The Campaign Moment: It’s 1864 in Arizona
Post Reports
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🗓️ 12 April 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 during the 2024 campaign. Senior political reporter Aaron Blake, the author of The Post’s newsletter by the same name, chats with Martine Powers and our Arizona-based democracy reporter, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, about the Arizona abortion ruling threatening to upend the 2024 election. The Arizona Supreme Court this week ruled that a near-total abortion ban from 1864 can go into effect in the state. It’s a big test for Donald Trump, who has taken credit for overturning Roe v. Wade but said that Arizona went too far and that state lawmakers would quickly “bring it back into reason.”
Yvonne, Martine and Aaron also chat about an awkward moment for RFK Jr.’s campaign, and how the N.Y. hush money trial could play for Trump in swing states like Arizona.
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Today’s show was produced and mixed by Ted Muldoon. It was edited by Maggie Penman.
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| 0:00.0 | There's always so much confusion about what time it actually is in Arizona because, you know, we don't do the whole daylight savings time thing. |
| 0:10.5 | Wait, I don't know, I actually didn't know that. You just skip Daylight Savings Time? |
| 0:14.0 | Yeah, we just don't do it. |
| 0:15.0 | So it's like, we're either two hours behind the east. |
| 0:18.5 | You can do that? |
| 0:19.5 | We're Arizona, we can do anything. Welcome to the campaign moment. |
| 0:27.0 | It's Friday, April 12th. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Martine Powers, go host of Post Reports, |
| 0:32.0 | and I am joined here with fellow host of the campaign moments, |
| 0:36.0 | Aaron Blake, senior political reporter at the Post, and also the writer of the campaign |
| 0:40.5 | moment newsletter. |
| 0:41.5 | Thanks for having me, and today we are so lucky to be joined by |
| 0:45.0 | Yvonne Winjet Sanchez who is a democracy reporter here at the post and an |
| 0:49.7 | expert on all things Arizona which is very relevant this week. |
| 0:53.8 | So happy to be here a big fan of the show. |
| 0:58.8 | So Aaron just lay out for us like what are we going to be talking about this week? |
| 1:03.2 | Yeah so this is the week that abortion politics which of course have loomed for a long time |
| 1:08.8 | in our country ever since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade really kind of came to the forefront |
| 1:14.7 | because of some developments in key states that with the Supreme Court's enacting very strict |
| 1:20.3 | bans that have kind of forced politicians to take sides and |
| 1:24.4 | potentially roll back these bans and basically made sure that this is |
| 1:29.2 | going to be an issue that is going to be very relevant in the 2024 election. |
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