Marianne LeVine

Ted Muldoon

Lucy Perkins

Mary Jo Murphy

Aaron Blake

Senior political reporter Aaron Blake talks with Marianne LeVine, a national political reporter for The Post, about the state of the electoral map for Harris and Trump. They also dig into the potential strategy behind the Trump campaign’s spending push in <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/03/2-key-states-that-could-decide-2024-election/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Pennsylvania and Georgia</a>, and whether Democrats have a chance of winning their white whale – North Carolina.Today’s show was produced and mixed by Ted Muldoon. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and Mary Jo Murphy.&nbsp;Subscribe to Aaron’s newsletter, The Campaign Moment, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/campaign-moment/?method=NMP_SURL&amp;location=podcasts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">here</a>.&nbsp; Subscribe to The Washington Post <a href="https://subscribe.washingtonpost.com/acquisition/?s_l=OFFSITE_PODCAST&amp;p=s_v&amp;s_dt=yearly&amp;utm%5B%E2%80%A6%5De-podcast&amp;utm_medium=acq-nat&amp;utm_campaign=podcast-subs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">here</a>.

Why the Trump campaign is so focused on Georgia and Pennsylvania right now

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Martine Powers

Elahe Izadi

Renita Jablonski

Maggie Penman

Rachel Van Dongen

Anna Lefkowitz

Laura Benshoff

Through unmatched reporting, expertise and lively conversations, co-host Aaron Blake, veteran political reporter, analyzes and distills the moments that matter. Episodes released on Fridays. 

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The Trump and Harris campaigns are sprinting toward November and reserving airtime for political ads in key swing states. The Trump campaign seems to be focused on two swing states in particular – Pennsylvania and Georgia. 

The top two states to watch in the 2024 election

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Ariel Plotnick

“Post Reports” co-host Elahe Izadi and senior political reporter Aaron Blake talk with White House reporter Yasmeen Abutaleb about Harris and Walz’s interview on CNN, new polling that shows continued Democratic enthusiasm, and an altercation between the Trump campaign and an employee at Arlington National Cemetery.&nbsp;Today’s show was produced by Laura Benshoff. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and Ariel Plotnick. It was mixed by Sean Carter.&nbsp;Subscribe to Aaron’s newsletter, The Campaign Moment, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/campaign-moment/?method=NMP_SURL&amp;location=podcasts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent;">here</a>.&nbsp;Subscribe to The Washington Post <a href="https://subscribe.washingtonpost.com/acquisition/?s_l=OFFSITE_PODCAST&amp;p=s_v&amp;s_dt=yearly&amp;utm%5B%E2%80%A6%5De-podcast&amp;utm_medium=acq-nat&amp;utm_campaign=podcast-subs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent;">here</a>.

Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, sat down for their first interview since Harris began her campaign five weeks ago.

Harris’s big interview and Trump’s cemetery controversy

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Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, sat down for their first big interview since Harris began her campaign five weeks ago. Plus, former president Donald Trump flip-flops on reproductive rights again.

Senior political reporter Aaron Blake talks with politics producer Laura Benshoff about how much Trump stands to gain from RFK Jr.’s endorsement and what kind of impact other third-party and independent candidates like Cornel West, Chase Oliver and Jill Stein might have on the presidential race.&nbsp;Today’s show was produced by Laura Benshoff. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and Jenna Johnson and mixed by Rennie Svirnovskiy.&nbsp;Subscribe to Aaron’s newsletter, The Campaign Moment, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/campaign-moment/?method=NMP_SURL&amp;location=podcasts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent;">here</a>.&nbsp;Subscribe to The Washington Post <a href="https://subscribe.washingtonpost.com/acquisition/?s_l=OFFSITE_PODCAST&amp;p=s_v&amp;s_dt=yearly&amp;utm%5B%E2%80%A6%5De-podcast&amp;utm_medium=acq-nat&amp;utm_campaign=podcast-subs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent;">here</a>.

