The Campaign Moment: Gaetz’s downfall, Trump’s mandate
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 22 November 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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“Post Reports” co-host Martine Powers and senior political reporter Aaron Blake talk with reporter Leigh Ann Caldwell, who co-authors the Early Brief politics newsletter for The Post, about why Gaetz’s bid for attorney general lasted just eight days. Aaron breaks down why Trump’s electoral mandate is actually weaker than he claims. Plus, answers to listeners’ and readers’ lingering questions about the 2024 election.
Today’s show was produced by Laura Benshoff. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and Mary Jo Murphy and mixed by Justin Gerrish.
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| 0:00.0 | So the big news of this past 24 hours is that former congressman Matt Gates has withdrawn himself as President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Attorney General. |
| 0:13.0 | And since this came out on Thursday afternoon, there has been a lot of hay made about the fact that Gates's potential nomination did not end up lasting longer than a |
| 0:23.8 | Scaramucci. For people who don't know, like, explain what a quote-unquote Scaramucci is. |
| 0:30.1 | Anthony Scaramucci was a very brief member of the Trump White House. He was communications director, |
| 0:36.1 | I think, for 11 days. And during those 11 days, |
| 0:39.5 | he gave a very ill-considered interview with a reporter in which he, like, was attacking people and |
| 0:46.1 | swearing and, you know, saying bad things. Yeah. And so he was canned after 11 days. And so now we |
| 0:53.3 | use that as a unit of measurement for things that don't last very long in politics. |
| 0:57.9 | Leanne, have you heard of this? |
| 0:59.0 | Like the scaramuci as a unit of time? |
| 1:00.9 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:01.5 | Yeah, 100%. |
| 1:02.7 | Yes. |
| 1:03.3 | Do you use it in your day-to-day life? |
| 1:05.0 | No. |
| 1:06.5 | No, but the funny thing is that Anthony Scaramucci uses it himself. |
| 1:10.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.4 | Really? |
| 1:12.0 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:12.6 | On social media. |
| 1:14.1 | Yes, he is in on the joke. |
| 1:15.5 | I love that. |
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