The Pandemic and the Primary

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Two weeks ago, the biggest story in the country was the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Now, with the dramatic onset of the coronavirus crisis, the primary has largely gone off the radar. Today, we talk to Alexander Burns, a political reporter at The New York Times, about what happened when those two stories collided. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: In a presidential debate without an in-person audience earlier this month, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Senator Bernie Sanders clashed over how to handle the coronavirus crisis. With so much news, you may have missed the debate — here are six takeaways to catch you up.Mr. Sanders is now reassessing his campaign as Mr. Biden plans for the nomination, announcing he will pick a woman as his running mate should he be chosen as the candidate.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Obaro. This is The Daily.
0:04.0	Today, two weeks ago, the biggest story in the country was the Democratic Presidential
0:16.9	Primary. Now, with the coronavirus, it's been largely forgotten.
0:23.3	Alex Burns on what happened when those two stories collided.
0:32.6	It's Monday, March 23rd.
0:37.4	Hello.
0:41.6	Hello, Michael.
0:43.6	Hey. It's always nice to be heralded by a bing, you know?
0:49.8	Is that not your usual entrance into calls and random things?
0:55.4	Usually it's trumps.
0:58.0	I feel like every day pretty much for two weeks, we would talk on the show and then poof,
1:02.5	we have this unplanned hiatus and you go away.
1:06.8	And so I kind of miss you a lot.
1:09.6	It's a particularly painful kind of social isolation for me at least.
1:13.9	So bring us up to speed on the Democratic primary.
1:18.8	How would you describe the current state of the race?
1:21.9	Well, it's pretty close to over at this point.
1:25.7	Joe Biden has emerged as the overwhelming favorite to be the Democratic nominee.
1:30.8	He clearly has a support from the majority of the party, wide lead in the delicate count.
1:35.8	And Bernie Sanders has not conceded the race, but he's acknowledged that he is sort of
1:41.6	reassessing his campaign and that's often the first stage in the process of winding things
1:46.5	down.
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