The Campaign Moment: Harris makes history
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 23 August 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Elahe Izadi, co-host of “Post Reports,” and senior political reporter Aaron Blake sit down with White House reporter Cleve Wootson at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago to talk about the highlights from Harris’s speech. Harris focused on her middle-class upbringing and how she would protect abortion access and reproductive rights, and she cast herself as a candidate who would bring normalcy and competency to the White House.
They also revisit the most memorable speeches of the four-day convention and look ahead to what the next two months might look like for Harris.
Today’s show was produced by Laura Benshoff and Ariel Plotnick. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and Mary Jo Murphy and mixed by Sam Bair.
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| 0:00.0 | I want to talk to you guys about the final night of the Democratic National Convention, |
| 0:05.4 | but I want to first ask you about what didn't happen tonight, which was I was in the |
| 0:11.0 | Convention Hall, there was a rumor that there was going to be |
| 0:13.6 | Beyonce performing and that clearly didn't happen. Are you... It didn't. It didn't. |
| 0:19.3 | Oh okay. Wait Aaron did you black out during the DNC? |
| 0:23.2 | No, I, you know, there was T.M.Z. |
| 0:26.2 | reported that there was going to be Beyoncé there and I texted it to my family |
| 0:30.4 | who got quite excited and then it didn't happen so I think they're |
| 0:34.4 | feeling very let down by the Democratic Party. I never believed it if I'm |
| 0:38.5 | being honest I just I just didn't I don't think politicians like to be upstage. |
| 0:44.0 | Upstage. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome to the campaign moment on Friday, August 23rd. I'm Elahay I Zadi, co-host of Post Reports. |
| 0:57.0 | And I'm Aaron Blake, senior political reporter and author of the campaign moment newsletter. |
| 1:01.0 | We're also joined today by White House reporter and |
| 1:04.4 | Kamala Harris expert, Cleve Woodson. Hey Cleve. |
| 1:07.3 | Kamala Harris expert. Oh, okay. Many people are saying, many people are saying. |
| 1:14.1 | And it's also our last day working from this giant media tent in a parking lot in Chicago. |
| 1:19.4 | There's lots of reporters and other people around us. |
| 1:21.7 | We're next to the United Center and that's where the Democratic National Convention has just wrapped up. |
| 1:27.5 | So we're actually talking pretty late on Thursday night. |
| 1:30.3 | It's almost Friday morning. |
| 1:31.7 | That's right, and Vice President Kamala Harris has formally accepted the Democratic |
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