. I've got some water. I think it's late for coffee. |
| 0:35.5 | Not after 4 p.m. right? Yeah, theoretically. Seems like it might be an exception. So welcome to the campaign moment. I'm Martine Powers, co-host |
| 0:50.3 | of Post Reports. And I'm Aaron Blake, senior politics reporter, |
| 0:53.9 | and author of the campaign moment newsletter. |
| 0:57.8 | And I have to say this feels like quite a campaign moment, |
| 1:02.4 | right, like a momentous moment. |
| 1:05.0 | This is the first time a current president has debated a former president. |
| 1:09.3 | It was very early for a general election presidential debate. These things usually don't happen in June. |
| 1:14.4 | It was hosted by CNN in Atlanta, we should point out. But I just want to start by diving right in. |
| 1:21.6 | Aaron, the obvious question that I have is, how did this go especially for President |
| 1:27.3 | Biden? |
| 1:28.3 | Yeah, that is the focus after this debate and will be the focus in the days ahead. |
| 1:33.0 | The question with President Biden, despite Democrats trying to avoid it for a very long time, |
| 1:41.0 | has been whether President Biden will look vigorous enough, will assure people who |
| 1:47.5 | have concerns about his age and mental sharpness, which is a strong majority of the American electorate. It includes Democrats, |
| 1:55.7 | lots of Democrats. And they had some hope after the State of the Union address in March. |
| 2:01.0 | It was an energetic speech. It went relatively well for President |
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