The Campaign Moment: Hunter Biden, Ohio lessons and low-info voters
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 33 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.
In a district that overwhelmingly voted for Trump in 2020, Ohio voters almost elected a Democratic congressman this week. But are such special election results representative? Senior political reporter Aaron Blake, who writes The Washington Post's new Campaign Moment newsletter, and Toluse Olorunnipa, White House bureau chief for The Post, sit down with host Elahe Izadi. They also discuss Hunter Biden’s conviction on felony gun charges, how family matters impact presidential campaigns, and polling that shows voters are checked out when it comes to major campaign stories.
Today’s show was produced by Laura Benshoff and Ted Muldoon. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and Mary Jo Murphy.
Subscribe to Aaron’s newsletter, The Campaign Moment, here.
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| 0:00.0 | So I don't know if you guys saw but Trump reportedly called Milwaukee a quote |
| 0:07.9 | horrible city to a room full of Republicans and this is wild because this is where the Republican |
| 0:13.8 | National Convention is going to take place next month. The Trump campaign |
| 0:17.4 | denied that he called it that but this is definitely a hot take to trash a city you're about to visit, right? |
| 0:24.8 | So I don't know, I'm thinking of other hot takes about cities, but I want to go positive. |
| 0:29.8 | So I wanted to ask you both, what is an underrated city that you would defend to the death? |
| 0:35.8 | Ooh. |
| 0:36.8 | That's a really good question. |
| 0:38.0 | I was just gearing up to Bash Wisconsin and then you threw a curveball at me. |
| 0:43.0 | Is this a Minnesota thing? |
| 0:45.0 | Yes, I know. |
| 0:46.0 | I have a lot of friends from Wisconsin. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm from Minnesota. |
| 0:48.0 | I have a lot of friends from Wisconsin. |
| 0:49.0 | They're lovely people. |
| 0:50.0 | They just come from a regrettable place. |
| 0:52.0 | Some of my best friends are from with them. |
| 0:54.4 | Yeah. Welcome to the campaign moment on this Friday, June 14th. |
| 1:09.5 | I'm Alahay Asati, co-host of Post Reports. |
| 1:12.7 | And I'm Aaron Blake, senior politics reporter |
| 1:14.9 | and author of the campaign moment newsletter. |
| 1:17.6 | We're also joined this week by the Post's White House Bureau Chief |
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