“The Weakest Strongman.”
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🗓️ 31 August 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Trump cheers on violent supporters in Kenosha and Portland, Joe Biden gives a speech in Pennsylvania condemning violence and Trump, Covid outbreaks on college campuses get worse, and the White House weighs a strategy of herd immunity and a quick vaccine. Then Obama pollster Cornell Belcher talks to Jon Lovett about the state of the race after both conventions.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:20.1 | Welcome to Pod's Day of America, I'm John Fabra. |
| 0:22.1 | I'm John Lovey. |
| 0:23.1 | On today's pot, Lovey talks to former Obama-Polster Cornell Belcher about where the race stands after both conventions. |
| 0:28.6 | Before that, we'll talk about Trump's embrace of the violence in chaos in Kenosha and Portland. |
| 0:33.2 | Joe Biden's response and his return to the campaign trail and the latest COVID developments, |
| 0:37.4 | including the race to produce a vaccine before the year's over. |
| 0:41.7 | Tommy is out today. It is his birthday. |
| 0:44.7 | So, happy birthday, Tommy. |
| 0:47.1 | Happy birthday, Tom. |
| 0:49.4 | Love it. You had a lover leave it over the weekend? How was it? |
| 0:52.4 | John was great. |
| 0:55.9 | We had a carrot. |
| 0:57.2 | I'm waiting for something I'm going to ask you that you're going to be like, |
| 0:59.3 | it was pretty mediocre. |
| 1:01.2 | Listen, they can't, look, they can't all be, they can't all be perfect. |
| 1:04.9 | No, this is a great episode we had. |
| 1:06.3 | Cara Swisher came and judged the monologue and shared a story about Kim Gillfoil back in her days |
| 1:11.6 | from San Francisco. Alex Morse talked about his primary against House Ways and Means Chair |
| 1:17.1 | Richie Neal. We had Alicia Garza to talk about the protests and Guy Brannem and Aaron Ryan |
| 1:22.8 | joined to talk about the convention. It was a great up. It was a great up. |
| 1:25.6 | One quick note before we start, the conventions are over and a lot of states have less than one |
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