The Campaign Moment: Trump picks Vance as running mate
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This week, amid calls for political unity and growing questions over presidential security, Trump faces one of the most consequential weeks in his campaign yet – the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where he will officially accept the Republican nomination for president.
Post Reports co-host Martine Powers speaks with senior political reporter Aaron Blake and political investigations and enterprise reporter Josh Dawsey from the convention. They explore the weight of the ongoing investigation into the attempted assassination, its larger implications and what to expect from the convention this week. Also, they discuss the dropped charges in a legal challenge regarding Trump’s handling of classified documents, and the announcement of Trump’s running mate: Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio.
Today’s show was produced by Laura Benshoff and Charla Freeland, and mixed by Sean Carter. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and Mary Jo Murphy. Thanks also to Ali Bianco.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Milwaukee. Hello. Good to be here. Hi, how are you? Can you tell me where we are right now? |
| 0:10.0 | We're in the Baird Center, which is a filing room for the media. |
| 0:14.4 | Gigantic cavernous convention center, yeah. |
| 0:18.4 | In Milwaukee. |
| 0:19.8 | We're not actually in the arena yet, but we will be later. We're just surrounded by lots of |
| 0:25.8 | computer cords and some grapes and other snacks that are supposed to get us through this |
| 0:31.3 | entire week. And may not be the most glamorous life that you're thinking about. |
| 0:35.0 | Dear listener. |
| 0:37.0 | Welcome to this special hybrid episode of Post Reports and the campaign moment. |
| 0:45.4 | It's Monday, July 15th. It is a special episode because we're here in Milwaukee for |
| 0:50.7 | the RNC. I'm Martin Powers. I'm the co-host of Post |
| 0:54.0 | reports. And I'm Aaron Blake, senior political reporter and author of the |
| 0:57.7 | campaign moment newsletter. By the way, as the convention is kicking off this |
| 1:01.9 | week, this is a great time for you to |
| 1:03.6 | subscribe to both the campaign moment newsletter and the campaign moment |
| 1:07.7 | podcast feed will be having lots more content than usual as we ramp up |
| 1:12.1 | this campaign season. |
| 1:14.0 | Yes. |
| 1:15.0 | It's very exciting. |
| 1:16.0 | And right now we also have with us Josh Dossie who is a political investigations |
| 1:21.0 | and enterprise reporter here at the post Josh thank you for being with us |
| 1:25.2 | hey how are you good morning good morning |
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