The Campaign Moment: The next steps for Democrats
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This is a special episode of The Campaign Moment dedicated to answering the questions on everyone’s minds about what happens next now that Harris is the Democrats’ potential nominee.
Senior political reporter Aaron Blake, who writes The Post's new Campaign Moment newsletter, and Colby Itkowitz, who covers voting and elections on the democracy team, sit down with Post Reports co-host Elahe Izadi. They talk about how Harris polls against Trump, what it means for her to take over a campaign that was designed for President Biden, and how the GOP is reacting to her campaign.
Today’s show was produced by Laura Benshoff. It was mixed by Sean Carter. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and Mary Jo Murphy. Thanks also to Trinity Webster-Bass.
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| 0:00.0 | Where were you and how did you learn that President Biden was dropping out of the race? |
| 0:09.1 | I was shopping and I left my phone in my car and the moment I realized I had done that I knew this was going to happen |
| 0:16.7 | during the period in which I was away from my phone. Oh my gosh, Colby? So I had been coming off of five days of solo parenting, and my husband had gotten home 10 minutes |
| 0:28.7 | prior. |
| 0:29.7 | Honey, I'm home. |
| 0:31.6 | I had prepared an afternoon of like yoga and I was going to go get a manicure and I was just going to really reward myself for parenting alone for five days. |
| 0:40.3 | The opposite happened. And then I worked all night. |
| 0:43.4 | We'll get to yoga at some point, I'm sure. |
| 0:45.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:45.8 | Welcome to the campaign moment on this Tuesday July 23rd. I'm Alahay Azati co-host of |
| 0:57.3 | Post reports. And I'm Aaron Blake, senior politics reporter and author of the campaign |
| 1:02.0 | moment newsletter. |
| 1:03.4 | We're also joined today by someone you've heard from before, Colby It Quitz, who covers voting |
| 1:08.1 | and elections on the Democracy team here at the Washington Post. |
| 1:11.9 | Hey Colby. Hey, thanks for having me guys. |
| 1:14.0 | Big day. |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah, big day. |
| 1:17.8 | And today we are bringing you an episode of the campaign moment and dropping it simultaneously in the post reports feed early this |
| 1:25.2 | week we normally come to you Friday and that's because there is so much news to |
| 1:29.6 | get into so let's get right into it. So we're just days out from Sunday's bombshell |
| 1:35.0 | when President Biden announced that he would no longer |
| 1:38.0 | be seeking re-election for a second term. |
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