CNN’s Dana Bash Talks ‘America’s Deadliest Election,’ Scoring VP Interview, & Advice For Next Week’s POTUS Debate On ElectionLine Podcast

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Running until the final election results come in for the battle between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, the Deadline ElectionLine podcast spotlights the 2024 campaign and the blurred lines between politics and entertainment in modern America.

Hosted by Deadline political editor Ted Johnson and executive editor Dominic Patten, the podcast features commentary and interviews with top lawmakers and entertainment figures from the White House to Sunset Blvd, and all points in-between. “The moderators are not the story, it is about the candidates,” says CNN’s Dana Bash of her guiding principle when it comes to debates, presidential and otherwise. “What they say, what they believe, how they interact, how they present themselves to the voter.” Just days away from Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s contentious first debate and first ever meeting on September 10 on ABC, Inside Politics host and America’s Deadliest Election co-author Bash tells the Deadline ElectionLine podcast that when it comes to such match-ups “the best we can do is to facilitate that and stay out of the way.”  – take a listen above.

In a topsy turvy election where democracy itself is on the ballot in the eyes of many, the co-moderator of that seismic July 27 debate between Trump and Joe Biden speaks from experience.

In addition to the CNN hosted debate, which resulted in Biden stepping aside a month later, Bash last week snagged this campaign’s first interview with Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz “She’s been vice president for almost four years, but she’s been the understudy,” Bash states of Harris, who rocketed to nail down the Democrats’ nomination unopposed in a matter of hours after Biden dropped out on July 21 and quickly