Trump Visits Mask Factory In Arizona, A 2020 Battleground
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, and national political correspondents Mara Liasson and Don Gonyea.
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| 0:42.4 | This is Chloe, calling from beautiful Asheville, North Carolina, where I'm spending my extra time |
| 0:48.4 | in isolation taking care of a new flock of chicks, including Eleanor Roosteville, |
| 0:54.5 | 30 Sanders, and Ruth Bader Hensberg. This podcast was recorded at 2.14 pm on Tuesday, |
| 1:03.1 | the 5th of May, Syncodamayo. Things may have changed by the time you hear this. Now here's the show. |
| 1:12.5 | Let's not chicken out or anything. I have like this text chain with all of my neighbors, |
| 1:18.0 | and we have been talking at length about how we want to get chickens. Okay, that's a sign, Tam. |
| 1:23.2 | Hmm, I'm a little afraid now. Hey there, it's the NPR politics podcast. I'm Tamer Keith. I cover |
| 1:28.8 | the White House. I'm Mara Liason, National Political Correspondent, and I'm Don Gagne, also |
| 1:34.3 | National Political Correspondent. President Trump is in Arizona today. Technically at the time of |
| 1:40.0 | this recording, he is on his way to Arizona to visit a facility that has expanded into the |
| 1:46.6 | production of N95 respirator face masks. It's his first flight on Air Force One in more than a month. |
| 1:56.0 | Mara, let's start with what is motivating this trip? Well, first of all, the president really |
| 2:02.7 | wants to get out of Washington. And so he's been able to do that. He has a couple motivations. He |
| 2:08.0 | wants to tell a positive story, first of all, about the economy, which he believes is opening up, |
| 2:13.9 | and will be doing great by the fall. So he says, also to show how well his administration is |
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