The Campaign Moment: The evolving battle for the Senate
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 27 September 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
“Post Reports” co-host Elahe Izadi and senior political reporter Aaron Blake talk with Senate reporter Liz Goodwin about how Senate Democrats are feeling ahead of the November election. They also dig into the politics of New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s indictment and preview what to expect in next week’s first – and likely only – vice presidential debate.
Today’s show was produced by Laura Benshoff and mixed by Sam Bair. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and Mary Jo Murphy.
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| 0:00.0 | So I had a moment this week where it hit me how close election day is and it was when I went to the |
| 0:08.6 | grocery store and I bought half and half and I saw that it expired after election day. |
| 0:14.0 | And I'm curious of either of you have had this experience |
| 0:18.0 | where something happened and you're like, |
| 0:19.0 | oh my gosh, this thing we've been talking about for years |
| 0:22.0 | is about to happen. |
| 0:23.2 | I'm, when I'm buying half and half, I'm usually not thinking about anything. |
| 0:27.0 | It's like, it's the most mindless portion of my day. |
| 0:30.8 | That's the one time I can like tune myself out. |
| 0:33.0 | Yeah, I feel like for me it's just people finally starting to care about Senate races. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm like, oh, I guess it's close. |
| 0:40.0 | It's about... |
| 0:41.0 | So no one cares about Senate races until like three days before election. |
| 0:47.0 | Welcome to the campaign moment on this Friday, September 27th. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm Elahai I'm Elahayizadi, co-host of Post Reports. |
| 1:00.0 | And I'm Aaron Blake, senior political reporter and author of the campaign moment newsletter. |
| 1:04.8 | We're also joined this week by Liz Goodwin who covers the Senate for the Post. |
| 1:09.1 | Hey Liz. |
| 1:10.1 | Hello. |
| 1:10.5 | Today we are going to talk about the Senate, including what Democrats are doing to try to keep |
| 1:19.3 | control of the chamber. |
| 1:21.5 | You know, we talk a lot about the presidential race but talking |
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