The Campaign Moment: Trump VP chatter, the Biden impeachment inquiry and more
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
It’s Friday, so it’s time for “The Campaign Moment” – a new weekly roundtable conversation to help you keep track of the biggest political news in this campaign year. Senior political reporter Aaron Blake, who writes The Post’s new newsletter by the same name, and senior national political correspondent Ashley Parker sit down with Martine Powers to discuss the expectations for this weekend’s South Carolina Republican presidential primary, the chatter on who is on former president Donald Trump’s list of potential running mates and the latest in the Republican House-led impeachment inquiry of President Biden.
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Today’s show was produced and mixed by Ted Muldoon. It was edited by Renita Jablonski.
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| 0:00.0 | So I assume that you guys saw the news about Trump having a sneaker now that he's like |
| 0:08.0 | selling a signature sneaker. It's very gold, it has an American flag on the side. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm curious, if Biden were to have a signature shoe, |
| 0:19.0 | what shoe do you think that would be? |
| 0:21.0 | Oh boy, it's got to be the super old style new |
| 0:26.0 | gray new balance shoes that my dad wore for had to be 30 years and he was so loyal to this brand and he didn't care that they |
| 0:35.2 | looked like old man sneakers. Oh my gosh, that's so harsh. I was thinking like a |
| 0:40.0 | loafer, a boat shoe. Although I I don't know, he kind of has random cool impulses with his cars, his fast cars, so maybe like, I don't know, a throwback, like a pump hightop. |
| 0:52.0 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:52.8 | Did those actually work? |
| 0:53.8 | Did that actually do anything for you? |
| 0:55.2 | I don't even know. |
| 0:56.2 | I was never, my mom would never let me buy them. |
| 0:59.3 | Never found out. |
| 1:00.6 | No. and this is the campaign moment. A new segment that we're doing every Friday |
| 1:14.4 | here on post reports to talk about all things politics. Every week you will be |
| 1:19.2 | hearing from my colleague Senior Political reporter Aaron Blake. |
| 1:23.0 | Aaron, hello, thank you for being here. |
| 1:25.0 | Hey, Martin. |
| 1:26.0 | And today we also have senior national political correspondent Ashley Parker. |
| 1:30.0 | Hi, thanks so much for having you guys. |
| 1:45.7 | So part of the idea of the campaign moment is for us to talk about like a moment that has happened this week that feels like it is embodying what is happening in politics and in the presidential race right now. |
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