The Campaign Moment: Trump’s ‘is she Black?’ attack
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🗓️ 2 August 2024
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Summary
In an interview with panelists at the National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago, former president Donald Trump questioned Vice President Harris’s racial identity, saying she only recently started calling herself Black. Also, the leader of Project 2025, the controversial right-wing policy group, is stepping down. And the Harris campaign has hit some major fundraising goals and is expected to announce her running mate any day now.
Plus, read The Post’s exclusive investigation into a secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt here.
Co-host Martine Powers talks with reporters Issac Arnsdorf, who covers Trump, and Tyler Pager, who covers the White House, about what to make of it all.
Today’s show was produced by Laura Benshoff. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and Mary Jo Murphy and mixed by Rennie Svirnovskiy. Thanks also to Ali Bianco.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm just curious, have you guys just stopped making plans for the weekend, knowing that |
| 0:09.1 | invariably there will be some major political news that breaks sometime between Saturday evening and |
| 0:15.4 | Sunday afternoon? I have canceled many trips in the past few months. Oh no. |
| 0:20.6 | Yeah we have just sort of come to the understanding that there will be limited travel beyond |
| 0:26.3 | campaign travel. |
| 0:27.3 | Isaac I was thinking about you because I write the announcement of Biden dropping out of the race |
| 0:32.3 | was your birthday weekend? |
| 0:34.0 | Well luckily I don't cover the Democrats. |
| 0:36.2 | Welcome to the campaign moment. It's Friday, August 2nd. I'm Martin Powers, one of the hosts of Post reports. |
| 0:49.0 | And this week my usual counterpart, Senior Politics reporter Aaron Blake, is on a well-deserved vacation. |
| 0:55.0 | So instead, I am joined by two of the post's top political reporters. |
| 0:59.8 | First we have Isaac Arnstorf, who covers former President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. We have with us |
| 1:04.4 | an artesdorf who covers former President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. |
| 1:04.8 | Isaac hello. |
| 1:05.8 | Hi Martin. |
| 1:06.8 | And we also have with us today White House reporter Tyler Pager. |
| 1:10.0 | Tyler, thank you for being here. |
| 1:11.2 | Thanks for having me. So, later in today's show, we're going to talk about the enthusiasm bump for Vice President Kamla Harris's campaign and we're also |
| 1:25.2 | going to touch on her search for a running mate which to me feels like the most |
| 1:29.6 | likely target of a thing that's going to ruin everyone's weekend this coming weekend. |
| 1:34.1 | Well, we're prepared and as we've discussed, a few weekend plans outside of work for the next few months. |
| 1:40.6 | Probably wise. |
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