The DNC Starts Tomorrow. Here's What To Watch For.
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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Birdie Condon, a home birth midwife in the Hudson Valley of New York. |
| 0:05.2 | My colleagues and I are waiting for a bunch of babies known as the coronials to arrive. |
| 0:09.6 | In January, we'll be expecting a bumper crop of babies known as quarantines. |
| 0:14.3 | This podcast was recorded at... |
| 0:16.1 | It's at 216 Eastern on Sunday, August 16th. |
| 0:20.3 | Hopefully we'll have welcomed some new New Yorkers by the time you hear this. |
| 0:24.1 | Here's the show. |
| 0:25.1 | That's just what Trump wants in time for the election. |
| 0:30.8 | New New Yorkers. |
| 0:31.8 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:34.9 | I'm Scott Detro. |
| 0:35.9 | I cover the presidential campaign. |
| 0:37.3 | I must be my colleague. |
| 0:38.3 | I also cover the campaign. |
| 0:39.7 | And I'm Dominican Montenoro, senior political editor and correspondent. |
| 0:43.1 | So we're together on a Sunday because tomorrow the Democratic National Convention gets underway |
| 0:47.9 | and we all plan to be in Milwaukee right now. |
| 0:51.4 | Actually, we plan to be in Milwaukee a month ago. |
| 0:54.4 | And we plan to be in Milwaukee right now. |
| 0:56.0 | Then fewer of us plan to be in Milwaukee right now than nobody planned to be in Milwaukee |
| 0:59.3 | because this has shrunk and shrunk and shrunk because of the coronavirus. |
| 1:03.6 | So before we talk about that and what the Democrats are trying to accomplish here, can |
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