The Campaign Moment: Harris knocks Trump off balance
Post Reports
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🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Post Reports co-host Martine Powers talks with senior political reporter Aaron Blake about what each candidate needed to do in this debate to win over voters in an incredibly tight race. They also talk about whether a new endorsement from Taylor Swift could give Harris an edge.
Note: An initial version of this episode had an incorrect reference to Springfield, Illinois rather than Springfield, Ohio. The error has been fixed.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm talking now if you don't mind please does that sound familiar I have to say all |
| 0:09.7 | this talk about the mute button and how the candidates were going to be muted |
| 0:14.8 | when it wasn't their turn to talk and they were going to use the mean like where was |
| 0:18.2 | the mute button? |
| 0:19.2 | President Trump we have to move on President Trump. |
| 0:22.0 | Let's turn to policy, please. |
| 0:24.0 | Trump was just driving straight through that mute button. |
| 0:27.5 | The lax rules on the mute button seemed to work against Trump in a way that his campaign very much believed that it would. |
| 0:35.2 | Well, he seemed to be enjoying it. |
| 0:36.4 | It's the very fine line between what Trump and his mouth want and what his campaign |
| 0:42.0 | advisors advise him to do. |
| 0:44.7 | A very tricky line indeed. |
| 0:46.3 | Welcome to the campaign moment on this very early morning on Wednesday, September 11th. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm Martine Powers co-host at Post Reports. |
| 1:01.0 | And I'm Aaron Blake, senior political reporter and author of the campaign moment newsletter. |
| 1:06.5 | All right, so we just finished the first debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. |
| 1:13.7 | It was Tuesday night in Philadelphia. |
| 1:17.1 | And we're going to be going over a lot of the biggest moments |
| 1:20.0 | from this debate and also talking a little bit about what they could mean for the |
| 1:23.7 | campaign ahead. And Aaron before we dive into all that I do want to take a moment to |
| 1:28.4 | just set the stakes here and why this debate was so momentous. This is likely going to be the only debate that |
| 1:35.6 | we'll see between Kamla Harris and Donald Trump. It was actually the first time |
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