The Campaign Moment: The online army helping Harris
Post Reports
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🗓️ 26 July 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Post Reports co-host Martine Powers sits down with senior political reporter Aaron Blake and Maeve Reston, a national political reporter covering the 2024 presidential race. They talk about how Vice President Harris may tackle the Israel-Gaza conflict, new polling on the Harris-Trump matchup, and how Gen Z influencers and memes may engage young voters and buoy Harris’s campaign.
Today’s episode was produced by Laura Benshoff and mixed by Rennie Svirnovskiy. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and Mary Jo Murphy. Thanks also to Trinity Webster-Bass and Drew Harwell.
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| 0:00.0 | So I have to say this is my first day back at work after I took a few days off after the |
| 0:07.8 | RNC. I was like, it's been a really busy, crazy few weeks in political news like, good time for me to take a breather. |
| 0:16.3 | And I think I might have missed a little bit of news while I was gone. |
| 0:19.5 | Just a tiny bit. |
| 0:20.5 | A couple things happened, yeah. |
| 0:21.5 | Well, not only was it obviously the Harris thing but this |
| 0:24.0 | whole like brat green like I feel like I no longer like I came back three days later |
| 0:29.2 | and I no longer understand anything that's on the internet we're all in this |
| 0:32.2 | together martine and I'm glad that somebody who's young understand anything that's on the internet. We're all in this together, Martin, |
| 0:33.1 | and I'm glad that somebody who's younger than me, |
| 0:35.5 | like you, is also going through this process. |
| 0:38.1 | We are aligned in this. |
| 0:39.4 | And I think it's also like all the elected officials too are having their younger staffers sort of |
| 0:46.1 | translate the memes for them in real time. Can I get that like can I have |
| 0:51.1 | someone who whose job is to just explain to me these |
| 0:54.9 | memes I feel like that would be very useful to me. |
| 0:59.4 | Welcome to the campaign moment on this Friday July 26th. I'm Martine Powers co-host |
| 1:06.1 | at Post reports and folks might be able to hear I am just getting over a cold so |
| 1:10.2 | excuse my voice. And I'm Aaron Blake, senior politics reporter and author of the campaign |
| 1:14.8 | moment newsletter. We're also joined this week by Maeve Reston, who's a national political reporter |
| 1:19.5 | who covers the 2024 presidential race. |
| 1:22.6 | Hey, Ma'am! |
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