The Campaign Moment: State of the Union and what Super Tuesday says
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 35 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 national politics reporter Colby Itkowitz join Elahe Izadi to analyze President Biden’s State of the Union address and how it sets the stage for the campaign, and what questions came out of the results from Super Tuesday.
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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 Colby Aaron, before we start, President Biden gave his State of the Union |
| 0:08.0 | address Thursday night and it got me thinking about this idea of |
| 0:11.9 | reflecting on things. |
| 0:13.3 | So at its core, a chance to assess the situation. |
| 0:17.3 | If I were to ask you, what is the state of your union? |
| 0:21.9 | Well, given I just had to restore sanity to my studio after my |
| 0:26.3 | kids tore down all the blankets and the pillows in this small closet from which I |
| 0:30.3 | record. Yeah that's pretty par for course for me. |
| 0:33.6 | I can't complain too much, but it'd be nice |
| 0:36.0 | if they stayed out of my studio. |
| 0:37.7 | It's daddy's work for it. |
| 0:40.0 | I would say the state of my union is hectic. We have a new puppy so the puppy |
| 0:45.0 | wakes up multiple times during the night so it's like having a newborn but I |
| 0:48.6 | also have a small child as well and so the house is just loud and crazy all the time. |
| 0:54.0 | I can't wait to hear who will be giving the rebuttal speeches to both of your states of the union. |
| 0:59.0 | Before we go any further, I'm Elahay Azadi. It's Friday, March 8th, and this is the campaign |
| 1:09.5 | moment. It's our new Friday politics chat here on post reports. |
| 1:13.5 | As usual, I am joined by senior political reporter |
| 1:16.1 | Aaron Blake. |
| 1:16.8 | Aaron, hello? |
| 1:18.2 | Good morning. |
| 1:19.0 | And Aaron also writes the campaign moment newsletter. |
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