#11: Trump: The New GOP Norm?
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2016
⏱️ 22 minutes
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A funny thing happened on the road to the nomination for President: Donald Trump became the new brand of the Republican Party. Maria Hinojosa leads a discussion with independent journalist Wajahat Ali, Amanda Terkel, Senior Political Reporter for the Huffington Post, and Julio Ricardo Varela, Political Editor with the Futuro Media Group.
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| 0:00.0 | George W Bush would not be nominated in 2016 because he'd be seen as a Muslim lover. |
| 0:04.3 | And somebody who love Mexicans too. |
| 0:05.9 | And he loves Mexican food. It's like a triple whammy of death from the Republican Party. |
| 0:09.6 | Poodle, oh, hey, welcome to In the Thick. This is a podcast about politics and the race to the |
| 0:16.0 | White House in 2016. We are the show that examines this week's political coverage |
| 0:20.8 | through a diverse lens with different perspectives. I am your |
| 0:24.2 | host Maria Nahosa. Joining us from Washington is Washahat Ali. He's an attorney, a |
| 0:29.1 | playwright, and a commentator who writes for the New York Times and The Guardian. |
| 0:32.7 | HeyWaj, welcome back. |
| 0:34.4 | I'm super cool. |
| 0:37.1 | Also in DC is Amanda Turkle. |
| 0:39.1 | She's a senior political reporter for the Huffington Post. |
| 0:41.4 | Hey Amanda, welcome back. Hey, thanks for having me Post. Hey Amanda welcome back. Hey thanks for |
| 0:43.6 | having me again. And in Boston we have our very own Julio Ricardo Barrella. |
| 0:47.4 | He's the political editor for the Futuro media group, hey Julio. Hey Maria. |
| 0:51.0 | All right, so Ted Cruz is done. He is out of the race and |
| 0:55.2 | obviously that means Donald Trump is in which was what we've been saying here |
| 0:59.4 | on Nithic for the longest time. A lot of people though are saying that they didn't kind of see |
| 1:04.7 | this coming in terms of the turn for the Republican Party. Which one is right? Is this the new |
| 1:10.6 | era of the Republican Party or is this the Republican Party that's been |
| 1:14.2 | being the seeds have been sown? |
| 1:16.8 | I think Trump is this modern Frankenstein a caricature of himself and the Republican Party. I call him like the hot dog. |
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