The Campaign Moment: The GOP's Marjorie Taylor Greene problem
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🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Elahe Izadi chats with Aaron Blake, author of the Post newsletter The Campaign Moment, and national politics reporter Colby Itkowitz. They delve into the most important political moments of this past week. Listen for these conversations most Fridays during the 2024 campaign.
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. Senior political reporter Aaron Blake, who writes The Post’s new newsletter by the same name, Post Reports co-host Elahe Izadi and national politics reporter Colby Itkowitz sit down to talk about Tuesday’s congressional primaries, the latest presidential polling, the right’s reckoning with Marjorie Taylor Greene, and the potential effect on the presidential campaign from the protests on college campuses. Follow “The Campaign Moment” podcast feed as well to catch bonus episodes from Aaron.
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Today’s show was produced and mixed by Rennie Svirnovskiy. It was edited by Renita Jablonski and Allison Michaels.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so this weekend is the White House Correspondents Dinner where comedian Colin Jost will be |
| 0:11.0 | roasting the President and the Washington press corps. |
| 0:14.2 | So I wanted to ask you guys if there was one person or an entity that you could have |
| 0:20.5 | roasted by a professional comedian, who or what would it be. |
| 0:25.3 | Aaron? |
| 0:26.3 | Oh boy, give me a second. |
| 0:28.8 | I would want roasted the giant pandas that were at the National Zoo because I just think they're |
| 0:35.0 | overrated and it's time for them to be taken down a peg. Wow I think this |
| 0:39.8 | podcast just got cancelled. Would you like to say some mean things about Caitlin Clark |
| 0:46.8 | or maybe puppy dogs at this point? Absolutely not. I'm not going to say their name, but there was, it's very weird the things that you hold |
| 0:57.5 | on to, but there was a teacher that I had when I was young who did not like a very specific report that I had done and it was about Wales. |
| 1:05.0 | I remember it very vividly and I am still bitter about that |
| 1:10.0 | 30 years later and I would like for that teacher to be roasted very badly. |
| 1:14.4 | Aaron's third grade teacher. I didn't say third grade you know who you are if you're |
| 1:18.8 | listening. Erin you're going to hear from that teacher later today. I have a feeling. |
| 1:23.4 | Potentially with an apology. I hope so. |
| 1:27.0 | Welcome to the campaign moment. This is Friday, 26 and I'm Alahay Azotti. |
| 1:35.6 | And hi I'm Aaron Blake also along for the ride and the campaign moment this week is |
| 1:40.3 | Colby Ickowitz National Politics reporter for the post. |
| 1:44.0 | Hey guys. |
| 1:47.0 | So, Aaron, what are we talking about this week? |
| 1:54.0 | Well, this week we are going to take a little bit of a break from the Trump-Manhattan |
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