The Kamala Harris Campaign, Fraught Political Relationships, and the Last Days of the Biden 2024 Beat With Axios’s Alex Thompson

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🗓️ 25 July 2024

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On the Final Edition, Bryan welcomes Alex Thompson, a national political correspondent for Axios. They kick off the show by discussing coverage of the last two weeks, which included President Joe Biden dropping out of the race (1:14). Then he gets into the current relationship between Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris (16:24), the relationship between Biden and Barack Obama over the past few weeks (27:26), and what it will look like covering Harris now (32:14). Plus, David Shoemaker guesses another Strained-Pun Headline Host: Bryan Curtis Guest: Alex Thompson Producer: Brian H. Waters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.8	Hello media consumers, welcome to Press Box. Brian Curtis of the
0:34.9	Ringer here along with producer Brian Waters. Let us bring in our guest host
0:39.0	Alex Thompson, he is National Political Correspondent for Axios. He worked for Politico. He is part of the
0:46.8	Maureen Dowd coaching tree, and he has been writing some of the most interesting and must read
0:52.0	reporting on Joe Biden in the White House and
0:54.2	was doing that long before that very embattling debate.
0:58.0	Alex, welcome back to the press box.
1:01.2	Thanks so much for having me. I usually prefer to go into conversations with little expectations, but here we are.
1:07.0	Oh God, I'm going to do my best. I appreciate it.
1:10.0	All right Alex, I want to start with the period between the Biden Trump debate, which was on June 27th and
1:17.2	Biden dropping out of the race last weekend.
1:20.3	What was that three and a half weeks like for you to cover?
1:22.8	I hadn't done two all-nighters in a week since college
1:28.9	and I also, I think I had COVID, although it's very actually difficult to do the COVID tests now.
1:35.8	So I'm pretty sure I had COVID and I did two on aligners in a week, the week after the debate.
1:41.8	I've also done at least two omeiders in the week since.
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