Trump Threatens To Move The Republican National Convention
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Meanwhile Democrats weigh options for how they may host their own convention.
This episode: Congressional correspondent Susan Davis, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, and political reporter Juana Summers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Burnley from Evanston, Illinois, and I am relearning the trombone at home |
| 0:19.2 | after a gap of many decades. |
| 0:22.4 | This particular episode was recorded at... |
| 0:26.5 | ...206 PM on Tuesday, May 26th. |
| 0:37.9 | I have to admit, all I can think right now is I wonder how his neighbors feel about |
| 0:52.1 | him taking up the trombone at this particular moment. |
| 0:55.2 | Hopefully there's some space, hopefully he doesn't share any walls with anybody. |
| 0:59.0 | Maybe he can go outside and play a little concert. |
| 1:01.2 | It'd be fine. |
| 1:02.2 | Find your joy. |
| 1:03.2 | Just find your joy. |
| 1:04.2 | Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast, Susan Davis, I cover Congress. |
| 1:08.1 | I'm Tamra Keith, I cover the White House. |
| 1:10.1 | And I'm Wanda Summers, I cover demographics and culture. |
| 1:12.8 | So states are slowly beginning to reopen, but this idea that we would start having large |
| 1:17.6 | mass gatherings still seems like it could be a way off. |
| 1:21.0 | And that's forcing Republicans and Democrats to rethink what they're going to do with their |
| 1:25.4 | nominating conventions this summer. |
| 1:28.2 | And Tam, all I can think is, please don't be done on Zoom. |
| 1:32.6 | Oh, oh, God. |
| 1:34.6 | Please don't tell me we're going to have Zoom conventions. |
| 1:37.7 | It would certainly be sanitary. |
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