The Campaign Moment: Trump's convention, Biden's crisis
Post Reports
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🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Democrats flipped the typical convention script this week, dominating the news during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
Following the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump at a rally Saturday, the GOP aimed to send a message of unity to the party faithful. In his acceptance speech, Trump initially seemed somber, telling the crowd, “I’m not supposed to be here tonight.” They chanted back, “Yes, you are.” But he quickly regained his normal campaign posture, hammering Democrats over immigration and the economy. Meanwhile, new reporting from The Post shows that Biden is hearing concerns about his fitness to lead the ticket from senior Democratic figures like former House speaker Nancy Pelosi and former president Barack Obama.
Martine Powers and Aaron Blake, senior political reporter and writer of The Campaign Moment newsletter, speak with Dan Balz, the chief correspondent covering national politics, the presidency and Congress at The Post.
Today’s show was produced by Laura Benshoff and Charla Freeland. It was edited by Reena Flores and Lucy Perkins and mixed by Sam Bair.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, we've seen allusions to what happened Saturday in Pennsylvania repeatedly this week. |
| 0:07.0 | I think the first day they kind of eased into it because they wanted to have the big moment where he came out with the bandage on his ear. |
| 0:13.7 | That was... |
| 0:14.7 | Which we've done reporting that like people in the audience are also now... |
| 0:17.0 | They're now wearing their own bandages. |
| 0:18.3 | This is like the wardrobe item of the convention. |
| 0:22.1 | Which has like a throwback to Nellie if you're familiar with the Nellie. |
| 0:25.0 | Oh now, we have a cultural reference that we both know. |
| 0:28.0 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 0:29.0 | Early 2000. |
| 0:30.0 | Wasn't it the band-aid under the eye? |
| 0:31.0 | Wasn't that it? |
| 0:32.0 | Something like that. Okay, we can check that out. |
| 0:34.0 | Welcome to the campaign moment on this Friday July 19th. I'm Martin Powers, co-host of Post Reports. |
| 0:44.0 | And I'm Aaron Blake, senior political reporter and author of the campaign moment newsletter. |
| 0:49.0 | We're joined today by the perfect person to break down this very complicated, very bifurcated moment in our |
| 0:56.5 | politics where we're torn between what's happening with Republicans and Democrats. |
| 1:00.7 | It's a man who's forgotten more about politics than I'll ever know. |
| 1:04.3 | Our chief correspondent for national politics here at the post. |
| 1:08.1 | Dan Waltz, hey Dan. |
| 1:09.7 | Hey, Aaron. |
| 1:11.0 | Dan, thank you so much for being here. |
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