RFK Jr. endorsed former president Trump. Will it matter?

The RFK Jr. effect

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After seeing a drop in popularity among voters, third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his presidential campaign and endorsed former president Donald Trump on Friday. But how much will his endorsement matter?

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Elahe Izadi, co-host of “Post Reports,” and senior political reporter Aaron Blake sit down with White House reporter Cleve Wootson at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago to talk about the highlights from Harris’s speech. Harris focused on her middle-class upbringing and how she would protect abortion access and reproductive rights, and she cast herself as a candidate who would bring <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/23/dnc-takeaways-kamala-harris-speech-day-4/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">normalcy and competency</a> to the White House.&nbsp;They also revisit the most memorable speeches of the four-day convention and look ahead to what the next two months might look like for Harris.&nbsp;Today’s show was produced by Laura Benshoff and Ariel Plotnick. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and Mary Jo Murphy and mixed by Sam Bair.&nbsp;Subscribe to Aaron’s newsletter, The Campaign Moment, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/campaign-moment/?method=NMP_SURL&amp;location=podcasts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">here</a>.&nbsp;Subscribe to The Washington Post <a href="https://subscribe.washingtonpost.com/acquisition/?s_l=OFFSITE_PODCAST&amp;p=s_v&amp;s_dt=yearly&amp;utm%5B%E2%80%A6%5De-podcast&amp;utm_medium=acq-nat&amp;utm_campaign=podcast-subs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">here</a>.

Harris reintroduced herself to the American people in her historic acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. What’s next?

Harris’s speech and the standout moments from the DNC

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One month into an unprecedented presidential campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris reintroduced herself and her values to the American people when she accepted the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday, the final night of the Democratic National Convention.

Peter Bresnan

Reena Flores

There’s a new rallying cry for the Democratic Party: “Freedom.” On Wednesday, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/22/oprah-dnc-speech-memorable-lines/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">the third night of the Democratic National Convention</a>, speakers from Oprah Winfrey to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro made the case for why Democrats should be considered the party of patriotism.&nbsp;&nbsp;And then there was Tim Walz. The Minnesota governor formally accepted the nomination for vice president and in his speech made several nods to his previous jobs, focusing especially on his time as a high school football coach. But beyond his biography, he also sought to draw distinctions between how Republicans talk about the idea of freedom and the ways Democrats do, for example on the subject of reproductive rights.&nbsp;On today’s episode, Aaron Blake and Elahe Izadi break down this latest spin on the Democratic Party’s message – and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/22/dnc-day-3-takeaways-walz-bill-clinton-pelosi-speech/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">how Walz fared as its newest messenger</a>.&nbsp;Today’s episode was produced by Peter Bresnan and mixed by Sam Bair. It was edited by Reena Flores and Mary Jo Murphy.&nbsp;Subscribe to The Washington Post <a href="https://subscribe.washingtonpost.com/acquisition/?s_l=OFFSITE_PODCAST&amp;p=s_v&amp;s_dt=yearly&amp;utm%5B%E2%80%A6%5De-podcast&amp;utm_medium=acq-nat&amp;utm_campaign=podcast-subs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">here</a>.

Coach. Teacher. Minnesota governor. On Wednesday, the many roles of Tim Walz defined the night when he formally stepped into a new role: Democratic nominee for vice president.

Coach Walz’s ‘freedom’ game plan

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“The Campaign Moment” cuts through the noise and connects the dots of political developments with unmatched reporting, expertise and lively conversations. Co-host Aaron Blake is one of The Washington Post’s veteran political reporters and is a constant each Friday as he analyzes and distills the moments that matter. He also writes our <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/campaign-moment/?method=NMP_SURL&amp;location=podcasts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Campaign Moment newsletter</a>. He’s joined by rotating colleagues from the Politics team and “Post Reports” co-hosts Martine Powers and Elahe Izadi.&nbsp;

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