The Campaign Moment: Down-ballot Dems try to lift Biden
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🗓️ 24 May 2024
⏱️ 31 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 of the 2024 campaign.
Senior political reporter Aaron Blake, who writes The Post's new Campaign Moment newsletter, is out sick this week, so national political reporter Michael Scherer and White House reporter Tyler Pager join Martine Powers this week.
They talk about how the Biden campaign may need more popular Democratic candidates down ballot to boost turnout in key battleground states, Donald Trump’s claims that President Biden was prepared to “take me out” when the Department of Justice raided Mar-a-Lago in 2022, and the controversy swirling around political-flag-flying at Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s homes.
Today’s show was produced by Ted Muldoon and Laura Benshoff. It was edited by Renita Jablonski and Mary Jo Murphy and mixed by Rennie Svirnovskiy.
Subscribe to Aaron’s newsletter, The Campaign Moment, here.
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| 0:38.6 | And here's today's show. |
| 0:41.9 | I want to start by asking you guys if you are coffee drinkers. I am. I'm not. You're not. I am wondering if you have ever considered the new Rudy Giuliani coffee that just came out this week. |
| 0:54.6 | Have you guys heard about this? |
| 0:55.6 | It's so good you can drink it black. |
| 0:57.4 | That's what he says. |
| 0:58.6 | So good you can drink it black. |
| 1:00.3 | I have not considered that. |
| 1:01.4 | And he, so he describes his coffee as a way to support truth, justice, and American democracy, |
| 1:08.0 | which you can make of that what you will. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm curious, if there were any politician's personal brand of coffee that you would |
| 1:16.4 | drink what do you think it would be? You know the problem with political coffee I've had |
| 1:20.8 | black rifle coffee which is like another like kind of |
| 1:23.4 | maga conservative brand is they're always trying to be bold and tough and you kind of |
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