The Campaign Moment: On the bizarre Trump campaign trail
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 18 October 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
“Post Reports” co-host Martine Powers and senior political reporter Aaron Blake talk with national political reporter Marianne LeVine about the peculiar moments that she’s observed on the campaign trail this week with former president Donald Trump. From a music listening session on stage, to some eyebrow-raising interviews with both candidates, “The Campaign Moment” crew digs into the Trump and Harris campaigns’ final sprints before Election Day.
Today’s show was produced by Eliza Dennis. It was edited by Reena Flores and Mary Jo Murphy. It was mixed by Sam Bair.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so I've been thinking this over for the last few days. If I was on a stage and had to just |
| 0:09.6 | dance to music for between 30 and 40 minutes. I think the number one song I would choose |
| 0:15.1 | would be call on me. You know like I feel like you could just like ride that beat |
| 0:18.7 | for a good 30 minutes and everyone would enjoy it and I would enjoy myself. |
| 0:24.4 | I don't know do you guys have your song of choice for your your awkward |
| 0:29.3 | mini dance on a stage? |
| 0:31.3 | Oh that's a great question. Maybe I want to dance with somebody by |
| 0:36.3 | Whitney Houston that would probably be it but everyone would love it's a good it's a good |
| 0:41.2 | it's a banger. I feel like standing on stage and having people look at me while |
| 0:46.7 | music plays for 39 minutes is maybe one of my greatest fears in this Friday, October 18. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm Martine Powers, co-host at Post Reports. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm Martine Powers, co-host at Post Reports. |
| 1:02.0 | And I'm Aaron Blake, senior political reporter |
| 1:04.3 | and author of the campaign moment newsletter. |
| 1:07.2 | We're also joined this week by National Political |
| 1:09.2 | reporter, Marianne Levine. |
| 1:11.0 | Hey Marianne, hey Marianne. |
| 1:11.8 | Hey, thanks for having me, thanks for being here. |
| 1:15.0 | All right, so before we kick things off, I want to talk through a couple headlines from this week that folks might have come across. |
| 1:22.0 | First of all, yesterday Israel announced that its forces killed Hamas leader |
| 1:26.2 | Yaya-Sinwar. Yeah, so Harris commented as a function of her current job as vice president, |
| 1:31.6 | not necessarily as a candidate for president. |
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