The Campaign Moment: Swing voters on Trump's verdict plus Biden's border order
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 7 June 2024
⏱️ 34 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.
This week, we hear directly from some undecided voters about how Donald Trump’s criminal conviction lands with them. Senior political reporter Aaron Blake, who writes The Washington Post's new Campaign Moment newsletter, and Isaac Arnsdorf, who covers Trump and the MAGA movement for The Post, sit down with co-host Martine Powers. They also discuss Stephen K. Bannon’s upcoming stint in prison, as well as President Biden’s executive order curtailing asylum and its implications for the campaign.
Today’s show was produced and mixed by Ted Muldoon.
It was edited by Renita Jablonski 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 this week a speech made by Congressman John Rose of Tennessee |
| 0:08.9 | on the floor of the House. |
| 0:10.5 | Mr Speaker, I rise today to address the terrible precedent set in our country four days ago. |
| 0:17.9 | It was about Trump's conviction and he was expressing outrage about the conviction, but behind him was his son who's six, who was |
| 0:26.8 | making crazy faces at the camera as the speech is going on. |
| 0:32.0 | He later told our colleague that he was making these faces |
| 0:34.7 | because his dad's speech was, quote, so boring. |
| 0:38.3 | What did you guys make of this moment? |
| 0:40.2 | I was impressed that he like totally figured out where the camera was and was mugging directly for it. |
| 0:45.3 | He knew exactly what he was doing. |
| 0:46.6 | I am very anti bring your child to work day and I think if this were my son he would definitely lose his iPad for a day. |
| 0:55.3 | That was my reaction. I do feel like having grown up in a pretty strict West Indian household |
| 1:00.5 | that like I would actually have been murdered if I did this behind my |
| 1:05.1 | parents while they were on national television. |
| 1:09.4 | This is the campaign moment and it's Friday, June 7th. I'm Martine Powers, co-host of Post Reports. |
| 1:20.0 | And I'm Aaron Blake, senior politics reporter and author of the campaign moment newsletter. |
| 1:24.8 | We're also joined this week by Isaac Arnstorf, a national political reporter at the post who covers |
| 1:30.3 | Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. Hey Isaac. |
| 1:33.0 | Hey, thanks for having me back. |
| 1:36.0 | So of course we started each episode each week asking about what our campaign moment of the week was. |
| 1:42.0 | And Aaron, I want to start with you. What was... what was the big thing that you were paying attention to this week? |
| 1:47.0 | Well we've been monitoring all week the fallout from Donald Trump's conviction |
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