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The Conversation with Dasha Burns

The political system vs. COVID-19

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

News, Government, Politics

4.01.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

COVID-19 has upended daily life in the United States. On this week's Nerdcast, we're talking about how the virus is altering politics: from chaotic or canceled 2020 primaries to its reverberations in the White House and on Capitol Hill. Host Scott Bland is joined by reporters Zach Montellaro, Nancy Cook and editor Ben Weyl. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I just was getting more and more antsy as we moved through and I could you know I was

0:07.6

watching who used the hand sanitizer when they got in and who didn't.

0:11.6

Hey nerdcasters this is Christina.

0:15.0

People were asking the question, should I vote, should I not vote.

0:18.0

They say there are only two constants in life, and that's death and taxes.

0:22.0

But elections have to be up there pretty close right? But

0:26.1

imagine there's a global health crisis and there's a primary election going on in your state,

0:31.7

say Illinois and your state has decided not to cancel it.

0:37.0

Going into vote I had done, I had made all these maybe crazy precautions but I had brought my

0:41.8

own pen, I was ready to not touch anything and

0:44.2

then it was a touch screen voting booth.

0:47.3

And on the one hand you got people telling you to stay home and stay away from people. But on the other hand this is your only

0:55.5

chance maybe for years to vote on some of the issues you care about. You know many

0:59.7

have said that that Biden is a foregone conclusion at this point but I am a Bernie supporter and I felt like it was an important last attempt to try to get someone more progressive in that office.

1:11.0

And then in Illinois we had also a lot of local things to vote for.

1:15.4

Several judicial positions, just judges and also county clerk and state attorney.

1:19.7

It felt like there were just too many small things at stake to miss it.

1:23.2

Christina did get her I voted bracelet.

1:25.7

And I was really nervous about if I should take it and didn't know who had touched it.

1:29.7

But I did take it and I did put it on, but I did hand sanitize right afterwards.

1:35.0

And I think we're all feeling right now all the many, many ways in which the coronavirus

1:41.0

has upended daily life. I am, for example, recording this under a blanket

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