CNN’s John King is releasing a limited run podcast called All Over the Map as a companion to his feature on the news channel. The series sees King talking to voters in the swing states that will decide the 2024 presidential election.
“I hope the podcast takes people all over the map — to learn about people and places different from who they are and where they live. To listen and learn and hopefully come to respect and better understand why someone might see things so differently,” King tells People magazine. “I see the podcast platform as a way to get more personal and detailed than we can even in a long TV or text piece. You learn when you listen. In this format, we can listen to a voter for 10 or 15 minutes — hear the passion, anger, anxiety, all of the above — as they share not only who they are likely to vote for buy why — and how they got there.”
All Over The Map takes listeners on the campaign trail to the states that will decide the race to 270 electoral votes. In the first episode, King analyzes the Republican hold out for Nikki Haley through the lens of two Republican Pennsylvania natives. In a time where our political landscape is more polarized than ever, hearing perspectives from voters across the country has never been more important.
“We started ‘All Over the Map’ to track the campaign through the eyes and experiences of the voters who will settle who wins,” said King. “Every day Americans are too often left out of the conversation. But we are learning so much as we visit them and the counties and towns that will be decisive come November. It’s a more thoughtful, more personal and more nuanced conversation than you get from the politicians.”
The three-episode podcast miniseries will be released in the feed of CNN’s The Assignment with Audie Cornish with new episodes dropping Mondays through July 8.
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