The GOP Operatives Toying With Trump, Hoping For A President Biden
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🗓️ 10 July 2020
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Summary
Several Republican-run groups including The Lincoln Project are opposing that campaign, running slick political ads aimed at an audience of one. Ari Shaprio explains.
And Asma Khalid reports GOP opposition to the President draws a lot of attention, but it's unclear whether voters are moved by the messaging.
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| 0:00.0 | Here's the argument from the governor of Florida. If Home Depot is open, why can't schools be open? |
| 0:07.0 | If fast food and Walmart and Home Depot and look, I do all that so I'm not going to look |
| 0:12.0 | down on it, but if all that is essential, then educating our kids is absolutely essential. |
| 0:18.0 | And they have been put to the back of the line in some respects. |
| 0:22.0 | Republican Governor Rhondis Antis, his state's education commissioner issued and order this |
| 0:26.8 | week requiring that schools plan to have students back in fall. The final decision is up to local |
| 0:32.7 | school boards, but still Florida is one of three states, along with California and Texas, that this |
| 0:38.9 | week also saw a record number of people die from COVID-19 in a single day. And sitting in a classroom |
| 0:46.7 | for eight hours, five days a week is different than shopping at Walmart. We open school in four weeks |
| 0:54.0 | here in the state of Florida and we do not want to be the petri dish for America. Miami-Dade County |
| 0:58.8 | teacher Frederick Ingram, he's also president of the state's largest teachers union. He says teachers |
| 1:04.5 | want to be back in the classroom safely. We have to attend to social distancing, hand washing |
| 1:11.3 | stations, smaller class sizes, and we know that that's going to cost money. Teachers say when |
| 1:15.6 | they're already paying for their own school supplies and in some cases their own PPE, it's going |
| 1:21.2 | to take more money than the governor has set aside. Meanwhile, the president is in Florida raising |
| 1:27.5 | money for his campaign coming up the opposition he is facing from inside his own party and whether |
| 1:33.6 | it will change people's minds about him. This is Consider This from NPR. I'm Kelly McEvers. It's Friday, |
| 1:40.2 | July 10th. |
| 1:42.2 | With everything that's going on, it can be hard to remember sometimes that we are less than four |
| 1:56.0 | months away from a presidential election. And a global pandemic is not the only thing that's |
| 2:01.7 | going to make that election different. My colleague Ari Shapiro has been looking into how the sitting |
| 2:06.7 | president is facing unprecedented opposition. And what's remarkable is that some of this opposition |
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