Why Harris And Trump Are Dumping Cash, Time Into Pennsylvania
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Patrick in Wilmington, North Carolina, and I'm on my back porch listening to the chorus of frogs. |
| 0:08.0 | This podcast was recorded at... |
| 0:10.0 | 104 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, September 4th, 2024. |
| 0:15.0 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, |
| 0:17.6 | but I'd be willing to bet we'll have more tadpoles in our backyard frog pond |
| 0:21.5 | after all this rain. |
| 0:22.6 | Amazing. |
| 0:23.4 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:25.4 | I love that deep-throated croak. |
| 0:30.9 | I just want him to send me a soundscape to fall asleep too because that was so peaceful. |
| 0:35.0 | It is. |
| 0:36.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Sarah McCamman. I cover the campaign. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Danielle Kurtz Leyven. I also cover the campaign. And I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. |
| 0:45.0 | Today on the show, the candidates have been spending a lot of time and money in seven swing states and quite a bit more in some states than others. |
| 0:55.0 | And that's where we're going to start. |
| 0:56.0 | Tam, you've been looking into this. |
| 0:57.6 | What are you noticing? |
| 0:58.6 | Right. |
| 0:59.2 | A candidate's time is the campaign's single greatest asset. |
| 1:03.9 | So where they spend their time tells us a lot |
| 1:06.3 | about where these campaigns think that they could win |
| 1:10.8 | or where they need to win. |
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