Trump Wants To Change Who Counts When Dividing Up Seats In Congress

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🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

President Trump gave a more sober briefing about the coronavirus Tuesday evening, though it still contained inaccuracies. He said, months into the pandemic, that the White House is working on a strategy. And President Trump released a memorandum Tuesday that calls for the exclusion of unauthorized immigrants from the numbers used to divide up seats in Congress among the states.

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, White House correspondent Ayesha Rascoe, senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro, and national correspondent Hansi Lo Wang.

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0:00.0	It's Alyssia Abbott, calling from the dog park in Levin, New Zealand, where I'm walking my two dogs.
0:06.0	This podcast was recorded at 206 PM on July 22nd.
0:11.0	Things may have changed by the time you hear it.
0:14.0	Okay, Mr. Sulu, introduce the show. Speak!
0:19.0	Good boy!
0:23.0	What a good boy!
0:25.0	That was a very good boy.
0:26.0	Yeah. Hey there, this is the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:29.0	I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House.
0:31.0	I'm Ayesir Asco, I also cover the White House.
0:34.0	And I'm Dominic Lamont, our Senior Political Editor and Correspondent.
0:37.0	For the first time in nearly three months, President Trump held a coronavirus briefing last night.
0:42.0	And he's got another one planned for tonight. He read from notes, and he addressed the spiking cases in the Sun Belt directly.
0:49.0	He even said this.
0:51.0	America's youth will act responsibly, and we're asking everybody that when you are not able to socially distance yourself,
0:58.0	get a socially distance wear a mask, get a mask.
1:01.0	Whether you like the mask or not, they have an impact, they'll have an effect, and we need everything we can get.
1:08.0	So Ayesha, what's changed?
1:11.0	I think what changed is that the polls showed Trump tanking really badly against, you know, his opponent, Joe Biden.
1:23.0	And I think that a lot of that had to do with his handling of the coronavirus response.
1:31.0	And what the public was saying that they were not satisfied with his response.
1:36.0	And so what we got yesterday was some people, he didn't have a teleprompter.
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