The Campaign Moment: Key X factors in the Biden vs. Trump rematch
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Friday on “Post Reports” now means The Campaign Moment — a weekly roundtable conversation to help you keep track of the biggest developments during the 2024 campaign. Senior political reporter Aaron Blake, who writes The Post’s new newsletter by the same name, and Washington Post polling director Scott Clement join Martine Powers to unpack key X factors that will help decide the election now that both Joe Biden and Donald Trump collected enough delegates this week to secure their party’s nomination.
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Today’s show was produced and mixed by Ted Muldoon. It was edited by Renita Jablonski.
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| 0:00.0 | So, Aaron and Scott, the fact that we are finally here, we've basically made it past the primaries, |
| 0:10.0 | we are in campaign mode. I'm curious for you guys since this is kind of like your |
| 0:15.6 | Olympics is there anything that you do to prepare for this moment in the |
| 0:20.2 | campaign like are you waking up every morning playing like the rocky theme song or like you got like the protein shakes out to sort of like beef up for November. What do you do? |
| 0:32.0 | I find it's a really slow build. I don't really start the |
| 0:34.9 | protein shakes in the morning and all that stuff until the conventions. Like I'm |
| 0:39.6 | interested in it now, but like we're a little ways away from like the I'm going to hit this thing |
| 0:43.8 | really hard I think. Yeah it's a long campaign we are still in the zombie |
| 0:48.0 | primary days so I've still got some late Tuesday nights tracking some |
| 0:51.6 | congressional seats. |
| 0:53.0 | I like the name zombie primary period. |
| 0:55.0 | Maybe that's going to be the name of my playlist for this part of campaign season. |
| 0:59.0 | So today is March 15th, 2024 and it is a Friday and so we are here with the |
| 1:09.8 | campaign moment our weekly conversation on post reports about all things politics. |
| 1:15.0 | Today, of course, we have senior political reporter, Aaron Blake, author of the campaign moment |
| 1:19.5 | newsletter, Aaron, hello. |
| 1:21.7 | Good morning. And our guest today is Scott Clement, |
| 1:24.5 | the polling director for the Washington Post. |
| 1:26.7 | Scott, thank you so much for being here. |
| 1:28.6 | Thanks for having me, Martine. |
| 1:36.8 | So quite a few big things happen this week. Of course we had the Georgia primary among other primaries. We have this critical moment where Biden and |
| 1:41.2 | Trump have both collected enough delegates at this point that they are the |
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