What To Know About The Republican National Convention
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 23 August 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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This episode: congressional correspondent Susan Davis, White House reporter Ayesha Rascoe, and senior editor & correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Brad from the South Bronx. I just hit 1500 miles on my daily pandemic bike ride |
| 0:06.2 | from Yankee Stadium to the southern tip of Manhattan and back. This podcast was recorded |
| 0:11.4 | at 2.21 pm on Sunday, August 23rd. Things may have changed by the time you hear this, |
| 0:17.6 | but I'll still be writing my bike down to take a picture of the Statue of Liberty almost every day. |
| 0:22.6 | All right, here's the show. I think I got a little fluster. Did he say 1500 miles? |
| 0:31.6 | That's a long way from Yankee Stadium to the bottom tip of Manhattan. That is all right. |
| 0:37.9 | That's great. No congratulations. I've been I've started working out a little bit. I'm kind of proud of myself. |
| 0:43.5 | Can feel in the fitness in. You know, just to try to like run away from the pandemic. |
| 0:49.3 | Hey, there. It's the MPR Politics podcast. I'm Susan Davis. I cover Congress. I'm Ayesha Roscoe. I cover |
| 0:56.9 | the White House and I'm Dominican Montenoro Senior Political Editor and Correspondent. So this week, |
| 1:01.8 | the Republican National Convention kicks off in Charlotte, North Carolina. And we know that President |
| 1:07.6 | Trump really, really wanted to have an in-person traditional convention experience, but that didn't |
| 1:14.2 | really work out. So Ayesha, what do we know about how the convention is going to go this week? So |
| 1:19.4 | they didn't get to do, you know, a big thing in Charlotte or briefly they were going to do something |
| 1:24.8 | in Jacksonville. That didn't work out. But what they are going to do is they're going to have a |
| 1:29.7 | series of nights focused on, you know, America, land of greatness, land of opportunity, and, you know, |
| 1:37.5 | these different themes for each night. And so President Trump is traveling to North Carolina tomorrow. |
| 1:42.8 | You know, he may be stopping at the convention to speak in Charlotte. There is going to be a |
| 1:49.4 | roll call tomorrow in Charlotte. And so we will see that. And then on the various nights, like you're |
| 1:56.4 | going to have on Wednesday night, you'll have Vice President Pence speaking in Baltimore at Fort |
| 2:02.2 | McKinney. And you will have President Trump speaking on Thursday night, delivering his keynote |
| 2:07.8 | at the White House on the White House long. Dominica, what do we know about what's going to happen |
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