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The Conversation with Dasha Burns

The politics of a pandemic

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

News, Government, Politics

4.01.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Guest host Eugene Daniels talks with national political correspondent David Siders about how, three months in, the coronavirus crisis is simultaneously upending and reaffirming political allegiances. Eugene Daniels is a political reporter for POLITICO.David Siders is a national political correspondent for POLITICO.Annie Rees is a producer for POLITICO Audio. Jenny Ament is the senior producer of POLITICO audio.Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

How much worse will this get from a public health standpoint?

0:05.0

Will the President's playbook work from a political standpoint?

0:09.0

It's really regrettable to think that a global pandemic has to be turned into a red state blue

0:14.1

state issue but that's the world we live in right now. Please don't turn this

0:17.5

into some kind of culture war, a political divisive issue where certain left-leaning

0:22.4

people are wearing masks or bright-leaning people are wearing masks,

0:23.4

or the bright-leaning people are not wearing masks.

0:25.4

If we don't get to work, you don't get to work.

0:28.4

Freedom is essential.

0:29.7

But this is an election year.

0:31.4

And it's unwillingly that we're taking unemployment.

0:35.2

We want to go back to work.

0:36.6

There's really a stunning gap between the Republicans and the Democrats

0:40.2

about their conventions that are coming up this summer.

0:43.0

President Trump threatening to pull the Republican National Convention from North Carolina

0:48.0

if the governor there cannot guarantee now that full attendance would be possible.

0:53.5

The president tweeted that mail-in ballots could be, quote,

0:55.6

substantially fraudulent.

0:57.2

However, fact-checkers say there is no evidence that mail-in ballots are linked to voter fraud.

1:04.0

The latest Fox presidential campaign poll shows Joe Biden with an 8-point lead over Donald

1:09.5

Trump.

1:10.5

The president is feuding with governors, with Democrats. States are continuing re-open.

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