The Campaign Moment: The MAGA purge of the GOP
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 5 April 2024
⏱️ 33 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 during the 2024 campaign. Senior political reporter Aaron Blake, the author of The Post’s newsletter by the same name, chats with Martine Powers and national political reporter Isaac Arnsdorf about the tension between U.S. District Court Judge Aileen M. Cannon and special counsel Jack Smith. The two have been at odds over the Trump team’s claim that the Presidential Records Act applies to classified documents the former president brought to his private residence in Florida. They also discuss Biden’s new abortion ad and dig into what actually happens if Trump continues to violate gag orders. Finally, Isaac gets into the details of his new book, which reveals how MAGA Republicans see an opportunity to change the party from the local level up.
Find out more about Isaac’s new book, “Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy” here.
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Today’s show was produced and mixed by Ted Muldoon. It was edited by Renita Jablonski and Allison Michaels.
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| 0:00.0 | So did you guys hear about this whole thing of like House Republicans trying to |
| 0:07.9 | rename the airport like Dulles Airport after Trump? You know on the list of things that I would want to be named after me, I think Dulles Airport would probably be |
| 0:18.0 | towards the bottom. |
| 0:20.0 | Really? There's like a waste facility that could be named after you that might be a little bit better |
| 0:24.3 | Hot take I really like those airport. Oh my gosh it's an architectural marvel I agree with this |
| 0:30.2 | Delos is a beautiful airport I'm questioning how much you guys fly out of that airport |
| 0:34.6 | because I totally disagree. |
| 0:37.5 | Yeah, I say that now and then I go into kayak and I'm like, |
| 0:39.6 | nope, not fly out of dollars. I'm going to the campaign moment on this Friday, April 5th. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm Martine Powers, co-host of Post Reports. |
| 0:52.9 | And I'm Aaron Blake, senior political reporter at the post. |
| 0:56.5 | I also write the campaign moment newsletter. |
| 0:59.4 | And rounding out the group this week |
| 1:00.9 | is National Political reporter Isaac Arnstorf. |
| 1:04.0 | Thanks for being here, Isaac. |
| 1:05.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:07.0 | Karen, you're forgetting Isaac's most important title, which is former co-editor of mine from our college newspaper. |
| 1:16.0 | I did not know that way back. |
| 1:18.0 | What what's the name of it? |
| 1:20.0 | We don't have to. |
| 1:22.0 | It's not the crimson, is it's definitely not okay yeah the Yale |
| 1:25.8 | daily news oh okay good kill more girls fame I thought you were gonna say |
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